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.

Comments

Mind Bullets?

[Red Avenger]

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

Press Release

[redink1]

The press release is available at Planet GameCube.

Why you can still get them

[Nerds]

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.

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.

Supply and Demand

[CMcTortoise]

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.

CmdrTaco

[anti11es]

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.

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.

Re:NYC

[Nerds]

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).

More reliable source for press release

[bobobobo]

Here is the original press release from yahoo

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/20011129/tc/nint en do_reports_record_gamecube_launch_1.html

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!

Re:The reason...

[krmt]

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 ;-)

Launch success vs. system lifespan success

[zsazsa]

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

Uh Oh CmdrTaco

[hexix]

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.

Re:Uh Oh CmdrTaco

[DeadMeat (TM)]

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

The Bros.

[krmt]

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.

Re:XBox is pretty popular around here, but abudant

[mkarpinski]

You do NOT need a memory card to save games. You only need a memory card if you want to transfer your saved games to another XBox.

violence in video games?

[leroybrown]

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 .

...and counterpoint.

[Nindalf]

The Gord's Prophesy of the GameCube

Love the Gord. Fear the Gord.

Funny, lots of X-Boxes, no Cubes here...

[ivan256]

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......

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:Playstation 2

[DarkZero]

"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.