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This was going to be a look at nintendo's attitude to europe, based on international web sites. It's turned into so much more.
First things first.
Nintendo.com's list of international sites (selective representation):
USA and Japan:
Naturally, you'd expect pretty extensive stuff here, nintendo's chosen regions for gamecube launch, and you wouldn't be disappointed. The benchmark, then.
Brazil:
How is nintendo kicking it in southern america? No mention of gamecube, the picture links at the top of the page feature N64, SNES and gameboy colour.
I guess we can't complain about where we're at. (At least they get a web site : P)
Australia:
The only other area outside of europe to get a mention. What do they get? One page with no content, a link to something about the GBA and a link to the american site.
Into europe then,
'Europe':
Seemingly aimed at all the european countries who don't get their own site (Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden.)
In fact, the link takes you to the german site.
Germany:
Quite poor, but looked to have been in transition while it was being updated.
Spain:
Developing well, didn't have too much, but some links to pages that looked to be waiting for content to be added indicate future growth that should please spanish nintys.
France:
Very nice indeed, with pleanty of content, and so far as the gamecube goes, you see modems (56k and broadband), controlers (wavebird and regular), and much more. All was on the US site, but this place has to come close to the benchmark, certainly for gamecube latests.
Sweden:
Didn't expect too much, though i understood scandanavia to be a good market for nintendo.
The old NES-esq colour scheme of the pale gray and red suggested my expectations may have been reasonable, but closer inspection showed this site to be huge. Masses of information, even a nice interactive poll (I'm sure you can get the gist of the question ; ) ):
"Vilket Nintendo GameCube-spel verkar mest lovande?
Luigi's mansion - 14%
Pikmin - 6%
Star Fox Adventures - 11%
Super Smash Bros Melee - 64%
Wave Race : Blue Storm - 5%"
Nice feature, more one sided results than i'd have expected!
The real shocker was yet to come.
Spaceworld 2001 link:
"Spellistan för Nintendo GameCube uppdaterad!"
note the *uppdaterad*
We get a list of gamecube games under production. Now some of these were NOT at spaceworld!
The highlights-
Nintendo-
Mario Party 4
Mario Kart (specifically noted - 'for gamecube')
Pokemon
Perfect Dark Zero
Sega-
Virtua Striker 3 Version 2002
Virtual Tennis 2K3
EA-
Fifa Soccer
SSX Tricky
NBA Street (well i was interested!)
Acclaim-
Dave Mirra
Turok Evolution
Capcom-
Resident Evil 0 and Resident Evil 4 both listed.
Starwars: Episode 2: Attack of the Clones
Namco-
Pacman World 2
Activision-
The Weakest Link (Nooo... why us? WHY?)
Midway-
Spy Hunter
Gauntlet Legends: Dark Legacy
Ubi Soft-
Worms Blast
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear
The Settlers
Titus-
Top gun
THQ-
Spongebob Square Pants
Infogrames-
Terminator, Superman (*sob* - will they never learn?)
Ovriga-
Rocky
Harvest Moon 3 (Oh yes!)
I went to the US site to check on some of the more surprising of these, looking for a second mention:
Mario Kart - looks like it's underway!
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear - This game.. oh yeah that's nice!
Spongebob Square Pants - Unfortunately, a link revealed that this was a kids tv show (by nickelodeon. "#2 ranked show on kids tv", apparantly. Huh.
Turok Evolution - Nice to see some backing for the talk of what has mostly been hushed voices, from what i'd been able to gather.
More interestingly was what WASN"T on the list, Perfect Dark Zero, Starwars, The Settlers (seen this thing before? you could understand!), Harvest Moon 3 (lets just hope for a uk release!) Mario Party 4. Also, some of the titles for other consoles by third partys making their way to the cube (The Thing, Rocky, SSX Tricky), great to hear, and hopefully a sign of things to come, in terms of better third party support than the N64 had.
I was stunned.
The europe thing? I guess we have a bit of a rubbish deal compared to the usa and japan, and even compared to some of our european neighbours, but it could be worse (south america, australia). But it seems to have paled a little after the swedish state.
Don't believe it?
Just want to take a look for yourself?
