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"Euro 'Cube launch games and price"

From the press release on www.nintendogamecube-europe.com

Nintendo GameCube European launch, at a Glance:-

Launch
3 May 2002

Units shipped for launch period
1 million. 500,000 on day one

Expected Retail Price
Hardware - Around 249 Euros
Software - Around 60 Euros


Launch colours
The GameCube - Purple and Black
The Controllers - Purple, Black, and Purple and Clear

Day One Launch titles
From Nintendo:
WaveRace: Blue Storm
Luigi's Mansion


3rd party
Star Wars Rogue Leader Rogue Squadron II (LucasArts) Exclusive
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle (Sega) Exclusive
Super Monkey Ball (Sega)
ISS2 (Konami)
ESPN Winter Sports (Konami)
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 (Activision)
Spiderman (Activision)
Tarzan Untamed (Ubi Soft)
Batman Vengeance (Ubi Soft)
Donald Duck Quack Attack (Ubi Soft)
Crazy Taxi (Acclaim)
Burnout (Acclaim)
Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX (Acclaim)
NHL Hitz (Midway)
Gauntlet Dark Legacy (Midway)
Universal Studios (Kemco)
Batman (Kemco)
Tetris World (THQ)
2002 FIFA World Cupä (EA SPORTS)


So we get black or purple at launch, and tons of games.

I calculate 60 Euros to be around £37. Not bad a price for games.

Man, there are some decent games there.

OMFG. :O

Brilliant.

I will want to get at least five of those games... its an amazing launch line up.. although the lack of a FPS could hit a few sales. The price is incredible for what you are buying.

*kisses Nintendo logo on his shirt*

Tony Hawks 3 please.. I didn't really like it on the PS2.. but this is different! The disk is smaller!

Wooohoo de ha ha.

So that's £150 for the Gamecube and £40 for games at high street stores so SR will probably charge around £35.

Were there any news on the prices of the pads?

Anyway, the prices are tops and the games are fine to start off with (no Mario 64 style groundbreakers, but far more than enough to whet our appetites for the bigger releases).

I still don't like the wait though.

I won't be playing mine until June now (Mum and Dad won't let me play instead of studying for exams - for my own good I suppose!).

If a Gamecube playing Rogue Leader or Wave Race had been placed next to an Xbox playing any of it's games, even if the Xbox title looked ever-so-slightly better, would the customers still choose it with such high prices?
With cheaper software and the Gamecube being half the price of the Xbox for almost the same graphical quality, I think that it could easily have held its own had it been released in March.

Oh well, atleast it wasn't September...

Yeah £0.613844 in a Euro.

Prices are always rounded UP for us though.

Meka Dragon wrote:
> You're using a different conversion rate for each of those prices.

If the
> Euro's worth around £0.62 (is that right?) games would be under
> £40.

And the console would be £155. I think Nintendo will be releasing games at a £40 rrp and the console at £150.

Or†ega wrote:
> Oh well, So the leaked webcast was just the same then.

It didn't list all the games though, did it?

Or I hadn't read the list before, anyway!

You're using a different conversion rate for each of those prices.

If the Euro's worth around £0.62 (is that right?) games would be under £40.

Oh well, So the leaked webcast was just the same then.

Expected Retail Price
Hardware - Around 249 Euros
Software - Around 60 Euros

In English thats:

Hardware - Around £150
Software - Around £45

Yer, but it's still a shame that Ninty couldn't pull out a truely revolutionary inhouse game for launch... like Mario 64 was

Appart form that, it's great!


Sonic