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Nintendodolphin.net is reporting
that four publishers have comfirmed that
the Nintendo Dolphin and Game Boy Advance
won't come till Fall 2001. Nintendo is
planning to make a worldwide release of
the system sometime around Christmas
2000. First of all, the only reason
Nintendo is still in the gaming business
is because of the whole Pokemon craze. It
has brought Nintendo nearly $8 billion in
sales. But the company is still losing a
lot of money, because N64 sales in Japan
are the same as Saturn sales in North
America. Even before the Dreamcast came
out, Sega had 32% of the market in Japan.
The four publishers that
are saying that neither Dolphin or Game
Boy Advance won't come till Fall 2001 are
still unknown. The reasoning for the
delay of Game Boy Advance by nearly an
year is because Game Boy Colour sales are
doing incredibly well all around the
world. This is even after competition
from other companies like Bandai
Wonderswan (coming to North America very
soon under Mattel name), SNK Neo-Geo
Pocket, and Sony Pocketstation are
gaining market share.
Reasoning for the Dolphin
delay is because Nintendo has boosted the
cost of production of their
next-generation system. An unknown
publisher says, "It's almost like
developing for the cartridge format
again, we've put all of our Dolphin and
Game Boy Advance projects on hold because
of it." Big N recently said that the
production cost of their Dolphin games
should be low, guess they changed their
minds.
Seems that the Dolphin might be
the next N64, the same things that
happened to the N64 when it was codenamed
Ultra 64 is happening to the Dolphin. The
hype of the N64 lived only for about 5
months, how long will all the Dolphin
hype last?
This is good news for Sega
because they'll have more time to
concentrate their little console war with
Playstation 2, rather that concentrating
on both systems at once. This will calm
down most of the people at Sega, but I'm
pretty sure everyone at Sega can't wait
to see how the Dreamcast is going to be
doing after the Playstation 2 Japanese
launch 6 days from today.
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