The latest Famitsu stats are in.

Famitsu #679 stats

Even though Dengeki and Media Create's stats for the week 11/19-11/25 were released earlier, Famitsu has only now recently released their list.

Hardware sales (from John Ricciardi's homepage)

Gameboy Advance - 31,083 (total: 3,516,218)

Gamecube - 129,377 (total: 428,788)

Check out one of the most thorough and practical GameCube hardware analyses we've seen.

AnandTech.com has a new piece-by-piece analysis of practically every component in the GameCube hardware.

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1566&p=1

There are lots of real-world comparisons to the Xbox hardware as well, for those interested. The gist of the article is that GameCube... Read more...

The Pikmin have arrived—in more ways than one! Teams of colorful costumed ant-like plant creatures have been spotted in a handful of public appearances.

Corey Olcsvary may have been the first “human Pikmin,” but you had better believe that he isn’t the last! Now that Pikmin is available, Nintendo has dispatched its own squad of costumed Pikmin people, and the critters are popping outta the ground at events all across the country! Here’s the info:

The SD Memory card itself has been added to Nintendo's list of GCN peripherals. What can be deciphered from this new page?

The SD Memory card and adapter have been the most elusive GCN peripherals since they were first announced. Nintendo has now added a SD-Card page to compliment its old SD-Adapter page. The heading reads, "Increase your memory capacity!" while the description claims, "Using the SD-Memory Card Adapter,... Read more...

Check out the commercials for Nintendo's two newest GameCube games!

Nintendo has posted two more GameCube commercials on its site featuring the lovely Super Smash Bros. Melee and Pikmin. Both movies rank in at 5 MB and require QuickTime. If you haven't seen them yet on TV, be sure to check them out online. Better yet, download those suckers to your HD for easy access all the time!

Get ready to drool like a zombie at a brain eating contest over this new Biohazard media from Capcom.

New Biohazard media is up for your viewing pleasure from your pals at Capcom. There is plenty of images and movies to check out, but here are some must see flicks in several sizes. Right click, save, and enjoy! Pick your poison:

Jill Valentine in action:

(160x120)(8.6 MB)

(320x240)(16.6 MB)

Konami's keeping busy these days with their ESPN titles and others. What's in the pipeline for GameCube and GBA lovers?

January 2002

-ESPN Winter X Games Snowboarding -- GBA (Jan. 17)

-ESPN International Winter Sports -- GameCube, GBA (Jan. 29)

February 2002

-Yu Gi Oh! Dark Duel Stories -- Game Boy Color (early Feb.)

-Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars (formerly ZOE: Testament) -- GBA (Feb. 12)

March 2002

Well we new this last week, but Rogue Leader was the #2 selling game for the GameCube launch. Now we present...TEH PRESS RELEASE!

LUCASARTS' STAR WARS ROGUE SQUADRON II: ROGUE LEADER BLASTS AWAY

COMPETITION IN FIRST WEEK OF SALES

Star Wars Flight Action Game Debuts as Top Third-Party Title,

Second Overall for Nintendo GameCube

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- December 5, 2001 -- Star Wars Rogue Squadron

II: Rogue Leader, from LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC, blasted apart

As if SSB:M wasn't bringing enough happiness into your life already.

The fine folks at Penny Arcade have seen fit to tackle Nintendo's latest and greatest game with their usual wit and such.

Foul language warning! Check it out right here. While you're there, look back into their archives to see some other great stuff on the recent console launches and other popular games. Don't forget to visit the well written main page too.

Better than Star Wars Episode II trailer? It's true. Check out the next PGC blockbuster coming to a PC screen near you...

It's on it's way to the distributor as I type this. More information about our Japan video coming later this week, including pricing, and complete ordering details. Just in case you haven't seen it before, we've decided to re-post the trailer.

Mike Hrusecky has taken all 328572394825 hours of footage that I gave him, condensed it all into a SWEET two CD set, and put together a 5 minute trailer.

