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GameCube $99 Price Drop Now Official

Posted by simoniker on from the cha-cha-ching dept.

Michael_Blessed writes "An MCV story confirms the official GameCube price drop to $99, effective tomorrow. Strangely, this brings it to a similar pricepoint as the GameBoy Advance..." There's an official press release over at Yahoo which clarifies that the deal includes no bundled games, but "opens an $80 price advantage over its two console competitors", and quotes NOA President, George Harrison, as saying "So far in 2003, Nintendo GameCube is the only home console showing an increase in unit sales compared to 2002." We reported on Amazon's ahead-of-time price drop yesterday.

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  1. Should have cut the game prices instead by HotNeedleOfInquiry · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A $99 console is nice, but it still doesn't mean market share when the games are $40 each.

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  2. Hell of a Deal by Azerphale · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I got the cube at $150 USD and trolled used game stores to find Smash Bros., Monkey Ball, Rogue Leader, and Resident Evil for less than $25 a piece.

    Now that Metroid Prime, Zelda: Wind Waker, and Soul Calibur II have graced this little platform that could; There's almost no excuse for the hardcore gamer not to own one.

    I find that it complements my PC nicely allowing me to play most of the console games that won't grace the PC. I'll even admit to being a fan of 80% of the Nintendo liscences. It's even handy to pick up and take to a friend's house (since most of them opted for the PS2/XBOX combo) and I get to keep the extra money I saved on a system for gas money to kick their sorry asses with Link in SCII

    -Rob

    1. Re:Hell of a Deal by mr.capaneus · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Why is God's name do you have 3 Xbox's and 2 PS2's? You really should try going outside every once in a while.

  3. Mike Hawk predicts the future... by Mike+Hawk · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Replace Dreamcast with Gamecube.

    Not that I like linking to IGN, but it was the first that came up from google.

    1. Re:Mike Hawk predicts the future... by Daetrin · · Score: 3, Insightful
      And your point is? Are you trying to make the correlation that the GameCube is going to go the way of the Dreamcast? If so, how are you making that argument?

      All three of the current consoles have cut prices multiple times so far since their release, so why are you singling out the GameCube? Because it was first in this particular round? Sony was the first in other rounds, yet they're still around. Nintendo and Microsoft followed suit in those cuts, and Sony and Microsoft will do the same in this round as the holidays grow nearer. Because it was the first to get below $100? GameCube started out the cheapest, so of course it's going to be the first to go below $100 (unless either Sony or Microsoft had _really_ screwed up)

      So what is the rationale for this claim, or are you just being a troll?

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