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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. Why you can still get them by Nerds · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    Two reasons:
    * Nintendo shipped about twice as many GameCubes to start with.
    * The second shippments have already arrived in many places.

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  2. Supply and Demand by CMcTortoise · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Microsoft just failed to meet the demand for the XBox. Nintendo made several hundred thousand more units, so their supply is more suited for the corresponding demand. Yeah, it might be the best selling console, but that's just because there are more units out for sale.



    And, if the Gamecube is a hundred bucks less, let Nintendo milk capitalism for all it's worth.

  3. Launch success vs. system lifespan success by zsazsa · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Remember when a certain console that cost $199 at launch sold 410,000 units in the first week?

    Look where it is now.

    Not to knock it -- I love my Dreamcast, and especially now it is an incredible value.

    Ian

  4. Re:NYC by Nerds · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, I'm just out of Philly, but it's similar here, all of the electronics stores are out of GC accessories. Stragely enough, Target has plenty of them, and they're selling the controllers for thirty bucks, five dollars less than everyone else.

    Then again, I guess it makes sense for XBox stuff to be around, since a) there weren't as many XBoxes to sell at launch b) most of the people who got them were preorders and those came with a second controller anyway and c) the GC seems to have more games where people want four controllers to play with friends (Super Monkey Ball, Wave Race, and Smash Brothers next week).

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  5. Re:Playstation 2 by DarkZero · · Score: 4, Insightful
    "Biggest launch recently" and "most popular console ever" are very, very different things. Biggest launch recently? Yeah, that goes to Nintendo. But most popular console ever? I'd say that'd go to the best selling console EVER, not just the biggest console launch recently (yet certainly not ever).

    The PlayStation 2, with over 20 million consoles sold, is more popular than the GameCube. Their launch records have nothing to do with that.