Toshihiro Nagoshi, the President of President of Amusement Vision will be delivering one of the keynote speeches at next years GDC! All the goods inside...

For the past couple of years Nintendo hasn't been all that involved with the annual Game Developers Conference. This year doesn't look that much different so far.

One of the things Nintendophiles should look forward to is the President of Amusement Vision, Toshihiro Nagoshi's keynote speech on level design. A look into the mind of the man who helped design Super Monkey Ball's levels should be interesting indeed.

Rare's wacky letters page once again provides a few nice little chunks of data, which is more than we can get from our "inside sources" there. Eat it up yo.

Let's dispense with the tomfoolery and get right to the quotes and analyses, yes? Yes.

"2) In Donkey Kong Racing will you also be able to ride other animals other than those shown in the opening demo such as walruses/penguins etc. in a snow world or a Triceratops/T-Rex in a Dino World?"

- ZMG

New Famitsu scores! Magical Vacation scores a platinum!

Taking a look over at Famitsu's website, we've found some interesting review scores for you.

GamePlatformScoresTotalAward

Magical VacationGBA9 9 8 935Platinum

Monster Farmer AdvanceGBA7 8 7 830Silver

Universal StudiosGCN5 5 5 520None

So, Universal Studios first official review... Read more...

A comment from Sega's Charles Bellfield leaves the issue up in the air, but it's interesting nonetheless.

According to GameCube-Europe, Sega's VP Charles Bellfield recently made an interesting statement in Europe's NGC Magazine (formerly N64 Magazine):

"We have a few gems to release on the Gamecube that we have not revealed yet, and we feel that the Shenmue series would find the format an interesting prospect."

According to Nintendo of America, the Gamecube is selling at an extremely high rate.

KA-CHING! NINTENDO GAMECUBE Selling Nonstop At Rate of 27 Per Minute

Retailers Report 600,000 Sold in First Two Weeks

REDMOND, Wash.--Dec. 3, 2001--Nintendo of America reported today

that, based on direct communications with its retailers, its new

NINTENDO GAMECUBE(TM) home video game console has reached sales of

Nintendo’s vice president of corporate affairs (and esteemed Jedi) Perrin Kaplan talks about launch, and all about GameCube. Drop that light saber and read on!

In an interview ie Magazine, Perrin Kaplan discusses the GameCube launch, the "launch delay", and all things Nintendo. Here's the just a slice of the pie. Click here to see the full interview!

ieMagazine: How much of a difference did it really make to delay the GameCube launch from November 5 to November 18 in terms of units available on day one?

It's true! The numbers don't lie. The Dengeki Console Game Ranking Top 50 has been updated. See where your favorites fall in the land of the rising sun.

Wario Land 4, Yugioh Duel Monsters 5 Expert 1, and Mario Kart Advance all outselling Luigi's Mansion? Smash Bros. takes the #2 slot? Take a gander at how well Nintendo titles did last week in Japan.

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It's true, our own Mike Sklens in now officially 18...and now he can legally vote, go to jail, and....the best part....E3 2002.

He is a mystery. He is Mike Sklens. One of the strange Planet Staffers that got a gig here at PGC for absolutely no reason. He stayed in Planet Chat way too long, and stalked us in Trivia. So we hired the poor sap.

Striker Obi is now 18! Look out ladies! He can now buy cigarettes! He smokes... Read more...

Capcom puts more chills into you than winter with new footage of the environments of Biohazard. Warning: Depends not included.

Capcom of Japan has released come new footage of the extremely creepy environments of Biohazard on the GameCube. The footage is available in three frightening flavors for all of you hungering for BRAINS!

(160x120)(2.3MB)

(320x240)(4.5MB)

(640x480)(8.6MB)

Finally, we've put up the SSBM mp3s up for download!

With many many thanks to Yorrike of hardcoregamers.com for hosting these files, and another big round of thanks to Neosabre of #planetchat for making these mp3s for us...

PGC is very happy to provide our readers with a batch of mp3s straight from the recently released (in Japan) Super Smash Bros. Melee!