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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 $50 cheaper than both the X-Box and the PS2, letting it retain half of its price edge on its competitors. Neither Sony nor Microsoft has commented on it yet, but Microsoft might decide to lower the price of the X-Box a little bit more in retaliation. Yay, competitive pricing!"
Like the "free" copy of Windows you get with a PC.
Price cuts in this market are designed to drive out producers and so retain somebody's monopoly.
Sega used to be a big console maker and they got done in just this way.
Still, you can always run Linux on your Dreamcast.
..well in fact it's nice that for a change Europe was ahead on the recent price cuts of both the GC and xbox. Both are great consoles and both are reaching a price-mark that your average gamer can afford, and that's what consoles are all about. I really hope th GC holds its own and doesn't get pushed out by Sony or M$, with Sega out of the console hardware market, they're the only old-skool manufacturer left after all. ANother Gc variant worth checking out is the Panasonic Q. It's only officially availible in Japan, but plays just about everything you could wish for (mp3s, VCD's, DVD's, games etc and is availible modded to bypass zoning). http://www.dvdgame.jp/ and http://cube.ign.com/articles/097/097782p1.html
Outrageous. What's so 'troll-y' about this?
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