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The Gamecube console itself is £130 but I paid about £40 for the games . I worked out that we are paying about a third of the console on one game compared with a fith with the price if the console with the x-box and playstation 2.Im not being picky but perhaps there should be a small price drop in the games!!!
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Thegerrid wrote:
> I am struggling with this comment.
> The console costs more to make than it is sold for. It is like making
> CD cases which cost you 90p to make, but selling them for 50p, so you
> are losing money (40p), but if you made music CDs which cost you 70p
> to make, but which you sold for £1.50, you would make enough
> profit to be able to keep operating (40p). Imagine that the CD case
> was a Gamecube console, and the CD was a memory card or game, and it
> all makes sense. The money that nintendo spends on the consoles is
> made back on the games, as with all teh other consoles, so no one can
> afford to sell games for cheap.
>
> Sorry for tha terrible ananlogy
zzzzzzzzzzz. sorry, i fell asleep
> I am struggling with this comment.
> The console costs more to make than it is sold for. It is like making
> CD cases which cost you 90p to make, but selling them for 50p, so you
> are losing money (40p), but if you made music CDs which cost you 70p
> to make, but which you sold for £1.50, you would make enough
> profit to be able to keep operating (40p). Imagine that the CD case
> was a Gamecube console, and the CD was a memory card or game, and it
> all makes sense. The money that nintendo spends on the consoles is
> made back on the games, as with all teh other consoles, so no one can
> afford to sell games for cheap.
>
> Sorry for tha terrible ananlogy
zzzzzzzzzzz. sorry, i fell asleep
Thegerrid wrote:
> I am struggling with this comment.
> The console costs more to make than it is sold for. It is like making
> CD cases which cost you 90p to make, but selling them for 50p, so you
> are losing money (40p), but if you made music CDs which cost you 70p
> to make, but which you sold for £1.50, you would make enough
> profit to be able to keep operating (40p). Imagine that the CD case
> was a Gamecube console, and the CD was a memory card or game, and it
> all makes sense. The money that nintendo spends on the consoles is
> made back on the games, as with all teh other consoles, so no one can
> afford to sell games for cheap.
>
> Sorry for tha terrible ananlogy
Right, it just seems weird that Nintendo can make all the money back on what is, relatively, a cheap product.
It helped non the less, thanks :)
> I am struggling with this comment.
> The console costs more to make than it is sold for. It is like making
> CD cases which cost you 90p to make, but selling them for 50p, so you
> are losing money (40p), but if you made music CDs which cost you 70p
> to make, but which you sold for £1.50, you would make enough
> profit to be able to keep operating (40p). Imagine that the CD case
> was a Gamecube console, and the CD was a memory card or game, and it
> all makes sense. The money that nintendo spends on the consoles is
> made back on the games, as with all teh other consoles, so no one can
> afford to sell games for cheap.
>
> Sorry for tha terrible ananlogy
Right, it just seems weird that Nintendo can make all the money back on what is, relatively, a cheap product.
It helped non the less, thanks :)
**Kerrang!** wrote:
> I got Pikmin as a GAD claim but I would have brought it anyway because
> it has got really good reviews. I stayed away from Luigi's Mansion due
> to the shortness, I played on my mates copy and didn't really like it,
> but thats just my taste in games. I got Pikmin through the post today
> and so far it has been great... infact I'm off to play on it! :)
Pikmin is as short as Luigi's Mansion.
Talking of which, I picked up Luigi's Mansion second hand for £25 (there was a shelf FULL of second hand copies - people must've been finishing it and selling it on). It might be short, but having played through it, I feel that I more or less got my moneys worth.
> I got Pikmin as a GAD claim but I would have brought it anyway because
> it has got really good reviews. I stayed away from Luigi's Mansion due
> to the shortness, I played on my mates copy and didn't really like it,
> but thats just my taste in games. I got Pikmin through the post today
> and so far it has been great... infact I'm off to play on it! :)
Pikmin is as short as Luigi's Mansion.
Talking of which, I picked up Luigi's Mansion second hand for £25 (there was a shelf FULL of second hand copies - people must've been finishing it and selling it on). It might be short, but having played through it, I feel that I more or less got my moneys worth.
This has come from ngc mag.
Sony or Gamecube might be dropping there prices to attract even more sales.
