I first preordered Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess along with Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness way back in the spring of 2005. From that day to this, I have beaten Gale of Darkness, sold that crap game on Ebay and cancelled my preorder of Twilight Princess (twice).
Needless to say, when I read that Twilight Princess for GameCube would once again be pushed back – this time to the spring of 2007 – I died a little inside. Even though I had cancelled my preorder (twice), a small part of me still hoped that I would be playing this long-awaited game on my GameCube this Christmas. You see, Twilight Princess was to be my farewell to my GameCube. Together we have partied with Mario, shot countless zombies, and, of course, took Link on all sorts of adventures. Before I replaced my GameCube with the Wii, I wanted to give my GameCube one last hurrah.
It started to seem that this was not meant to be. Nintendo announced that, in Japan, the game would only be available through Nintendo’s website. I started to hear rumors that Nintendo would follow suit in the States and only offer the game via web order. Even more shocking, I heard that the game may never be available on these shores. When the game could no longer be found on Gamestop’s website, my conviction that I would have to ditch my GameCube without saying good-bye grew.
I am happy to report that all of the more malevolent rumors are false. Gamestop and their affiliates are still selling the game (for more on this, read the article here). On Nintendo’s site, they promise that Twilight Princess will be released on December 11, 2006 (a Monday?). The Zelda official site reports that the game will be released on a much-more-believable Tuesday, December 12. (One rep apparently reported the 13th; find more here).
Whatever the official release date, as of this writing, it appears that we may soon get a chance to play Twilight Princess on the GameCube. So what’s been the hold up? Reason would say that the GameCube version has been put on the back-burner while the Wii version was perfected so that the latter would launch with the new system. I’ve never been a big fan of reason, though. I suspect a darker plot. Something put together by Ganon. Time to don my green suit for some questing.
I feel your pain Rachel. I was really looking forward to Twilight Princess being the last big hurrah for the GameCube as well, and have been disappointed with its constant delays. But the Wii version will be great, so I can forgive Nintendo for some of its false promises regarding the release dates of the Cube version.
According to the latest info I have from Nintendo, the Cube version is set to release on Dec. 13th (though a Dec. 11th release wouldn’t have been odd because Nintendo often ships games on Mondays).
whadda ya mean, REPLACE your game cube??? Hollow that thing out and use it as a purse, woman! lol.
You know, Greg may be on to something… Move over, Kate Spade!
This reminds me of how way back when Twilight Princess was announced, the Wii was also shortly after (or before, can’t remember) announced. I remember saying that “it’s going to be on the Wii [Twilight Princess]”. Many adamant gamers shot me down, saying that there was no way. Hah! I was right!
It seems that not only did Twilight Princess come to the Wii, but it also took precedence over the GCN version. It’s sad. I did love my ‘Cube, but that thing has been collecting dust since RE4 was done.
Hate to break this to you but Twilight Princess is going to be Wii only outside of Japan. I wouldn’t hold my breath about getting the GC version unless your into importing.
Nah, the Cube version is still coming to the US. Nintendo just re-confirmed it back maybe two weeks ago. There were some recent reports that it wasn’t coming to the US anymore because it was announced that the Japanese version was only going to be sold on Nintendo’s online store, and both EB Games and Gamestop pulled the game listing from their websites. But after those reports Nintendo came out and said it was still coming out nationwide on Dec. 13th. Release info on Nintendo’s press site confirms it as well.
Congratulations on the assist Matt. 🙂