Don't blame you. Cut and paste (take out the space):
http://www.nintendo-se.com/product/index.asp? mainid=5&subid=15&puffid=55
Pretty special huh?
What are the biggest shocks, surprises, exciting revelations here?
I'll be chacking back to see if the page gets an 'uppdaterar' any time soon : )
First things first.
Nintendo.com's list of international sites (selective representation):
USA and Japan:
Naturally, you'd expect pretty extensive stuff here, nintendo's chosen regions for gamecube launch, and you wouldn't be disappointed. The benchmark, then.
Brazil:
How is nintendo kicking it in southern america? No mention of gamecube, the picture links at the top of the page feature N64, SNES and gameboy colour.
I guess we can't complain about where we're at. (At least they get a web site : P)
Australia:
The only other area outside of europe to get a mention. What do they get? One page with no content, a link to something about the GBA and a link to the american site.
Into europe then,
'Europe':
Seemingly aimed at all the european countries who don't get their own site (Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden.)
In fact, the link takes you to the german site.
Germany:
Quite poor, but looked to have been in transition while it was being updated.
Spain:
Developing well, didn't have too much, but some links to pages that looked to be waiting for content to be added indicate future growth that should please spanish nintys.
France:
Very nice indeed, with pleanty of content, and so far as the gamecube goes, you see modems (56k and broadband), controlers (wavebird and regular), and much more. All was on the US site, but this place has to come close to the benchmark, certainly for gamecube latests.
Sweden:
Didn't expect too much, though i understood scandanavia to be a good market for nintendo.
The old NES-esq colour scheme of the pale gray and red suggested my expectations may have been reasonable, but closer inspection showed this site to be huge. Masses of information, even a nice interactive poll (I'm sure you can get the gist of the question ; ) ):
"Vilket Nintendo GameCube-spel verkar mest lovande?
Luigi's mansion - 14%
Pikmin - 6%
Star Fox Adventures - 11%
Super Smash Bros Melee - 64%
Wave Race : Blue Storm - 5%"
Nice feature, more one sided results than i'd have expected!
The real shocker was yet to come.
Spaceworld 2001 link:
"Spellistan för Nintendo GameCube uppdaterad!"
note the *uppdaterad*
We get a list of gamecube games under production. Now some of these were NOT at spaceworld!
The highlights-
Nintendo-
Mario Party 4
Mario Kart (specifically noted - 'for gamecube')
Pokemon
Perfect Dark Zero
Sega-
Virtua Striker 3 Version 2002
Virtual Tennis 2K3
EA-
Fifa Soccer
SSX Tricky
NBA Street (well i was interested!)
Acclaim-
Dave Mirra
Turok Evolution
Capcom-
Resident Evil 0 and Resident Evil 4 both listed.
Starwars: Episode 2: Attack of the Clones
Namco-
Pacman World 2
Activision-
The Weakest Link (Nooo... why us? WHY?)
Midway-
Spy Hunter
Gauntlet Legends: Dark Legacy
Ubi Soft-
Worms Blast
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear
The Settlers
Titus-
Top gun
THQ-
Spongebob Square Pants
Infogrames-
Terminator, Superman (*sob* - will they never learn?)
Ovriga-
Rocky
Harvest Moon 3 (Oh yes!)
I went to the US site to check on some of the more surprising of these, looking for a second mention:
Mario Kart - looks like it's underway!
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear - This game.. oh yeah that's nice!
Spongebob Square Pants - Unfortunately, a link revealed that this was a kids tv show (by nickelodeon. "#2 ranked show on kids tv", apparantly. Huh.
Turok Evolution - Nice to see some backing for the talk of what has mostly been hushed voices, from what i'd been able to gather.
More interestingly was what WASN"T on the list, Perfect Dark Zero, Starwars, The Settlers (seen this thing before? you could understand!), Harvest Moon 3 (lets just hope for a uk release!) Mario Party 4. Also, some of the titles for other consoles by third partys making their way to the cube (The Thing, Rocky, SSX Tricky), great to hear, and hopefully a sign of things to come, in terms of better third party support than the N64 had.
I was stunned.
