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Nintendo Postpones Release Of Games

From Staff And Wire Reports

Product delays by game developers will push back the release of several major new video games by Nintendo of America Inc. to early next year - too late for the crucial Christmas rush.

“This announcement is about quality,” Chairman Howard Lincoln said at a briefing Wednesday at his company’s headquarters here.

One of the new releases, Banjo Kazooie, an adventure game featuring a bear and a rooster, was to be the focus of a $10 million Taco Bell promotion, but “in the last 30 days it became increasingly apparent that we can’t get it on shelves by Nov. 24 and not compromise quality,” Lincoln said.