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"Xbox holds onto 2nd place in UK."

From C&VG.com:

The stats for the week ending February 8 are in, and it's falls in sales across the board

Following a brief one week boost in overall unit sales, figures for the week ending February 8 (week six) in the UK show an overall drop in numbers.

Over the seven day period, PS2 sold 15,153 units, a drop of nine percent on the previous week's tally, with Xbox holding firm at number two, shifting 4,744 units, down 14 percent. GBA notched up 4,249 (down one percent), while GameCube continues to struggle with 1,764 units sold over the period, down one percent.

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Why is GBA selling so well, when the new one is out soon? PS2 still selling nearly 3 times the amount of Xbox, but GC really struggling.

Thoughts?

You speak words of wisdom

Maverick42 wrote:
> You speak wise words, gamezfreak..

Well.

;)

As does Shadow Knight. Very insightful.

  

You speak wise words, gamezfreak..

Ok, Xbox is selling rather nicely over here, Its because of MS with their advertising campaigns/offers ect.

Nintendo on the other hand are doing nothing for the Gamecube in terms of advertising, They should hauls their backsides into action...

I agree with AJ - in fact, Mario was the reason that the GameCube *still* outsold the X-Box in the UK when MS dropped the price considerably. It was only when the introduced the SEGA bundled that the X-Box overtook. As for the whole of Europe, things are a lot tighter - and though the X-Box is ahead, a game such as Resident Evil Zero will probably change that.

Ever since the GameCube was released in America, the battle for second place has been somewhat of an up and down affair (no jokes, please). Before Christmas, it seemed the X-Box had second place in it's grasp but with the timely releases of Resident Evil Zero and Metroid Prime, the GameCube overtook and now maintains second place in the States.

Both consoles are doing well enough to keep great games coming out on them though - so I don't mind about sales, really.

Your Honour wrote:
> That very same thing was said when Mario was released...

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And are you trying to say it didn't help? GC sold very well when Mario Sunshine was released.

Mario was out in October - consoles are no longer selling for him. So now he's saying what will happen when Metroid Prime, Zelda: Wind Waker and Mario Kart will do when they are released later this year. :-)

GameCube has a little bit of a problem in Europe, admittedly, but the sales in Japan and America are both a lot better.

Nintendo were just 1,000 sales off the PS2 this Christmas in Japan, and were very close to the Xbox in the US (I'm not sure who was further ahead) - here, however, the GC isn't doing too well at all - hopefully by the time Nintendo are releasing their next console, they'll have learned that you just can't hope to do well in Europe when you a.) Ignore us, b.) leave us in the dark for so long and c.) almost completely forget about advertising.

Strafex wrote:
> Besides, GC UK sales will pick up once Metroid and Zelda roll into
> town.



That very same thing was said when Mario was released...