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| Salomon Cuts Nintendo
Rating |
07.31.01 |
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"Nintendo
Co Ltd down 940 yen or 4.07 percent at 22,150 after Nikko Salomon Smith
Barney said it lowered its ratings on the game maker to 2M ("underperform",
medium risk) from 4M ("outperform", medium risk)." Salomon
stated that sales prospects for the Game Boy Advance were questionable. -
Reuters
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| New Rogue Leader
Images! |
07.31.01 |
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Some
incredible new screenshots from Rogue Leader have been uncovered thanks to
IGN Cube. The images (1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6)
are the sharpest ever from the game and truly demonstrate the power of
Nintendo's GameCube console. IGN went hands on with these levels of the
title available here.
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 GameCube
Console Numbers
Some fantastic news to report this evening from Nekkei Net of Japan.
Actual GameCube production numbers have finally been revealed. Nintendo's
GameCube console will launch in Japan with 500,000 units. It was also
revealed that 1,100,000 will be available in North America... GameCubicle
was first to the Net in North America with this.
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GameCubicle was first to the Net in North America with this story.
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| Spaceworld 2001: Game
List |
07.27.01 |
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Nintendo
has released an incomplete list of GameCube titles that will appear at
Spaceworld: Animal Forest Plus, Bomberman Generation, Doubutsu Bancho,
Eternal Darkness, FIFA 2002, Luigi's Mansion, Pikmin, SSX Tricky, Star Fox
Adventures, SSB Melee, PSO 2, Super Monkey Ball, Rune, Virtua Striker 3,
Wave Race: Blue Storm.
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| 1,000,000 Game Boy
Advances |
07.26.01 |
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One
million Game Boy Advance units have been sold in the six weeks since its
release in North America (NDP). That comes to about 1,000 units sold per
hour, every hour since release. Sales data further revealed that of the
top twenty best selling games in June, seven were Game Boy Advance titles.
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| Electronic Arts Reports
Numbers |
07.26.01 |
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In
Bloomberg's report on EA's numbers, Chief Executive Larry Probst is quoted
as stating "Coming out of E3, we were more excited about
GameCube." It was revealed that EA increased the number of titles in
development for a 2001 launch on GameCube to three from one. Madden 2002
is a launch title with SSX Tricky and Fifa 2002 the likely others.
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| Activision Reports
GameCube Development |
07.24.01 |
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10
GameCube titles are in development at Activision for 2002 (none for this
year). Though no names were given, Matt Hoffman Pro BMX, Kelly Slater Pro
Surfer, Xmen, Spiderman, and Stuart Little are likely candidates. Tony
Hawk 3 would easily be Activision's best seller so it's hard to imagine
the game not being one of the magic ten.
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| Positive Comments from
EA |
07.24.01 |
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According
to NextGen magazine, EA's Madden 2002 for GameCube will see significant
improvements over the game's PS2 counterpart. "The Nintendo GameCube
can push more polygons around with higher-resolution textures than
PS2," stated Jeremy Mauser, EA's senior producer for Madden 2002.
"We were able to make blockers react more intelligently in pass
blocking, run blocking, and open field blocking situations."
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| Matsushita Reveals
"Fusion" GameCube Pricing |
07.20.01 |
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Matsushita
(Panasonic) today revealed that the "Fusion" GameCube that
allows for both the play of standard games and DVDs will retail in Japan
for 40,000 yen or about $325. The machine will launch in Japan in November
of 2001. A lower US price point is expected with the North American
release not coming until March 2002 to 2003.
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| Retro Studios Cuts
Raven Blade & Employees |
07.20.01 |
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Troubled
Texas-based Retro Studios has officially ended all work on Raven Blade - a
major GameCube RPG title. 26 Employees were let go as a result with
remaining Raven creators being shifted to the Metroid project. Apparently
Raven Blade would have consume too much of Retro's resources. The firm
will now focus its entire efforts on Metroid.
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 NOA's
Peter Main Retiring
Nintendo of America's long time Executive VP of Sales & Marketing
will soon be retiring. Peter Main was one of the kindest, most honest, and
available Nintendo executives ever. It's a great disappointment to see one
of Nintendo's finest leaving after 15 years at NOA.
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| GameCube Hardware
Prices |
07.13.01 |
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Nintendo's
Japanese site has revealed the pricing of a few GameCube's accessories.
Converted to US dollars, this is about what you can expect: Nintendo
GameCube Controller: $19.95; Memory Card: $11.19; Component Video Cables:
$29.95; S-Video ($20) and Stereo ($12) cables can be swapped from the N64!
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| GameCubicle Launches
Newsletter |
07.11.01 |
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in the latest GameCube news, exclusives, interviews, and retailer deals?
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