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Here in Europe... gamecubes are picking up DUST.

There is no advertisemnet even for Sunshine in shops. The PS2... is found in every shops with a wide variety of games ame for Xbox. The GCN... is a different story... children of 8 year of age go for PS2 over GCN. It's a pretty sad...

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Originally posted by Dyne
God, I'm getting sick of this company rivalry. I wonder how much Microsoft payed IGN, (who is also one of the largest sources for video game news on the internet?). Gamecube's been ahead almost the whole time, and you can't change that. There's nothing to celebrate about yet, or crack open champagne bottles, or whatever crap IGN says.

What a waste of an article. Fanboys.

*hugs GCN and XBox*

Actually, Microsoft does not pay IGN to post this. Microsoft releases an official press release, which IGN copies onto their website at their own discretion. They are not forced to.

Nah, don't worry about that statement. I was just thinking out loud..

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Originally posted by gekko
Unit sales of Nintendo GameCube and Microsoft’s Xbox were dead even in November (468,000 units each) – despite Microsoft giving away two free games with their hardware.

That one does the trick.

Nintendo = 46% - 33% = 13%. Xbox held 12%, figure in rounding in the subtraction, and it's right on the money with the statement.

And we all know why Gamecube sold so well in the last two weeks of Nov! I don't think sales of gamecube will stay very high till the next big game.

Nintendo admitted that Xbox (worldwide) outsold GameCube nearly 3 to 1 this holiday season- and in terms of software sales, Xbox has outsold GameCube ALL thirteen months of availability.

Following a relatively troubled end of 2002 for Nintendo, with sales of GameCube disappointing when compared with its nearest rival.

Linkage

well xbox miught outsell cube in the us but as far as im awhere dreamcast and psone are still selling better than xbox in japan. Not to mention gba is making so muhc money that it doesnt matter how much cube sells. And keep in mind M$ has lost around 1 billion off xbox so far...its in game informer. Why because the system costs alot more than 200 to make not to mention adds and commercial costs. And also if you read up on your rumors it sounds like more and more japanese companies are abandoning xbox not to mention xbox lost alot of its exclusive deals such as hunter the reckoning. Anyways as much as any of you like xbox its not gonna make it becuase even a company as rich as M$ will realize their mistake due to massive profit loses.

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Originally posted by Kakyo
well xbox miught outsell cube in the us but as far as im awhere dreamcast and psone are still selling better than xbox in japan. Not to mention gba is making so muhc money that it doesnt matter how much cube sells. And keep in mind M$ has lost around 1 billion off xbox so far...its in game informer. Why because the system costs alot more than 200 to make not to mention adds and commercial costs. And also if you read up on your rumors it sounds like more and more japanese companies are abandoning xbox not to mention xbox lost alot of its exclusive deals such as hunter the reckoning. Anyways as much as any of you like xbox its not gonna make it becuase even a company as rich as M$ will realize their mistake due to massive profit loses.

GT needs to have a n00b grammar class. I mean, capitalize some words. Xbox, Japan, Dreamcast, PSOne, Microsoft, Game Informer, Hunter the Reckoning, etc. Not to mention spelling can be worked on, as as much as MS needs to burn in hell, M$ isn't funny.

No offense or anything...

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Edited by gekko
Xbox might outsell Gamecube in the US, but as far as I'm aware, Dreamcast and PSOne are still outselling Xbox in Japan. The worldwide success of GBA is bringing in large profits for Nintendo to offset slow Gamecube sales. Microsoft has lost around $1 billion off Xbox thus far (Game Informer). The cost to manufacter the system is far greater than the $199 retail price, and let's not forget about Xbox's major advertisement campaigns. Also, if the rumors have any truth to them, it sounds like more and more Japanese companies are abandoning Xbox, and recently they've been losing exclusive deals such as Hunter the Reckoning. Anyways, as much as any of you like Xbox, I don't believe it's going to succeed because even a company as wealthy as Microsoft will realize they made a mistake when they see the massive profit loses as a result of Xbox.

I ran out of breath reading that post. LONGEST SENTENCES EVER!!!

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*Cough* *Cough* (I try so hard at those things...)

Japanese Hardware Sales:

1. PlayStation2 - 3,732,020 St.
2. Game Boy Advance - 3,366,723 St.
3. Gamecube - 1.034.484
4. Xbox - 327,699 St.
5. PSone - 248.260
6. WonderSwan (Color and Crystal) - 221,663 St.
7. Game Boy Color - 107,649 St.

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Originally posted by The Strangler
I ran out of breath reading that post. LONGEST SENTENCES EVER!!!

Well, I'm pretty sure that I could make a much longer sentence that would make even more sense and probably would have no relation to this topic.

Anyhow on topic, Nintendo surely did get it's @$$ handed to them this holiday season. I really can't blame anyone but them, it seems like a lack of games in Europe hurt them and ofcourse the super Xbox bundle over there, Japan they did ok in, and there has been no US figures released but I doubt they will be good.