Only worth £50 now. :S

[Mirinee]

I can't believe they're selling new GCs for just £50 in Woolworths.

[tomnash]

i bought mine on ebay for £40 with 3 games - all crapgames though

[Gotien]

well when all other systems are sold out, the demand is high and GC STILL isn't selling their extra systems then they think droping the price will help, guess it might*shrugs*

[Lee-yoshi]

Not just Woolowrths, Argos too were selling them for even less at £39.99 last time i went in there which is pretty shocking really -_-

All Games shops are still selling them full price.

[Ivan]

Well they're on the deciline, you know what that might mean...

New game system.

[Shadamoo]

Well, Nintendo are bringing the DS in soon hopefully. My friend is getting one on import with Mario and Metroid! I envy him so much.

[flickynick]

I love the gamecube so much, and I get the impression you are implying that its something negative

So what if the gamecube is selling for £50 its a good thing, they are cheap


:S

[UK Jester]

All of the Next Gen consoles are now in development. Nintendo don't want to talk Next Gen but have been forced to drop hints like the D Pad leak. All the Nintendo magazines are now raving about the DS (and I'm sick to my back teeth of the flaming thing). Microsoft and Sony have had huge games released for their consoles backed up with strong advertising campaigns aimed at the adult market who have jobs and money. Nintendo released Donkey Konga with adverts on Challenge and a tour of the UK with events aimed at children who normally don't have 40 quid spare. Nintendo decides to use Mario Kart DD and Pokemon Collesium (1 year and half a year old already) as bundles to sell new Gamecubes. Nintendo releases Metroid Prime 2 in a head to head with GTA: SA and Halo 2, but its only advertised in magazines unlike the other two which use the media of Cinema and Television. Nintendo wishes to maintain a family image for the console, the Xbox goes for the teenage to early twenties demographic while the Playstation 2 uses backwards compatibilty to keep the previous generation owners interested. Nintendo fails to release a 5 star launch game staring Link or Mario, it takes years to release games that should have been ready at the begining. Nintendo is behind the times by only just converting to disks and shunning the online gamers. Allegedly Nintendo failed to put it's money in GAMEs hands like Sony and Microsoft, so the Cube gets 2 shelves at the back of the store. Companies abandon the Cube because the games perform badly, although this causes the loss of mostly poor quality games it also causes the loss of quality games like Broken Sword, Burnout 3 and the high unit selling FIFA European Championship 2004. As the casual gamer heres about the loss of developers for the Gamecube he becomes even less likely to get a Cube. Nintendo fails to keep sweet companies with hard cash so that exclusives like the Capcom 5 vanish or go multi-format (how many of us Cube owners would have not brought an Xbox or PS2 if Halo or GTA: VC had been multi-format).

The list goes on and on just like my above rant. The Nintendo Fanboy can rant and rave about how great the diminishing games due for realse are, they can keep flaming the PS2 casual gamers that have ruined the gaming industry. But the truth is Nintendo has continued to make a profit in the handheld market. It's not lost money on the Gamecube and its tough if we don't like it. Shops will drop the Gamecube because it has failed to sell, business is about making profit and clearing out the clag at cheap prices to make room for the products that do sell.

Regards

UK Jester

[Mirinee]

What D-Pad leak? Now I'm all curious.:O

I get the impression you are implying that its something negative :S

Oh, no. No. I love the GC! I just think it's such a shame that it's getting the

2 shelves at the back of the store

.

Out of the three, GC is the only console which has games I like (and I am very picky when it comes to actually liking a game).

I'll just laugh at the clueless people who are new to games and aren't picking a GC just because it's not selling so well. Their big loss!

[UK Jester]

Its not that people aren't picking the Gamecube because it's not selling well. Casual gamers arn't picking the Cube because in most stores the Cube has the smallest display with the smallest selection of games compared to the massive catalogue of the PS2 and the not exactly small catalogue of the Xbox. Presentation does matter, make the Cube section look bigger and more people will view it as a viable purchase. Make it small and insignificant and everyone will think it is a last generation console that has a few units left to get rid of.

Yeah, there are some great games on the Cube, but a few great games just doesn't compare to the copious amounts of games for the other consoles, wether a lot of them are middling to average in game quality doesn't matter, the important factor is that the console looks like it could last for ever.

Making the best console/games doesn't mean much unless you have the popular vote in the form of people prepared to stump up the cash for your products. WhenI was a lad the VCR revolution happened - the two formats were VHS and Betamax. Betamax was the better machine but VHS won the war when it released the longer blank video cassettes first.

Regards

UK Jester