GameCube - Doubles U.S Share, UK Status, Zelda Bundle

nakedxray writes "Yahoo posted a Nintendo press release earlier this morning claiming that the GameCube has almost doubled its marketshare in the U.S, rising from 19 percent to 37 percent. The $99 price point seems to be paying off. Now, how about those online games?" Nintendo are again lagging in UK sales, however, as "the Xbox is now outselling Nintendo's machine by over two to one", according to GI.biz, although a UK variant, including Mario Kart:Double Dash, of the allegedly forthcoming U.S. Zelda bundle may help revitalize Nintendo's hardware in that market. Update: 11/04 20:59 GMT by S : The U.S. GameCube Zelda bundle is no longer 'alleged', since it's due on Nov.17th for $99, and the Zelda disc is available separately "by [consumers] registering their Nintendo GameCube system and two... hot holiday titles... [or] by subscribing to or renewing their subscription to Nintendo Power magazine."

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Re:Market share

[PainKilleR-CE]

Market share is the percentage of all items sold during a given time period, and has nothing to do with how many have sold overall (ie since the system was released), which would be user base.

In other words, if the stores sell 100 Cubes, 50 XBoxes, and 60 PS2s, it doesn't matter that last month they sold 25 Cubes, 60 XBoxes, and 75 PS2s, or that there are already 50 million PS2s out there. The market share of the Cube would be nearly 50% if everyone sold the same ratios above. If everyone went out today and bought a PS2, XBox, and GameCube, each would have 33.3% of the market for today.