Nintendo Declares GCN Most Popular Console Ever

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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NYC

[mosch]

In NYC gamecubes are possible to find, as are games. Controllers on the other hand are nowhere to be found.

X-Box games, controllers, systems and accessories on the other hand are in every single store in midtown.

X-box isn't hard to find here

[truesaer]

What microsoft is going is selling most consoles as part of a package....meaning, you have to get some number of games and accessories at the same time. This is no doubt the most profitable way to sell them.

A friend that was visiting about two weeks ago bought one for her kids...she has lots of them, so getting 3 games and an accessory was no problem along with the console, but this bumps the total price to $500.

Still, its interesting that they're available this year at all. Remember PS2 last year? Impossible to find!

what is there to be thankful about?

[brokeninside]

Thank our lord Jesus Christ that John Ashcroft is monitoring the internet and can detect secret terrorist weapons such as 'mind bullets' in the hands of dangerous terrorists like 'Commander Taco'.

Just for the record I was interviewed by two secret service agents today over a comment I made on another internet forum (which is temporarily down, but you can read the offending comment thanks to Google's cache.

At the conclusion of the interview (which involved searching my house to which I aqueisced) the agents told me that probably nothing would come of it, but the decision on whether to prosecute or not was up to the attorney general's office.

I'm still not entirely sure how my comment can be construed as an actual threat, but I do understand why secret service agents are a bit high strung about now.

Regards,

Lee

Re:Why you can still get them

[tb3]

Anyway, let's just wait until Microsoft releases some numbers before we go speculating too much, eh?

Or not. Microsoft never releases sales figures. They just say "greatest" or "best ever" or other fuzzy statements. Check the article on the Reg a couple of weeks ago about Gates' keynote speech and associated press releases that played fast and lose with the XP sales figures. Microsoft won't admit the thing isn't selling until they quietly stop making the things.