The Gamer's Quarter

SuperWes

Here's a link:
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3142834

What the hell? Pushing Zelda back to beyond Christmas is more than foolish, it's Gamecube retail suicide. That is of course, unless they plan on moving it to Revolution, which would really be the only possible move to make at this point. The Gamecube is officially dead now. No more important games will be coming out all year.

If Nintendo is actually still considering releasing Zelda on the Cube, they should try to make the system's lifespan a little more valuable by bringing over Japan-only games like Nintendo Puzzle Collection and Kururin Squash.

Oh yeah, Geist comes out today. *snicker*

But on to the discussion. It's certainly not a move that EA would have made. They would have just thrown money at the game until it made the Christmas deadline. This is more than just the delay of an important game. This is the delay of the most important game of 2005 to well beyond the lifespan of a near-dead system. So yeah, assuming Nintendo still releases the game on Gamecube and not the revolution, do you feel that Nintendo made the right decision by delaying Zelda?

-Wes
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dhex · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:05 am Post subject:

i must be the only person on earth who thought geist sounded interesting.
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SuperWes · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:09 am Post subject:

Actually, I think it sounds interesting too, but the impressions I've read haven't been too kind. I might try it out after my girlfriend gives me my allowance.

-Wes
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Mister Toups · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:37 am Post subject:

The thing is, people can still play it on their Revolution.

Still, they should've made this a Revolution launch title to began with. It would've made a lot more sense. Aside from Zelda Nintendo has all but abandoned the Gamecube anyway; their focus seems to be solely on the DS for now, which seems smart enough.

If Zelda was a Revolution Launch title, that would pretty much guarantee strong initial sales of the system.
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where were you when nana komatsu got a wii?

dhex · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:38 am Post subject:

just sucker punch her when she's not looking and grab her purse.

that's the thing about women; they smell nice, but they can rarely take a punch. when you find one who does, you grab her and you hold on and you never, ever let go.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I think a gamecube release is obviously smart no matter how delayed. Unlike the bad leftover taste of the N64 when the GC rolled in, fans will be left with fond memories of the system (bearing that it is a good game). If this makes it to the Revolution then, well... the largest vocal complaint about Animal Crossing, from fans of it, was that it looked like a leftover N64 game. I don't think N wants that again.

dark steve · . Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110

At least we've still got Odama?

Mister Toups · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 1:00 pm Post subject:

I could stand to give Killer 7 a few more replays.

Paper Mario 2 is occupying me might fine for the time being, as well.
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where were you when nana komatsu got a wii?

SuperWes · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 1:04 pm Post subject:

Hey man. A system doesn't have to get no more play to be near-dead. I mean, most of us still play all of our classic systems.

About Odama - can you imagine what a pain in the ass it's going to be to try to market that thing? How do you sell a feudal Japanese Pinball game/Real Time Strategy game/Voice Recognition experiment? This question makes me wonder if it will ever be released.

-Wes
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

dessgeega · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 1:13 pm Post subject:

hey, i'll always need something to play my gameboy games on.
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dark steve · . Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110

SuperWes · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 1:17 pm Post subject:

dessgeega · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 1:33 pm Post subject:

i still want a north american release of the tower sp.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

DonMarco · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 349 Location: 33903

icycalm · . Joined: 17 Jul 2005 Posts: 39 Location: Hellas/Nippon

please don't call it a doorstop, everyone says this.

the GC has so many good games it's not even funny. have you played ALL of them?
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JasonMoses · . Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 407

I have and I don't even own one.

icycalm · . Joined: 17 Jul 2005 Posts: 39 Location: Hellas/Nippon

Take your lies elsewhere.
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Szczepaniak · . Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 770

delaying it?

Hmm, remember how people complained when they rushed WW and it was missing some dungeons?

Hmm... damn. Tough decision, but I agree it's market suicide.