Nintendo GameCube News | Zelda: Twilight Princess Dated in Europe

By James Temperton 26.10.2006 116

ONM, the UK's Official Nintendo Magazine, have today revealed that the GameCube version of The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess will hit shelves across Europe on December 15th, one week after its Wii counterpart. Of course this version will also work on the Wii, so if you are after Zelda with traditional controls just like God intended, then you only have to wait a week and then you can play GameCube Zelda on your Wii. Isn't that lovely?

Nintendo's reasoning for the week-long gap is to meet demand for both the GameCube and the Wii versions. An alternative view might be to say that it is a great way for them to make money, but that would just be us being sceptical...

Box art for The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
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Nintendo

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Nintendo

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Action Adventure

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Guest 29.10.2006#101

CuriousAngel said: 2.Lets be honest, how many new release games are you gonna buy this christmas for your GC? If they were both incorporated, the GC woud have fallen faster than the numa numa guy doing a Belly-Fucking-flop.I say we get a little poll going in this thread, maybe thatll settle this.( Edited on 29.10.2006 01:45 by CuriousAngel )( Edited on 29.10.2006 01:46 by CuriousAngel )

The GC is already dead and buried, so that's no reason to not incorporate the two control methods in one version. (on a gamecube disc of course).

Also, what's that last comment about? Make a poll to settle a debate? Smilie

( Edited on 29.10.2006 19:38 by )

Back a few subjects, im not really sure about this wolf thing, i havent played ALL of the zelda games ( n64 and GB if im honest) but i know some about them and..im not to sure about being a wolf ='/ not sure if i like the idea

Aki-T spilt the water.

The Wolf thing is ve'y new to Zelda, I think it'll play similarly to how you ride Epona, but I really have no idea.

I'm sure they'll pull it off though, for a long while now there have been sections in Zedla game where you take on another form/control system, such as riding horse, or telekenesis with the other characters in WW, which was great fun Smilie

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I'm starting to get really pumped for Zelda, now. Can't wait!

-Bart- said:
CuriousAngel said: 2.Lets be honest, how many new release games are you gonna buy this christmas for your GC? If they were both incorporated, the GC woud have fallen faster than the numa numa guy doing a Belly-Fucking-flop.I say we get a little poll going in this thread, maybe thatll settle this.( Edited on 29.10.2006 01:45 by CuriousAngel )( Edited on 29.10.2006 01:46 by CuriousAngel )
The GC is already dead and buried, so thats no reason to not incorporate the two control methods in one version. (on a gamecube disc of course).Also, whats that last comment about? Make a poll to settle a debate? :lolSmilie Edited on 29.10.2006 19:38 by )

The GC is not dead and buried yet, it's quietly dying. It's going that way but until the Wii gets settled into the market properly then the GC will still be there. Think (Xbox - Xbox 360.)

And yes it is a reason because it would mean that by nintendo releasing a GC version would mean the console itself would go out with a bang so that in people in future think "ahhh the Zelda:TP on the GC another fine piece of entertainment Nintendo Brought us". Some of us still think that way about Zelda:OoT on N64.

oh and the poll is to help the debate and to see what people think they would prefer. Smilie

( Edited on 29.10.2006 21:22 by CuriousAngel )

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CuriousAngel said:
The GC is not dead and buried yet, its quietly dying. Its going that way but until the Wii gets settled into the market properly then the GC will still be there. Think (Xbox - Xbox 360.)And yes it is a reason because it would mean that by nintendo releasing a GC version would mean the console itself would go out with a bang so that in people in future think ahhh the Zelda:TP on the GC another fine piece of entertainment Nintendo Brought us. Some of us still think that way about Zelda:OoT on N64.
Peopl think that way about OOT because it was a 100% N64 title. But now TP is more of a Wii title than a GC title, tons of people probably won't even know it was ever on GC. The Wii is already far popular than the GC & Zelda is one of the msot talked about games.

Yeah, the GC was dying last year, did you consider the NES dead in the year 2000? 'Cos they were still releasing NES games in Japan back then....

Basically, the GC is dead, it gets 1 title every 2 months, hardly any of the are any good, & you can't find them offline (lucky if you can)

In my opinion, the GameCube is a dead console (in UK at least), it died late last year. The XBOX still sells games & has new releases, but the GC hardly sells at all.

To be completely honest though, I'm still not 100% sure abotu what I think about GC, in some countries it may be considered dead, but in some it may be still getting a few sales.

In Japan it sells more than the XBOX, which never sold in Japan anyway.... so. Smilie

The DreamCast is also fully dead & buried, but a few new DC games came out in the last year anyway Smilie

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You guy's keep going on about putting both control methods on one disc, but as far as I can tell, this poses a technical problem.

