Nintendo is actually off to a great start...Who didnt see that coming?

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BBC news just reported that 300,000 GameCubes have already been sold in Japan. They also explained that Nintendo wanted stores to open at 7am, but most opened early at 12 midnight to avoid long queues.

These are great numbers and if this continues the system may very well be sold out by Saturday evening.

Oh yeah, gamecube is doing sooo bad...contrary to what other threads say. :rolleyes:

Originally posted by jetgrind
Oh yeah, gamecube is doing sooo bad...contrary to what other threads say. :rolleyes:

SOunds great..but can I have a link. I believe you I just  want to post it at a so called forum that has been saying gamecube is not selling well.

PS2 sold 980 000 if Im not mestaken..

Originally posted by fastson
PS2 sold 980 000 if Im not mestaken..

damnit, typo. Ii accidnetly made it sned and i wasnt finished with the message

Originally posted by fastson
PS2 sold 980 000 if Im not mestaken..

Um, think about this. PS2 had some much hype behind it, gamecube has none, and no mario title. Its doing great.


http://cloudchaser.nintendo.com

Originally posted by fastson
PS2 sold 980 000 if Im not mestaken..

We all know why the ps2 sold so well. IT was well hyped and it was feeding off the success of the psx. Nobody is expecting gcn to sell ps2 numbers.

Originally posted by QuDDus


We all know why the ps2 sold so well. IT was well hyped and it was feeding off the success of the psx. Nobody is expecting gcn to sell ps2 numbers.

It could...all in good time. But i doubt it.

Sony didn\'t need any \'one\' title to fall back on, al la Nintendo.

Nintendo NEEDS there franchises to sell consoles, Sony doesn\'t, although it helps (GT3). I am not a big fan of Nintendo, if you haven\'t noticed. I just wish they would come up with something new every, say, 5 years.

That is all I ask.


Eric Jacob

This is what Gaming Age wrote about their experience getting a NGC.  For the whole article, go here.

When I got there, the line was in a word pathetic. Having seen pictures from the Game Boy Advance, Dreamcast and PlayStation 2 launches, this was probably 1/50th of the size. Less than twenty people were in line at LAOX where I had learned was a good place to go without a preorder since they tend to get a lot of stock. As it turns out, Akihabara was almost dead. About thirty people were in front of Messe Sanoh, and only three in front of SofMap...

...If the size of the lines wasn’t bad enough, what was worse was less than half of those people in line were actually Japanese. There were several people from other countries waiting in line, and most of them writing for a site to cover the launch. By the time the store opened up, approximately sixty people were in line. Better than before, but still rather bad for such a big launch. Nobody here was going to have trouble picking up a system.

Oh yes, a great start indeed. [/sarcasm off]

300,000 is a big number, but it is not that impressive compared to the PS2 launch.

as ive been saying ALL along

the gamecube WILL NEVER match the PS2\'s installed userbase

i hope nintendo kicks themselves in the behind for not supporting the DVD format

might as well of stuck with cartridges

Originally posted by mm
as ive been saying ALL along

the gamecube WILL NEVER match the PS2\'s installed userbase

i hope nintendo kicks themselves in the behind for not supporting the DVD format

might as well of stuck with cartridges

I\'d rather buy 1,000,000 dollars worth of crackers than go back to playing with cartridges!

Originally posted by fastson
PS2 sold 980 000 if Im not mestaken..

But they sure as hell didn\'t sell 980,000 games.

Originally posted by Gohan
But they sure as hell didn\'t sell 980,000 games.

EXACTLY. I don\'t know why every keeps comparing it to the ps2 launch. I know they are not trying to say ps2 A1 quality is the reason it sold so much? Tell me that is not the case.

Originally posted by IronFist
This is what Gaming Age wrote about their experience getting a NGC.  For the whole article, go here.

Oh yes, a great start indeed. [/sarcasm off]

300,000 is a big number, but it is not that impressive compared to the PS2 launch.

Thats besides the point silly sony fanboy. The cube is selling good, if you actually took the tir to look at websites like PGC and Tendobox you would know this.


And mm, what a LAME ASS EXCUSE for not liking Nintendo. They didt use DVS format because they dont want there games, wich sell a hell of alot better than any ps2 game, to be pirated. Was your first system the playstation or something?

Originally posted by jetgrind


Thats besides the point silly sony fanboy. The cube is selling good, if you actually took the tir to look at websites like PGC and Tendobox you would know this.


And mm, what a LAME ASS EXCUSE for not liking Nintendo. They didt use DVS format because they dont want there games, wich sell a hell of alot better than any ps2 game, to be pirated. Was your first system the playstation or something?

mm was a gamer since the first ever console I believe.

He used to be a Nintendo fan...until he got high! j/k\\

And watch out with the name calling. If someone says something ridiculously stupid, then it\'s ok. But IronFish is just slightly uninformed.

Factors that should be considered about the launch is I don\'t know...THE RECENT TERRORIST ATTACKS MAYBE. There was also like a typhoon warning in Japan too.

Gohan made the best point thus far.