While this happened 2 days ago, Super Smash Bros. Melee and Pikmin for the Nintendo Gamecube are now out in stores. The games were two of the more eagerly anticipated games for the Gamecube. I've also written up review pages for them.
Read more »IEMag has a pretty good Nintendo interview you may wish to check out. The VP of corporate affairs actually. Talk is about all kinds of GameCube stuff like meeting demand and market orientation etc.
Read more »Some more boasting by Nintendo about stellar GameCube sales figures for their console machine. Looks like they have sold over a half million units already and are continuing to sell out in some locations. Anyone seen an announcement from Microsoft on sales yet?
Read more »Nintendo is the first one out of the gate announcing some kind of sales figures for the GameCube. They stunned quite a few people with the number of just under $100million in sales for Sunday. Beating out Harry Potter they say for raw $ numbers. Of course GameCube's are $200 a pop as opposed to the $5 to $10 most people pay for movies. An IGN story quotes a Nintendo rep saying "It's over what we think Microsoft's allocation was". No word yet from Microsoft on what their sales figures were. Also Nintendo declined to say how many units were sold. The top selling games were Luigi's Mansion and Rogue Leader as expected. Update: Goldman Sachs did a survey among U.S. retailers in big cities, and so far 73% had sold out of the Xbox and 47% out of the Gamecube. Microsoft shipped an estimated 300,000 Xbox consoles around the nation, while Nintendo delivered some 700,000.
Read more »As most people know, the Nintendo GameCube launched over the weekend and along with the launch comes a bunch of games to play with. Here's a compilation of some of the more interesting viewpoints expressed in the thread from yesterday: Here they are in some wacked out table format for the hell of it:
| cactussac | moz | geedeck (2) |
| phoenx97 | xian (2) | SAMe |
| Serpico74 | Busdriver3030 | amadan |
| Sevogajre | Ardvaark | SexPansion Pack |
| kbanas | anon | anon |
| Bagpuss | Traxx | kauffee |
Well, today is launch day for the GameCube system from Nintendo. We'll most likely see a few reviews / impressions showing up today and a mad rush of them showing up tomorrow. The Cube is $100 cheaper than the XBox or Playstation2 at launch, but honestly from my perspective doesnt really have a very strong launch title lineup with the exception of Tony Hawk 3. (Which rocks). I dont think I'll be going out to get one just yet, but when Zelda, Mario, Metroid, and Soul Calibur 2 all get closer... well it'll be time to reconsider. Here's my oh so accurate predictions of how the games will go:
- Tony Hawk 3 - rocks - Rogue Leader - good, pretty... - Luigi's Mansion - mixed, average - Super Monkey Ball - mixed, good for friends/groups - Wave Race - N64 rehash, not much new - Madden 2002 - No idea. - Future releases listnote: If you get a GameCube, feel free to post your impressions/reviews of games in the comments. Will pick through them at the end of the day and highlight the good ones for the Monday morning update. Thanks for the idea tomservo :) Read more »
The GameCube launched at midnight in a few different locations across the US. Mostly places like Wal-Mart etc. If you're one of the folks who picked one up feel free to share your first impressions here.
Read more »Here's one that is pretty impressive. Nintendo just won a massive domain "cyber squatter" award for 49 different domain names that were snatched up by unnamed parties. In addition to the domains they got $560,000 in damages ranging from $2,000 to $30,000 for different domains.
The mass domain suit marked the company's first under the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. Richard C. Flamm, vice president and general counsel to Nintendo of America declared, "Nintendo is pleased the court recognized the company's intellectual property rights and understood the damages that are caused by cybersquatting." [snip]With this in mind, I've decided against opening PlanetShackGameCubeExtremeNews3D.com Read more »
A report from the guys at Planetgamecube is saying that Nintendo has given clearance to retailers to start selling the console machines early. Apparently Nintendo is getting their jollies by trying to undermine the XBox release that was scheduled to happen 3 days before GameCube.
Over the weekend, we'd heard smatterings of reports that Stores are starting to receive their GameCube units, and that they are starting to appear on eBay. Since eBay is hardly a bastion of accurate reporting, we've done some legwork, including making a couple phone calls to Nintendo. Here's the skinny ... Nintendo has started shipping GameCubes. (YES!) This is a week earlier than was anticipated. While some stores claim to have been told by their corporate liasons to Nintendo that they will be fined if they sell early, this appears to not be the case. Nintendo has told us that stores are free to sell the GameCube as soon as it arrives, in order to get a jump on the X-Box launching on Thursday. They also said that no store would be fined for breaking the release date.Read more »
Looks like Nintendo is going to meet the demands for GameCubes on launch, according to one of the execs they already have over 300,000 cubes produced and sitting in a warehouse in the US. Thanks HomeLAN
Read more »HomeLAN Fed has posted an interview with Lucasarts's Brett Tosti. They talk about the GameCube game Star Wars: Rogue Leader-Rogue Squadron II which is looking pretty damn sweet.
Read more »Interact has announced the Mobile Monitor 5.4 for the GameCube. This is a 5.4 inch LCD screen that you can attach to the back of the GameCube, so you can take your Cube with you if you go on a trip. Even comes with a car adapter. The Mobile Monitor won't exactly be cheap, it should retail for some $150. In addition to this, Interact is working on a rechargeable battery pack which should power the Cube and the Monitor for about 2.5 hours for if you don't have access to a power outlet.
Read more »Nintendo can't meet GameCube demand is a story on CNet with the news that Nintendo will not be able to meet new demand for GameCube shipments. After the delay (story) and cut of shipment of Xbox consoles, retailers had been asking Nintendo for additional GameCube shipments but Nintendo is unable to give them these additional units due to a maxed out production line. Nintendo is expected to ship about 700,000 GameCubes for its November launch.
Read more »Nintendo today announced their marketing campaign for the GameCube launch. Expect Nintendo commercials everywhere, is pretty much what the PR says.
Read more »As promised by Richard, here's the continued coverage of the import Nintendo GameCube. Richard takes a brief look at the launch title Luigi's Mansion which we just tacked on to the original article as page3 considering it's a continuation. A look at Wave Race will follow in the next few days.
Controlling Luigi is probably going to be the first problem players encounter, due largely to what initially appears to be a cumbersome control system. The left analogue stick is used to control Luigi's movement, while the yellow analogue stick is used to control the direction he points his torch or his vacuum - very much like the independent control you would have on a tank and it's turret [snip]In the interest of sharing the spotlight, we've also got some possible Playstation2 stuff lined up as well (although the machine is already out, so it's not quite the same), and of course the X-Box will hopefully get the same treatment. Read more »
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