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"Game over for Gamecube"

Cube available in UK now for as little as £40... Games reduced to just over a fiver


In what could mark the beginning of the end for Gamecube in the UK, major retailers such as Argos have started to sell the machine for as little as £39.99.

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Accessories and software are also being reduced across the board. Index, for instance, have been flogging Mario Kart: Double Dash!! for £9.99, Mario Sunshine for £6.99 and WrestleMania X8 for a mere £5.99, while Woolworths have been selling a selection of titles from the Players Choice range for £6.99.

With both PlayStation 2 and Xbox having had a hugely successful Christmas, thanks to the recent releases of AAA titles like GTA San Andreas and Halo 2, Nintendo half-heartedly countered with a Cube bundle that featured the year-old Mario Kart: for the week-ending 11 December, just over 7000 Gamecubes were sold in the UK, compared to 37,500 for Xbox and 60,500 for PS2.

Luckily, new handheld the DS is at least doing well at present - Nintendo expected to have sold almost three million of the twin-screen devices in the US and Japan by the end of 2004.

Where's The Food. :-)

fire_starter wrote:
> X2 METHOD MAN, WTF?

What the hell is (WTF)

Microsoft and Sony will be glad that they have such a massive gaming retailer such as argos on their sides!

Games are still being created for it and if Xbox forums are holding threads about it they must still be a competitor ;-)

X2 METHOD MAN wrote:
> Lets hope that gamecube 2 will be enabled live and a Official Gamecube
> Magazine, With playable demos because, NGC 1 wasn't worth it.

WTF is gamecube 2? The only console I've heard of that nintendo are bringing out is revolution.

X2 METHOD MAN, WTF?

Well, his name speaks for it's self

X2 METHOD MAN wrote:
> Strafio wrote:
> And people will STILL buy a PSOne! :-S
>
> Yea because PS1 it's made by, Sony we can trust sony but can we trust
> nintendo for better games, We always known that ps1 is much better
> gaming consonle than all the consoles nintendo made.

You really are a genuine idiot.

Lets hope that gamecube 2 will be enabled live and a Official Gamecube Magazine, With playable demos because, NGC 1 wasn't worth it.

Strafio wrote:
> And people will STILL buy a PSOne! :-S

Yea because PS1 it's made by, Sony we can trust sony but can we trust nintendo for better games, We always known that ps1 is much better gaming consonle than all the consoles nintendo made.

PS1 85%
NGC 50%

And people will STILL buy a PSOne! :-S