The europe thing? I guess we have a bit of a rubbish deal compared to the usa and japan, and even compared to some of our european neighbours, but it could be worse (south america, australia). But it seems to have paled a little after the swedish state.
Don't believe it?
Just want to take a look for yourself?
Don't blame you. Cut and paste (take out the space):
http://www.nintendo-se.com/product/index.asp? mainid=5&subid=15&puffid=55
Pretty special huh?
What are the biggest shocks, surprises, exciting revelations here?
I'll be chacking back to see if the page gets an 'uppdaterar' any time soon : )
cookie monster wrote:
> Yes a spongebobsquarepants game on gamecube, excellent!
horay? *sniggers at CM's childishness*
slik ~_~
> Yes a spongebobsquarepants game on gamecube, excellent!
horay? *sniggers at CM's childishness*
slik ~_~
Yes a spongebobsquarepants game on gamecube, excellent!
Just an update for the... oh, only 1 of you all who read and replied last time.
The pokemon news story prompted me to take another look at this site
http://www.nintendo-se.com/product/index.asp? mainid=5&subid=15&puffid=55
take out the space after the question mark, and if there's one at the end when you ctl-c ctl-v to the address bar, lose that too.
Anyway, new and (possibly) exciting names added to the list:
Nintendo:
Marionette (anyone's guess, but the first 5 letters make it interesting!)
Rare:
Donkey Kong Racing
Sega:
Skies of Arcadia
Phantasy Star Online
Interplay:
The Matrix
Ubi Soft:
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Namco:
Soul Calibur 2
Acclaim:
Shadowman 2 (woo-hooo)
EA:
Lord of the Rings
The pokemon news story prompted me to take another look at this site
http://www.nintendo-se.com/product/index.asp? mainid=5&subid=15&puffid=55
take out the space after the question mark, and if there's one at the end when you ctl-c ctl-v to the address bar, lose that too.
Anyway, new and (possibly) exciting names added to the list:
Nintendo:
Marionette (anyone's guess, but the first 5 letters make it interesting!)
Rare:
Donkey Kong Racing
Sega:
Skies of Arcadia
Phantasy Star Online
Interplay:
The Matrix
Ubi Soft:
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Namco:
Soul Calibur 2
Acclaim:
Shadowman 2 (woo-hooo)
EA:
Lord of the Rings
Seriously, does nobody else care about this?
I almost fell off my chair when i realised what that page content was about.
Seemed like the biggest leak since... genetic modification trials in wales or something.
I almost fell off my chair when i realised what that page content was about.
Seemed like the biggest leak since... genetic modification trials in wales or something.
Woah!
Harvest Moon 3!
Excellent news but Settlers? Hmmmm I hope Nintendo release some sort of mouse support for that.
Turok Evolution was announced a while ago before the Cube's launch, it's set before the first Turok and N64 Magazine featured some pics, just in case you didn't know.
:-)
I'm sure the reason why the Perfect Dark sequel isn't announced must be because of Rare's secrecy, I didn't notice Donkey Kong Racing in their either.
I would ave voted Pikmin in that poll but that's just me.
Nice topic by the way.
Harvest Moon 3!
Excellent news but Settlers? Hmmmm I hope Nintendo release some sort of mouse support for that.
Turok Evolution was announced a while ago before the Cube's launch, it's set before the first Turok and N64 Magazine featured some pics, just in case you didn't know.
:-)
I'm sure the reason why the Perfect Dark sequel isn't announced must be because of Rare's secrecy, I didn't notice Donkey Kong Racing in their either.
I would ave voted Pikmin in that poll but that's just me.
Nice topic by the way.
p.s. - the space in the url is between the
...index.asp?
and the
mainid=5...
(it didn't look clear when i checked over it).
...index.asp?
and the
mainid=5...
(it didn't look clear when i checked over it).
This was going to be a look at nintendo's attitude to europe, based on international web sites. It's turned into so much more.
First things first.
Nintendo.com's list of international sites (selective representation):
USA and Japan:
Naturally, you'd expect pretty extensive stuff here, nintendo's chosen regions for gamecube launch, and you wouldn't be disappointed. The benchmark, then.
Brazil:
How is nintendo kicking it in southern america? No mention of gamecube, the picture links at the top of the page feature N64, SNES and gameboy colour.
