Shammy

Cube available in UK now for as little as £40... Games reduced to just over a fiver


In what could mark the beginning of the end for Gamecube in the UK, major retailers such as Argos have started to sell the machine for as little as £39.99.

Accessories and software are also being reduced across the board. Index, for instance, have been flogging Mario Kart: Double Dash!! for £9.99, Mario Sunshine for £6.99 and WrestleMania X8 for a mere £5.99, while Woolworths have been selling a selection of titles from the Players Choice range for £6.99.

With both PlayStation 2 and Xbox having had a hugely successful Christmas, thanks to the recent releases of AAA titles like GTA San Andreas and Halo 2, Nintendo half-heartedly countered with a Cube bundle that featured the year-old Mario Kart: for the week-ending 11 December, just over 7000 Gamecubes were sold in the UK, compared to 37,500 for Xbox and 60,500 for PS2.

Luckily, new handheld the DS is at least doing well at present - Nintendo expected to have sold almost three million of the twin-screen devices in the US and Japan by the end of 2004.
http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/st...clickfrom=name

I can't believe that! I feel sorry for nintendo, I'm deffinately going to buy myself a gamecube!

__________________

DrakeWurrum

Well, at least if you're looker for a better price, you'll choose GameCube. It doesn't matter if the GC is falling out of popularity. The Revolution will be coming out soon enough. ;)

I still like it. I've got some awesome games for it. No fighting game can ever be better than Super Smash Brother Melee, unless it's a sequel.

__________________

Tim

Where can u get new games for a fiver? New games still cost 30 (from amazon) only second hand and budget games cost 5 or 6 quid.

__________________

Shammy

It tells you in there ^

Index and Woolworths.

But still £40 for a Gamecube!! I never thought I'd see the day!

__________________

BlueShadow

haha...... thats too bad, in kind of a funny way

__________________




-Rise Of The Shadow-

Energy is constant; it cannot be desroyed, only transferred. I may have fallen, but another will rise in my place, of that I am certain. History may have changed but it always repeats itself. I may have failed in my quest but my successor will not.

Tim

They are all crappy old games, new games cost 30+

__________________

DrakeWurrum

There are plenty of good games for the GC, and those games still cost plenty, unless they're a few years old.

__________________

Predator

Wow thats cheap where i live GC costs about 90$ and new games 40-60$ if it was that cheap here i whould buy more games for my sisters GC and yeah i feel sorry for nintendo to because GC is an great console with many good games on it like mario, ffcc and offcorse zelda and still they dont succeed.

__________________

Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Bananaphone

DrakeWurrum

I guess the GC is less popular in the UK than it is in the US.

__________________

Shammy

Yeah. I might buy a Cube because that really is stealing from nintendo.

__________________

Matrix1974

I only have a few games for my Cube...lol I don't have RE4 yet...

DrakeWurrum

One of the most important rules of life: quality over quantity, my friend. It's sort of like having 50 million cars and every single one of them need to be refilled with gas after one hour of driving.

__________________