Viewing Thread:
"GameCube not doing too well...."

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.
- - - - - - - - -


Oh dear...

Help me out here but is there a trend developing here:

Number 1 Console in the world has Dvd = PS2

Number 2 Console in the world has Dvd = Xbox

Number 3 and dead last the GC Nintendo is proud of the fact it
doesn't have dvd or are they just realising it's the N64 all over again.

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> Who cares?
>
> UK sales are really no big whoop.


They were Australian sales figures.

But just to let you know, the UK is now the third largest comptuer game market in the world, after US and Jap-land. So the UK figures, when the do come out, mean quite a lot, I'd think...

U say about plenty of stuff due out on GC this year, and that will pull it through. Problem is with that, Cube is in a catch 22 situation. They have the smallest user base - the least amount of consoles out there, and the slowest selling. Software publishers & developers all look at the numbers (how big the user base is), when deciding if to bring a game out on that platform. Not enough users = no game release. In other words, it's not worth their while (£££££££) bringing the games to that format. But the only way GC will get more users, is if more games are released for it!

§n][pe® wrote:
> heh heh loads coming out this year it will pull through

Same old story Ninty Fanboy saying "better games coming soon" unfortunately for Nintendo the public don't see it that way.

heh heh loads coming out this year it will pull through

Nintendo will pull through like they always do. With a capital !K!

That and the fact that Nintendo barely support European customer bases.
Japan is their stronghold and that's where they concentrate.

Nintendo make the best games and the best games consoles in the world bar none, but when it comes to all the other factors that are required to be a hardware/software vendor, such as advertising, marketing, and sales support - well, they couldn't empty a welly with the instructions on the heel. Nintendo sat on their hands and watched Sony blitz them into second place in the industry, and *right now* they are sitting on their hands and watching Microsoft push them down to third. It's a crying shame.

Given the fact that a large number of the "must have" games are yet too be released it isn't really a surprise that it isn't selling as well as the PS2 which has been out for quite some time and has a lot of its "must have" titles already out.

Nice to see so many Nintys jumping in head first and defending it.
Personally the GC so far has not had many decent games, I got one in May and have only got two games that appeal to me. Played quite a few others but they were poor.
Just hope that there are loads of great games to appear on all consoles.

Untitled wrote:
> but, gamecube is still ahead of x box in total european salers to
> date,
> ah thank you!

Thought they had switched around.