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"What A Line-Up!"

Just been looking over the Christmas release schedule, and I have to say, the festive season does look the one to be jolly for 'Cube owners this year. In my opinion, quite easily the best Xmas exclusive line-up out of the three consoles and I don't think many can argue with that. In fact, with an intelligent price-cut and some decent bundle deals, Nintendo could "win" the Christmas sales over here in Europe; sailing past Microsoft and perhaps even Sony. Take a look at what's to come (I've picked out the highlights);

AUGUST/SEPTEMBER

Product Number 03
Xtreme G Racing Association
WWE X9
True Crime: Streets of LA
Soul Calibur II

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER

Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life
Viewtiful Joe
Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg
F-Zero GX
Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
Beyond Good & Evil
Medal of Honour: Rising Sun
Prince of Persia
Tom Clancey's Rainbow Six: Raven Shield
XIII
Tiger Woods 2004
James Bond: Everything or Nothing
Mario Kart: Double Dash
Pikmin 2
Tony Hawk Underground

DECEMBER

1080 Avalanche
FIFA 2004
Metal Gear Solid
Pokemon Colosseum
Phantasy Star Online III
Return of the King
Sonic Heroes
SSX 3
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Bit of a duff topic, I know, but things haven't exactly been very interesting in here lately, have they? Anyway.. I reckon things look really good for GameCube on paper - everything now relies on those release dates holding strong, and a good strategy from Nintendo. So, what are you guys looking forward to? And what are your predictions for the GameCube this Christmas?

Never mind.

Maverick42 wrote:
> Blank wrote:
> Wow, all those games this year.....and more than half of them multi
> format, too! The Cube really will be the best!
>
> As well as taking a healthy mixture of first, second and third party
> software to sell a console, the GameCube actually has the most
> exclusives out of all three consoles in this year's Christmas
> line-up.
>
> So you're wrong.

Jesus Christ, here we go again. Read what I said - "more than half of them are multi format". More than half ARE NOT GC EXCLUSIVE. So how am I wrong?

And I only made that point because what you seemed to be saying was "GameCube's looking the best this Christmas". If you're making a comparison to other consoles, there's no point putting in multi format games because they just get cancelled out.

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> You missed out the best of the bunch though SIMPSONS : HIT AND RUN.

While I preferred Road Rage to Crazy Taxi, I still didn't think it any more than an average game. This is the sequel, isn't it? What makes it so special?

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> Prince of Persia, BG & E and Raven Shield won't be coming out this
> year.
>
> One's gone Xbox ezxclusive and the other 2 are PS2 exclusive for the
> first 6 months.

Raven Shield IS coming out on GameCube though, isn't it?

Blank wrote:
> Wow, all those games this year.....and more than half of them multi
> format, too! The Cube really will be the best!

As well as taking a healthy mixture of first, second and third party software to sell a console, the GameCube actually has the most exclusives out of all three consoles in this year's Christmas line-up.

So you're wrong.

But it's only a month to go until SC2!!

Its a great line up. I've preordered Soul Calibur 2 and F-zero GX from Ign.com (the NTSC versions) because i cant wait for the Pal release dates for em!

TGMbloke wrote:
> I place my bets on this being a PS2 & XBOX only. No offence to
> any Nintys....im one too, but I don't see the GC getting this one.
> But quite frankly who cares?

Starsky and Hutch is coming out in September. The only Simpsons game on the Cube has been Road Rage and that actually sold pretty well.

I've already contacted IGN to make sure it's coming out on Cube and apparently it's a shoe-in. They've already got the final code sitting on their desks.

Simpsons games sell like hot cakes no matter what console they're on and how good they are, strangely enough this one's actually looking really good so it should sell very well. Oh an there's rumours that Futurama will be getting a release on Cube in Europe, apparently it flopped in the States but actually did okayish over here.

about a year too late, oh well

AUGUST/SEPTEMBER:
WWE X9

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER:
F-Zero GX
Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
XIII
Mario Kart: Double Dash
Pikmin 2
Tony Hawk Underground

DECEMBER:
SSX 3

These are the definites. Most of the rest are possibilities, and some (FIFA 2004 in particular) are big no-no's.