Nintendo's claim for weekend GameCube sales put the game ahead of blockbuster movie "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," which posted a record, three-day opening weekend box office of just over $90 million. "Harry Potter's such a hot thing it's just kind of nice to be up there with that," Kaplan said. The top-selling game for the console, Kaplan said, was "Luigi's Mansion," a Nintendo-publisher title, followed by Lucas Arts' "Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 2" and Nintendo's "Wave Race: Blue Storm." For the first nine months of the year, Nintendo had five of the top-10 selling video games, according to statistics released by The NPD Group on Monday. Nintendo has started to sell the Nintendo GameCube on November 18th for $199. Nintendo shipped 700,000 GameCube consoles at launch and will ship a total of 1.3million GameCube by December 24th.
Source Reuters
11/18/01
Nintendo GameCube Arrives in the USA
Nintendo has started to sell the Nintendo GameCube. At $199, GameCube is $100 less than Sony's year-old PS2 and Microsoft's Xbox, which launched on Thursday.
11/13/01
Biohazard News - GameCube
Shinji Mikami, producer of the Biohazard series (Resident Evil in the US) revealed that 70% of the new Biohazard GameCube game will differ from the original PlayStation game. Items will be in different locations and the enemies will not be in the same locations. Also the game locations will differ greatly; Mikami mentioned the forest in the game, which now contains steam and gas turbine systems. While these differences may not be as major as some people may like, Mikami did mention that he is trying to keep the remake interesting for those who have already played through the original. Biohazard will ship in Japan on March 22, 2002. The US version is expected to ship April, 2002.
Source Capcom / thegia.com
11/09/01
EA Ships Madden NFL 2002 - GameCube
Madden NFL 2002 for the Nintendo GameCube arrived at retailers nationwide today. On the GameCube, the colors of the uniforms, fields, players and crowds are more vibrant and there is a higher level of detail for the individual crowd members, coaches, and field textures than has been seen before... EA will ship Madden NFL 2002 for the Game Boy Advance on November 19th. The game will feature the same great Madden game play from the past 16-bit versions of the game.
Source EA Sports
11/07/01
Lunar: Silver Star - Game Boy Advance
GameArts has announced that they will release Lunar: Silver Star on Game Boy Advance. The game also appeared on Sega Saturn CD and PS One, the GBA version will be produced by Yoichi Miyaji, and will be scaled down (no voice or FMV sequences) for the portable version. Working Designs, who published the US versions of Lunar in the past, has not confirmed that the new Game Boy Advance version will be released in the US. Lunar: Silver Star for the GBA will ship February 2002 in Japan.
European websites are posting RUMOURS that Konami is working on a 2.5D (side scrolling) Castlevania game for the Nintendo GameCube. This game will be the true sequel to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and is expected to ship Summer 2002 in Japan. Konami has not confirmed or denied this rumor...
Source Gamefront.de
11/04/01
Panasonic Says No Q in the US
The Panasonic Q is a DVD/GameCube Hybrid console that will go on sale in Japan on December 14th for $320 USD. "The Q is simply a Japan device... Right now there are no plans for U.S. marketing,'' said Kurt Praschak, a Panasonic spokesman. The Nintendo GameCube uses a smaller disc than the standard DVD format and does not play DVD movies. The two companies announced earlier this year that Panasonic would produce its own unit with licensed GameCube technology.
