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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.

[URL]http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=2501&productId=100290&Trail=C%24cip%3D16704.Sound%2Band%2Bvision%3EC%24cip%3D16786.Video%2Bgames%3EC%24cip%3D16789.Consoles&categoryId=16789&clickfrom=image[/URL]

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.

Now lets needlessly overcomplicate things:


4 human players + Xbox live > 4 human players + Gamecube > 4 human players + Xbox > Xbox live > Gamecube > Xbox > PS2




I might just get an Xbox someday...

Xbox Live > Gamecube > Xbox > PS2.

mattributetm

Xbox > GameCube > PS2

'Nuff said.

Firstly, why have you posted this thread in the XBOX forums and secondly, it is hardly game over for Gamecube. The line up for this year is looking great. The new Zelda and Resident Evil 4 alone should revive the interest of GC owners, oh, and those games you mentioned that are going for dirt cheap prices are all over a year old. I've seen PS2 games for lower prices than these.

The fact that the games mentioned are about 2 years old in some cases shows how dense these news 'writers' must be

X2 METHOD MAN wrote:
> 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.

I got my Cube from argos for £40 about a year and a half ago, gayby.

Well, it was £80 with 2 controllers, a memory card and super mario sunshine, which is practically the same.

s'pose so

There's no need to quote the entire post. In fact, you didn't really need to quote any of it.

X2 METHOD MAN wrote:
> 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.
>
> [URL]http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=2501&productId=100290&Trail=C%24cip%3D16704.Sound%2Band%2Bvision%3EC%24cip%3D16786.Video%2Bgames%3EC%24cip%3D16789.Consoles&categoryId=16789&clickfrom=image[/URL]
>
>
> 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.

You nicked all that of GamesRadar didn't you

Live, now.