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Nintendo Drops GameCube Price to $150

Posted by timothy on from the third-shoe-drops dept.

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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  1. Oh, yeah. Great. by 00_NOP · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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.