Nintendo decided not to sell the Game Boy Advance/Game Cube link cable in retail stores, making the $10 item only available through their online stores. Now, Nintendo is no stranger to once-and-done peripherals (Game Boy Camera, R.O.B. the Robot, N64 Microphone), so why the hem-haw on the GBA/GC cable? Perhaps because the only GameCube game that currently supports the trinket is the Sega-produced Sonic Adventure 2 Battle (in conjunction with the GBA game Sonic Advance, naturally)?

I ordered my cable already and I don't think that any anti-Sega conspiracy has much to do with it. It's just because the Chao-trading dynamic of the two Sonic games is incredibly boring. You see, you can download a GameCube Chao into the GBA, but it doesn't unlock anything different than what you already can do with a GBA-born Chao. So why? It's interactivity purely for the sake of promoting interactivity.

Left Brain conclusion And now, at Nintendo's whim, we eagerly await Animal Forest + and Pokemon, two games that will surely take greater advantage of conjoining the two consoles.

Right Brain conclusion DAMN YOU NINTENDO. YOU BETTER NOT FUCK UP THE POTENTIAL OF CONNECTING THE GBA AND THE CUBE. MORE GAMES NOW!