Topic: October launch date?

[AnyoneEB]

I was browsing the nintendo.com revolution forums and I came across this topic.

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ALI5 posted:

Ok I've cracked the code people

According to the magazine Game Informer, The newly announced Revoultion game called Red Steel is being released in Europe on November 20th

Well Red Steel is a Launch title for the Revolution, which means that the revolution has to be released on the same exact day(November 20th)remember that is the European launch date.

Well this explains the European launch date for the Revo, but most of you are probably thinking "So, thats not in the U.S."

Well do not fear my felllow Nsiders, because according to Mr.Iwata the U.S. release date is to be 4 and a half weeks before any other country. Well 4 and a half weeks before November 20th = October 18

REVO RELEASE DATE: October 18th

If you look back to the NES release date, it was also October 18

Well

Hope you guys are with me in this

I do not remember hearing that 4 and a half weeks part before. Has anyone else heard that? I had also not seen the November 20th for Red Steel, but I did not really read the article because the scans were not very good. I would say that that information makes November 20th a likely launch date (or maybe a little bit earlier in North America, but not much), which is pretty much what we already knew (before Thanksgiving).

So, what do you guys think?

[jasonditz]

Iwata has never, that I can find, said anything of the sort. (4 1/2 weeks)

He said there might not be a worldwide launch, and later Nintendo spokespeople said we shouldn't take that as confirmation that there won't be. And he said that there would be a US launch "before thanksgiving".

[Artimus]

They said within 16 months wordwide.

[KnowsNothing]

You mean 16 weeks :p

Anyway, since a week cannot be split evenly in half, this news is false!

[jasonditz]

Ahh... but you're forgetting the time difference between Europe and North America. That half a day could make up for that.

[ThePerm]

a week is 7 days which is uneven, but a day is an even number,, 24x7=168/2=84/24=3.5 days = 3 days 12 hours...half a week

[AnyoneEB]

Okay, that's what I thought. I will continue expecting a release sometime in November.

[Kairon]

The 4.5 weeks estimate comes from taking their 14 week worldwide launch spreed and dividing it by three, which would give approximately 4.66 weeks.

This is still speculation, of course. Ah... but it's such nice speculation!

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[Dirk Temporo]

No way. I'm completely psychic, and I say the Revolution will launch in the US on November 21st. It's the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, just like in 2001, when the Gamecube was released. If it doesn't launch on the 21st, I'll... I dunno. Do something random.

[IceCold]

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You mean 16 weeks :p

No, you mean 14 weeks

(you have to put another colon after the P to get the emoticon these days, it seems..)