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"DS March 11th, £99 oh and a Baseball game"

So the DS is to be released March 11th and will cost about £100 pretty good. Games retailing at about £29.99 is a bit annoying. Oh well. The console comes bundled with the demo of Metroid Prime: Hunters, so pretty good.

Nice and expected.

What is slightly odd is this new Gamecube game "Nintendo Pennant Chase Baseball" developed by Exile Interactive and Nintendo. A fully licenses baseball game that seems to go along with Mario Baseball. A bit like that Golf game that went with Mario Golf last year.

Nintendo developing their own sports brands is pretty good. Would love to see a footy title from them.

I did a bit of digging and Exile Interactive have never developed for Nintendo before. They once worked with SEGA for the 2K series of games, which are also baseball games. Apparently they are the best baseball games around too and have appeard on PS2 and X-box as the SEGA sports titles were canned on the Gamecube.

They also developed Toxic Grind for the X-box.

It is interesting that Nintendo has been slapped on the title, perhaps this'll prove to be a new Nintendo series of games. No European release date announced yet but the game is due for April in America.

£99?
{Dances in pants at not having imported yet.}

..hang on. I'm at work...
{Puts trousers back on}

Price = lovely.

I'll get on release day.

I have enough for it, but I might wait a bit for some more games to come out, or import some newer ones from the US. The only luanch title that interests me is Wario Ware Touched!

Should be able to pre-order yours from us tomorrow kids. Shan't promise anything though.

Who is 'us' Snuggs?

His own startup, where every weekend he nicks stock from SR.

Genius plan.

Here is the launch line up by the way and there are 4 games from Nintendo!!!! There is due to be 15 titles for release day.

Super Mario 64 DS, Polarium, WarioWare Touched! and Pokémon Dash from Nintendo, as well as Rayman DS and Asphalt: Urban GT from Ubisoft, Project Rub (Feel the Magic: XY/XX) from Sega, The URBZ: Sims in the City from EA, Spider-Man 2 from Activision, Mr. Driller: Drill Spirits from Namco, Ping Pals from THQ, Zoo Keeper from Ignition, and Robots from Vivendi.

Now Wario Ware is confirmed as a release title, I guess I better get the system at launch... maybe.

Oh and for people who use the Nintendo VIP thing and have 1000 Stars:

Nintendo DS Limited VIP Pak
Be one of the first in Europe to own a Nintendo DS!*
This special pack includes:


Nintendo DS system
Super Mario 64 DS (pre-release version) (rated '3+')
Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt (Demo version) (rated '12+')**
Wario Ware Touched! (Demo version) (Rated '3+')
Exclusive Nintendo DS T-shirt


Only 3000 of these so if you want one you better get onto the catalogue now and order one.

EDIT: £129.99

Hmmmm might do.