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vsp · 02-10-2003, 10:04 AM

The Nintendo GameCube is... drumroll, please... not QUITE dead yet, but officially in the cancer ward as of this weekend.

Let us compare deals:

PS2: System at $199, retailers might toss in a $10 carrying case if you're lucky that week.

Xbox: System at $199, with two free pack-in games (Sega GT and Jet Set Radio Future; not bad, but not exactly top-tier titles either)

Cube at Best Buy: System at $149, with METROID PRIME (THE hot game right now for the system) or one of three other titles free with purchase

Cube at Circuit City: System at _$139_, with Metroid Prime or one of three other titles free with purchase

One-thirty-nine, sixty bucks below the competition, AND with a popular fifty-dollar game (one that most new Cube owners would've bought separately) thrown in as well. Yikes. Microsoft's pack-in deal was an act of desperation; this is move-some-hardware-before-we-throw-in-the-towel-and-stick-to-Game-Boy-development territory.

(Yes, yes, Zelda is coming, Zelda is coming. But the same people who swear that Zelda will be a massive system-seller and Zelda will revitalize the GameCube said the same thing about Metroid Prime.)

Further sign of doom: Sega of America just dropped all sports support for the Cube. "Ouch," I say. Not that I'm complaining too much -- massive Cube price drops are good for me, as it'll be that much sooner that I'll feel like buying one and Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem for cheap for my wife.

02-10-2003, 10:04 AM	#1
vsp Syndrome of a Down Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: West Chester Posts: 1,367	Nintendo in panic mode, film at 11 The Nintendo GameCube is... drumroll, please... not QUITE dead yet, but officially in the cancer ward as of this weekend. Let us compare deals: PS2: System at $199, retailers might toss in a $10 carrying case if you're lucky that week. Xbox: System at $199, with two free pack-in games (Sega GT and Jet Set Radio Future; not bad, but not exactly top-tier titles either) Cube at Best Buy: System at $149, with METROID PRIME (THE hot game right now for the system) or one of three other titles free with purchase Cube at Circuit City: System at _$139_, with Metroid Prime or one of three other titles free with purchase One-thirty-nine, sixty bucks below the competition, AND with a popular fifty-dollar game (one that most new Cube owners would've bought separately) thrown in as well. Yikes. Microsoft's pack-in deal was an act of desperation; this is move-some-hardware-before-we-throw-in-the-towel-and-stick-to-Game-Boy-development territory. (Yes, yes, Zelda is coming, Zelda is coming. But the same people who swear that Zelda will be a massive system-seller and Zelda will revitalize the GameCube said the same thing about Metroid Prime.) Further sign of doom: Sega of America just dropped all sports support for the Cube. "Ouch," I say. Not that I'm complaining too much -- massive Cube price drops are good for me, as it'll be that much sooner that I'll feel like buying one and Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem for cheap for my wife.