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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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When I was ten I had a megadrive.
Not once did I ever think about it's performance in the global market.
How times change.
Not once did I ever think about it's performance in the global market.
How times change.
Besides, as I said, it's selling well in Europe. It's not UK and Europe that Nintendo needs to jump ahead on at the moment. It may well become an issue as the internet features of the other two consoles roll out.
Belldandy wrote:
>
> Nintendo should have dropped to £99.99 when Xbox dropped it's
> price and bundled in games.
Why?
The Gamecube was released at a bargain price, and continues to be one, just because someone else drops their price it doesn't mean Nintendo should do the same.
>
> Nintendo should have dropped to £99.99 when Xbox dropped it's
> price and bundled in games.
Why?
The Gamecube was released at a bargain price, and continues to be one, just because someone else drops their price it doesn't mean Nintendo should do the same.
Everyone remeber how Sega's motto used to be "To be this good takes AGES", and then AGES flipped to SEGA ?
Well Nintendo Europe's motto is "There'll be some good stuff soon".
Soon is defined as about 4 months after every other continent in the world...
I'm not surprised with the sales figures really, and it's nice to see Xbox sales did well, even if it may have been as a result of price cuts, but then again price cuts are good for consumers aren't they ?
Nintendo should have dropped to £99.99 when Xbox dropped it's price and bundled in games. Probably still would not have helped, I mean what games were supposed to sell the system - and I mean sell it to new buyers, not old Nintendo owners - Mario Sunshine ? The graphically great, tedious as hell, Starfox ? Eternal Darkness ? Psone conversion Resident Evil ? We should have had Zelda, and Metroid Prime, for Xmas. We didn't and instead the games will be released at the industry's traditionally slow time of year - except in MS's case :)
~~Belldandy~~
Well Nintendo Europe's motto is "There'll be some good stuff soon".
Soon is defined as about 4 months after every other continent in the world...
I'm not surprised with the sales figures really, and it's nice to see Xbox sales did well, even if it may have been as a result of price cuts, but then again price cuts are good for consumers aren't they ?
Nintendo should have dropped to £99.99 when Xbox dropped it's price and bundled in games. Probably still would not have helped, I mean what games were supposed to sell the system - and I mean sell it to new buyers, not old Nintendo owners - Mario Sunshine ? The graphically great, tedious as hell, Starfox ? Eternal Darkness ? Psone conversion Resident Evil ? We should have had Zelda, and Metroid Prime, for Xmas. We didn't and instead the games will be released at the industry's traditionally slow time of year - except in MS's case :)
~~Belldandy~~
Fosbe wrote:
> I would love to see nintendos sales if all children under 8 were not
> in to games.
yes. aren't we grown up. now go back to mummy.
> I would love to see nintendos sales if all children under 8 were not
> in to games.
yes. aren't we grown up. now go back to mummy.
Reuters ran a report this week that said the Cube was outselling the Xbox in Europe by 0.1 million units. This was thought to change as the Xbox live system becomes available for more countries, but then Nintendo now say they have a very large games line-up.
TO be honest, for the DVD question, I have all three consoles, yet I don't use either the Xbox or PS2 for DVD playback as I find a standalone DVD player friendlier to use and they tend to have more options.
I'm not a Ninty or fan of only one platform, I think it's stupid to be only impressed with one platform when they all play games and they all have pretty balanced plus and minus points. The important thing is that the industry can handle 3 console platforms. As I've said before, the less choice of platform you have, the less control you have on the market and choice of games.
And the stupid people all say...whatever.
TO be honest, for the DVD question, I have all three consoles, yet I don't use either the Xbox or PS2 for DVD playback as I find a standalone DVD player friendlier to use and they tend to have more options.
I'm not a Ninty or fan of only one platform, I think it's stupid to be only impressed with one platform when they all play games and they all have pretty balanced plus and minus points. The important thing is that the industry can handle 3 console platforms. As I've said before, the less choice of platform you have, the less control you have on the market and choice of games.
And the stupid people all say...whatever.
Strafex wrote:
> 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...
Yeh i know it is going to take at least the console after the PS3 and Xbox 2 before the slaes are more closer, as microsfot have been getting more and more sales.I know for a fact as well loads of people owning a PS2 wont be buying a PS3 as they just aint got the decent titles like the gamecube and xbox.
> 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...
Yeh i know it is going to take at least the console after the PS3 and Xbox 2 before the slaes are more closer, as microsfot have been getting more and more sales.I know for a fact as well loads of people owning a PS2 wont be buying a PS3 as they just aint got the decent titles like the gamecube and xbox.
I would love to see nintendos sales if all children under 8 were not in to games.
Top score wrote:
> §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.
Whatevever loser.
> §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.
Whatevever loser.
Update2.01 wrote:
> 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.
Acutally, they look at if the game will sell. More people own more games on the Gamecube than any other console per user per game. I know this because I have served many hundreds of customers. I have a figure in my head and its larger for the Gamecube.
> 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.
Acutally, they look at if the game will sell. More people own more games on the Gamecube than any other console per user per game. I know this because I have served many hundreds of customers. I have a figure in my head and its larger for the Gamecube.
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