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GameCube Outsells PS2, Xbox After Price Cut

Posted by simoniker on from the real-cause-for-mario-party dept.

Thanks to Gamesindustry.biz for their story that the GameCube outsold the PlayStation 2 by 20 per cent in the U.S. last week, as well as "racking up more than twice the sales of the Xbox - with a 145 per cent lead over Microsoft's console", following the GameCube price cut to $99 of a couple of weeks back. The piece suggests "we'd expect to see the console slip behind the PS2 in the rankings next week", but also argues that "...unless Microsoft reacts to the recent price-cuts, it could be outsold by the Cube this Christmas in the USA, as Nintendo rolls out one of its strongest ever ranges of first and third party titles."

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  1. Viewtiful Joe Helped by Gr33nNight · · Score: 3, Informative

    Man, it took me a long time to find a copy of this game, every store was sold out!

    But, this game rocks. 2D side scrolling action to its finest. It is not an easy game (almost NES era hard), but it is just so fun, you enjoy replaying it just to see whats next. Highly recommended.

  2. Numbers by dogbowl · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here are the numbers that I've found for the week:

    Gamecube 64,405
    Playstation2 53,834
    XBox 26,290

    However, I don't think that includes all retailers, hence Nintendo sticking with the percentage rather than a total number. And, this is the second week of the price drop. As I understand it, the sales were even higher the first week.

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  3. Re:TCO by Acidic_Diarrhea · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've seen plenty of worthwhile games under $30 for the Gamecube at EB. There's a vast amount of old PS2 games for $20 but from my casual check of the bins, it seems like there are similar amounts of cheap games for the XBox and Gamecube.

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  4. Re:[OT: Why an XBox?] by PainKilleR-CE · · Score: 2, Informative

    An XBox? Why?

    It made sense at the time ;) In fact, as long as people keep producing multi-console games for it, it'll continue to be worthwhile, since most of them look better on it (than the PS2 at least, and occasionally than the GC). Other than that, I've got Halo and KOTOR, and Project Gotham's decent in the long stretch between GT3 and GT4. Oddworld's a fun game, too.

    For the most part, I use my PS2 for RPGs, my GC for the exclusive titles, and the XBox for multi-platform titles. I also like the original XBox controller (as opposed to the S controller) better than the others, though the Wavebird is a great wireless controller (and Nintendo's layout makes a lot of sense to me for most games).

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  5. Re:Guessing... by Scyber · · Score: 2, Informative

    I knew there was a link somewhere

    http://www.gamespy.com/icfj/september03/import7/

    5.8 mill in north america for XBox.
    4.6 mill in north america for the GC.