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No Square for E3

by Jonathan Metts - April 13, 2001, 9:27 am EDT
Source: Nintendojo

Square will not be showing any products for Nintendo systems at E3 2001. But is this as bad as it sounds?

Nintendojo's MSTAnon has learned from a Square US representative that the giant software publisher will not be showing any games for Nintendo systems or any other non-Sony systems. (Doesn't make much sense to show Wonderswan Color games at E3, since it hasn't and probably won't be released in the US.)

There are some important things to note though. First, this can't be a huge surprise for any Nintendo fan. Showing a game at E3 requires months of development beforehand and at least a couple weeks to prepare the demo version. Nintendo/Square relations might be secretly improving, but it's not very realistic to think that Square has had GBA or GameCube games in development since last year. It's also significant that this information comes from the US representative of a Japanese company...sometimes corporate information from the homeland takes a while to reach a US subsidiary. Finally, just because Square isn't showing any Nintendo games doesn't mean they won't be announcing any. At any rate, if anything at all happens at E3 involving "Square" and "Nintendo" in the same sentence, we'll have the full story here at PGC.

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