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Nintendo News | GameCube Lives to Fight Another Day

23.02.2007

In a recent interview, Nintendo of America's Perrin Kaplan confirmed that the GameCube was dead, full stop. Now, though, Nintendo UK has turned this around, claiming it to be incorrect. A spokesperson for Nintendo UK today spoke with Eurogamer, stating "I can confirm that globally, Nintendo is still continuing production of GameCube hardware and GameCube software," thus contradicting Kaplan's previous statement. However, considering she has previously been incorrect on a few big issues, this is not too surprising. In the past she has claimed that the Wii would be region free and also talked about Monolith Soft as being Nintendo 2nd Party, when discussing its Wii project 'Disaster: Day of Crisis'.

Nintendo Europe has been releasing new GameCube games lately, showing its continued support of the system, with The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess receiving a full retail release, plus Naruto 2 also being published for the first time in Europe by the company as well. In addition, since the Wii launched, GameCube software sales have seen an upturn due to the backward compatibility of the platform, with favourites being Capcom's Resident Evil 4 and Nintendo's own The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Four Swords Adventure and Super Smash Bros. Melee.

There is still no word on whether Baten Kaitos Origins will hit Europe in 2007, though.

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jb 23.02.2007#1

Someone at Nintendo seriously needs the Bowser treatment, urgh. Will Kaplan ever not stuff up? Or is it a cock-up for the good ol' British? Smilie

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Monkey Wii. Pok�mans 23.02.2007#2

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess receiving a full retail release

Where the FUCK is the game then Nintendo UK. WHERE? Just WHERE.

*weeps*

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jb 23.02.2007#3

Monkey Wii. said:
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess receiving a full retail release
Where the FUCK is the game then Nintendo UK. WHERE? Just WHERE.*weeps*

Skull Kid stole it, he did, really. <-- That comment is probably more accurate than some industry comments Smilie Smilie

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Raff 23.02.2007#4

Zelda GC was easy to find when it first came out, they even stocked it in Game where there haven't been GC games for over a year, but it then sold out everywhere and there doesn't seem to have been any more stock.

It's going to be shit and you jolly well know it.

Mandown 23.02.2007#5

Gotz GC Zelda with a beautiful poster on the first day. LS

( amazon are selling copies at a bumped up price of

Darkflame 23.02.2007#6

Gamecube games should be made still.
Pointless making the cube, however.

Gamecube games, specificaly, should be re-released in multigame packs to appeal to new Wii owners looking to cache up on "classics" they have missed.

Also, they should sale some Wii games with cube games as bonus disks.
(eg "Metroid Prime3: Special Edition". Includeing the two cube games, and a token to get the original on VC).

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Sabot 23.02.2007#7

Smilie I saw twilight princess on GC for the bargin price of

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Mandown 23.02.2007#8

That's amazing if that is the case, even second hand i would have expected it to be at least

The Croft 23.02.2007#9

Zelda Twilight Princess

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jb 23.02.2007#10

Gamecube games, specificaly, should be re-released in multigame packs to appeal to new Wii owners looking to cache up on "classics" they have missed.

Great idea, perhaps they can either use left over discs and bundle the games together, or perhaps dump a few of their best titles onto a single Wii DVD.

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Raff 23.02.2007#11

I might sell my copy of Zelda for massivez profitz because I don't think it's very good and my save is for the US version I downloaded anyway.

It's going to be shit and you jolly well know it.

The Croft 23.02.2007#12

You don't think Zelda is good Smilie

Then if you want to sell it at a massive profit, wouldn't it be better to wait a few year's, might become a sort of a collector's edition.

Zapp 23.02.2007#13

I got Zelda GC few days after it came out Smilie now i dont see it anywhere in shops... Smilie what i want to get is Naruto 2 though... i cant find it anywhere..... Smilie

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Raff 23.02.2007#14

It already sells on eBay for

It's going to be shit and you jolly well know it.

JoshSL 23.02.2007#15

I doubt any more "big" GC games will be released in UK, especially Baiton Kaitos. I'm sure they'll do a *good* port job for the Wii UK fans though.

If you're looking for Zelda GC, you shoulda got it when it was first released, it's really hard to find now, but back then it was in ever GAME shop, & there were loads.

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Cheesing It Up 23.02.2007#16

Monkey Wii. said:
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess receiving a full retail release
Where the FUCK is the game then Nintendo UK. WHERE? Just WHERE.*weeps*

They released it in semi-decent numbers when it launched, now it's no-where to be seen!

Yeh, I'm keeping my copy for now, if it increases in price I'll consider selling it.