GameCube Really And Truly For Sale

Several readers have submitted the news that the GameCube is now officially for sale. With the GameCube and Xbox newly on offer, and the still-amazing PlayStation2 still hanging on, and dirt-cheap, high-power PCs on every corner, it looks like the predicted deaths of both console and PC are still some ways off. On the whole, I'd rather have the Mandrake Gaming edition (mentioned previously) than a new console.

Xbox thoughts

[CodeMonky]

I got my hands on an xbox and halo and it is quite a nice system. The built in hd is great because you don't have to drop $$ on memory units, I did pick up the dolby digital adapter and halo and madden 2002 look and sound great (the crowd noise in madden is great).
Halo is a great game, although control IS definately a little harder without my aswd and mouse that I'm used to. Its a shame the network play isn't ready (for both xbox and halo/madden).

Late

[TheDarkRogue]

GameCubes were Really and Truely for sale starting Midnight :) I Know, I was there, I bought 3. It was Rather Scary, one person who had the wasn't there at 6 to get a voucher to turn in at midnight, Followed me and my friends out of walmart and to our car. Earlier someone got mugged in the parking lot for their voucher. I'm Sticking them on eBay soon as they are good and out of them and let the people who MUST have one get one. I Do have to say though that the Controler is nice. I'm not big on Consoles but if I could take this things controler and put it into my computer for PC Gaming, I would. Hell, I'm not a Console gaming person at all, but I really want to take one of these thgins out of the box and go buy a game for them. And what does having the GameBoy Advanced do when you plug it in? Can it act like another player or something?

Re:PS2 still rules.

[Richard5mith]

I hate Gran Turismo. But anyway...

No DVD in the GameCube allows them to be $100 cheaper than both the PS2 and the Xbox. That sounds like a good first reason for not having it. Secondly, they're marketing it as a GAMES machine, not a home-entertainment centre for your living room. And thirdly, Playstation 2 got off to a dreadful start in Japan because a ton of people bought them just as a cheap DVD player (which was somewhat of a rare thing in Japan at the time). That means they didn't buy games, the companies who created PS2 launch titles lost a fortune (like Namco) and Sony lost money too, because of course they make money from the game sales.

Thats your other reason for no DVD in the GC. And also the reason why most Japanese developers are now happy to create games for all three consoles, instead of putting all their eggs in one basket and getting burnt again (like they did with the PS2, losing them money and killing the Dreamcast).

A thought

[forgoil]

PCs really took off when there became many different manufacturers. Wouldn't it be great if many manufacturers could make the same gaming console? Had to have the same specs and such, so all games would work, but it would definitly be very interesting never the less.

Sad

[ergo98]

I'm Sticking them on eBay soon as they are good and out of them and let the people who MUST have one get one.

No one must have a Gamecube, so don't pretend that you're pursuing a noble cause. Having said that I hope Nintendo absolutely swamps the market will millions, meaning that the most you'll ever get is retail (and it sounds like it will be like that as Nintendo has good production, meaning that I'd much rather pay retail than deal with the hassle of Ebay and some unknown person. I doubt anyone is going to profiteer off the Gamecube, or the Xbox for that matter. It was sweet after Christmas last year seeing hundreds of wankers trying to pawn PS2s at progressively lower prices, eventually taking a pretty heavy loss as the store prices dropped). The fact that scalpers such as yourself run and buy up all the stock just to rape families whose kids want a game to play really pisses me off, and I hope that you are left holding the bag on that.

Re:Xbox thoughts

[guinsu]

I give it a month before someone figures out how its doing the LAN networking and gets an VPN/IP tunneling server set up so you can do real internet play with Halo. At least thats what I am really hoping for. 4 player halo rocks (and is suprisingly managable on a 24" vega), I can't wait to try 16 player.

Re:Xbox thoughts

[Bob The Cowboy]

You think you didn't already drop $$ on memory?

Do you feel relieved when you buy PC's [dell.com], and don't have to buy the OS?

Bill

In Tokyo the GC is just not moving

[Western Light]

It's kind of weird. The end of the first weekend it went on sale the GameCube was supposed to sell out. I went to a major retailer in Ikebukuro late Sunday evening and there was huge stack of the machines still available. Even weirder, only a few people were even bothering to look. Go figure. GameBoy Advance was hugely popular, however.

With the Cube, there were only three titles available as well.

Re:I dunno about that.

[Daniel Wood]

"That said, I don't think the majority of the folks out there feel that way. There's a lot to be said for the strategy aspect of games, which has been sorely lacking for some time now (IMHO, for most games). Most gamers truly care about the true quality of the games they buy, and look at "gorgeous graphics" as a secondary condition."

Nah, most the poeple I talked to held out on the Dreamcast in favor of the PS2 because the PS2 would have "better" graphics. There is no such thing as enough, we haven't even begun to explre TRUE 3D envrionments, that will require an exponentially greater ammount of power.