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"Disturbing March results for box"

I was going to call it the March massacre. The PS2's big release Devil May Cry 2 appears at the end of the month but Nintendo and X-box are fighting throughout it.

Nintendo released 5 exclusive games for all ages, Super Monkey Ball 2, Resident Evil: 0, Phantasy Star Online Edition 1 and 2, Sonic Mega Collection and Metroid Prime. These are all popular series' and with large advertisement for Resident Evil: 0 (damn good advert) and Metroid Prime sales will undoubtably increase for the Gamecube. Add this with price drops for their console and game bundles and in store price drops (£99 amd £80). Gamecube will surly enjoy a good month.

But what about the competiton? Well the X-box wasn't going to give up it's lead so easily. Despite the Gamecube almost running neck and neck with it heading into March, the X-box was always in the stronger position. Massivly popular MGS2 and X-box Live plus games should have seen the X-box flying. Especially with the over kill of X-box live advertisement. Ant and Dec playing X-box live... indeed. Nevertheless sales for X-box dropped over 10% in the last week. Comparitivly the PS2 dropped the same amount whilst the Gamecube rose dramatically by 60%.

Surly that's not good?

I was going to call it the March massacre. The PS2's big release Devil May Cry 2 appears at the end of the month but Nintendo and X-box are fighting throughout it.

Nintendo released 5 exclusive games for all ages, Super Monkey Ball 2, Resident Evil: 0, Phantasy Star Online Edition 1 and 2, Sonic Mega Collection and Metroid Prime. These are all popular series' and with large advertisement for Resident Evil: 0 (damn good advert) and Metroid Prime sales will undoubtably increase for the Gamecube. Add this with price drops for their console and game bundles and in store price drops (£99 amd £80). Gamecube will surly enjoy a good month.

But what about the competiton? Well the X-box wasn't going to give up it's lead so easily. Despite the Gamecube almost running neck and neck with it heading into March, the X-box was always in the stronger position. Massivly popular MGS2 and X-box Live plus games should have seen the X-box flying. Especially with the over kill of X-box live advertisement. Ant and Dec playing X-box live... indeed. Nevertheless sales for X-box dropped over 10% in the last week. Comparitivly the PS2 dropped the same amount whilst the Gamecube rose dramatically by 60%.

Surly that's not good?

Can you actually quote some figures and where you got them from please?

i'm sure phantasy star online ep 1 and 2 are coming to the xbox too at some time

yeah, they're coming out soon

Sales up by 10%, down by 10%. Who cares!
Microsoft is committed to the future of Xbox and that's all that matters, and it will succeed and IS succeeding.
Hopefully the growing success of the Xbox won't curtail the future of Nintendo's game systems.
The videogame market is surely big enough for 3 consoles.

Why the need to come here and brag?

Don't take it to heart i'm sure Halo 2 will boost sales at some point.

Who cares about stupid figures. Did it ever occur as to why the PS2 and XBox sales figures dropped by 10%? It could be because a lot of people already have a PS2 and XBox? Then again it could be because the Gamecube is only £99? Anywho i'm sure that Billy Gates and his chums have something stored up their multi-Billion doller sleave for the future, and not just Halo 2 and Fable(AKA Project Ego).

Sales = Nothing
Games = Everything.

Ah the irony.

I'm sure half of you would be bragging if it was the other way round.

Don't deny it.

I agree Gamezfreak.

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