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Remember that the EU price has taxes included, and European taxes have always been higher than American ones.
And every techthingy in Europe costs more, it has to do with the average Western-European earning more than an average American.

Europe rulez lol I’m from Spain! (But i live in the US)

This is NOT all of a sudden. Lots of games have come out before in Europe than in America. You just didn’t notice.

Its for 2 simple reasons:

a) The European market is a great “rehearsal” of what the sales might be, because its very similar to the American. That way, they can predict what their sales might be on release.

b) The Euro works wonders for numbers. Talking about dollars sold for the game, the number will go up like crazy thanks to the Euro and how expensive it is.

Hope that helped in making sense of these crazy economics 🙂

Get a DS card. Look up DStwo. No need for VC.

Think of it this way, the $249.99 was pushing it already. Why in the world would anyone go spend 400$ on a hand held system? People wouldnt. If it realy were that much I would give Nintendo the middle finger, and go buy another xbox 360, a nice big T.V–or much better, save to get into a nice apartment. There would be very few people who could actualy afford that. I dont think nintendo is too concerned with makeing you spend another 75 euros than lose millions of dollars in american sales.
So its a win-win for them. They get to charge you more, and americans (many, many, many of them) will buy thair product.
aether way, you’ll get over it.