3rd January 2003, 4:25 AM
OB1, did you call it or what? Here's an article from Gamers.com, translated from Nihon Kazai Shinbum:
Gamers.com: News:
Breaking: Pokemon Headed for GameCube
By: John Ricciardi January 3, 2003 12:45 AM PST
According to Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Nintendo is planning to release a GameCube version of its child-hypnotizing, cash-sucking RPG series, Pokemon, in Japan before this summer.
Details are still scarce on this as-of-yet untitled game (we'll call it Pokemon GC from here on out), but the newspaper did release two very important points, which we've kindly laid out for you below (cash-conscious parents, sit down before you read the second one):
1) Pokemon GC will retail for less than the cost of a standard first party Game Boy Advance game (4,800 yen, or about $40).
2) Pokemon GC will only operate when coupled with a Game Boy Advance and one of the two upcoming GBA Pokemon games (Ruby and Sapphire, both due out in March in the U.S.).
While Nintendo has been keen to incorporate connectivity features in its GC and GBA games in the past, this will be the first time they actually require gamers to own both consoles in order to play.
Judging from the info released thus far, it sounds like Pokemon GC may wind up as more of a supplementary disc for owners of the GBA games (along the lines of the N64 Pokemon Stadiums) rather than a full-on "real" RPG. Disappointing, but not at all surprising.
Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire were released in Japan on Nov. 21 and have already sold through an alarming 2.7 million copies.
END
I'd like to add that the babelfish translation says nothing about Pokemon GC's gameplay, so when Ricciardi says, "Judging from the info released thus far, it sounds like Pokemon GC may wind up as more of a supplementary disc ...rather than a full-on "real" RPG," he's inferring that from the price and the connectivity.
Here's the Engrish "babelfishian" translation:
Source: Nikkei Net/ Nihon Keizai Shimbun morning paper
It is the "Pokemon" software to Nintendo and for home video game machines. -- A pocket machine and linkage
Within the limit of the summer of 2003, Nintendo puts the software of "Pocket Monsters" on the market for home video game machines. If the "Pokemon" software and handheld game machine for handheld game machines are not combined, it will design so that a game cannot be carried out. Power is put into the selling strategy of home use and carried type one.
New work software is put on the market for home video game machines "a NINTENDO game cube." In order to enjoy a game, two software, such as software "a Pocket-Monsters ruby" to handheld game machine "the Game Boy advance" of the company Turn, and an advance are required. A soft price is due for it to be [ for advances ] cheaper than 4800 yen, and to be carried out.
Gamers.com: News:
Breaking: Pokemon Headed for GameCube
By: John Ricciardi January 3, 2003 12:45 AM PST
According to Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Nintendo is planning to release a GameCube version of its child-hypnotizing, cash-sucking RPG series, Pokemon, in Japan before this summer.
Details are still scarce on this as-of-yet untitled game (we'll call it Pokemon GC from here on out), but the newspaper did release two very important points, which we've kindly laid out for you below (cash-conscious parents, sit down before you read the second one):
1) Pokemon GC will retail for less than the cost of a standard first party Game Boy Advance game (4,800 yen, or about $40).
2) Pokemon GC will only operate when coupled with a Game Boy Advance and one of the two upcoming GBA Pokemon games (Ruby and Sapphire, both due out in March in the U.S.).
While Nintendo has been keen to incorporate connectivity features in its GC and GBA games in the past, this will be the first time they actually require gamers to own both consoles in order to play.
Judging from the info released thus far, it sounds like Pokemon GC may wind up as more of a supplementary disc for owners of the GBA games (along the lines of the N64 Pokemon Stadiums) rather than a full-on "real" RPG. Disappointing, but not at all surprising.
Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire were released in Japan on Nov. 21 and have already sold through an alarming 2.7 million copies.
END
I'd like to add that the babelfish translation says nothing about Pokemon GC's gameplay, so when Ricciardi says, "Judging from the info released thus far, it sounds like Pokemon GC may wind up as more of a supplementary disc ...rather than a full-on "real" RPG," he's inferring that from the price and the connectivity.
Here's the Engrish "babelfishian" translation:
Source: Nikkei Net/ Nihon Keizai Shimbun morning paper
It is the "Pokemon" software to Nintendo and for home video game machines. -- A pocket machine and linkage
Within the limit of the summer of 2003, Nintendo puts the software of "Pocket Monsters" on the market for home video game machines. If the "Pokemon" software and handheld game machine for handheld game machines are not combined, it will design so that a game cannot be carried out. Power is put into the selling strategy of home use and carried type one.
New work software is put on the market for home video game machines "a NINTENDO game cube." In order to enjoy a game, two software, such as software "a Pocket-Monsters ruby" to handheld game machine "the Game Boy advance" of the company Turn, and an advance are required. A soft price is due for it to be [ for advances ] cheaper than 4800 yen, and to be carried out.