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Nintendo Moves Back, Shuffles Release Dates

Posted by Zonk on from the hope-you-weren't-waiting-for-that-zelda dept.

Press the Buttons has commentary and release dates, now that Nintendo has released their Fall release plans. Frustratingly Metroid Prime Hunters, Mario Kart DS, and Animal Crossing DS have all had their release dates moved back. From the article: " Q1 2006: Metroid Prime Hunters from Nintendo. Bad Nintendo, bad! This game has slipped down the calendar so many times it isn't even amusing anymore. First it fell from a June 2005 release down to August, then to October, and now it's dropped into next year. Here's hoping they're using this extra time to add online multiplayer support, because if not a lot of people are going to be even more disappointed."

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  1. Don't Forget... by Luigi30 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Half-Life was scheduled to be released mid-1996 but was delayed a year because the devs realized it sucked and they had to rewrite it...

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  2. Re:Rewarding Those Who Wait? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    They just announced a price drop to $129 a few days ago...

  3. Re:Rewarding Those Who Wait? by PhoenixFlare · · Score: 2, Informative

    I just read somewhere that the price is going to be dropped from $150 to $130.

    It already has been. Gotta love how Nintendo stories around here seem to have a mysterious effect stopping people from doing any pre-post fact-checking.

  4. X-Com / LSN ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Sept. 6: Rebelstar Tactical Command from Namco

    Great. This is Laser Squad Nemesis for GBA, from the folk that did the awsome Laser Squad Nemesis.

    Great, great, great.

  5. Mario Kart and Animal Crossing aren't delayed. by webrunner · · Score: 3, Informative

    A lot of the games people are calling "delays" aren't. Animal Crossing DS and Mario Kart DS did not have offical release dates until now, now they do (within the Q4 2005 timeframe that Nintendo offically stated)

    Any other release date you heard were just wild guesses (some of them were even in September and January which aren't Q4 2005)

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  6. Re:Damn it. by Jonny_eh · · Score: 2, Informative

    How is it that you can consider Warioware a must buy but not Meteos. I own both and can easily say that Meteos is one of the best handheld game released in the past 12 months.

    I got bored of warioware after a week. I bought Meteos last month, and still play it almost daily. Meteos is the best puzzle game I've played since Tetris, IMHO of course.