GAMECUBE WILL LAUNCH AT $150. OFFICIAL PROOF INSIDE

Originally posted by rog27
I\'m really proud of nintendo...it looks as if they might have this thing down--a true return to gaming.. a revolution of sorts-- a revolution of returning to the days where gaming was fun regardless of graphics...where simplicity took the stage...and where all this good fun was usually pretty cheap...Good work Nintendo!

Give me a break...  A true return to gaming, or a true return to what you personnaly prefer. I\'m having no problems looking forward to alot of games coming out on other systems besides Nintendo

and Nintendo is not returning to anything, the GC is all about Graphics, just ask any diehard Nintendo fan. The only reason graphics didn\'t matter in the 80\'s and early 90\'s was because there wasn\'t much difference between bad looking games and great looking games. These days the difference is very obvious. I don\'t know about you but to me a great game immerses me into a world full of graphical goodness, as well as great gameplay, and Great sound, hence AAA games

the GC is all about Graphics

HA! Then why would they make the thing so easy to program for? Not because of the graphics, but to give developers the chance to do their ideas on the systems with no problems, kind like the anti-PS2! Really, don\'t make bias statements like that without any facts to back you up.

Jumpman

I\'m trying to understand what it is you are saying. Ease of programming has what to do with the fact that GC is every single bit about great graphics as the hard to program for PS2, or the easy to program for Xbox.


Do you honestly believe GC will have a larger library of better overall games cause of ease of development, or because you personally prefer Nintendo games. I see the PS2 having a very large library of great games on its hard to program for system over its life.

So maybe you should actually use your brain just a little before trying to pretend to have some kind of point

Originally posted by Kituka
http://www.gamecube.f2s.com/cm1.htm

Got to give credit where it\'s due- I got the link from a post by NatronicZ at the dailyradar.com forums.

$150, no delay, GBA too. @$#% @#$#^@ #%%@ #^@^@# %$#@ #@!$% #%@^ #%# @^#& @@&&@!!!!!!!

17,800 Yen is roughly $153 greenbacks, folks!!!

Hmmm let me see they are going to seel it at around $150 at launch day, and they want to make a profit ?

has anyone else got the same nagging fealing that it is going to cost more for Nintendo to makethem that to sell them, i mean look at the Dreamcast and now the PS2

both of these have problems when it comes to return\'s , in fact this was one of the major problems with the Dreamcast, poor Sega where making a loss on just about every system.

it would me finanical suiside for Nintendo to do a stunt like that, ok if they REALY are going to sell it at this price.

what are they going to play the workers that make them
and what about the middle man ?

For example a Electrical Good of this standard will be Sold around the $300 mark, anything less and nintendo would be better of leaveing the R&D keys to SONY and Microsoft.

Oh what a min\' there must be a catch of some kind if it is TRUE, maybe it will be the world first PAY per Play Console ?

i don\'t see a console as advanced as the Gamecube being sold at this low price, unless they do one of the following.

1) Build them in Sweat shops in a 3rd world country
2) Go to the Japannese Goverment for a Very Very Very Large loan
3) Go the the Mafia and get them to "get it sorted".
4) Get the Buyers to make them when they want to buy it.
5) they will make the games cost $100 a shot.
6) Devalue the Global curreny\'s when producing and rasie them for launh day.

Sorry i am not falling for the obvious April Fool, looks like someone at Nintendo is soo hard worked that the still don\'t know it\'s FEBUARY 2001..

P.S.
that Link is Papped !
please fix it !

of course Nintendo is going to sell them at a loss. The GC more then likely cost considerably less then the PS2 did at its launch to make and less then the Xbox and its HD?Ethernet adapter, 64mb\'s of ram machine

Xbox is being made in Mexico and Hungary I believe, but I doubt Nintenod will need to go to a 3rd world country to make them

They\'ll make there money back on games and periphials like everyone else, there have been rumors that GC games will cost more then other machine to help off set the low cost of the machine. But no facts on that one yet.

