Here is the new and improved Gamecube thread. Feel free to post any comments, reviews, information, or opinions you have about the GC.
Nintendo has revealed new plans in the press conference in Japan.
GameCube
- New Made in Wario (Warioware) title in October
- New Legend of Zelda title in 2004
- New Donkey Kong title in development with Namco
Key releases for GameCube in 2003
09/2003 - Mario Golf: Family Tour
10/2003 - Pikmin 2, Made in Wario
11/2003 - Pokemon Colosseum, Mario Kart: Double Dash
2003 - Donkey Kong, Mario Party 5, 1080 Snowboarding II
General
- Introduce a new Club Nintendo service, you can earn points from buying Nintendo products and use points to purchase other things like DVD and gifts.
- The expect around 300,000 to 500,000 customers for the Nintendo Club in the first year
- Nintendo wants to enter the China market
- The shipment of Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire will exceed 10 million units by the end of this year
Development and Comments
- Strength software development by co-operating with other software manufacturers
- There are no plans for third party buyouts
- A new Nintendo product will be announced at E3 2004
- Sony PSP has no significant influence to the business, no matter what Sony brings out, they prepare their future products
- Nintendo wants to stop making video games more complicated and difficult, instead they want to keep games simpler for general audience
- The video game market is shrinking because games have become too complicated