Fatbabies.com was cool enough to post the whole story from mmWire. While some of the info has already been revealed (GBA US launch on June 11, 2001, price undetermined; NGC US launch in October/November 2001, price undetermined), Ms. Kaplan does shed a little more light on both system launches. Here's what mmWire had to say...

Perrin Kaplan, Nintendo of America (NOA) corporate affairs vp, said "10 to 15" titles would be available for the next- generation handheld system at the start. While "a couple" of those games will be from Nintendo, she said the rest probably would be from 2nd and 3rd party companies. But an official rollout portfolio of titles has yet to be announced for the system.

Meanwhile, the NOA spokeswoman told us last week that the company's next-generation Gamecube console was on target to ship this fall, in either Oct. or Nov. Kaplan said the company was "pretty sure we're going to meet" the fall date, but declined to give a specific date.

Kaplan said Nintendo was confident it wouldn't be facing the same sort of component shortage problems that plagued Sony with PS2 over the last year. Nintendo expects to have no shortage troubles with the CPU being supplied by IBM, she said.

On the Gamecube software front, Kaplan would say only that "more than a few" titles would be available. More GBA details might come at some point in the next 2-3 weeks, she said more Gamecube information probably won't be released until E3 in May, which she said would be "sort of the big debut" for the system.