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"GAME - where have all the Cubes gone?"

This is an issue close to my heart and I know its said many times but i'm saying it again.

I went into my local GAME yesterday and to my amazement the Gamecube shelf space has shrunk even smaller. It really was a pitiful sight and quite embarrassing for a die hard Nintendo fan.

The shelf space is now just one block. There were the usual top five slots which were virtually empty and then the 'selection' of naff games underneath. Now yes I suppose you could look at it 2 ways, either they've all sold out (which is laughably unlikely) or that GAME just can't be ars*d with the Gamecube anymore (which I KNOW is whats happening).

Woollies now have hardly any Gamecube stuff. Dixons, Currys, Comet and all those electrical retailers stopped selling it months ago and it looks like even GAME are now on the 'dump Cube' runaway train.

3 years into the life of the N64 was better than this and that was considered a commercial flop.

Nintendo had the edge with the N64 and look what happened there.

Another point Sony are not starting out from scratch this time, they already have a installed userbase.

and there's no reason why Nintendo can't win it. Without using your home console comparison which you've eliminated yourself with your "they are different markets", history would show that Nintendo have the edge.

gerrid wrote:
> So they're comparable markets then? So you could compare DS sales to
> PS2 sales?

No, they are different markets.

But there's no reason why Sony cant win in it.

So they're comparable markets then? So you could compare DS sales to PS2 sales?

gerrid wrote:
> Macintosh wrote:
> One is a handheld, the
> other a home console. Very different stuff.

Yea, but so what? They are different markets, but does that reason alone mean Sony cant win that market, no.

Macintosh wrote:
> One is a handheld, the
> other a home console. Very different stuff.

gerrid wrote:
> Except you've been saying all along that Sony ruled the home console
> market so they will obviously rule the handheld market,
> despite having no previous experience. And now you say the two are
> completely different and you can't make comparisons. So which is it?

But you forget, Sony entered the home console market with no previous experience, and became the market leader. So it is possible the same thing could happen in the console market.

So yes, they are different markets, but that doesnt mean Sony have got it wrong.

Except you've been saying all along that Sony ruled the home console market so they will obviously rule the handheld market, despite having no previous experience. And now you say the two are completely different and you can't make comparisons. So which is it?

Strafio wrote:
> The PSP has done reasonably well.
> Selling out a 200,000 Shipment within a week I think...
>
> But then again, the Dreamcast did that.
> So not a bad hting, but not necessarily good either.
> The DS is still topping it though.
>
> 2 million units sorted before Christmas?
> I don't think that even the PS2 managed to sell 2 million THAT
> easily.


And whats PS2 sales got to do with DS sales? One is a handheld, the other a home console. Very different stuff.

PSP pratically sold out on the first day times that by 7 and that would have been 1.4million in a week. Trouble is that Sony can't make that many in a year let alone a week at the moment.