Game Boy Player Details for Australia

May 25, 2003, 8:30 pm EDT
Total comments: 6

NAL gives Australian gamers information on local the Game Boy Player price and release date.

PORTABLE GAMING ON THE BIG SCREEN

Melbourne, Australia, May 26th, 2003 – Nintendo Australia today announces the June 20th launch of the Game Boy® Player and commitment to the worldwide retail offer of the Nintendo GameCube™ home console and the new Game Boy® Player for the regular price of the Nintendo GameCube system.

This combination allows players to enjoy more than 1,000 Game Boy games on the home TV screen, along with the full library of Nintendo GameCube titles. This bundle will be available for a SRP$329.00 and the Game Boy Player will be available as a stand-alone product for SRP$99.95.

The Game Boy Player is a platform less than an inch thick, which acts as a base for the Nintendo GameCube. By simply inserting Game Boy cartridges into a slot in the Game Boy Player, consumers can use their Nintendo GameCube controller to direct action on the TV screen.

“This offer builds on the incredible momentum generated by our Game Boy® Advance line, which has already sold 35 million systems worldwide and sales of over 270,000 systems in Australia alone,” says David Yarnton, Director of Sales & Marketing, Nintendo Australia. “Once we saw the enthusiastic reception given to the debut of Game Boy Player on the show floor at the E3 trade show, it was an easy decision to move ahead with our plans to combine these two products for the Australian market.”

Nintendo Australia is riding a wave of momentum with dominating product launches this year. Game Boy® Advance SP, Metroid® Prime, The Legend of Zelda®: The Wind Waker™ and combined Pokemon® Ruby and Pokemon® Sapphire launches saw Nintendo take top spots on the charts with many retailers in Australia reporting sell-outs shortly after each launch.

Talkback

PIACMay 25, 2003

riding on a wave of lazyness no Ikaruga for australia ohwell i guess i cant complain too much... wait this is an internet forum i can complain alot

ohwell im glad the GBP is coming here, thats one thing i would have hated to import

hope it comes in purple :\ or else ill have a odd coloured conole, that or ill paint it

JBMay 26, 2003

Why don't you import Ikaruga from Europe? It should be fully compatible with an Australian GC.

PIACMay 26, 2003

hrm i didn't know it was released in europe, thanks! have you got any websites i could order it from?

JBMay 26, 2003

The only places I know don't ship outside Europe. I do remember reading about an Australian shop selling European imports for a very low price., but I can't seem to recall what it's name was. :-S

NephilimMay 26, 2003

this is great news yay
hopefully this will drop the normal gba down
since there 120-140 dollars in shops, hopefully under 100 to get rid of stock

mouse_clickerMay 27, 2003

Jonathan's comment from the news post:

"Jonathan says: Considering that the Game Boy Player costs the same as a GameCube game, Nintendo is really just adding one more item to the list of free things you can choose from. And this is supposed to be an answer to price drops from the competitors? I was excited at the idea of consumers getting a GameCube, GBP, and a free game for $150. The fact that you have to choose one or the other is rather disappointing, and I think it makes for a pretty weak reply to Sony and Microsoft."

Are you CRAZY? Sony and MS drop the price of their consoles $20 each- barely anything- and Nintendo basically gives away a free GBA with a price still $30 less than a new XBox or PS2 and you're DISSAPOINTED? The GameBoy Player is not just a game, Johnny- it's an entire system that plays the thousands of GameBoy/Color/Advance games out there, and Nintendo's just GIVING it away along with a Gamecube. So you're essentially getting 2 fine gaming machines for LESS than an XBox or PS2- pelase explain to me how this is anywhere near dissapointing for people who don't own Gamecubes, because obviously our logic works a bit different (namely mine does and yours doesn't).

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