Nintendo Pennant Chase Was Completed

A new piece of information has emerged to confirm Nintendo's realistic GameCube baseball title, Nintendo Pennant Chase Baseball was indeed complete, but unfortunately never saw the light of day for unknown reasons.

According to former Exile Interactive Senior Engineer, Steve Snake, "The game was completed and passed submission but was not released." This comment comes from his LinkedIn profile. He went on to say the following about the game that was first revealed five years ago now:

Getting the game to fit in retail memory when it was taking twice that meant anything that could be done must be done - implementing on-the-fly texture compression for textures generated in game, offline texture compression/conversion to more suitable formats for other textures, rewriting any parts of code that required large tables or data structures to use less memory, optimising string storage, modifying the memory manager to attempt to create less fragmentation, and other things. As well as general bug fixing I also implemented the movie player, and wrote a streaming audio driver to simultaneously stream music/crowd noises/commentary from the game disc.

Below is a clip of what could have been: