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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.
Yet another "NINTENDO IS DYING" article. Someone give me a *BSD is dead post so that the circle of idiocy can be completed.
No, seriously, this is getting retarded. Stop with these lame articles already.
Well this is going to get ugly pretty quick.
Honestly I find this back and forth banter between nintendo and microsoft to be pretty funny really. When is the last time you saw two kids in the school yard arguning over who was number 2?
"Yeah we owned joo!!"
"nu-uh"
"uh-huh"
"next to Sony we are the bestest!"
"you liar we are we sold 60 gajillion units"
"yeah? well we sold 90 gajillion"
"well we sold infiniti units"
"yeah? well we sold infiniti to the infinite power units"
"well we are the best!"
"what about Sony?"
"Well next to Sony of course"
and so on and so on...
On Wall Street they say "buy low, sell high" On the pad we say, "buy high, sell high" Isn't that somehow better?
That post was clearly ON-TOPIC, ps2 fanboys. Just because you don't like what someone is saying doesn't make it off-topic.