Sony or Gamecube might be dropping there prices to attract even more sales.
mikelar10 wrote:
> If Nintendo spend money making the console and customers spend money
> buying it, where does the money go? What your saying makes no sense
> unless you tell me that money is given to the developers in which case
> THEY would get a cut of the game profits which would also be shared
> amongst other areas (like to pay for production) which in turn would
> make Nintendos cut very small. Excuse my iggnorance to economics if
> I'm making a complete boon out of myself but I can't seem to make
> sense of it.
I am struggling with this comment.
The console costs more to make than it is sold for. It is like making CD cases which cost you 90p to make, but selling them for 50p, so you are losing money (40p), but if you made music CDs which cost you 70p to make, but which you sold for £1.50, you would make enough profit to be able to keep operating (40p). Imagine that the CD case was a Gamecube console, and the CD was a memory card or game, and it all makes sense. The money that nintendo spends on the consoles is made back on the games, as with all teh other consoles, so no one can afford to sell games for cheap.
Sorry for tha terrible ananlogy
> If Nintendo spend money making the console and customers spend money
> buying it, where does the money go? What your saying makes no sense
> unless you tell me that money is given to the developers in which case
> THEY would get a cut of the game profits which would also be shared
> amongst other areas (like to pay for production) which in turn would
> make Nintendos cut very small. Excuse my iggnorance to economics if
> I'm making a complete boon out of myself but I can't seem to make
> sense of it.
I am struggling with this comment.
The console costs more to make than it is sold for. It is like making CD cases which cost you 90p to make, but selling them for 50p, so you are losing money (40p), but if you made music CDs which cost you 70p to make, but which you sold for £1.50, you would make enough profit to be able to keep operating (40p). Imagine that the CD case was a Gamecube console, and the CD was a memory card or game, and it all makes sense. The money that nintendo spends on the consoles is made back on the games, as with all teh other consoles, so no one can afford to sell games for cheap.
Sorry for tha terrible ananlogy
the only reason why the console is soo cheap is because they are competing with the other consoles. They make this loss back be charging extra for the software. if not all the companies e.g. Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo will go BANKRAUPT!! so you got to put up with this price till way later on or find a cheaper place
It would be nice to see a more prominent 'Platinum' style range of games though...........
Jetster wrote:
> Patch wrote:
> The Gamecube console itself is £130 but I paid about £40
> for the games . I worked out that we are paying about a third of the
> console on one game compared with a fith with the price if the
> console
> with the x-box and playstation 2.Im not being picky but perhaps
> there
> should be a small price drop in the games!!!
>
>
> You piece of crap, I wrote that and won letter of the month (not
> kidding ask Rickoss, Ice Blaster and Starlight, my name is Joe Tapper)
> and there you are ripping it off.
What an original post, did you think of it yourself!!! Yes, Joe did win letter of the month for NOM and yes you have ripped him off... so say sorry or Joe will crush you with his fists!!
> Patch wrote:
> The Gamecube console itself is £130 but I paid about £40
> for the games . I worked out that we are paying about a third of the
> console on one game compared with a fith with the price if the
> console
> with the x-box and playstation 2.Im not being picky but perhaps
> there
> should be a small price drop in the games!!!
>
>
> You piece of crap, I wrote that and won letter of the month (not
> kidding ask Rickoss, Ice Blaster and Starlight, my name is Joe Tapper)
> and there you are ripping it off.
What an original post, did you think of it yourself!!! Yes, Joe did win letter of the month for NOM and yes you have ripped him off... so say sorry or Joe will crush you with his fists!!
0-MessiaH-0 wrote:
> You're weird PinkPig.
Well, thanks for the complement. I'll try to keep it up. ;-)
I don't recognise your name, so I bet that I've been irregularly posting my madness here for longer than you've been calling me "weird".
Actually, I probably am pretty weird. So what? I don't want to be a sheep.
See Ya ;-)
PinkPig
P.s. Are you DA Big Cheese?
> You're weird PinkPig.
Well, thanks for the complement. I'll try to keep it up. ;-)
I don't recognise your name, so I bet that I've been irregularly posting my madness here for longer than you've been calling me "weird".
Actually, I probably am pretty weird. So what? I don't want to be a sheep.
See Ya ;-)
PinkPig
P.s. Are you DA Big Cheese?
You could ask Snuggly if you want to.
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