Nope sorry i am still not falling for it, if they are going to make a move like that they are either...
a) Trying to hype it up (to out do the PS2 and X box)
b) Trying to cover something bad up ( Lack of support or other problems)
c) Make the consoles value worthless ( remeber all technology depreciates in value, so dose this mean in a years time you can pick up a second hand one up for $50 ?)

If you ask me if they do sell it at this value them they real do deserve it if the Stuff realy hits the FAN.

The link works fine for me, but the pic he posts is not very concrete . Think about it, PS2 in Japan is worth $400 , but as it turned out, PS2 in the U.S. is $300. So we just need to wait for the official word.

Originally posted by ooseven
Nope sorry i am still not falling for it, if they are going to make a move like that they are either...
a) Trying to hype it up (to out do the PS2 and X box)
b) Trying to cover something bad up ( Lack of support or other problems)
c) Make the consoles value worthless ( remeber all technology depreciates in value, so dose this mean in a years time you can pick up a second hand one up for $50 ?)

If you ask me if they do sell it at this value them they real do deserve it if the Stuff realy hits the FAN.

or maybe there primariy target audiences parents  can\'t or won\'t pay for a $250 + machine

Not to mention Nintendo is raking in tons of money from GBC, and Pokemon, so they can afford to take the loss early on like the other 2 big players...

Notice Sega was and is the only one who couldn\'t afford to but tried anyways and thats why they failed with the DC

Do you honestly believe GC will have a larger library of better overall games cause of ease of development, or because you personally prefer Nintendo games.

Actually, I honestly do and the same thing applies for the Xbox as well.

Lets take a system that was difficult to develop for and it\'s games- the Nintendo 64.

Why wern\'t there so many great games on the N64? Because developers didn\'t want to waste money or they had limitations with the hardware. It was very hard to get your idea done on the N64 because of the vector units and the catridges. Well now with GameCube that\'s all solve. The GODs can hold approximately 200 times more than the catridges could. Plus, the hardware is supposingly really easy to develop for. So whats holding developers back now? Nothing.

Nintendo doesn\'t care about graphics, they care about the games. They have always been this way and its time you accepted it. They create the GameCube so developers could get a chance to create BETTER games without limits or problems.(almost the exact words of Yamauchi)

So maybe you should actually use your brain just a little before trying to pretend to have some kind of point

Please, I\'ve learned from my past mistakes. I only get into arguments that I know I can win.

Hmmm let me see they are going to seel it at around $150 at launch day, and they want to make a profit ?

Actually, they could of sold them for 179$ and STILL make profit...

And this isn\'t official yet people. Until we hear from DR and IGN it\'s all just a pile a poo.

 

hmmm $150 for a GC system that is a bit more powerful then a PS2..hmmm..if it so called costs Microsoft "$400" to make XBOX, then what makes you think Nintendo is going to release GC for $150 ? and i know they not having people make the GC in a sweat shop..where they pay people $1 for labor..and 25¢ for the chipset..i DONT think so..

the GC was rumored to be $200-$250

the GC was rumored to be $200-$250

Correction: It was always rumoured to be 150-200.

One more reason that it could be more expensive than $150 is that this technology which is very very advanced is also smaller in size.Which means more production costs(More complex machines to produce).
Unless if they ve found a technology which is low cost while delivering astonishing graphics.


BY THE WAY THIS IS A PLAYSTATION2 FORUM.
Nathan made an announcement about off PS2 topics.If you remember.

$150-$200 ? i dont know where you read your info from..hope its not like that link you gave us..

That doesn\'t look like an official website ,more like a
japan gcube fan site.

Originally posted by bandit
hmmm $150 for a GC system that is a bit more powerful then a PS2..hmmm..if it so called costs Microsoft "$400" to make XBOX, then what makes you think Nintendo is going to release GC for $150 ? and i know they not having people make the GC in a sweat shop..where they pay people $1 for labor..and 25¢ for the chipset..i DONT think so..

the GC was rumored to be $200-$250

yeah your right , and what about Import and shipping charges oh that will atleast acount for 10% of the $100 base line and thats before it get\'s to the shops like EB and GAME , FFS what are they going to live on ?

think of the poor store clerks Nintendo, your stealing the food from there childern\'s mouths .