Nintendo riding the BS train

http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/news/0,10870,2828239,00.html

Nintendo outsells the competition with GameCube launch
 
 
 
Nintendo sells over half-million GameCube consoles in its first week of availability.
 
Nintendo has announced that in its first week of availability more than half-million GameCube consoles were sold through to consumers. The company claims those sales numbers make the GameCube the fastest selling console in history--the PlayStation 2 sold its initial shipment of 500,000 units in less than a week, but Sony did not ship additional units for several weeks after launch. In terms of software sales, according to Nintendo, Luigi\'s Mansion became the fastest selling launch game, even surpassing the stellar sales of Nintendo\'s own Super Mario 64.
"To have outpaced any other video game console launch ever would be notable in its own right," said Peter Main, executive vice president for sales and marketing at Nintendo of America. "But to accomplish this under the current economic conditions is truly remarkable. There is a seemingly endless appetite for high quality, stay-at-home entertainment at an affordable price--which is a perfect definition of Nintendo GameCube."

Of the initial North American shipments of 740,000 hardware units, approximately 100,000 systems went to Canada and Latin America and another 75,000 to US rental and other distribution channels. Virtually all of the 565,000 units that were shipped to US retailers are sold out and a new shipment of 125,000 units is now arriving at retailers.

By the end of the year, the GameCube will have 22 games in its library. Nintendo will ship two of its high-profile first party games--Super Smash Bros. Melee and Pikmin--to retailers next week.

The PS2 sold 500,000 in its 1st day in the US, and close to 1 million its 1st day in Japan

Sony had shipments of new PS2\'s every week after initial US launch (average of 100,000 a week) and met its goal of over a million by years end

There are still GC\'s in my area and my local Software Etc and EB and both say the demand is no where\'s near that of Xbox for new systems


not that it really matters but its a lie none the less

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Originally posted by ddaryl
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The PS2 sold 500,000 in its 1st day in the US, and close to 1 million its 1st day in Japan

Sony had shipments of new PS2\'s every week after initial US launch (average of 100,000 a week) and met its goal of over a million by years end

There are still GC\'s in my area and my local Software Etc and EB and both say the demand is no where\'s near that of Xbox for new systems


not that it really matters but its a lie none the less

OF course it is BS. You show me one company that doesn\'t lie out of their "teeth" to promote hype.

yep, PS2 in "coast" mode now

i see a clear sky, and smooth sailing

I wouldnt say its smooth sailing for the ps2 just yet. It will do well, but there is the threat of being over taken by the xbox. But thats not likely. But yes, its looking good for the ps2.
Even though the GC sold well, I dont think the future looks bright for it. There just doesnt seem to be much excitment about it

My BEst Buy:

XBox - sold out first day, have had 2 restock shipments in, the third tomorrow.

GC - sold out in 3 days, got our FIRST restock TODAY! I don\'t know what kind of BS they are trying to push, but I am gonna go out on a limb and say XBox has sold more total.

PS2 will have no problem with GC, like N64. XBox will be PS2\'s only nuisance this generation.



Eric Jacob

competition makes for better gaming

Yes, the demand in my area is about the same.  This is marketing hype.

Gamecube sold 500,000 in the first week........Playstation 2 sold 500,000 in less than 12 hours.  Strange how they didn\'t mention sony\'s japanese launch witch did 980,000 in 24 hours.  Nintendo are lairs.

If I were Nintendo, I would release a statement like that too.. It\'s all part of the marketing strategy.

Not that it means much but as long as we\'ve got people giving anecdotal evidence here, I\'ll share mine too. In a county with a population over 100,000 12 xboxs were sold out of the 72 in stock the first two days after launch, anyone living in the area would have to drive for at least another hour to get one at the next closet store. Didn\'t ask about GC because I could see there were at least 20 still packed on the shelves the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and I\'m not that curious about how well it\'s doing. As expected, neither of the two were in stock by the next time I checked, Sunday. Keep in mind at least twice as many GCs were available at launch as there were xboxs so selling more units overall is not so hard to believe. As of yesterday the xbox cubby was full and the GC section was empty. I\'m not sure that says a whole lot but there it is anyway.

Contrast the above with never having seen a PS2 on the shelves for a full six months after the US launch, though I checked regularly, and the fact that in March they were still being sold at online auctions like U-Bid for double the retail value and you\'ve got to get the idea there is no comparison.

Just maybe the momentum for the xbox will build slowly as word of mouth spreads and more must have ‘xbox only\' titles hit the streets but I honestly don\'t see it ever happening in a big way, those crappy kiosks sure aren\'t showing anything to go wow about at the moment. Nintendo is a distinctly separate market and there seem to be too many loyal N nuts out there for GC to fail at being a hit, in North America at least. Even I\'m interested in a few of their games all though I don\'t really care for Nintendo.

One thing for sure is both consoles have a lot of catching up to do.

I find it very sad, that a well respected company that has been in the business for years has to go down to that deep level and say that their console is the fastest selling in history while it doesn\'t even come close. I find it especially sad, since everyone who reads a bit of newspaper and remembers back when PS2 was sold knows that it\'s a big lie.

I sure do love the Toy Story 2 quality graphics on my PS2. Whoo boy, it sure is swell.

Rast, every system has lied about it\'s launch......... and vulcan x-box doesnt have a chance to catch up to ps2! It doesnt have the stuff! Its gotten bad reveiws for most of it\'s games and didnt sell nearly as many x-boxes at launch then ps2 did. Ps2 has better upcoming games as well.

The xbox didnt sell nearly as many as the ps2 cause they didnt ship nearly as many. And Halo, DOA3 and a few others have got pretty good reviews. Especially Halo. The ps2 only had one game at launch that was getting good reviews

not to mention, the xbox and gamecube didnt sell out at launch

noone near the frenzy that occured a year ealier