Nintendo Resumes Production Of GameCube

Thanks to Gamesindustry.biz for their article revealing that GameCube consoles are rolling off the production lines in Japan once again, as revitalized demand for the system "finally outstrips the backlog of units which had built up at Nintendo's warehouses", following the suspension of GameCube manufacturing earlier this year. The article points out that "Recent price-drops combined with the roll-out of key software titles [including the Zelda bundle] for the machine in all three major markets have given the Cube new life in the run up to Christmas", as Nintendo VP George Harrison "...told the Wall Street Journal that he expects to sell two million Cubes in the US market this Christmas."

Comments

Re:Not surprised.

[Mike Mentalist]

You don't own a Cube, do you? How about you leave the comments about the system to those who know what we're talking about, instead of playing the ignorant hater position?

Yawn. Please, can we stop this "You are a hater!" business please as it is very boring.


As someone who owns a Cube and a PS2, let me say this: I've bought 5-6 times as many games for my Cube than for my PS2 in the past few weeks (and I typically buy a lot of games - I don't rent).

Sorry, what is this supposed to prove other than your own personal gaming tastes?

As a GC, Xbox and PS2 owner there are only two GC games that I consider worth owning - Eternal Darkness and Monkey Ball. I got F-Zero GX but that is going back to be swapped for Viewtiful Joe. I prefer Wipeout 3SE to be honest.

Re:Not surprised.

[Mike Mentalist]

Yeah, I guess the whole 2-millennium-spanning, 12-character-playing, insanity-effect-generating genre has been done to death.

They are just gimics in the survival-horror genre. Timesplitters did it before ED (minus the insanity effects), but that hardly makes it a unique game.