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Nintendo Declares GCN Most Popular Console Ever

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the they-musta-made-a-ton-of-the-things dept.

PhReaKyDMoNKeY writes "According to IGNCube, Nintendo has declared GCN the fastest selling console ever. Additionally, Nintendo claims that Luigi's Mansion is the most popular launch title in history as well. I couldn't seem to find the actual press release, but here's a related news story from Nintendo's site. I don't know how valid the claim is, since it's in their best interest to exaggerate, clearly, but it seems like the console demand in general is pretty high. " Now mind you every store in town seems to have plenty of Gamecubes in stock, but if you want an X-Box, you have to kill for it. Fortunately most people in a video game store are like 12, so I can destroy them with my mind bullets.

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  1. Mind Bullets? by Red+Avenger · · Score: 4, Funny

    What are these mind bullets you speak of and why do you want to destroy little children with them?

  2. CmdrTaco by anti11es · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fortunately most people in a video game store are like 12, so I can destroy them with my mind bullets.
    At least CmdrTaco has found some group of people he can compete with and beat.

  3. Re:The reason... by krmt · · Score: 5, Funny
    Nintendo has shipped hundreds of thousands more Gamecubes than XBoxes

    Pretty smart of them in my opinion. It would have been a bad idea if Nintendo had started shipping more X-Boxes than gamecubes ;-)
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  4. Uh Oh CmdrTaco by hexix · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fortunately most people in a video game store are like 12, so I can destroy them with my mind bullets.

    I hope you're not putting on the pounds, cause you're in danger of turning into the fat comic store guy from the Simpsons.

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    1. Re:Uh Oh CmdrTaco by DeadMeat+(TM) · · Score: 5, Funny

      In which case it's only a matter of time before we get the option to moderate comments "-1 Worst. Comment. Ever!"

  5. The Bros. by krmt · · Score: 5, Funny

    What the hell is up with Mario and Luigi? Are they having a fight or something? When are we going to see a Super Mario Brothers game again? For this console and the last, all we've seen is them separately! Fuck that, I want multiplayer action. Not only that, I want co-op play! I want Mario and Luigi to act like they used to and be in the same game! Mario can come over to Luigi's mansion and argue over the Princess or something. Just get them back together in normal (non-kart/smash) game where they belong.

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    "I may not have morals, but I have standards."

  6. violence in video games? by leroybrown · · Score: 5, Funny

    but if you want an X-Box, you have to kill for it.

    ...so it's not the games that cause violence, but the actual game consoles .

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    Founder, Americans Allied Against Alliteration
  7. Funny, lots of X-Boxes, no Cubes here... by ivan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

    There are four stores close by to my house that sell consoles. EB, Circuit City, Wal-Mart, and KB Toys. Only Wal-Mart and EB carried X-Boxes, but you can still find an X-Box or someone willing to book you one from a shipment in the next few weeks. All four of the store carry(ed) Game Cube, and all four stores have all their shipments untill christmas sold out. From what I understand Nintendo shiped more Cubes then X-Box...

    Of course it doesn't help that the local EB has blown five (5) X-Box demo kiosks since 2 weeks before release and have finally given up and dismantled the thing. (That's five blown consoles in one store in less then a month!) I know of alot of people that canceled their preorder or decided to go with a Cube because of that.

    Someday I'll own a Cube......