Nintendo Drops GameCube Price to $150

DarkZero writes: "According to Planet Gamecube, Nintendo, as was expected, has dropped the price of the GameCube to $150. As the consoles currently stand, the GameCube is $50 cheaper than both the X-Box and the PS2, letting it retain half of its price edge on its competitors. Neither Sony nor Microsoft has commented on it yet, but Microsoft might decide to lower the price of the X-Box a little bit more in retaliation. Yay, competitive pricing!"

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Re:I had a friend

[fizz-beyond]

What you don't realise, nintendo has a nice chunk of change stored up as well... seeing as they own Pokemon which is what helped them through the N64, and they have been making money from their Cubes since day 1. Nintendo isn't going to be pushed out of the hardware market any time soon.

Re:This is perfect

[IAmBlakeM]

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Re:Yet More

[sheldon]

Well I remember when our OS market was like this. Each OS had it's own little niche, there was no incentive to try to outdo anybody else rather they worked to lock you in to their particular product. Companies like Sun would charge $200 for manuals to their system because they knew they could get away with it, and so forth.

The OS market has had more innovation and more excitement in just the past 4-5 years than in the 20 years previous to that.

I still love my gamecube

[Sludge]

I bought my gamecube for one main reason-- party games. well, countless hours of playing Super Smash Brothers, Super Monkey Ball, Gauntlet: Dark Legacy, Sega Soccer Slam and "that cross-platform Bond game" have gone by, and I'm ready for the next round.

Most people's opinions of consoles after a purchase depend almost completely on what games they bought. Most people with a gamecube purchased Star Wars: Rogue Leader and maybe Waverace or something to that effect, perhaps with no extra controllers.

To me, buying a good game library is like designing a game (but with far fewer decisions): you need to have a cohesive strategy, or else you risk having a boring console. For me, it was multiplayer gaming. Satisfied, I am.

If anyone thinks that Nintendo's laid it's cards out on the table, I think they're gonna be surprised. The future shows a lot of interesting things: Mario Party 4, a new Mario Kart, a new Zelda game, a new Starfox game in the vein of Zelda64, something from Squaresoft in the way of Final Fantasy, Super Mario Sunshine, Bomberman (this month), more Resident Evil games from Capcom, Mario Golf/Tennis and of course, Metroid Prime, which is being developed by a friend of mine who is nothing more than completely convinced that it's going to be the game of the year.