Nintendo Expands Switch 2's GameCube Library This Week

My most anticipated title has finally arrived!

I wonder if anyone here will comment on their confusion of this being released before colosseum.

Wanted the original GC game but within a year of release it had already rebounded to it's original price for a second hand copy.

From there it hovered around £50-60 for a couple of years before getting more and more expensive/scarce.

Currently fetches £200 on eBay which is nuts.

I really don't understand putting out XD first. It's not only the 2nd game in the series, but its the better game of the 2. It is kinda like if they re-released Black and White 2 before the original, or if they re-release Majora's Mask before Ocarina of Time. (I realized when writing this that Majora's Mask is the better game as well, I have no strong opinions about which 5th gen game is better so that was entirely a coincidence)

@daftmagician Your post appeared as I was writing about it so...

@kkslider5552000 The Zelda game that puts the exploration (the most important element of any Zelda) on a timer that hinders you from really exploring is the better of the two? Yeah no.

To your overall point yeah, releasing a sequel first is always weird but I contest the idea of MM being better than OoT.

It's a sin that it can't interface with the FRLG releases for trading and battling.

Talk about mixed emotions lol. Split between "OMG MY CHILDHOOD FAVORITE GAMECUBE GAME IS FINALLY ON A MODERN PLATFORM HOW IS THIS REAL I CAN'T WAIT TO PLAY IT!!1!" and simultaneously not actually playing it yet because I want to replay Colosseum first. So for now it's just gonna stare back at me mockingly on the GCN player whenever I open it. :-/

The only explanation for releasing XD before Colosseum is that they wanted to make a better first impression of the Gamecube Pokémon games for people who never played them (considering how it's a direct improvement over its predecessor in almost all aspects), and then some time from now go "oh, and this is the one that came before".

Nintendo’s killing it imo with its frequent game releases, NS classics releases and technical improvements.

Can’t keep up.

Colloseum sold twice as much IIRC, so I suppose they are holding the game with more "nostalgic appeal" for later.

That leaves Pokemon Colosseum and Super Mario Sunshine among the remaining announced GameCube titles. I wonder which of these will come next?

I could complain about this game releasing before Pokemon Colosseum, but instead I feel like nagging Genius Sonority for a worthy remake or sequel.

@daftmagician
I hope this doesn’t mean they decided to quietly cancel Colosseum’s release.

@Don I think it'll be Sunshine in June and Colosseum in August.

To be honest....... because FireRed and LeafGreen are standalone apps that can trade with each other, I would have preferred XD Gale of Darkness and Colosseum to be their own apps too. But because they are part of NSO, they won't be compatible with FRLG for trading.