I guess we can't complain about where we're at. (At least they get a web site : P)
Australia:
The only other area outside of europe to get a mention. What do they get? One page with no content, a link to something about the GBA and a link to the american site.
Into europe then,
'Europe':
Seemingly aimed at all the european countries who don't get their own site (Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden.)
In fact, the link takes you to the german site.
Germany:
Quite poor, but looked to have been in transition while it was being updated.
Spain:
Developing well, didn't have too much, but some links to pages that looked to be waiting for content to be added indicate future growth that should please spanish nintys.
France:
Very nice indeed, with pleanty of content, and so far as the gamecube goes, you see modems (56k and broadband), controlers (wavebird and regular), and much more. All was on the US site, but this place has to come close to the benchmark, certainly for gamecube latests.
Sweden:
Didn't expect too much, though i understood scandanavia to be a good market for nintendo.
The old NES-esq colour scheme of the pale gray and red suggested my expectations may have been reasonable, but closer inspection showed this site to be huge. Masses of information, even a nice interactive poll (I'm sure you can get the gist of the question ; ) ):
"Vilket Nintendo GameCube-spel verkar mest lovande?
Luigi's mansion - 14%
Pikmin - 6%
Star Fox Adventures - 11%
Super Smash Bros Melee - 64%
Wave Race : Blue Storm - 5%"
Nice feature, more one sided results than i'd have expected!
The real shocker was yet to come.
Spaceworld 2001 link:
"Spellistan för Nintendo GameCube uppdaterad!"
note the *uppdaterad*
We get a list of gamecube games under production. Now some of these were NOT at spaceworld!
The highlights-
Nintendo-
Mario Party 4
Mario Kart (specifically noted - 'for gamecube')
Pokemon
Perfect Dark Zero
Sega-
Virtua Striker 3 Version 2002
Virtual Tennis 2K3
EA-
Fifa Soccer
SSX Tricky
NBA Street (well i was interested!)
Acclaim-
Dave Mirra
Turok Evolution
Capcom-
Resident Evil 0 and Resident Evil 4 both listed.
Starwars: Episode 2: Attack of the Clones
Namco-
Pacman World 2
Activision-
The Weakest Link (Nooo... why us? WHY?)
Midway-
Spy Hunter
Gauntlet Legends: Dark Legacy
Ubi Soft-
Worms Blast
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear
The Settlers
Titus-
Top gun
THQ-
Spongebob Square Pants
Infogrames-
Terminator, Superman (*sob* - will they never learn?)
Ovriga-
Rocky
Harvest Moon 3 (Oh yes!)
I went to the US site to check on some of the more surprising of these, looking for a second mention:
Mario Kart - looks like it's underway!
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear - This game.. oh yeah that's nice!
Spongebob Square Pants - Unfortunately, a link revealed that this was a kids tv show (by nickelodeon. "#2 ranked show on kids tv", apparantly. Huh.
Turok Evolution - Nice to see some backing for the talk of what has mostly been hushed voices, from what i'd been able to gather.
More interestingly was what WASN"T on the list, Perfect Dark Zero, Starwars, The Settlers (seen this thing before? you could understand!), Harvest Moon 3 (lets just hope for a uk release!) Mario Party 4. Also, some of the titles for other consoles by third partys making their way to the cube (The Thing, Rocky, SSX Tricky), great to hear, and hopefully a sign of things to come, in terms of better third party support than the N64 had.
I was stunned.
The europe thing? I guess we have a bit of a rubbish deal compared to the usa and japan, and even compared to some of our european neighbours, but it could be worse (south america, australia). But it seems to have paled a little after the swedish state.
Don't believe it?
Just want to take a look for yourself?
Don't blame you. Cut and paste (take out the space):
http://www.nintendo-se.com/product/index.asp? mainid=5&subid=15&puffid=55
Pretty special huh?
What are the biggest shocks, surprises, exciting revelations here?
I'll be chacking back to see if the page gets an 'uppdaterar' any time soon : )
First things first.
Nintendo.com's list of international sites (selective representation):
USA and Japan:
Naturally, you'd expect pretty extensive stuff here, nintendo's chosen regions for gamecube launch, and you wouldn't be disappointed. The benchmark, then.
