Topic: RE: Pokemon Box Coming to U.S.

[NewsBot]

Box your PokĂ©mon for fun…IN A CUBE!  Includes accessories…

UPDATE: There actually is an announced release date: June 12th.  Special thanks to  Afrokenjonny for the tip!

Are you bitter that Nintendo didn’t release PokĂ©mon box with PokĂ©mon Colosseum?  Don’t be: Nintendo of America is finally releasing the monster storage and transfer GameCube software exclusively through the Pokemon Center, either online or at its New York superstore.

The box was free in Japan, and Nintendo knows it can’t just charge $19.95 for an organizer.  Therefore, every PokĂ©mon Box purchase will come with a memory card (251 block card pictured) and a GC-GBA link cable!  Nintendo's even throwing in two complementary, random PokĂ©mon badges.  What a deal!

Along with organizing 1,500 Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire monsters, the software lets gamers play their Ruby or Sapphire GBA game on the GameCube with only a link cable and a GBA—no Game Boy Player needed.

The Pokemon Center does not have a release date on its site, but Pokémon fans can pre-order Pokémon Box right now!

[Pale]

Weeeee!

Now I'll have five link cables and I only paid for one...maybe i should start selling these things...

[Bill Aurion]

That's a nice deal!

...

Ah crap!  *realizes this would make his third link cable*

[mouse_clicker]

Wow, Nintendo's really making this a nice package- I'd buy it in an instant if I had Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire. Hell, I'm thinking about buying it simply for the memory card and link cable- that's worth $20 right there.

[Ian Sane]

"Now I'll have five link cables and I only paid for one"

I know what you mean.  I understand including the cable with one connectivity game but it's overkill to include one with every connectivity game.  Just assume we all bought Crystal Chronicles.

I'm glad NOA is making this available here but I'm still pissed off they didn't include it with Colloseum in the first place.  This seems like a good deal but if you don't need another cable or memory card then you're basically paying $20 for something that's supposed to be free.  Plus you have to pay shipping.  The real blame though should be on NCL as they're the morons that made this a seperate product in the first place.

Plus I think it's quite inconvenient for this to only be available through the Pokemon Center.  The target market is supposed to be kids and they lack credit cards to purchase products online.  Plus as a Canadian I likely will be charged with tariffs and duty and all sorts of other bullsh!t charges that I could completely avoid if this was available in stores.

However due to it's limited accessibility it's possible this could become a collector's item.  Unless they advertise it on TV how many people are even going to know about this?

[Pale]

Doesn't it require a massive amount of memory card space or something?  And thats the reason for including one??

[Pale]

Oh, i got a question?

Is this gonna be compatible with red/green?

Is it gonna be compatible with Colosseum somehow?  Maybe by having both cards in the system at once and the pokemon box disc?

[Jonnyboy117]

Very likely compatible with Fire Red & Leaf Green, but Nintendo probably isn't saying officially yet.  I wouldn't buy it right now if you don't own or plan to get Ruby/Sapphire, just in case.

This package would be an obvious thing to offer for Club Nintendo...

[mouse_clicker]

Ian: You're getting a link cable ($9.95), a memory card 251 ($19.95), two Pokemon patches (~$10), AND Pokemon Box. That's a package worth over $50, and you're getting it for $20- get over it. Look at it as getting Pokemon Box for free while paying for everything else.  

[Ian Sane]

"Look at it as getting Pokemon Box for free while paying for everything else."

Well that's the point.  I don't want or need another link cable or memory card 251 so the deal isn't as enticing.  My negativity however is mostly because of the fact that this is even a seperate product in the first place.  Essentially what Nintendo did was split Pokemon Stadium's game modes into two seperate games.  I'm a big Nintendo fan and I love their games but when it comes to Pokemon it's like suddenly everything is a glorified scam.

[Syl]

I'm just curious..

So is the 1019 coming out soon?  otherwise i may have to pick this up..

I NEED MEMORY CARD SPACE!!!!

[mouse_clicker]

Pokemon Box is an organizer, Ian- it's not even a game!

[MattCrafty]

I saw the memory card 1019 in a store the other day, but I really don't need that much space.

[novastar512]

wow that is a great deal.  Like does it say how much shipping is? Cause i do live in canada, but we soooo get gyped across the border. Arghhh I wish stupid nintendo could sell it directly, since more people are likely to go to these web sites, and they are also distributed across US and CDN.

Oh well i guess I will just buy a link cable for my 4 swords GC elsewhere.

[Pale]

For once I do kind of agree with Ian on this whole thing.  The main reason the original stadium games were so cool for me was because of the great organization and ease of transfer between games without doing 50,000 trades.  Of course, if I look at it as a trade off for actually having a story mode in Colosseum, I'm not complaining.... but if they put this organization in there as well it would make for a much sweeter package.

It would also be INCREDIBLY nice, as someone (jonny?) said above, if all of us who have both ruby/sapphire and colosseum registerred at Nintendo.com just got a nice little email saying we were being sent the disc..

edit: wait, R/S was before the whole pin number thing wasn't it...

[Jonnyboy117]

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Originally posted by: MattCrafty
I saw the memory card 1019 in a store the other day, but I really don't need that much space.

It was a third-party card, then.  The official Memory Card 1019 isn't out yet...I think late summer, early fall is the plan.

[Berto2K]

Nope, its the official Nintendo one Jonny.  Check here: Nintendo 1019 card.

[Pale]

Yeah it was in a wal mart ad in nintendo power for an early june release... Kind of snuck up on me too.

[MattVDB]

So, I read here a few weeks ago that somebody was planning on buying a mem card 1019 today (today is the offical release day), but then I saw them in Wal*Mart last week.  Just like they did with the GBA NES series, they released them a bit early.  You should check out the new GCN demo disks as well; they have an add for the memory card on there.
$30 seems a little steep to me right now for 1 memory card though.  I know it is cheaper than buying a lot, but so far, I haven't filled up my 251, so why am I complaining?

[KazarSanaga]

I wonder where Afrokenjonny got his information. At www.pokemoncenter.com it says "Ships July 12th"and www.Nintendo.com dosen't even give a date.  I'm confused. I orderd mine sonn after hearing about it being released. I'm just getting confused because I want to know when I'm gonna get it. Is it gonna be June 12th like PGC says, or July 12th like www.pokemoncenter.com says?  

[Jale]

I doubt the offer will make it to my side of the Pond.

[Pale]

I too would like to know why there is a mix up in dates....  July 12th seems to be the real release date...  This came in my email when i ordered...

"Dear Mike!
PokemonCenter.com has received your order. Pokémon Box will be shipped to
you on July 12th, 2004. Please keep this email as a receipt."

So i'm guessing its July 12th and not June 12th.

[Mario]

Yay.. now every country has Pokemon Box except Australia.

[Pale]

Well pokemon box shipped early cause i have it.  BLAH, its only a memory card 59 though... argh.

edit... But it IS the cool dual colored one from japan so thats sweet... I dunno if enough people care to make it worth updating the news story but...

The game is out and shipping now.
It takes up 59 blocks and comes with a memory card 59.
The memroy card 59 is dual colored.
I'll get back to you all on whether it works with colosseum (unless that is already common knowledge)

edit again:
there doesn't; seem to be anyway to access your colosseum memory card in the other slot.  BOOO