In an interview with Reuters, Nintendo managing director Hiroshi Imanishi said that the company hopes the release of Pocket Monsters Stadium (also known as Pokemon) will help boost lagging sales of the Nintendo 64 system in Japan.
"The new game software will link N64 with Game Boy, so we can expect the synergy effect of higher sales from the new software to lead to higher demand for N64," he said.
The popularity of Pokemon is sure to help the N64 out in Japan, but there's one selling point that makes the game not as attractive. Pokemon Stadium features less than a quarter of the monsters from the Game Boy title. This could prove to be the title's biggest weakness, which does little to make it attractive to fans of the series. Yes, it's the first time that Pokemon has been on the N64, but will Japanese gamers buy in - at 6800 yen?
According to Imanishi, pre-orders for the game reached 1.4 million units at the end of June, but Nintendo has not released any numbers on projected sales for the game.
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