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Taken from C&VG.com:
Ready for this? Sure, we've thrown more numbers at you in the last few days than a conference of mathematicians discussing the latest quantum giga-flux theory, but we've got another batch for you - perhaps the most visually shocking of the lot.
Australia is the setting - sun-kissed home of natural beauty and natural home of sun-kissed beauties - and the Christmas sales figures for the big three consoles are in.
No surprise at the top, with PS2 securing around 84,477 sales during the last three weeks of December. Microsoft came second, with the Xbox finding its way into a decent 45,939 tinsel-draped homes.
And then there's Nintendo. Ah, Nintendo! We love you, we really do. A fine machine with some of the most creative and downright playable games on the planet. Home of Zelda, Kirby, Metroid, Starfox and, of course, Mario. How did the GameCube sell during the Christmas period in the land they call Oz?
5,846. Five thousand, eight hundred and forty six. Xbox sold over forty-five thousand. GameCube failed to break six. Barely 3% of the overall market share. Hum.
Reasons? Well, if we're to believe EA's Bob Katz, Nintendo's "disappointing reluctance to compete" was behind the shortfall. Katz's comment may also explain why EA started to reduce the price of its games towards the end of last year - simply not enough numbers to do good business.
Will 2003 prove any different? Regional analysts seem to think not, but we can only wait and see.
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Oh dear...
Ready for this? Sure, we've thrown more numbers at you in the last few days than a conference of mathematicians discussing the latest quantum giga-flux theory, but we've got another batch for you - perhaps the most visually shocking of the lot.
Australia is the setting - sun-kissed home of natural beauty and natural home of sun-kissed beauties - and the Christmas sales figures for the big three consoles are in.
No surprise at the top, with PS2 securing around 84,477 sales during the last three weeks of December. Microsoft came second, with the Xbox finding its way into a decent 45,939 tinsel-draped homes.
And then there's Nintendo. Ah, Nintendo! We love you, we really do. A fine machine with some of the most creative and downright playable games on the planet. Home of Zelda, Kirby, Metroid, Starfox and, of course, Mario. How did the GameCube sell during the Christmas period in the land they call Oz?
5,846. Five thousand, eight hundred and forty six. Xbox sold over forty-five thousand. GameCube failed to break six. Barely 3% of the overall market share. Hum.
Reasons? Well, if we're to believe EA's Bob Katz, Nintendo's "disappointing reluctance to compete" was behind the shortfall. Katz's comment may also explain why EA started to reduce the price of its games towards the end of last year - simply not enough numbers to do good business.
Will 2003 prove any different? Regional analysts seem to think not, but we can only wait and see.
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Oh dear...
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Not really oh dear at all.
Nintendo have made a lot of money so far, they are happy.
They continue to remain in a firm second position worldwide on total sales (thanks to the Japanese market). And also the GBA is selling bucket loads everyday, and thats in every market in the world.
With the GBASP to come, and the more established link up. I can predict Gamecube selling a hell of a lot towards the end of this year.
Also, considering this generation are predicted to last till 2005, we have another two years of them. Which means that in about a year and a bit, a lot of people will be looking for a second or third console. If that happens to be the Gamecube. Then even better.
Its the best console out of the three because it has the most enjoyable games. I don't give a monkeys nipple about DVD's or internal hard drives. I want to play games with my mates and enjoy Resident Evil alone at night.
Sad thing is though, by the year 2008 the XBox3 will be out and Microsoft will probably own the market and Nintendo and Sega. They suck.
Nintendo have made a lot of money so far, they are happy.
They continue to remain in a firm second position worldwide on total sales (thanks to the Japanese market). And also the GBA is selling bucket loads everyday, and thats in every market in the world.
With the GBASP to come, and the more established link up. I can predict Gamecube selling a hell of a lot towards the end of this year.
Also, considering this generation are predicted to last till 2005, we have another two years of them. Which means that in about a year and a bit, a lot of people will be looking for a second or third console. If that happens to be the Gamecube. Then even better.
Its the best console out of the three because it has the most enjoyable games. I don't give a monkeys nipple about DVD's or internal hard drives. I want to play games with my mates and enjoy Resident Evil alone at night.
Sad thing is though, by the year 2008 the XBox3 will be out and Microsoft will probably own the market and Nintendo and Sega. They suck.
Still, I wasn't referring to you in the first post...
I didn't read that other post!
Reading it now!
Reading it now!
Your Honour wrote:
> I said at the very start of my post, I got them from
> www.computerandvideogames.com
>
> Fool.
Yes I can see that!
I was referring to Top Score who has come out with some random stats before that have had no origin what-so-ever, he had just made them up!
Like he has said below, Xbox is No2 in the world...
He may be right but where are the stats?
P.S Where are these figures stating that I am a fool? For all I know you could have made that up!!!
> I said at the very start of my post, I got them from
> www.computerandvideogames.com
>
> Fool.
