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Eidos To Stop GameCube Development

Posted by simoniker on from the lara-and-kirby-not-chums dept.

Thanks to The Times Online for their article indicating that Eidos has announced that they will no longer develop GameCube titles. The article, based on comments made as the company announced their financial results, explains that "...there were no plans for Eidos, Europe's second largest games developer, to release any games for the struggling GameCube, which has sold about 1.8 million units in Europe compared with sales of 15 million for Sony's PS2." Eidos CEO Mike McGarvey commented: "The GameCube is a declining business... If other companies follow us [Nintendo] will have a hard battle to fight." This follows similar anti-GameCube comments by Acclaim a couple of months back.

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  1. Future Headlines by UltimaL337Star · · Score: 4, Funny

    Eidos blames Nintendo Gamecube for poor box office rates on Tomb Raider 2 by not having a larger selection of Tomb Raider titles of which Eidos claims "We would've developed more Tomb Raider games for the GC, but Lara's breast would never fit on a mini-cd, that's not even counting the animation files for real time jugglyness effect."

  2. oh no not eidos! by gedanken · · Score: 3, Funny

    http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-07 -09&res=l replace acclaim with eidos.

  3. huzzah by lordjabbo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now maybe they'll stop making games for every other system. One can dream, right?