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"Nintendo gets involved in stupid console wars fight!!!"

Nintendo have went a step too far. I respected them as a company with the dignity to hold it's head up high and get on with it's own thing not getting involved in the stupidity of the console wars debacle. As the Sony chairman blew his chump last month about the Xbox being dead and buried already, Ninty have went and did something not quite as bad, but ultimately as stupid. They have claimed that the GBA has become the fastest selling console of all time in the States, but, em, surely it didn't outsell the PS2, right?? Yes, that is correct, then why is it the fastest selling console in the states?? Em, don't know.

Here's a quote from SCEA (taken from another website) regarding the figures, and why even Nintendo making such a statement should be regarded as quite silly;


PS2 takes record from GBA

Sony Computer Entertainment America has issued an official statement in reply to Nintendo's claims that the Game Boy Advance is the fastest-selling console to date.

The Game Boy Advance chalked up sales of 500,000 across North America in its first week of sale from June 11, leading Nintendo to make the claim. However, Sony's PlayStation2 actually sold 510,000 units in just two days of going on sale.

Sony's official statement reads: "While Nintendo must be commended for the sales of its machine, in reality the PlayStation2 sold three times as fast when it was initially launched, and we could have sold as many as three times the amount we achieved had we anticipated the demand. Also worth pointing out is that the PlayStation2 can not really be compared with the Game Boy Advance, due to the different price brackets of the systems. The PlayStation2 is a complete multimedia package, and costs four times as much; it's pointless even making a direct comparison."



I think these big boys should channel more of an effort into making their consoles be as brilliant as possible, and not channeled into to the stupidity of the console wars topics in these forums, mines is better than yours HA!!!

At least Sony have justified the situation, and lets hope that Nintendo don't get into a pie flinging match as there really is no point. The simple fact is, the PS2 and the GBA are in different markets. I just want to see if Ninty are so smug after the launch of the Gamecube!!

Sniper, RBS and Jimmy.

This trueely is a great time for gaming... but then again I have ExciteBike!

:) remember Sniper, you have to get used to it first!

It's good RBS i think we 3 could be Excitebike kings soon.

er-no wrote:

:) EXCITEBIKE!

Hehehehehe, I should be getting that soon!

I havent heard about anyone having to return their faulty GameBoyAdvances yet :-)

er-no you are becoming a addict on that game one day i'll be one :)

Sniper wrote:
> And The GBA is a handheld... not comparable with the PS2.

Yeah but they are still considered to be both consoles...

:) EXCITEBIKE! yeaahhh

As a result Sony can say what they want but the GBA now holds the record!

And The GBA is a handheld... not comparable with the PS2.

The GameBoy Advance is the fastest selling computer console of all time no matter what Sony says or makes up...

Sony claimed to have sold 510,000 in the first two days, well half of them where still int the factory and warehouses two weeks after the actual launch, this is something Guinness have taken into account and the GBA now holds the record with 500,000 actual sold units....

In light of the popularity of the GameBoyAdvance, and the price differential of the GameCube which will only cost $199 in the States I would imagine Nintendo will be very smug about the sales of the Gamecube.

Besides which the PS2 is an entertainment system and not a console, so its figures dont count :-)