The version for the wii is graphically improved, how could a gamecube cope with next gen graphics.

Also, there are hundreds of little tweaks that would need to be made in order to account for the control changes. Different AI patterns, different puzzles, etcetera. I know for a fact that the Gamecube Discs store only 1.5Gb of data, as compared to the 4.7Gb present on normal DVD disc's.

So how the hell do you get all that to fit on a gamecube disc, because I imagine that due to the nature of the Zelda series, they will want to avoid disc swapping wherever possible.

So in order to do what has been suggested I'd believe to be technically impossible.

Also, the hardware for the Wii may be similar to GC hardware, but I'm pretty sure that the Wii will run Gamecube games differently to Wii games, so how do you get it to recognise the Wii-Mote in Gamecube mode, which is what would be required.

That's my thoughts on this, releasing GC/Wii in one package would be far too complex, that's if they even can do it.

( Edited on 30.10.2006 01:54 by Lightmare )

Lightmare said:
You guys keep going on about putting both control methods on one disc, but as far as I can tell, this poses a technical problem.The version for the wii is graphically improved, how could a gamecube cope with next gen graphics.Also, there are hundreds of little tweaks that would need to be made in order to account for the control changes. Different AI patterns, different puzzles, etcetera. I know for a fact that the Gamecube Discs store only 1.5Gb of data, as compared to the 4.7Gb present on normal DVD discs.So how the hell do you get all that to fit on a gamecube disc, because I imagine that due to the nature of the Zelda series, they will want to avoid disc swapping wherever possible.So in order to do what has been suggested Id believe to be technically impossible.Also, the hardware for the Wii may be similar to GC hardware, but Im pretty sure that the Wii will run Gamecube games differently to Wii games, so how do you get it to recognise the Wii-Mote in Gamecube mode, which is what would be required.Thats my thoughts on this, releasing GC/Wii in one package would be far too complex, thats if they even can do it.( Edited on 30.10.2006 01:54 by Lightmare )

Alternatively, they could have easily released it as a special double-disc set, with the GC and Wii discs in one box.

Oni-Ninja said:
Alternatively, they could have easily released it as a special double-disc set, with the GC and Wii discs in one box.
That could have been a great idea too. & it's something Nintendo WOULD have done if they were the same Nintendo we knew from 3-4 years ago. The one that put the whole of OOT & MQ on a bonus disc.

I agree about fitting it all on one disc though, probably coudn't be done, but as far as graphics go, they're basically the same, both versions. It's not Wii that's giving the Game better graphics, it's the GC putting all it can possibly put into the graphics, making it look kinda next gen-ish anyway. Smilie

( Edited on 30.10.2006 19:25 by SuperLink )

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but then youd be paying double, and get a version you didnt even want or own a console for.

Amazingjanet said:
but then youd be paying double, and get a version you didnt even want or own a console for.
No, not nessicarily, as I said, the Nintendo of old may give away the GC version "bonus disc" as a freebie, or at just

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SuperLink said:
Amazingjanet said:but then youd be paying double, and get a version you didnt even want or own a console for.
No, not nessicarily, as I said, the Nintendo of old may give away the GC version bonus disc as a freebie, or at just

To make everyone happy, the Wii version of TP should have given you the option of playing it with a Gamecube controller. End of story.

You still have a separate version for the Gamecube (for people who won't buy Wii at launch or who won't buy it period) but people planning on getting a Wii who want to play TP the way it was "originally intended" have that option.

( Edited on 30.10.2006 22:00 by Supermeng )

Despite division on this site as to what console Zelda Twilight Princess is best suited to, at least excitment over the game is unanimous and everyone on here seems to have a unified opinion that this will be the Game of the Year. Smilie

Even from what little we've seen of the game(and like Oni-ninja and many others i'm happy to be in the dark because I don't want "spoilers" ruining my WOW factor especially since my OOT experience wasn't ruined by such)it's definately seems as if it's going to be another top notch Zelda game.

Then....I guess the only real question that remains is, as good as this game is shaping up does it have what it takes to best Ocarina of Time as the No.1. game of all time....?
Guess we'll just have to wait for the reviews of Mason, jb Raz and co. amongst others to find out.

Let the good days rock....!

OLU1701 said:
I guess the only real question that remains is, as good as this game is shaping up does it have what it takes to best Ocarina of Time as the No.1. game of all time....?

Shenmue is the best game of all time Smilie

Oni-Ninja said:
OLU1701 said:I guess the only real question that remains is, as good as this game is shaping up does it have what it takes to best Ocarina of Time as the No.1. game of all time....?
Shenmue is the best game of all time Smilie

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