Cube sales up by 400%

Atty · Post by **Atty** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 11:56 am 0

I don't know if this has already been posted (tell me and I'll delete it), but the Gamecube is selling rather better than it has recently.

Probably something to do with that price-drop thingy.

http://www.planetgamecube.com/news.cfm? ... em&id=4765

Spoongod · Post by **Spoongod** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 11:57 am 0

Build it and they will come... eventually. Nintendo have created the last true videogames console and as such deserve a shitload of sales. Said my piece. Yay!

matt303 · Post by **matt303** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 1:09 pm 0

I expect sales to fall back to more normal levels in a couple of weeks, this is the normal increase in sales caused by people that have put off getting a cube taking advantage of the price drop. Having said that I do expect some extra sales due to the lower price

Tmuk · Post by **Tmuk** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 1:10 pm 0

But surely, at that price Nintendo must be loosing money for each machine sold?

Arv · Post by **Arv** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 1:17 pm 0

Nothing to do with the fact you can play pirate games (or whatever u wanna call it) with a broadband adapter either???

matt303 · Post by **matt303** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 1:19 pm 0

Nintendo are very careful to design stuff that's cheap to make, the main PCB in a cube is a fantasic bit of design having everything intergrated into two big chips with just some ram and other chips on the board. It must be by far the simplest of the 3 main consoles to make

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 1:28 pm 0

I believe even at that price, Nintendo are still operating at a profit on the hardware. They've really ramped the economies of scale for the GC...

aureole · Post by **aureole** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 2:00 pm 0

That, and the fact that almost all of the good games are nintendo in-house, so they get both the publisher and the licensing fee for the game. Score!

I'm really glad this is turning out well, I think there's a lot of people that are buying it as a second console at a cheap price to play all the platform-specific gaming goodnesses.

nemesis · Post by **nemesis** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 11:17 pm 0

The fact is nearly all the top 10 selling GC games are in house apart from F-Zero.Even the Res Evil games sold badly.It seems Capcom got out of making Res Evil games GAMECUBE ONLY too.Game cube is $99.00 here and it's still selling very badly.They stopped making the Cube because there are warehouses full of the things.My local EB sells more N64 games than GC games.

dtj · Post by **dtj** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 11:31 pm 0

matt303 wrote:I expect sales to fall back to more normal levels in a couple of weeks, this is the normal increase in sales caused by people that have put off getting a cube taking advantage of the price drop. Having said that I do expect some extra sales due to the lower price

The real indicator will be the holiday season.

Come the holidays (especially the day after Thanksgiving here in the US) I'll wager the 'Cube flies out the doors. They just might have saved themselves from the So-Called Console Backed by Infinite Cash.

dtj · Post by **dtj** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 11:33 pm 0

nemesis wrote:The fact is nearly all the top 10 selling GC games are in house apart from F-Zero.Even the Res Evil games sold badly.It seems Capcom got out of making Res Evil games GAMECUBE ONLY too.Game cube is $99.00 here and it's still selling very badly.They stopped making the Cube because there are warehouses full of the things.My local EB sells more N64 games than GC games.

Why do people post stuff like this?

Digital-Knight · Post by **Digital-Knight** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 6:43 am 0

it's hilarious isn't it, the way people get personal about their consoles, defending it to the very end. I think it's better that all 3 consoles ps2, xbox, gamecube are around, more competition, better prices, possibly better games from wanting to defeat the opposition... it's all good

I guess it's always existed though, I mean, the Amiga Vs ST wars were not pretty... but we all know Amiga won that

p-saurus · Post by **p-saurus** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 7:37 am 0

On a happy note, I'm going to finally get a Cube on Tuesday.

I've already ordered a used copy of MX Superfly from EB and I'm thinking about getting Viewtiful Joe and Monkey Ball 2 when I buy the console. (I might replace SMB2 with Metroid Prime though.) I can't wait!

Ahchay · Post by **Ahchay** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 8:49 am 0

p-saurus wrote:On a happy note, I'm going to finally get a Cube on Tuesday. I've already ordered a used copy of MX Superfly from EB and I'm thinking about getting Viewtiful Joe and Monkey Ball 2 when I buy the console. (I might replace SMB2 with Metroid Prime though.) I can't wait!

Scratch SMB2 (it's good but...) - you should be able to pick up SMB1 *and* Eternal Darkness for the same price

Cheers
Chris

p-saurus · Post by **p-saurus** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 9:09 am 0

I love SMB2 though. My cousin has it and it's one of my favorite games. The bowling mode especially is so much more polished in the sequel. Plus, isn't Eternal Darkness similar to Resident Evil? If so, I'd hate it. I've never benn so bored by a video game as when I tried to play through RE:CV.

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Cube sales up by 400%

Cube sales up by 400%

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