Nintendo stops Cube production
American boss spills beans.
We were recently fondly reminded of an E3 where grown men screamed over a solitary purple plastic box, the very same hardware Nintendo of America has confirmed it is no longer supporting.
No new GameCubes will be produced it said, and first party game production has also been stopped - which isn't outrageously surprising, but does bring a little fanboy-tear to our eyes.
"Are we producing any more GameCubes? No," Perrin Kaplan, vice president of Nintendo America told GameDaily.
When asked if the gaming-giant was no longer supporting the platform by not releasing any new games, Kaplan ominously replied, "Right, that's correct".
Unfortunately Nintendo UK was unavailable for comment at the time of writing, but we expect there's little to deny in these words of wounding. Sob.
However, don't despair, you can still buy the console in some reaches of the world for not very much money at all, and there are plenty of stonking games on the platform to keep you entertained.
We suggest you keep a sharp eye on the prices as we get closer to an official announcement, as they're likely to plummet.
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Comments (52) Latest comment 1 year ago
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There are still a few games I would like to play before they disappear...
Killer 7
Ikaruga....Errr...I'm sure there are others I'm slightly forgetting...
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No chance of those going down, thanks to all the Wii owners buying up Cube games as well now.
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If you can find somewhere that sells the bastard things that is. Gamestations collection of Casper/bionicle games doesn't count btw.
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Even though my little black box is pretty much in retirement since I got my Wii, I'll still hold onto it - not least because I want to keep the controller as a spare to my Wavebird and I'd probably struggle to sell it without...
Maybe now would be a good time for a retrospective article on the Cube's comparatively short life and a run down of games we may have missed and should now be scouring the second hand bins for? (hint, hint!)
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R.I.P.
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I've just had to buy a US import because everyone on Ebay wants full price for their second hand UK copy
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anyway plenty of cube action with the wii
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=(
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Who?
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Almost forgot about that one...Need...
Resi 4....Already got that one...But just the mention of it is enough to make me play it one of these days in glorious Wii-O-Vision...
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Arrgh god, just when I think I'm error-free. Thanks for being sharper than me!
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badum-tish
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Go away you rubbish little forumite
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I still want to track down Pikmin, Chibi-Robo and a few others but I'm worried that even mentioning them here will cause the eBay prices to shoot up.
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RIP Gamecube.
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So what is the big deal?
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Anyway, I'm still waiting for my Black Wii, to go with my Black Cube, plus a few more AAA 1st party Wii only games too !!
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However the GC games itself should not die unforgotten, should new Wii owners never sampled the delights of Metroid Prime 1,2, Res Evil remake and so on on Wii. So would hope Ninty push these kind of classic range as budget titles, especially when Wii is selling like hot potatoes!
EDIT: Got new Freeloader 1.0E today and sure enough it worked fine with my NTSC titles
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Nonsense!
GameCube is still being produced... it's just called "Wii" and is bundled with a fancy controller
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Perhaps not quite what you had in mind but a good article to give the Cube a good send-off.
http://ar stechnica.com/staff/fatbits.ars...
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You need to get the latest version of Freeloader... most NTSC games will play fine on a PAL Wii with it.
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If you want to get dewy eye about ninty systems at least choose decent ones such as the NES, SNES and N64. N64 now that WAS a system
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Still at least Resident Evil 4 did come out on cube, and for that reason alone its one of the best systems ever.
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Which version is that? Play are doing version 1.06b for £12.99 - will that work?
Cheers,
G
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The Freeloader situation is worrying; even if the latest version does apparently work, nothing's stopping Nintendo from blocking newer versions via software updates.
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Here my Nintendo time stops... I'm not getting the wii, i'm always looking for driving games and i don't think the wii can deliver in this genre
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But I dont understand driving games.. surely its a case of play one, played them all?
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Here my Nintendo time stops... I'm not getting the wii, i'm always looking for driving games and i don't think the wii can deliver in this genre
Probably not the type of racing game you mean but Excite Truck is awesome. I understand your worries though. I still cannot quite picture playing Mario Kart with the wiimote but I could not picture Excite Truck with the wiimote too. But playing it for a mere 5 minutes it just felt right and it works incredibly well. The wiimote cannot deliver force feedback but I doubt that there will never be a serious racing game for the wii. Not as much as for the 360 and PS3 possibly because racing games like to show off their graphics.
taucias: They stopped supporting the GC when Super Paper Mario was quietly shifted to a Wii project. I personally get sick and tired of the way they treat their userbase.
The cube is definetly the console that got dropped by Nintendo the earliest after a new console arrived. But I think you cannot really be mad at Nintendo now - you should have been a year ago when the cube had already one or even both feet in the grave. Nintendo has limited resources concerning home consoles, they cannot really afford to support old consoles for much longer. Especially not consoles like the cube and partially the N64 (but not as much as the cube) which were both dead before their successors were released. You can look however for the ongoing support of the GBA although the DS has already it's second revision out.
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The version that works is the very last one made for the Cube (works on the PAL Platinum Cube)... not certain, something like 1.06F I think.
The packaging currently looks like this
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That is worrying; I hadn't thought about that before. Hopefully they won't bother now that the Cube is history, and well, Nintendo are always good to Europe, right?
Oh shit.
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Hardly.
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I love my little cube, it's a shame he didn't have more games, but the amount i get through nowerdays there's still loads i never got the chance to play.
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So will runs NTSC games, I ordered it on Friday and got it today! Ran my Metroid Prime 1 and Resident Evil Remake with no difficulties, havent tested rest of my NTSC titles but confident should all work. So before I get rid of purple box will check all NTSC titles.
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