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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. Press Release by redink1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    The press release is available at Planet GameCube.

  2. 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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  3. 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.

  4. 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!

  5. 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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  6. 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

  7. 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!"

  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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