Brazil:
How is nintendo kicking it in southern america? No mention of gamecube, the picture links at the top of the page feature N64, SNES and gameboy colour.
I guess we can't complain about where we're at. (At least they get a web site : P)
Australia:
The only other area outside of europe to get a mention. What do they get? One page with no content, a link to something about the GBA and a link to the american site.
Into europe then,
'Europe':
Seemingly aimed at all the european countries who don't get their own site (Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden.)
In fact, the link takes you to the german site.
Germany:
Quite poor, but looked to have been in transition while it was being updated.
Spain:
Developing well, didn't have too much, but some links to pages that looked to be waiting for content to be added indicate future growth that should please spanish nintys.
France:
Very nice indeed, with pleanty of content, and so far as the gamecube goes, you see modems (56k and broadband), controlers (wavebird and regular), and much more. All was on the US site, but this place has to come close to the benchmark, certainly for gamecube latests.
Sweden:
Didn't expect too much, though i understood scandanavia to be a good market for nintendo.
The old NES-esq colour scheme of the pale gray and red suggested my expectations may have been reasonable, but closer inspection showed this site to be huge. Masses of information, even a nice interactive poll (I'm sure you can get the gist of the question ; ) ):
"Vilket Nintendo GameCube-spel verkar mest lovande?
Luigi's mansion - 14%
Pikmin - 6%
Star Fox Adventures - 11%
Super Smash Bros Melee - 64%
Wave Race : Blue Storm - 5%"
Nice feature, more one sided results than i'd have expected!
The real shocker was yet to come.
Spaceworld 2001 link:
"Spellistan för Nintendo GameCube uppdaterad!"
note the *uppdaterad*
We get a list of gamecube games under production. Now some of these were NOT at spaceworld!
The highlights-
Nintendo-
Mario Party 4
Mario Kart (specifically noted - 'for gamecube')
Pokemon
Perfect Dark Zero
Sega-
Virtua Striker 3 Version 2002
Virtual Tennis 2K3
EA-
Fifa Soccer
SSX Tricky
NBA Street (well i was interested!)
Acclaim-
Dave Mirra
Turok Evolution
Capcom-
Resident Evil 0 and Resident Evil 4 both listed.
Starwars: Episode 2: Attack of the Clones
Namco-
Pacman World 2
Activision-
The Weakest Link (Nooo... why us? WHY?)
Midway-
Spy Hunter
Gauntlet Legends: Dark Legacy
Ubi Soft-
Worms Blast
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear
The Settlers
Titus-
Top gun
THQ-
Spongebob Square Pants
Infogrames-
Terminator, Superman (*sob* - will they never learn?)
Ovriga-
Rocky
Harvest Moon 3 (Oh yes!)
I went to the US site to check on some of the more surprising of these, looking for a second mention:
Mario Kart - looks like it's underway!
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear - This game.. oh yeah that's nice!
Spongebob Square Pants - Unfortunately, a link revealed that this was a kids tv show (by nickelodeon. "#2 ranked show on kids tv", apparantly. Huh.
Turok Evolution - Nice to see some backing for the talk of what has mostly been hushed voices, from what i'd been able to gather.
More interestingly was what WASN"T on the list, Perfect Dark Zero, Starwars, The Settlers (seen this thing before? you could understand!), Harvest Moon 3 (lets just hope for a uk release!) Mario Party 4. Also, some of the titles for other consoles by third partys making their way to the cube (The Thing, Rocky, SSX Tricky), great to hear, and hopefully a sign of things to come, in terms of better third party support than the N64 had.
I was stunned.
The europe thing? I guess we have a bit of a rubbish deal compared to the usa and japan, and even compared to some of our european neighbours, but it could be worse (south america, australia). But it seems to have paled a little after the swedish state.
Don't believe it?
Just want to take a look for yourself?
Don't blame you. Cut and paste (take out the space):
http://www.nintendo-se.com/product/index.asp? mainid=5&subid=15&puffid=55
Pretty special huh?
What are the biggest shocks, surprises, exciting revelations here?
I'll be chacking back to see if the page gets an 'uppdaterar' any time soon : )