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"Did anyone notice..."

Assuming you've seen the new Soul Calibur 2 advert that is.
It's a pretty good ad, but the one little detail that annoyed be about it was at the very end. After the game footage (yes actual game footage in a game ad!) there are two, yes two, game boxes shown. The PS2 and Xbox covers are shown, but what about the Cube version???

From various different sources I've read that the Cube version is the better of the three due to the best extra character in Link and the best control set-up, yet why oh why somebody decided to neglect showing the Cube box on there too seems a little strange. There's enough room on there to show it, so why is it not on there? Some kind of conspiracy or hidden agenda?

Thoughts?

Dammit Phuzzy beat me to it!

Nintendo are the publishers of Soul Calibur 2 on the Gamecube whilst EA are in charge of the X-box and PS2 versions.

And you know Nintendo's advertisement budget :D

It's because Namco or EA Partners, I forget, is working on the advertising for the Sony and MS versions, whilst Ninty took it upon themselves.

Thats why you see different GC SCII print ads to the PS2/Xbox.

That's also why GC version isn't on TV.

ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> Who really cares? The console kicks ass and thats all thats required.
> Sod the rest, they are missing out.

*sigh* reminds me of two of my friends.

them:'why do you still like the gaycube?! everyone who bought one is regretting it, and its a crappy console.'
me:'i'm not regretting it, and i wouldnt care if i was the only person in thw world who had a gamecube, i'd still like it. So you're saying i should follow the crowd, like a sheep, and do what everyone else does?'

i think from there on the argument kind of dwindled out..and i'd like to think that it was because of my fantastic reasoning.

What channel has it been on? I haven't seen it yet...

Indeed.

Nintendo are in the black and they are far from finished.

Who really cares? The console kicks ass and thats all thats required. Sod the rest, they are missing out.

I was going to say exactly the same, fook the rest of em eh!

Like Totoro, the Cube version has outsold the others, and hardware sales have gone up 118%, and this is the first of this autumns/winters big big games.

Despite not being featued on the ad, the GC version of Soul Calibur 2 has actually outsold the other two versions according to various sources.
The GC got 38%, PS2 got 34% with Xbox on 28% of sales.
A bit of a suprise.

Even the BBC games reviewers openly admitted that the Cube version has sharper visuals than the PS2, and they're about as anti-ninty as you can get.