The handheld's sensor can detect its tilts and angles and translate them into moves on the GameCube screen, delivering subtle moves for athletes in sports games. The Game Boy Advance can also offer downloads of parts of GameCube games for portable play.
The games using Game Boy as a remote will hit the Japanese market by the end of the year and probably next year in the US, Nintendo said.
Another big plus GameCube is counting on against its rivals is the sheer strength of Nintendo games, such as the best-selling Super Mario Brothers shipped 40 million worldwide. Other all-time favorites include Tetris, Donkey Kong, Zelda and Pokemon.
``We're coming out with a machine for people to have fun playing games together and getting rowdy. It's not for spending time cooped up alone,'' said Nintendo spokesman Ken Toyoda.
`That's not the kind of world we want.''
Nintendo plans to sell 1.4 million GameCube consoles in Japan and 1.1 million in the US this year. It will be ready with 500,000 machines for the initial shipment in Japan and 700,000 in the US.
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