Quote:In just the first 15 days of August, hungry Pokemon fans have already reserved more than 150,000 copies of Pokemon® FireRed or Pokemon® LeafGreen for Game Boy® Advance - a rate more than 200 percent ahead of the 2003 Pokemon® Ruby and Pokemon® Sapphire pre-sell. Pokemon Ruby and Pokemon Sapphire went on to rank No. 2 and No. 3 in video games sold in the United States that year.
Pokemon FireRed and Pokemon LeafGreen will be available Sept. 7 at an MSRP of $39.99 each. The games will come bundled with the new Game Boy® Advance Wireless Adapter, which will let players trade, battle and chat with one another with no connecting cords. Those reserving copies in advance at participating retailers also receive a copy of the Pokemon Pocket Trainer's Guide.
"The advance sales on the Pokemon Ruby and Pokemon Sapphire versions last year were phenomenal - combined, they sold through more than 4 million games in America alone," says George Harrison, Nintendo of America's senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications. "This pre-sell indicates more than twice the player interest!"
I stopped pretending to understand this phenominon years ago.
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August 19, 2004 - In an interview with Play Magazine, outspoken Team Ninja head Tomonobu Itagaki said that while he played and liked Pikmin 2, he could make a better sequel than Nintendo.
"Of course, there are other games I like to play, but I would not say I could not do a better job, because I know I could do a better job of making any game that is out there," he told the magazine. "I like Pikmin 2. Again, if I were asked to do a Pikmin 3, I could do a better job than Nintendo. But then if I do that, I can't just play for my personal enjoyment."
Team Ninja is best known for its Xbox fighter Dead or Alive 3, and Ninja Gaiden, both of which earned high scores by our sister site. The developer also created the initially popular sports game Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball, which was panned by most critics.
The Nintendo-developed Pikmin 2 released for GameCube in Japan to critical acclaim. The title, a sequel to the lovable real-time strategy/puzzle game of the same franchise, features more environmental-based challenges, new characters, new cave exploration, and a multiplayer mode to boot. A US release is scheduled for the end of the month.
You know, I think I've made it clear before how much I despise Itagaki, and before I read this article I never thought that I could despise him any more than I already do. Boy how I was wrong. This guy has made one decent game in his entire life (ninja gaiden) and he thinks he's God's gift to gaming. And this dick thinks he can make a better Pikmin game than Nintendo?? :screwy: What an idiot.
Nintendo also, if you remember, patented emulators for all its systems (or at least the Gameboy, not sure of the others) so that it's illegal to even HAVE a emulator for some of their consoles now...
Quote:Nintendo cracks down on fan-game developers and their projects
Posted by Ash Paulsen at 04:57:45 AM EST on 8.19.2004.
There's news coming out of Zelda Universe today that Nintendo has gone on the offensive and sent warning E-mails to the developers of various fan games based on their most popular franchises, and also to the websites that host current builds of these games on their servers.
In addition the increasingly well-known, popular "Ocarina of Time 2D" project, other fan-games - including "Open Zelda," "Adventure Zelda," "Zelda: Link's Odyssey," "Zelda 2: Enhanced," and "Super Mario World Classic" - have already been targeted and affected by Nintendo's actions.
Nintendo is no doubt only doing what they feel is right to protect their interests and properties, but this is also sparking some heated controversy on whether or not the company's going too far and/or picking the wrong targets. In any case, there are heated arguments on both sides of the issue and it will be interesting to see how this develops.
If any more news of interest develops from this story, we here at GAF will be sure to let you know!
Source: Zelda Universe
Well there goes that planned Zelda fan game for me! I must say that this is one of the dumbest things that Nintendo has ever done. They're struggling enough as it is to gain new fans, and now they're alienating the few hardcore fans that they have left. Microsoft didn't stop those fans from making that neat-o 2D Halo game, Valve didn't stop those fans from making that 2D HL games. The only reason why people are doing this is because they love Nintendo's games so much. Lucasfilm embraced the fan film community and even hold an awards ceremony each year to congratulate and award the people who make these wonderful tributes to Star Wars. And several of these amateur filmmakers have gone on to work for ILM and Lucasfilm! What better way to find new talent!
Nintendo is making a huge mistake here. This is the last thing they should be doing. Well fuck 'em, this is going to hurt them a lot more then it will hurt us.
Quote:Nintendo will release the GameCube tennis game Mario Tennis in Japan in October 2004, the developer Camelot is planning to reveal new details of the game sometimes next week.
It looks like we'll probably get MT sometime in early '05.
I've probably missed our thread(s) on this, having been away as I have been---but man who's seen it here--? It's amazing; it's a great tradition RPG, on a Nintendo system, the first one that I can recall since the glory days of the SNES! My friend rented it; I may have to buy it. Everything about it was top-rate in my opinion.
As of late, I've been analyzing politics, and I hereby declare that I am no longer a REPUBLICAN. While still slightly right on the spectrum, I've found too many things are wrong with the REPUBLICAN party, and that I am incredibly liberal on many, many things. Here are those things now, conveniently listed:
Abortion: OVERWHELMINGLY CONSERVATIVE
Immigration: CONSERVATIVE
Gay marriage: SLIGHTLY LIBERAL
Death Penalty: SLIGHTLY LIBERAL
Religion: OVERWHELMINGLY LIBERAL
Aff. Action: OVERWHELMINGLY CONSERVATIV
*The peaceful, happy-go-lucky world of Post-Goron Occupational TC Forums is shattered with the thunderous roar of cannon fire. Moments later, the drone of twin-engine Goron transports can be heard...the sky turns to blazing orange, as the denizens of Tendo City realize that the Goron war machine is back on the road, and inbound!*
HERE YE, HERE YE!
Darunia's back. He has a new version of Netscape that works.
I... am too lazy to post a link or article. Let ABF do it to make up for his years of laziness. Basically what has happened is that Star Fox has been delayed to sometime next year, which I think is a good think since it still looked a bit rough at E3, but it's also a bad thing for Nintendo since this makes it the second big GC holiday title to get pushed back to 2005 (the other being RE4). Will Paper Mario 2 and Metroid Prime 2 be enough for Nintendo's holiday? I don't think it'll be able to hold up to all of the big XB and PS2 holiday games, but I'm personally okay with it.
Hey maybe with this delay they'll be able to muster up the imagination and give it a better title than simply "Star Fox". :p
