My second hand account of Gamecube\'s Launch

Well, I don\'t work on Sundays, but had to go in at 7pm for a meeting.

I expected to see all the Gamecube\'s sold out, as the X-Box had done a few days before. XBox launched with 106 on a weekday, and Gamecube had 72 on a weekend, it only made sense.

Well, when I got there, I saw 8 GCs left. 2 black and 6 Indigo. There was only 20 people lined up as apposed to 35 XBox people. I heard our accessory sell through rate was higher, but people didn\'t buy as many games.

With no shock at all to me, Rogue Leader solfd the most, followed strangely by Super Monkey Ball. Tomorrow, the remaining stock will probably sell out, but we get more XBoxs in on Tuesay, so you never know.


Eric Jacob

I went into the TRU and they had 47 GC remaining at close and 17 (second shipment) of xboxes.  Salesperson said xbox and GC sold about the same amount today.  Halo was sold out, they had 3 RS left.

Man I love that GC controller!

It would be a good controller if they go the PSX to Dual Shock route and make it bigger. It is so tiny and the D-Pad is laughably small. All the buttons (except the A button) should be 1.5 times bigger and I would like it alot more.

The Saturn controller is still the best on the planet.


Eric Jacob

I heard Super Monkey Ball is more addictive than crack.

I would say they are about equal, but with Super Monkey Bal, you live to play another day!

I heard the actual game gets really tough, but is so fun, and the mini-games are outright awesome!


Eric Jacob

Originally posted by AlteredBeast
I would say they are about equal, but with Super Monkey Bal, you live to play another day!

LOL

Man, all this talk of the X-Box, GC, and all these top games has me jonesing for for one of these new systems - and I\'m still playing a ton of great PS2 games (my copy of MGS2 is still in the shrink wrap for pete\'s sake!). I took a break from studying to watch some football highlights on TV, and it was hard enough resisting the temptation to fire up my PS2 and play some GTA3, THPS3 or J-League WE5, but then I see a Wave Race: Blue Storm commercial, followed up by a Project Gotham commercial.....these guys are gonna kill me (and my wallet)!

What a great time to be a gamer. :hat:

Originally posted by Lavan
I heard Super Monkey Ball is more addictive than crack.

I don\'t know about that.  I can cook some mean rocks, beyotch.