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10-02-2006, 02:17 PM	#1
The Rat King Boom Boom Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 627	NOA confirms Super Paper Mario still on the Cube this fall ?!? Up until this week most Cube fans had accepted the fact that Super Paper Mario was no longer a Cube game. However, Nintendo of America's customer support has blown the argument wide open again. The fan site Go Nintendo wrote to NOA and asked them point blank if the Cube version of SPM was cancelled. They got this reply: "Hello and thank you for contacting Nintendo, You’ll be glad to hear that Super Paper Mario will still be a Nintendo GameCube game. However, the release date has changed. It is now listed as 4th Quarter (October, November, or December) 2006. As always (and you may have already read this), if you’re interested in future video game releases, our website’s Game List (www.nintendo.com/gamelist) is your best resource for official information. Once there, click “Show advanced filtering” and use the dropdown menus to narrow your search based on system, publisher, number of players, etc." See this link for details: http://gonintendo.com/?p=6256 Shortly after Nintendo.com updated the official Super Paper Mario page to remove the October 9th release date. However, they left it listed as a Cube game. http://www.nintendo.com/gamemini?ga...GSc7nrT0hW1XJt& Before anyone gets too excited, it could be that NOA's customer service people are not up to date. They have been wrong before. However, the situation looks very different than it did after the September Wii announcements. The door is open again. It is possible that SPM will get the "only in America" Cube treatment. The installed base in the US is bigger than the other two territories combined and the Cube still sells at a rate of 10,000 units a week here so maybe NOA feels its worth the while to release the Cube version here. Who knows.

10-02-2006, 02:27 PM	#2
Crunchy to jue Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: the "Employee of the Month" parking spot Posts: 7,246	I'll buy it. Good find.

10-02-2006, 02:39 PM	#3
sonicblue Thundercougarfalconbird Join Date: May 2002 Location: South Florida Posts: 20,156	I'm betting on it being an incompetent NOA rep. __________________

10-02-2006, 02:50 PM

The Rat King

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Quote:

Originally Posted by sonicblue

I'm betting on it being an incompetent NOA rep.

That would have been my conclusion as well if not for the fact that they also updated the web site. It could be that someone at NOA noticed that Oct 9th is next week and the game is not in production so they better remove that date.

The thing that bugged me about the game moving to Wii is the way we found out. If IGN was so sure that the game was becoming Wii only then why was it not a news item on the Cube page? Why have that piece of important news buired in the mailbag section of the Wii channel. Its not like SPM is a niche title that noone cares about. Even if it was just a rumor, its a rumor about the #2 Cube game of the season. Surely it was worth posting in the otherwise barren IGN Cube channel. The fact that they did not post it as news tells me that they were not really certain. maybe NOA was not yet certain what they were going to do. Maybe they still don't know.

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10-02-2006, 03:23 PM	#5
Pojo is it? Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 22,046	Eh, whatever. The Cube is dead, I'd just play it on the Wii anyway. __________________

10-02-2006, 04:27 PM	#6
Paul Weller Lakitu Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 11,516	that'd be hard for people who don't own a wii. lost mine in the war. __________________ We're all just hapless victims of knowledge and learning and such The man you thought you licked 'em but you choked in the clutch Brent Black, you said it yourself it's an ethereal kind of flu A Mac virus reveals the plot of the fiendish Fu Man Chu

10-03-2006, 09:44 AM	#7
The Rat King Boom Boom Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 627	EDIT : I was just on Nintendo's official site and noticed that Kirby's Adventure GCN is still listed as a Cube game with a release date of "announced". This leads me to believe that the website cannot be trusted with respect to which games are or are not still coming to the Cube. Last edited by The Rat King : 10-04-2006 at 02:22 PM.

11-15-2006, 02:58 PM	#8
The Rat King Boom Boom Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 627	At this point Its mid-November and NOA have still not specified a release date for Super Paper Mario on the Cube so I am assuming that it is not coming this year. In fact it is probably not ever coming. On a side note, if you want to see an example of a childish argument, head over to Wikipedia's page for Super Paper Mario and click on the discussion bar. They have been fighting for two months now on whether or not the game should be listed as a Cube game, Wii game, or both.

11-15-2006, 03:40 PM	#9
ChaosAngel999 Knock before you enter. Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,473	I thought Nintendo officially said it was coming to Wii. __________________

11-15-2006, 04:56 PM	#10
The Rat King Boom Boom Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 627	The source of the confusion is that Nintendo of Japan listed SPM as a Wii game back on Sept 15th, but if you e-mail NOA they will tell you that SPM is still coming to the Cube. The different parts of the company are saying different things. This has caused some people to conclude that North America might still get SPM as a Cube game. Personally, I think it will be Wii only, but there has been no official confirmation that the Cube game is cancelled yet.

11-15-2006, 05:10 PM	#11
Crunchy to jue Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: the "Employee of the Month" parking spot Posts: 7,246	All I want is for this game to come out.

11-15-2006, 09:44 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Crunchy

All I want is for this game to come out.

Indeed!
And it will probably come out. No company in their right mond would throw that much money into a project to scrap it. And their company is still doing well so it's not like they CAN'T release it.

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11-16-2006, 03:08 AM

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rubaiyat

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Originally Posted by Shortdude123

that'd be hard for people who don't own a wii.

lost mine in the war.

Damn that ain't Jake.

11-16-2006, 09:58 AM	#14
The Rat King Boom Boom Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 627	The game will be released one way or another. The most likely scenario is a Wii-only version released in 2007.

11-16-2006, 12:08 PM	#15
thaddius No crying until the end. Join Date: May 2006 Location: Inukjuak Posts: 3,673	Didn't they have playable demos at the TGS or something? __________________ PSN ID: DrSquigglyPants

11-17-2006, 03:39 AM	#16
VAboy Goomba Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 1	What happened to the other lost game, Kirby?

11-17-2006, 09:24 AM

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The Rat King

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Quote:

Originally Posted by VAboy

What happened to the other lost game, Kirby?

Its in the same boat as Super Paper Mario. NOA's site still lists Kirby as an upcoming Cube game with a release date of "announced", but Nintendo of Japan listed it as a 2007 Wii game at their Sept 15th conference.

11-17-2006, 02:12 PM	#18
Raj Koopa Troopa Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 28	I changed my TP GC reserve to a SPM reserve at GameStop today The employee said it was coming out around January. How valid that is is up in the air, just though some of you might like to know.

11-18-2006, 09:25 AM	#19
The Rat King Boom Boom Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 627	I'll be very pleased if that is correct.

12-08-2006, 06:06 PM	#20
Vrgin X Boom Boom Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Wenatchee, Wa Posts: 640	I got a e-mail notification from EB/GameStop. SPM for GameCube has been pushed back to 6/1/07 (BTW, my order has been in place since August.) __________________ meh, no time for sigs. Vrgin X on Tweaker!