Nintendo Release Date Update

Nintendo of America today further clarified release plans for a certain number of of its key games for nearest year, slating three entries from its more popular franchises upon GameCube and Game Boy Advance for the normally quiet month of February and March. To ease any fears the conjunction of "Nintendo" and "release date" might inspire, however, quiet assured that Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles has not been delayed again.

The four-player GameCube Final Fantasy is still upon track for February 9. The freshs of the day is that Nintendo will be offering a Game male child Advance/GameCube link cable as a pre-order incentive with the game end certain retailers, mitigating some of the charge of a multiplayer game.

Crystal Chronicles will share that February 9 release date with Metroid: naught Mission for Game Boy Advance. naught Mission expands on the original 8-bit Metroid adventure with revised horizontals new story elements, and other added features.

Finally, Pokemon Colosseum is to arrive upon March 22, allowing players to upload their marvel collections from Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire and fight in 3D tournaments. Colosseum will also first attempt a new Pokemon, Jirachi, in a co-promotion with the fifth Pokemon movie's release in the United States.

Nintendo's fans may thus mark their calendars accordingly, and await further details on all three games end the turn of the year.

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