You think? Wait a sec...a platform that's easy to develop for developers and publishers like? They must be crazy.

We've already heard a million times that the GameCube hardware is easy to develop for. But what's bringing third parties back to Nintendo?

There's a great article on ie Magazine that includes thoughts from THQ, Ubisoft, Midway and more. Check it out by clicking here.

But it's for the love of the company, really! No really! Economics is a very strange thing.

Yamauchi is planning to gain some funds for GameCube and GameCube developers by selling off, and then repurchasing his 1.18 million shares of Nintendo stock. It's all about capital gains baby! Here's the skinny...

The president of video game giant Nintendo Co Ltd plans to use capital gains from the temporary sale of his 1.18 million Nintendo shares to set up a fund to promote game development firms, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun said.

Subscribers to Nintendo's magazine will have something special coming to them in their annual January bonus issue.

As they do every year, Nintendo Power is rewarding subscribers by including extra goodies in their January issue. According to the December issue the bonus will include stickers for memory cards and an "exclusive game preview for 2002" and "more." It's possible that the game preview is a demo disc for the GameCube, but it could just be some kind of promotional video (Nintendo Power is known for putting those out).

Latest Famitsu stats are in.

Famitsu #677 stats

Covers 11/5 - 11/11

Name

Sales

Change

Total

Playstation 2

33,993

+2,670

2,306,240

Gameboy Advance

33,146

-2,928

3,457,032

Gamecube

18,073

-1,818

280,393

Wonderswan Color

5,099

-2,841

257,888

PSOne

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That's right, with an extra-hearty "we can't thank you enough" to Neosabre of #planetchat, we at PGC bring you 6 tracks of Super Smash Bros. Melee goodness!

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Turkey, GameCube, Golden Sun, turkey, watch the Packers dismantle the Detroit Lions on TV, turkey, destroy the Lions as the Packers in Madden 2002, turkey. Burp. The gaming is just delicious.

Ah yes, it’s Turkey Day once again here at Planet GameCube. Most of you out there are on vacation, hanging out with the family, and feasting on delicious GameCube games right now. Admit it, you’re playing monkey fight and pounding the living daylights out of your little sister.

It’s a beautiful thing.

At least, we think that's what's going on here!

Can you make any sense of this? It's a bit difficult to tell exactly what's going on, but it seems that Mr. Miyamoto is hinting at a sequel to Pikmin. Judging by the Famitsu review of Pikmin, a sequel will certainly be welcome over there.

The American debut of Pikmin will be on December 3rd along side Super Smash Bros. Melee.

GameCube shortage in your area? More cubes are on the way to retailers.

Nintendo has released a press release explaining they have shipped 200 thousand more GameCubes to retailers. Here's the juice.

Nintendo to Ship 200,000 More NINTENDO GAMECUBE Consoles

REDMOND, Wash.--Nov. 20, 2001--Nintendo of America today announced

it will increase North American shipments of the new NINTENDO

Sega’s famous hedgehog will take part in the festivities tomorrow! Updated Yet Again!

Today Sega announced that Sonic the Hedgehog has been invited to march in Macy’s 75th Anniversary Parade. This year is also Sonic’s 10th anniversary and the blue blur remains one of the most popular video game characters the world over. What’s even more exciting is that Sonic’s next video... Read more...

Have you been searching all over for Nintendo brand GameCube controllers? You just want spice or jet black? We have the store for you.

Actually Nintendo has a store for you. It's the same store we told you about more than a week ago. Nintendo's online store has plenty of Spice and Jet Black controllers for you to order, as well as the clear/indigo, and the indigo controllers. Prices are the usual $34.95, plus shipping.

Need controllers? Click here!

Yes, Super Smash Bros. DX has hit Japan along with Jet Black and Spice color GameCubes!

Today is November 21st and that means the Smash Brothers sequel has finally arrived in Japan, where it is know as Super Smash Bros. DX. Premiering alongside the long-awaited Smash Bros. DX come two new colors of GameCubes, Jet Black and Spice. Famitsu.com reports that their arrival was greatly anticipated... Read more...

The third-party peripheral company will have its full lineup of GameCube products out within a month of the system's launch.

All the major third-party hardware companies are jumping onto the GameCube bandwagon, and Nuby Interactive is no exception. Nuby says their products will include a few surprises for gamers...should be interesting to see what that means. Here's the press release:

NUBY ANNOUNCES GAMECUBE PERIPHERALS LINE

THQ's newest GBA racing game has shipped to stores, and yes, it includes a battery to save your game.

Burnin' Rubber is the first Hot Wheels game from THQ, but certainly isn't the company's first racing title on Game Boy Advance. Players will be able to race over 25 Hot Wheels cars through 16 tracks, and you can upgrade and customize each car. There is also a two-player feature in which you can race against a friend with your customized ride. Here's the full press release from THQ:

Some release dates! From Nintendo of France! For first party titles! Don’t get too excited now, these are all GBA games.

Nintendo France have announced the dates for three Game Boy Advance titles, all for the beginning of next year. European gamers will be pleased to know that Advance Wars will be hitting their shores on the 11th of January and Golden Sun on the 22nd of February, with Super Mario Advance 2 following on the 22nd of March.

Shiggy talks to Japanese publication Mainichi about the GameCube launch in Japan, NGC’s online future, game design and more in this delightful translated chat!

Thanks to Fennec Fox, proprietor of the always wonderful Video Senki, a recent Mainichi online interview with Shigeru Miyamoto has been translated into English. Miyamoto talks about the less-than-stellar Japanese launch, the GameCube and its online future and what he feels is important in game design.

Nintendo of America's VP George Harrison says GameCube is selling out everywhere. Are you surprised?

CNET has posted a 5 minute video interview with Nintendo of America's VP George Harrison. Harrison talks about how well GameCube is doing in Japan, and how well he thinks Nintendo will do this year in North America.

Good stuff! Click

here to head over to the page where you can watch the interview!

Nintendo proves thast the videogame industry is indeed stronger than even the biggest movie ...

Nintendo has just issued a press release (details below) in which they show sales of the GameCube have exceeded in one day what Harry Potter earned over the same weekend.

But the really interesting part is in the second paragraph: Sales of the GameCube more than DOUBLED the sales of X-Box.

GC-Inside got the scoop on Konami's winter sports entry to the GC lineup.

Konami will release Hyper Sports 2002 Winter for multiple platforms in Japan this winter, including PlayStation 2, XBox, GameCube and GameBoy Advance. The game will feature 10 sports events such as speed skating.

One screenshot accompanied the story, which was scanned from a magazine, so you're going to have to forgive the quality until we can dig up some better shots.

They're soooooooo cute!

NCSX has lovable Super Monkey Ball Plushes up for preorder at the pretty darn low price of $15 each. Check 'em out!

GameCube nets $100 million on its first day, with an average of 2-3 games per unit sold. Launch numbers inside.

Perrin Kaplan told Reuters that Nintendo netted $100 million in revenue on the first day of Nintendo's GameCube launch, surpassing Harry Potter ($90 mil.)

Though 700,000 units were shipped, she did not say how many were sold. However, Kaplan did tell Reuters that sell-throughs were "over what we think Microsoft's allocation was."