Also, if someone could make some mock ups of game covers that would be very nice, please PM me.
Nice Update, waiting for the next one(whent will be?)
umm interesting, so the Shenmue 3, the last chapter of Shenmue Saga will be finished, that is nice.
Hooray! Gameboy still lives on! The GBA was and is my favorite system to this day - glad to see it not getting dumped out in favor of the DS, but living on through it
Does the Dual Gameboy have backwards compatibility with GBA? Considering the DSi dropped it. (Edit: I note the that the DGB is said to have the original DS design, but I prefer to be sure).
Was it announced E3 2004 like the DS originally was?
By the way, I found out that Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes was originally announced at the 2003 E3, and released on March 2004. A more viable Gamecube would have helped the done better, and in turn more Konami support.
That's probably a good company to focus on. We haven't heard of Konami.
First off, Nintendo unveiled there new Dual Layer Gamecube Disks that would allow for larger games such as Xenosaga and Square-Enix Games such as Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2, Final Fantasy X, XII and Dragon Quest VIII would all be ported or released on the gamecube
I decided to come up with some fake articles based on this line:
Square Enix Reveals the "Grand Classic"
RPG giant to bring Final Fantasy X, Kingdom Hearts, to Gamecube
Back at the 2003 E3, Nintendo's President Satoru Iwata dropped a hint that owners of Nintendo's console will have other Final Fantasy games besides the Crystal Chronicles spinoff to look forward to, especially with the newly announced availibility of dual-layered minidiscs for Gamecube developers. Most people concluded then that these future titles would be more spinoffs like Crystal Chronicles, and not mainline games like the heavily rumored Final Fantasy XII. Last month's discovery of Square Enix's new "Grand Classic" trademark seemed to be pointing to a new Gamecube spinoff.
As it turned out, while "Grand Classic" was related to the Gamecube, it isn't a single title, nor it is purely Final Fantasy. This weeks issue of Jump magazine revealed that they are a selection of titles originally released for the Playstation 2 that are now making their Gamecube debuts, beginning with Final Fantasy X Grand Classic Edition and Kingdom Hearts Grand Classic Edition. Both games are said to be based upon the FFX's International Version and KH's Final Mix edition respectively, only with more additions. Otherwise they look virtually identical to the PS2 releases, although the article hints at improved graphics for the games.
More details are expected at the upcoming Square Enix Fall Showcase, including a release date window, other games in the Grand Classic line, and possible Western plans, and most importantly, the reasoning behind these better late than never ports.
Square Enix's PS2 Hits to Become Gamecube's "Grand Classics"
Updated versions of Final Fantasy X, Kingdom Hearts, make their way to Nintendo's console.
You hear that? It's the sound of Playstation fans despairing at the fact they just lost another exclusive. Two of them, in fact.
Square Enix dropped a bombshell this week via this week's V-Jump, revealing that their big sellers on the Playstation 2 are making their way to the Nintendo Gamecube, giving Nintendo fan's their first mainline game since Final Fantasy VI on the Super Nintendo. It is part of Square Enix's upcoming "Grand Classic" line, which are basically their best Playstation 2 games rereleased on the Gamecube.
According to V-Jump, the games will have slightly updated graphics, as well as additional content. This is brand new material on top of the additional content made for Final Fantasy X's International version and Kingdom Heart's Final Mix version. No word yet on what this material is, but we hope this doesn't involve the Gameboy Advance-Gamecube connection ala Crystal Chronicles.
Square Enix are expected to reveal more details are their upcoming Fall Showcase.
Dragon Quest VIII to Venture on the Gamecube
Latest installment in popular RPG series to be the first true multiplatform release for Square Enix
You can't go another month without hearing of another Playstation 2 game making their appearance on Nintendo's console. This time however, it's a game that's currently in development. V-Jump has revealed that the 8th installment of one of Japan's oldest RPG series will appear on both consoles. Despite that, the game is still slated for a 2004 release.
