Nintendo Claims No.2 Spot, PS2 Sales Down Year-On-Year

jkcity writes "In an interview with Nintendo's Perrin Kaplan on IGN Cube, she claims: 'We basically won 2003 [in the U.S.] and moved ourselves to the number two spot, and Microsoft's Xbox to number three', also noting: 'Year-on-year we were up 68.5% [in December] based on units sold. We sold about 1.1 million GameCubes in December... For the whole year we were up 35%. Our competitors were both in the negative.' But an analyst quoted in an [overly harsh?] BBC News story is less impressed, suggesting the console 'did not do as well as I would have expected'." Elsewhere, a Reuters story notes that PlayStation 2 sales in the U.S. "fell 27 percent to 2.94 million units in November and December from four million units a year earlier", but the console still seems to be outselling the GameCube's increased Xmas volume.

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Analysts say price cuts coming soon

[WebGangsta]

According to Forbes, Banc of America expects Sony and Microsoft to cut prices on their respective PlayStation 2 and Xbox videogame consoles to $149 (or even $129) from $179 prices ahead of the E3 trade show in May 2004, a reduction that is "long overdue." Such a move would be "a major catalyst" for videogame sales and videogame stocks.

And in keeping with the current topic, this bodes to be yet another nail in the GameCube's pending coffin... especially if the prices are cut to $129. To stay competitive, GameCube games may need to drop to a regular price of $39-or-lower from the standard $49.

Re:A Gamecube Christmas

[hambonewilkins]

Or retailers have stopped carrying GC products. That would be the alternate reading of your story.