GameCube Hits the Street

boozie writes: "Reports began surfacing yesterday afternoon concerning GameCube goods beginning to trickle into the hands of Japanese consumers...Today we received the first pictures of the finished unit and its associated packaging as sold to a store employee in Tokyo."

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GameCube Info Sources

[MLoff]

Nintendo Site: http://www.nintendo.com/systems/gcn/gcn_overview.j sp

Disassembled GameCube: http://www.lik-sang.com/catalog/master.php?navbar= Disassembled+Gamecube&inc=gcopen.inc

Info on GameCube Console from GameCube Central: http://tomoeslab.virtualave.net/consoleinfo.html

Game Cube controllers

[Time Doctor]

I've played around with the Game Cube dev kit a bit, and if the controllers I used were any indication people over ten years of age will have trouble holding these things. They're SO small and lacking in substance. I imagine this will be like the Game Boy Advance in that you MUST buy a peripheral (new controller) to really enjoy the thing. (With the GBA you basically have to buy some light dongle like Nyko's worm light.) If you want a mental picture of what they look like, imagine a rectangular purple bar about 3 inches thick molded like a play station controller gone horribly wrong. The analog stick just protrudes off at the oddest place on the left hand grip area. Of course, the xbox controller is worse since it deceptively looks useful and comfortable, but is exactly the opposite.