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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. X-box isn't hard to find here by truesaer · · Score: 5, Interesting
    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!

  2. what is there to be thankful about? by brokeninside · · Score: 5, Interesting
    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