Nintendo's latest earning report shows, amongst other things, that only 800,000 GameCubes were sold worldwide in the last quarter.

Nintendo has today released its first ever quarterly earnings report showing a profit of some 11.5 billion Yen (US$95.8 million) for the "low demand season" quarter ending June 30. Worldwide sales of 3.24 million Game Boy Advance consoles contributed significantly to the figures for the quarter, with the GBA SP accounting for approximately 85 percent of that figure. Sales of the GameCube have been significantly less impressive though, with only 800,000 consoles being sold worldwide in the last three months.

Nintendo had hoped to sell some 6 million GameCubes and 20 million GBA consoles in the year ending March 2004. Targets that, according to Morgan Stanley analyst Shunji Yamashina, the company is likely to miss unless it takes some drastic measures such as price cuts.

link?

Checkout Gamespot.com

http://www.gamespot.com/gba/news/news_6072971.html

800,000 in one quarter doesn't sound too bad... does it?

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but yes, clearly the gameboy is nintendo's big money maker.

Someone really needs to sponsor a workshop on "How To Appropriately Title a Thread".

As long as the Big "N" keeps making good hardware and publishes good games, they've got my wallet!

Is anyone that owns an SP going to buy a new one when the new colors hit? Some people probably imported but I wonder if these colors will sell. The black is nice.

When will new colors be available in the States?

Gamestop.com lists the release date of the onyx and the flame GBA SP as 9/8/2003.

or

I want one of the flame GBASPs... that might make me want to replace my indigo GBA.

I might pick up the flame one.

So basically,

Onyx = black
Flame = metallic red

I really wanted the Crystal GBA but chance is only .000001 percent

800,000 in a quarter isn't bad at all. Unfortunately, it sounds like a Gamespot writer was sloppy and accidentally included an extra zero.

From http://money.cnn.com/2003/08/05/comm...ming/index.htm :
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...an_nintendo_dc :
From http://www.forbes.com/home_asia/news...tr1048520.html :
From http://www.gamebunker.com/news.php?newsid=1397 :
From http://www.gamerfeed.com/index.php?story=3956 :

80,000 sounds more correct, and also isn't too good. But most of us gamers (I think, anyway) already feel like Nintendo is gearing up for the next console and is getting set to scrap this.

I think I will always present my profits in terms of yen It sounds so impressive.

MOD EDIT: Console bashing remark removed. -namja

That is more than Microsoft has made off the X-box And I own them both.

For the size of the company and the quarter invovled, that is very good.

I agree.

They don't have to make the most profits, they just have to turn acceptable profits. Give me a break. Your post does not make any sense. As long as they are turning acceptable profits they will stay in the business, and that will occur as long as the market will support Nintendo and its competitors.

Nintendo has to do the right things to stay in the running and cannot afford to lose lots of market share, but they also have a responsibility to shareholders, etc to be fiscally responsible, not take risks that they cannot afford to take and to turn profits.

I'm pretty sure madcougar's post was sarcasm

I thought he was right about Colecovision, though

Things definitely are bad for the Cube. The Xbox is doing better, but it still got killed by the PS2 as well though SW KOTR will help.

MS and Nintendo are both probably focusing on the next console by now. If they lose badly to the PS3 it might be game over for both of them.

Me personally, I will keep buying Nintendo hardware as long as they keep making it. I have no complaints as a Cube owner except that I haven't been able to buy all the games I want to lately.

*sigh* I tried sooo hard for it to be obvious.