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Hardware Shortages Weaken Holiday Sales

Posted by Zonk on from the not-so-much-with-the-forward-thinking dept.

GamesIndustry.biz is reporting that GTA: San Andreas was the tops in December sales, but overall 2004 sales were somewhat down because of PS2 and Xbox hardware shortages. From the article: "That leaves the industry on negative growth of one per cent for the calendar year, and even considering software alone, December still saw negative growth of five per cent and brought the calendar year growth figure down to seven per cent."

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  1. Why don't you by News+for+nerds · · Score: 2, Informative

    buy a GameCube, with RE4.

    1. Re:Why don't you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

      So get her Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon... trust me, the women love these games ;)

      Gamecube is so underrated... 4 excellent RPGs (Baten Kaitos, Skies of Arcadia, Paper Mario, and Tales of Symphonia), some creative and interesting games like Animal Crossing and Cubivore, Resident Evil 4, Metroid Prime 1 and 2, Smash, and awesome forthcoming games like Fire Emblem, Odama, Mario 128 and Zelda. The system started off slow, but I personally think it's comparable to the PS2 in quailty (though PS2 has more RPGs) and it's definitely lightyears ahead of the Xbox.

  2. I tried... by wickedj · · Score: 2, Informative

    to buy a new Xbox this Christmas just for Halo 2 but everywhere I went it was sold out, even used. I wasn't able to get one until January.

  3. Re:There's still a shortage by Phisbut · · Score: 2, Informative

    The shortage is not only on consoles.

    I was able to find a slim PS2 two weeks ago. Great, but I also needed a memory card (for both PS1 and PS2) if I were to save my games...

    It took me 9 days of shopping every day at EBgames, BestBuy, Toys'R'us, RadioShack, WalMart, Zellers and any other store that could remotely be associated with the idea of selling video game stuff before I could actually find a third party memory card somewhere.

    Even the third party providers are having trouble meeting demand even weeks after christmas.

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