Yes I can see that!
I was referring to Top Score who has come out with some random stats before that have had no origin what-so-ever, he had just made them up!
Like he has said below, Xbox is No2 in the world...
He may be right but where are the stats?
P.S Where are these figures stating that I am a fool? For all I know you could have made that up!!!
Also taken from C&VG.com:
Following last week's UK and European record-breaking sales figures, the hardware numbers for the rest of the world have started to pour in, with Sony claiming the Xmas-period number one slot, surprising exactly no one.
The November/December 2002 period saw PS2 sales top some 8.5 million across the globe, over four million in the States, 3.4 million throughout Europe and just under one million in the home territory of Japan. All of which takes Sony's PS2 grand totals to over 41.6 million PS2s since the console was launched.
Over at Nintendo the skies were somewhat darker. In a candid interview with a leading Japanese business newspaper, Nintendo president Saturo Iwata revealed that world-wide sales of the GameCube are substantially below the expectations for the year.
Having originally planned to ship some 12 million units across this shining planet called Earth by the end of 2002, a figure reduced to ten million by October, the year went and finished while the company was still two million short of the target.
A small ray of sunshine for the firm was had from the local Japanese figure for the year, which saw some 1,034,484 Cubes being shifted compared to just 327,699 Xboxes. Of course Sony still trounced the lot with a whopping 3.7 million PS2 sales.
Unfortunately we still don't know whether all these numbers mean Nintendo is in second or third place overall as we've yet to see Microsoft's figures for the period. All we do know is that over a quarter of a million Xbox Live units went into operation, making the online gaming service more successful than the US firm could have hoped for. It even got a favourable reaction amongst Japanese Xbox owners. All four of them.
Following last week's UK and European record-breaking sales figures, the hardware numbers for the rest of the world have started to pour in, with Sony claiming the Xmas-period number one slot, surprising exactly no one.
The November/December 2002 period saw PS2 sales top some 8.5 million across the globe, over four million in the States, 3.4 million throughout Europe and just under one million in the home territory of Japan. All of which takes Sony's PS2 grand totals to over 41.6 million PS2s since the console was launched.
Over at Nintendo the skies were somewhat darker. In a candid interview with a leading Japanese business newspaper, Nintendo president Saturo Iwata revealed that world-wide sales of the GameCube are substantially below the expectations for the year.
Having originally planned to ship some 12 million units across this shining planet called Earth by the end of 2002, a figure reduced to ten million by October, the year went and finished while the company was still two million short of the target.
A small ray of sunshine for the firm was had from the local Japanese figure for the year, which saw some 1,034,484 Cubes being shifted compared to just 327,699 Xboxes. Of course Sony still trounced the lot with a whopping 3.7 million PS2 sales.
Unfortunately we still don't know whether all these numbers mean Nintendo is in second or third place overall as we've yet to see Microsoft's figures for the period. All we do know is that over a quarter of a million Xbox Live units went into operation, making the online gaming service more successful than the US firm could have hoped for. It even got a favourable reaction amongst Japanese Xbox owners. All four of them.
Nintendo have a comfortable amount of sales.
Sony and MS have gone for big long term plans - HUGE losses at first but HUGE profits in the future.
Nintendi aren't losing money so they don't desperately need huge sales to earn it back. They just need a comfortable amount of sales to keep the money coming in.
And they're doing fine.
It's MS who aren't performing as well as they'd like, seeing as they want to be competing with the PS2, but if they keep up these price cuts and game deals, it shouldn't be the case for too much longer...
Sony and MS have gone for big long term plans - HUGE losses at first but HUGE profits in the future.
Nintendi aren't losing money so they don't desperately need huge sales to earn it back. They just need a comfortable amount of sales to keep the money coming in.
And they're doing fine.
It's MS who aren't performing as well as they'd like, seeing as they want to be competing with the PS2, but if they keep up these price cuts and game deals, it shouldn't be the case for too much longer...
I said at the very start of my post, I got them from www.computerandvideogames.com
Fool.
Fool.
Do I really care that Nintendo aren't gonna sell as many consoles?
The good games will still be coming out whatever so I don't really care what the little fanboys like Top Score think!
Also...
If you're gonna make random claims of sales figures can you at least back them up with a source...
You could make up anything about sales figures!
And what are the 'world stats' for consoles anyway?
The good games will still be coming out whatever so I don't really care what the little fanboys like Top Score think!
Also...
If you're gonna make random claims of sales figures can you at least back them up with a source...
You could make up anything about sales figures!
And what are the 'world stats' for consoles anyway?
I can't really see why GameCube isn't selling as much as the others. They have great games. Maybe I'll be helping them out, by getting one for my b'day :-)
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now what was i doing.......ahhhh, we need to invent a new format from scratch. That will be a custom disc costing about $6M in R&D. Job done!
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