These are the words Nintendo of Europe use to describe Dolphin. Does this make you happy?

The 51st Nuremberg Toy Fair opened its portals earlier this week in Germany, giving game companies and their licensees the opportunity to show off their latest videogames and game-related products.

According to our friends at Nintendo Fun Vision Magazine, NOE are following Nintendo of America's lead and are holding fast to a European Dolphin launch before the end of the year.

"We plan to stick to this date," promised Nintendo's Managing Director of Sales & Marketing, Axel Herr, at the conference. In regards to system performance, Herr commented: "In terms of graphics, we came up with extremely fast chip architecture that, according to our technicians, will be 33 per cent above the projected performance data of [Sony's] PlayStation2. That's easily twice as fast as [Sega's] Dreamcast."

Herr went on to reiterate that the new console will use DVD media for data storage and will debut at a mass market price. He also commented on the Dolphin's CPU, the IBM-developed Gekko Processor, and promised it would be "the fastest thing around".

Although no further system specs or software specifics were revealed, Nintendo of Europe said they would show off full Dolphin gameplay demos at the upcoming ECTS conference in London this September. NOE also addressed Game Boy Advance (GBA) but didn't disclose any new information on the handheld. According to Herr, NOE are keeping a close watch on the system's sales performance when it's released in Japan this summer. They will then set a release date for the unit once the German market is ready for the GBA's online capabilities.

Courtesy of IGN.com