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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.
It is very dangerous to understand Nintendo. It has been profitable games company for a long time. - David Cole, DFC Intelligence
It's puzzling how BBC could mess up this quote underneath the picture, when they get it right in the actual body of the article (where it says "underestimate" instead of "understand"). All they had to do was copy and paste!
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third party developers (who've been announcing they're no longer making GC games in no small number).
In very, very small number, actually. Eidos has done so. I'm pretty sure that's it. Acclaim was reportedly dropping support, but later clarified they were not and a quick glance at their website shows they still make GameCube games.