Quote:President Satoru Iwata and former HAL Labs producer Masahiro Sakurai have reportedly held a number of reconciliation meetings in the past few weeks. The creator of Kirby, as well as the Super Smash Brothers series, decided to leave HAL earlier this summer due to conflicts over the development of Kirby Air Ride. As a result of the talks between the two Japanese gaming tycoons, Sakurai is now willing to work with Nintendo at some point in the future, although he will not be returning to his job at HAL Labs. Sakurai confirmed this report in an interview with the Japanese publication 'Nintendo Dream', and also stated that Iwata was compassionate and understanding about the decision to leave HAL.
Also, HAL Labs is now undergoing major internal changes and restructuring efforts, as a result.
Hopefully, he'll decide to come back to Nintendo.
It'll be interesting to see what changes are made at Hal and how this will affect their development of games.
Rank / Platform / Title / Month Sales / Total Sales
1. PS2 NCAA Football 2004 -- 495,093 / 495,093
2. Xbox Star Wars : Knights of the Old Republic -- 299,597 / 299,597
3. Xbox NCAA Football 2004 -- 128,301 / 128,301
4. GBA Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku II -- 118,175 / 215,449
5. GBA Donkey Kong Country -- 97,863 / 253,375
6. GBA Pokémon Ruby -- 95,207 / 1,240,400
7. PS2 Grand Theft Auto III -- 93,011 / 4,800,871
8. GBA Pokémon Sapphire -- 88,315 / 1,144,599
9. GBA Yu-Gi-Oh! Worldwide Edition -- 66,955 / 370,580
10. PS2 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City -- 66,384 / 5,288,319
11. PS2 NBA Street Vol. 2 -- 61,134 / 675,688
12. GCN Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour -- 60,684 / 60,684
13. PS2 Enter the Matrix -- 60,263 / 870,770
14. PS2 Midnight Club II -- 56,896 / 418,962
15. GBA Finding Nemo -- 54,036 / 169,646
16. GBA Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising -- 53,950 / 112,116
17. GCN The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker -- 52,599 / 1,195,441
18. PS2 Tomb Raider: The Angel Of Darkness -- 50,883 / 207,869
19. GBA Sonic Advance 2 -- 49,998 / N/A
20. GCN Sonic Adventure DX Director's Cut -- 48,398 / 109,200
Rank / Title / Month Sales / Revenue
1. Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour -- 60,684 / $2,981,872
2. Wario World -- 40,337 / $2,016,238
3. Sonic Adventure DX -- 48,398 / $1,926,197
4. Zelda: The Wind Waker -- 52,599 / $1,796,685
5. Super Smash Bros. Melee -- 43,033 / $1,291,413
6. NCAA Football 2004 -- 21,214 / $1,049,537
7. Mario Party 4 -- 29,045 / $974,088
8. Sonic Adventure 2: Battle -- 23,798 / $706,516
9. Mega Man Network Transmission -- 16,862 / $672,272
10. Enter The Matrix -- 12,811 / $624,371
Platform / Month Sales / Total U.S. Userbase
Game Boy Advance -- 488,671 / 15,269,930
Playstation 2 -- 312,992 / 18,485,673
Xbox -- 136,841 / 5,682,847
GameCube -- 126,561 / 4,429,930
The GBA seems to be doing very good, but the hardware sales do take into account both the GBA and the SP.
I was hoping that it was just a fluke, but it isn't...Adult Swim has stricken Lupin III from it's 1:30 time slot. It is a horrible, horrible deed...and rest assured that as we speak, the 7th Light Goron Infantry is rushing to avenge Lupin upon the network execs. HOWEVER, in the meantime my question is to anyone who'd know:
Is Lupin on any other network at any other time, or shall I never again see it...?
I recently, and by recently I mean a few days ago, started reading comic books again. I don't think I was ever a really big fan of comic books, but anyway I found a particularly good comic book mini-series. It's called "Formerly Known As The Justice League" and it's basically a parody of the Justice League comics and it's even made by Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis who did some of the original Justice League comics. It's really funny, everyone should buy it.
YESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!! According to ign ps2's latest rumors article, Square-Enix is planning on releasing one more PS1 game and it very well might be compilation disc with Final Fantasy 3 and SD 3!!
Quote:Final Fantasy III and Seiken Densetsu 3 on PS one?
Early this summer at Square-Enix's second financial results announcement, the mammoth RPG company made public its intent to create one last PlayStation game.
IGN has consistently hammered away at Square with questions about this game, and though no information has come from Square-Enix itself, we have gathered enough information from sources close to the company about what it very well could be.
Additionally, we believe that the final game is a compilation disc of these two games, which will include Final Fantasy III and Seiken Densetsu 3 because of these two reasons: These are the only two games of both series not released in the US and they are the only two games not to be remade since their original publication.
Wow, what awesome timing. I just got Legend of Mana in the mail today and I'm having such a great time with it that I started thinking about how great it would be if Square released SD 3 in the U.S. I've also wanted FF III for a long time, so I really hope ign is right!
IGNMatt says in N-Query: "Well, Nintendo is trying, even if we don't always see it. Things are happening behind the scenes for the future. And it's not as if GameCube is being entirely neglected. At the end of September, the company will drop the price of the console to $99 smackers, which is I think a pretty significant reduction. Meanwhile, there are games like F-Zero GX, Soul Calibur II and Viewtiful Joe, not to mention Rogue Squadron, Mario Kart, Pikmin II and Metal Gear Solid, all just around the corner. I would call that a very strong lineup."
$99 seems to be a great price point to reach a mainstream audience during the holiday season. I know I'll have my hands full with Gamecube goodness.