Rumor has it that Nintendo themselves are personally assisting Level-5 with getting the latest build running on Gamecube hardware so the additional platform won't hold up development.
So, canon?
Does Microsoft still buy Bungee? Will Knights of the Old Republic I and II still be X-Box exclusives? Will Sonic Heroes, Shadow the Hedgehog, and Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) still happen and will they be Gamecube exclusives? Will Virtua Fighter, Virtua Racing, Daytona USA, and Virtua Tennis still remain as high a quality as before?
Inquiring minds want to know!
You know, there could be potential butterflies regarding Madden series and their exclusivity deal with the NFL.
In OTL, it's believed Madden got the exclusive rights to use the NFL trademarks and the likeness of the players after ESPN NFL 2K5 apparently took market share from Madden thanks to it's $19.99 price. The NFL and the Player's Association claim they felt is better for them to deal with just one licensee. Of course the fallout from this is Take Two, the publisher of NFL 2K5, deciding to gain exclusive rights to the MLB license while allowing the only the platform owners(Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony) to have their own MLB licensed games.
The thing is, the NFL 2K series got started when EA refused to bring Madden to the Dreamcast, so Sega had Visual Concepts develop NFL 2K to fill the gap of a NFL Football game. After going third party, Sega and Take Two would jointly publish Visual Concepts' sports games until Sega sold VC to Take Two.
So given in this timeline Nintendo bought Sega, this could change how all this sports league licensing plays out.
Nintendo/Sega/2K Vs EADuring the Dreamcast era, Electronic Arts dealt a massive blow to Sega by not porting its sports games to the system. In the absence of EA Sports Games, 2K and Sega partnered to make their replacements.
However when Nintendo bought Sega and did not pull the plug on the joint venture, it sparked another round of hostilities between the three companies which would end with Take Two becoming larger supporters of Nitnendo systems as well as provig to be quite damaging to EA's sports games as many gamer's with the Gamecube discovered that the 2K Sports Games where vastly superior to the EA games in quality as well as having some online capabilities.
This would be the start of the trend of Electronic Arts becoming closer to Sony and Take Two becoming closer to Nintendo with the fading obscurity of the Xbox, led to the dropping of several exclusive titles for the system going multi platform to the Gamecube including Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2 as well as Jade Empire.
In early 2005, a major development happened, when it was leaked EA was trying to purchase both Bioware and Pandemic which alarmed both Take Two and Nintendo. Take Two desired to buy the studios, but were short on funds compared to EA. As both studios had supported the gamecube and snubbed Sony by refusing to port Star Wars KOTOR and Jade Empire due to the "weak and inferior hardware of the Playstation 2 compared to the Gamecube" and the porting of Star Wars Battlefront 2 to the Gamecube by Pandemic was superior to the PS2 version and matched the Xbox version of the games. In the end, Take Two would purchase both studios in a joint venture with Nintendo both owning 50% of the stock in the studios and putting both studios along with the Sega-2K sports division together which in all but name were at the least a second party of Nintendo if not a quasi first party.
*Microsoft does not publish Jade Empire and does not own the IP in this TL
Interesting, so having both SEGA-2K Still supporting Visual Concepts(what will happened with Madden, maybe here the presure avoid exclusivity and both EA and 2K still make ESPN NFL 2K, that game was amazing).
And how Nintendo and Take-two for better together, so here Instead X360 being the lead Platform for Take-two game, that one will be the revolution(and easily taking the place of the X360 ITTL), with both together will not be weird several of future Bioware games being PC/Nintendo exclusives, that will be interesting for Mass Effect keeping in their roots as WRPG that third person shooter.
GTA will be ported to gamecube and maybe later revolution?
Yep, bascially the 360 will be DoA after the RRoD and the worse performance of the original Xbox is a contributing factor to Microsoft to sell sell the division off piecemeal.
(Who should buy Halo and Bungie?)
Age of Empires will go to Take Two.