That $99 price point seems to be the entry point to appeal to the masses. What's strange is the Cube was really at $99 for awhile since they were giving away a free $50 game, but I guess its important to really have a $99 price tag.

BTW, Sony and MS can't let this go on for too long. Especially MS. They are neck and neck with Nintendo worldwide. I expect to see a $99 Xbox very soon.

Good job by Nintendo.

Nintendo's "Who Are You" campaign is supposed to run something like 5 minute trailers before movies like Matrix and Return of the King. I think we're in for some nostalgia-gone-hightech. If done right these trailers what Dr. Mario ordered.

I think that the reason why this is such a turn around is that it kinda breaks with tradition. Nintendo is actually caring about being aggressive and taking a more active role instead of just worrying about the games and thinking people would come to them.

While I did like that old strategy in some ways it really isn't good for business.

Definitely thinking about picking one up -- especially at this price. Still broke though, and there are a ton of xbox games I'm still planning on getting soon (Moto GP2, Splinter Cell, Hunter sequel, XIII, Freedom Fighters, etc) . Not enough time either. I need to find a job closer to where I live.

Sorry Aphex, but it is not the same. I work for a tech company and when we compare our business results, we compare them as: year to date vs. last year's year to date, month to date vs last year's month to date, and quarter to date vs last year's quarter to date. You cannot tell me these are the same. We also use month to month, week to week, and quarter to quarter within the same year too. The GC announcement doesn't say from when their sales have quadrupled. Compared to when???? To launch? To last week? To a month ago??

Anyway, I just read this so it doesn't look like all is rosy in Nintendo-land unfortunately.

Well, if you read that it actually is not that bad. No worse than a lot of companies in this very tight economy. They even went so far as to site speciffically problems and what they are doing to fix the problems. They are not exactly bleeding money like Sega was or anything.

I think this was a good move. It is nice to see Nintendo as the aggressor. GC is my favorite console most of the time. If I could cross breed it with my XBox and get a GC with a hard drive and a little more graphics umh I would a very happy man. I hope Nintendo takes steps on the next console to address the GC shortcomings (memory card system).

They will be making some money off me this Christmas. I am planning to get a bunch of games for both myself and presents. Plus, if they would announce that Dr Mario three game pak or whatever that is in Japan for the U.S. I would buy another GC for my mom. She is still stuck playing Dr. Mario on an old NES. May get a 64 with Dr. Mario 64 if they don't bring that game stateside soon.

To be honest I think sony needs to lower their prices before MS does. They're the most expensive console and they've been out a year longer, and it's not in a bundle.

But according to the numbers posted in the Nintendo loss thread, Sony sold 300,00 PS2s in August vs 150,000 Xboxes. Why should they lower the price?

Sony shouldn't. Like I said earlier in this thread, they will sell PS2s in droves on reputation alone (that huge game catalog isn't hurting either). Someone posted here that MS doesn't see itself in competition with Nintendo. I wonder if that's true, because that sounds like a very poor strategy. It would be amazing if anyone could surpass Sony in one console generation.

Sony will continue to sell PS2s through Xmas regardless of price. The race here is for 2nd place and has been since the PS2 launch. I can't imagine that MS will sit by while people buy $99 Gamecubes through Christmas. Sony on the other hand, can afford to as they will continue to sell more units regardless.

;)

With the GC at $99 how much longer can they let the GBA SP sit on the shelves for the same price? Bet we see a price drop on that before Christmas as well..

"Nintendo's "Who Are You" campaign is supposed to run something like 5 minute trailers before movies like Matrix and Return of the King. I think we're in for some nostalgia-gone-hightech. If done right these trailers what Dr. Mario ordered."

good lord. why gawd? WHY?!?!?! talk about an excellent attempt to ruin a couple of good movies.

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LOTR will be good but c'mon, The Matrix? Dude.

After an extensive study of Econ 101, I'd say you're wrong. :)

If one item on the menu drops in price at McDonald's, do they all have to? GBA has no problem selling. Why would they drop the price, especially after Nintendo just announced their first loss since going public?

A long time.

This thing is selling like backlit hotcakes.






oh alright "sidelit" hotcakes.

Yeah, I know I judge the quality of a film by the trailers that come on before it.

His comments had nothing to do with the movies. It was just jekbrown (as usual) taking a potshot at Nintendo.

actually i hate all non-movie related ads before movies. I know theaters are just trying to make a buck, but I dont want to see 3-4 TV shows plugged, a few car commercials, some soft drink ads etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc when I sit down to watch a film. If I wanted that, I'd sit at home and watch tv.

JH is right on one thing though, Im not a ninny fan.

j

Your analogy is incorrect. Whatever McDonald's sells, shake or fries, they make money on it. So,the items on the menu aren't competing with each other.

It would be more like Burger King dropping their price for a Whopper to compete with a Big Mac price drop. Different items from different companies.

But the Gamecube and the Gameboy are different items from the SAME company. So I think the analogy stands.

With the Gamecube and Gameboy at the same price, this price can't level can't last forever. Most consumers see the Gameboy as a little brother to the Gamecube. Some consumers will think that the Cube is an inferior product to the Xbox and PS2 just because it is at the same price as the Gameboy. I don't happen to see it this way, but to the average Joe this is the way it looks. I kinda think that the price of the Gameboy will fall to by $20 this winter.

So they finally posted the actual sales numbers. Looks pretty promising for the GC. Don't know if they'll be able to sustain this through the holidays though.

Not only is your analysis of my analogy wrong, if you've followed events at McDonald's, you'd know the franchisees at McDonald's were up in arms when the powers that be introduced the Dollar Menu. There were several items being sold below cost.

And each one of them competed with a full-priced, profitable, Big Mac.

But, until dvdtalk starts up a Fast Food Forum, that's as far afield as I'll drag this topic. :)

I might buy Cube one of these days at this price. I've been waiting for a cheap price like this. . .heh, when it came out, I always told my friends, "Maybe when its 99$. . .that's what I did with Playstation."

Trouble is I don't play many games nowadays. . .school has taken up too much of my time. One of these days I may purchase though, along with some good AAA titles.

Uuuum....what're you talking about? This is Gamecube's price drop versus PS2 and XBOX's current price right? Gameboy and Gamecube are not competing each other, though some buyers may only buy one or the other.


And mr. snowmizer, I know what you mean by that, but as far as I know, Nintendo, Sony, and MIcrosoft aren't owned by one big company, with XBOX acting as loss leaders so customers will buy the bigmac PS2. DIfferent products, different companies. Quite simple.

Uuuum....what're you talking about?

You come in saying my analogy is incorrect, and now you're talking about Sony and Microsoft when the rest of us are responding to this...

How many times should I read this until I finally discover where it's asked how Microsoft's and Sony's presence will affect the GBA price?