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Offline BizioEE

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Nintendo Confirms Spring 2002 GameCube Launch.
« on: March 12, 2001, 10:15:14 AM »
NCL\'s executive vice president says that the GameCube will launch in October in the US, followed by a spring 2002 European launch.

Atsuo Asada, executive vice president of Nintendo Company Limited, has gone on record regarding the launch dates for the upcoming GameCube console. Asada told the Reuters news service that the GameCube is currently on schedule for a July launch in Japan and as expected will be released in North America in October. The European release is currently planned for spring 2002, he said.

Nintendo plans to unveil several of its planned GameCube games at the upcoming E3 show in Los Angeles!    I can\'t wait and...maybe the E3 will force me to buy the first Japanese NGC :D
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« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2001, 10:40:22 AM »
Well, it\'s going to be a long wait... Maybe it COULD be possible for me to have enough money when the time comes \'tho. Maybe I should start saving...

The dilemma here is, that either I start saving and forget everything that must be bought for PS2 ( all the wonderful games ), and then barely buy GC, or then frequently buy the PS2-games I want and not buy GC.

What will my decision be? hmmm...

After NOT SO LONG deciding, I decided to watch how much money I will get after my confirmation this summer :)

But another year... Why oh why?

Sorry for asking these off-thread questions, but when is the launch of x-box ( as I am so stupid I\'m unaware ) and GBA?
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« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2001, 02:42:43 PM »
GBA is June 11th and XBox is Fall 2001
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« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2001, 04:03:21 PM »
Nintendo are nutz if they release it next year.

The holiday season is very important, and then we will see the ps2 and xbox eat up the market.

Damn nintendo, they havent learned from the N64 delays.
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« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2001, 04:10:49 PM »
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Nintendo are nutz if they release it next year.

The holiday season is very important, and then we will see the ps2 and xbox eat up the market.

Damn nintendo, they havent learned from the N64 delays.


You know he is talking about Europe right?

It is ard enough trying to get the US Launch to run Smoothly only 4 months after the Japanese launch and you want them to try to squeeze in another launch before Christmas? That is absurd. It wouldn\'t be such a problem if Europe didn\'t have such drastically different electrical infrastructure. If I remember correctly they have to change something in the hardware to get it to run in he UK(Someone correct me if Im wrong).
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« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2001, 05:00:57 PM »
Um, where on earth did you get this information?? A link would be helpful. Oh, and your title is pretty misleading. People will automatically assume that spring 2002 is the worldwide launch for the GC, when it actually launches october 2001 in the U.S.
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« Reply #6 on: March 12, 2001, 06:28:37 PM »
Im just glad i have a PS2 right now. For all you nintendo fans with no Dreamcast nor PS2, i feel sorry for you for some reason.
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« Reply #7 on: March 12, 2001, 06:46:36 PM »
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Im just glad i have a PS2 right now. For all you nintendo fans with no Dreamcast nor PS2, i feel sorry for you for some reason.


Who here doesn\'t have a PS2 or DC? That would suck?
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« Reply #8 on: March 12, 2001, 10:37:16 PM »
My brother just got a Dreamcast (it was $99.  He couldn\'t pass up that deal. :D)  He got it primarily for the fighting games on it, because the Dreamcast is a 2D fighting game power house.
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« Reply #9 on: March 13, 2001, 04:05:34 AM »
I took a pre-order out on one today. Not sure why, but I felt compelled. I need to pre-order a XBOX and import a GBA , damnit!
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« Reply #10 on: March 13, 2001, 05:36:48 AM »
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I took a pre-order out on one today. Not sure why, but I felt compelled. I need to pre-order a XBOX and import a GBA , damnit!


Living, how much money do you have?  It\'s like your filthy rich or something.
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« Reply #11 on: March 13, 2001, 07:15:41 AM »
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I took a pre-order out on one today. Not sure why, but I felt compelled. I need to pre-order a XBOX and import a GBA , damnit!


You took a pre-order on a Gamecube? Where at? Do you know of anywhere online that you can preorder it?
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« Reply #12 on: March 13, 2001, 07:37:05 AM »
OMG I doubt any amount of money that gamecube will launch in october.  With gba being released nintendo wants those sales eating up the holiday bank. And with xbox being released I doubt if nintendo would go one on one with ms. Nintendo is not one for confrontation. Seeing how nintendo never launches on time I see gamecube launching  december or not coming out at all this year. In any case I don\'t see a gamecube launch this year.
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« Reply #13 on: March 13, 2001, 08:29:48 AM »
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OMG I doubt any amount of money that gamecube will launch in october.  With gba being released nintendo wants those sales eating up the holiday bank. And with xbox being released I doubt if nintendo would go one on one with ms. Nintendo is not one for confrontation. Seeing how nintendo never launches on time I see gamecube launching  december or not coming out at all this year. In any case I don\'t see a gamecube launch this year.


If anything will be delayed its the Xbox. The gamecube\'s processor and GPU have already gone into production whereas the Xbox GPU is not even finished yet. Nintendo is trying to get a head start by producing the components early so they don\'t run into the same problems that Sony did. So I say the Xbox is more likely to be delayed than the Gamecube. Just my opinion, but its based on fact :D
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« Reply #14 on: March 13, 2001, 03:27:51 PM »
Very true Gohan.  Nintendo has already delayed GC 3 times, which is what they do for basically all of their consoles.  So, unless Nintendo just decides to change it up this time GC should be in the U.S. in October.

The only possible reason GC would be delayed is because of software.  It\'s possible that the GC isn\'t as easy to develop for as Nintendo says, but I highly doubt it will be as hard to develop for as PS2.  If there is a delay, I would expect it to be because Nintendo would want more time to polish their games.  After all, we are talking about Nintendo :)
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