THE PRICES ARE FALLING!
(Posted 2003-09-26 17:55:42 by basscomm)

Sure, a price drop in a console is usually a nice thing. It makes the
console more affordable to the masses. However, dropping the price when you
are already the price leader is a bad sign.

I've made it no secret that I am a Nintendo fan boy. They just made the
games that I wanted to play over the other systems. Slowly, though, over
the last several years, Nintendo has, I'm afraid, chased off too much of
it's own audience. 

Nintendo has the handheld market locked up pretty tightly. They're keeping
the Pok

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There are 4 comments on this post:

Comment #1 by  [Ev3] SSB Master (  ) on 2003-09-27 15:17:01
I agree with a lot of that.  The only game that the Cube has online, you
can also get on the Box.  But the one thing I'm going to have to disagree
with is:

"Then Microsoft came along with its XBox, Sony released the PS2, and
Nintendo... just sat around. They took a back seat to see what the market
would do (or so I understand), and waited way too long to release the
GameCube. By the time it was released, lots of people had XBoxes and PS2s,
and wouldn't (or couldn't) spend another $200 on another console."

PS2 was released in 2000, and the Xbox was released 11/15/01.  Going by
your statement, Nintendo didn't sit around too long, because the Gamecube
was released 11/22/03.  Because it was released only 1 week after the Box.
:)



Comment #2 by  basscomm ( basscomm@crummysocks.com ) on 2003-09-27 20:56:00
Yeah, my memory doesn't always correctly tell me things.

Whether they sat around for a week or a year, they were still the last
movers in the market. 

I have a hard time believing that they couldn't have beaten Microsoft's
street date if they really wanted to. 


Comment #3 by  [EvL] exitzer0 (  ) on 2003-09-30 21:55:22
Waiting for your favorite game  console whether it was a day or a week
would seem like a year to me!


Comment #4 by  The Beam Doc (  thebeamdoc27@yahoo.com ) on 2003-10-28
20:00:22
I found myself nodding in agreement with the articel above. But I think,
sadly, that it is far too late for Nintendo to "resurrect" the GameCube.
They have dug their own grave by poor marketing decisions. I say we bid
farewell to the GameCube, and Nintendo making platforms and have thm makin
games and handheld consoles and games. Nintendo has been dethrowned by
Sony, and has made very poor attempts at gaining what they created 



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