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Delay of Game
Nintendo Pennant Chase Baseball delayed "indefinitely," say sources.
by Matt Casamassina

June 13, 2005 - We've got some bad news for GameCube owners looking forward to Nintendo Pennant Chase Baseball. The title, moved and pushed around the release calendar all year, has been "indefinitely delayed," according to sources close to the project. What this means officially is that the game no longer has a firm release date. Best-case scenario, this suggests that the title will not be debuting on Nintendo's console any time soon. Worst-case scenario, the project may never see the light of day.

Judging by the history of the videogame industry, indefinitely delayed titles have a bad habit of turning into vaporware. Of course, there's no proof that this fate will become Nintendo Pennant Chase Baseball, but after a series of pushes, missing the baseball season, and a lukewarm response from press, the title's future does not appear to be shiny and happy at the moment.

Nintendo Pennant Chase Baseball features the full MLB license for real baseball players, teams and stadiums. The title boasts a combination of arcade-fast play mechanics and simulation statistic tracking. It also features a unique speed play mode that enables gamers to control pitching and hitting, but not fielding, a style designed to quicken the experience.

There is no longer an official release date for Nintendo Pennant Chase Baseball.

 

[Mejilan]

Consolidate NPCB and Mario Baseball resources please.

Or... was NPCB US developed, MB JP?

 

[Kon Tiki]

1st party developers can still make MLB game next year, right? Just retool this for rev, GCN is a lost cause.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

Nintendo is always bitchin... Add a couple of Mario and Friends in the mofo and stfu, nintendo... damn I hate you

 

[Open Source]

Also removed from ebgames.com. I saw it listed in a Fry's ad a few days ago for 34.99, but I guess that was a mistake.

A lot of the art in the game looked suspiciously like another baseball game Exile worked on but does not have the rights to. Wonder if that is related to the delay.

 

[Mashing]

That's what I think they are doing... moving it to the Revolution so they can get it in for next years baseball season.

 

[Kobun Heat]

Hm. It took the Interweb this long to pick up on it? They pushed it back to TBA on the press site sometime last week.

 

[Alcibiades]

why not send out a couple of shipments and sell it for $20...

it worked for Take-Two last year, the worst that can happen is they make some cash back for whatever the investment was...

 

[Baron Aloha]

I don't think anyone was looking forward to this. They should put it on the Revolution instead along with a football game or something at launch....maybe try to build some kind of Nintendo sports brand. Nintendo totally dropped the ball on sports games this gen (and last gen too for that matter but not quite as bad) and it hurt them.

And they should ditch the "Nintendo" from the title and put MLB in there somewhere.

 

[SantaC]

people on this board said it looked like crap anyway. Maybe Nintendo figured as well.

 

[Speevy]

The legions of "Pennant Chasers" will be crushed.

 

[Kon Tiki]

people on this board said it looked like crap anyway. Maybe Nintendo figured as well.

That has never stopped Nintendo in the past.

 

[skip]

it was asstacular at E3, maybe they got feedback.

 

[VerTiGo]

I would like to think that it's being retooled for the Revolution.

 

[john tv]

There's no point in releasing a subpar baseball game at this point. We're almost at the All-Star break already, and besides, it'll prolly just hurt Mario Baseball's sales. Hopefully they did cut it.

Did anyone play Geist at E3? Any chance that'll be next on the chopping block?

 

[neptunes]

It would be funny if controller had gyration and you actually had to swing your controller to hit the ball...:lol

EDIT: On second thought, I'm not so sure it would be funny

 

[SantaC]

Did anyone play Geist at E3? Any chance that'll be next on the chopping block?

after 2.5 - 3 years of resources I doubt that.

 

[Mr_Furious]

Dear Nintendo,

Take the best elements of Pennant Chase and incorporate them into Mario Baseball.

Thanks.

 

[akascream]

I think Mario Baseball had a part in this.

 

[Meier]

Mario Baseball was fun as shit in multi, but I could see it being very shallow in single.. I'd love it if they added some serious depth to it.

 

[Shard]

Maybe Nintendo realized that they were selling a baseball game in August.

 

[JoDark]

Game looked like crap at E3. Another underbudgeted NOA pos.

 

[jgkspsx]

It would be funny if controller had gyration and you actually had to swing your controller to hit the ball...:lol

EDIT: On second thought, I'm not so sure it would be funny

So, played WarioWare Twisted much?

 

[Fuzzy]

Why does anyone think that this would be held off and retooled for the Revolution? Do people really think they'll wait almost two years to release this? There's no way in hell that the Revolution will be released during the first half of 2006 so having this as a launch title when the MLB season is almost over (or completely done) would be stupid. So if it was remade into a Revolution title we wouldn't see it until Spring 2007. I can see this very easily staying a GCN title and seeing its release during spring training next year. Hopefully the extra development time will help it, we all know it did for Geist.

 

[Bog]

It's possible that Pennant Chase was the worst game I played at E3.

 

[M3wThr33]

I heard it's been extremely buggy and poorly done. I'm not surprised at all, especially with Mario Baseball coming up the plate, too.

 

[Musashi Wins!]

Well...this sucks. And outside this board, every impression of Mario Baseball was that it was pretty bad at e3. Unlike the surprising Mario soccer game. FUCK!!!

 

[Shiggy]

At E3 NoA already said it's TBA, didn't they?