“Inform figures show retailers sold 5846 GameCubes in the three weeks to December 31, compared with 84,477 Sony PlayStation 2 units and 45,939 Xboxes.”

As for game prices, if you ever pay more than $89 for a new release console game you need your head examined, every week those junk mail catalogues from places like Kmart, Big W and target usually have a page dedicated to game specials that takes about 10 seconds to peruse before dumping in the bin (DVD specials too!). Then there’s the (usually bi-monthly) Kmart 15% off sales which often translates to $82 on most games, and Target every few months will do something like 20% off games (though they’re usually higher than Kmart to start). And you can often get recent big name PC titles from these places too.

If I had a dollar for every game that was slated for Gamecube that has since become extinct (yet still arrived on Xbox and PS2).. I think I’d be coming close to Buying Rogue Squadron.

Lets hope Nintendo lift there socks in time for next Xmas.. If they make it till then with the Gamecube. Cause with Microsoft working toward portable Xbox’s there is a chance that nintendo could be muscled out of handhelds in the next 5 years. (Okay this prediction may not ever eventuate, but 5 years ago, Microsoft making a console would have had us wetting our pants.).

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