GameCube Now $99


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Could you please tell me how GameCube sucks?

Other than the fact that you think it has kiddie games. If they were kiddie than that means you should be able to beat the game in less than a hour. And I bet you a million dollars you wouldn't be able to beat Mario Sunshine in less than 5 hours.  ;)

that doesn't mean the game is good though...in my opinion GameCube has not a single "exclusive" game worth buying. :p

it appears you don't have the best of taste.... linkin park sig...lmao...:p
...said the linkin park fan.

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What does my preference in music have anything to do with GameCube sucking? (GET ON TOPIC). :angry:

get your stupid post somewhere else.

I don't even know what to say to you. i'll just laugh. :laugh:

You can't go wrong with that price.

I think you still can, just buy an Xbox when the price drops. ;)

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What does my preference in music have anything to do with GameCube sucking? (GET ON TOPIC). :angry:

your preference in music reflects on your character and your judgement. If you listen to bad music, it is likely you play bad games. Heres the kicker cowboy, linkin park sucking has absolutely nothing to do with my opinion! isnt that great? it is actually FACT. their music is shallow and weak, just like your opinion.

the topic is about the gamecubes price drop. not your opinion on the gamecube itself. maybe you shouldnt have made us stray from the topic in the first place?

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What makes a game mature is my question. Does it have to have gratuitous blood like mortal kombat? Well the GC has that.

Does it have to have a mature story line? well resident evil, and eternal darkness has that.

Does it need good gameplay without kiddie characters? Ikaruga and Metroid Prime has that.

Does it need good sports games? Well EA has that covered.

So what makes it a kiddie system?

Only thing we're missing on the GC is online, and I'll admit that's a huge thing missing, but I don't see how the Xbox has better exclusives than the GC right now. You got Halo, Panzer Dragoon, and a bunch of crap.

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thats bad for M$ cuz i read somewhere that their already loosing money on every xbox sold... now they gonna have to lower price even more to keep up...

yeah, microsoft loses money on each xbox they sell. just like sony loses money on each ps2 sold. and nintendo loses money on each gamecube sold. you really think it only costs $200 to make a ps2? and that would make it even for sony... everyone loses money on the console; they make money with games and add-ons. look at sony's network adapter... you think it costs $40 to make a network adapter? :laugh: you can get an ethernet card at bestbuy for $10 :whistle:

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yeah, microsoft loses money on each xbox they sell. just like sony loses money on each ps2 sold. and nintendo loses money on each gamecube sold. you really think it only costs $200 to make a ps2? and that would make it even for sony... everyone loses money on the console; they make money with games and add-ons. look at sony's network adapter... you think it costs $40 to make a network adapter? :laugh: you can get an ethernet card at bestbuy for $10 :whistle:

Actually Nintendo was still making a profit on the GC even at $149.99, at $99.99 though I'm not sure.

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that doesn't mean the game is good though...in my opinion GameCube has not a single "exclusive" game worth buying. :p

And X-Box does? Or PlayStation 2?

I own both, GameCube and Playstion 2 and I only have half the games for the PlayStation 2 because most of them aren't worht buying. Only the Final Fantasy and Metal Gear Solid series.

X-Box only has one good game, Halo, but it can do more than just play games...I guess that makes it an ultimate console? Nope, the games do. ;)

Could you please name me 10 games worth buying on the X-Box that you'll actually play until you beat the game?

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Actually Nintendo was still making a profit on the GC even at $149.99, at $99.99 though I'm not sure.

i think he was being sarcastic. otherwise he's wrong cuz sony is making profits for ps2.

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I do not want to hear ANYONE saying this is desperation, if they didn't call Microsoft's 2 free game deal + $100 price drop last year the same thing.

Both are simply agressive moves to increase market share, Microsoft lead the way last year now Nintendo decided to. Big deal.

Looks like the river flooded the bridge again.

Actually Nintendo was still making a profit on the GC even at $149.99, at $99.99 though I'm not sure.

I actually think there's a chance they used the production stopage to create a design revision for the GameCube that could reduce manufacturing costs. Sony's made similar revisions to get cost down. It also might explain Nintendo's newfound balls. If they found a way to make Cubes cheaper to build they'd obviously be more likely to start a price drop.

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Could you please name me 10 games worth buying on the X-Box that you'll actually play until you beat the game?

I hope you mean Xbox Exclusives, otherwise it's no problem to name ten games worth buying and beating. If you mean exclusives it's more of a challenge but there are still at least ten exclusive Xbox games worth buying and playing.

I'll assume you mean exclusive:

Mech Assault 9.0

Midtown Madness 3 8.0

Halo Combat Evolved 9.7

Project Gotham Racing 8.1

Panzer Dragoon Orta 9.0

Unreal Championship 8.5

Knights Of The Old Republic 9.1

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 8.6 (Originally Xbox Exclusive)

MotoGP 2 8.9

Otogi: Myth of Demons 8.4

8.73 Average Game Spot Score

That doesn't consider all the games coming out soon:

Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge

Amped 2

Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield

Project Gotham Racing 2

Counter-Strike

Sega GT Online

Unreal 2

That also doesn't include many games that are on all three consoles but that are better on the Xbox because of additional features like Live (Return To Castle Wolfenstein is just one good example).

It also doesn't include the fact that if you go to GameSpot and find games that are on all three platforms you'll find that the Xbox version is labeled "Best" more often that the other two consoles because of either smoother performance, or better looking graphics that also have smoother performance.

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What does my preference in music have anything to do with GameCube sucking? (GET ON TOPIC). :angry:

your preference in music reflects on your character and your judgement. If you listen to bad music, it is likely you play bad games. Heres the kicker cowboy, linkin park sucking has absolutely nothing to do with my opinion! isnt that great? it is actually FACT. their music is shallow and weak, just like your opinion.

the topic is about the gamecubes price drop. not your opinion on the gamecube itself. maybe you shouldnt have made us stray from the topic in the first place?

thanks for the useful information cowboy....lol :laugh:

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What does my preference in music have anything to do with GameCube sucking? (GET ON TOPIC). :angry:

your preference in music reflects on your character and your judgement. If you listen to bad music, it is likely you play bad games. Heres the kicker cowboy, linkin park sucking has absolutely nothing to do with my opinion! isnt that great? it is actually FACT. their music is shallow and weak, just like your opinion.

the topic is about the gamecubes price drop. not your opinion on the gamecube itself. maybe you shouldnt have made us stray from the topic in the first place?

Those 10 or so lines of vomit you just typed were really not needed.

(I own a Gamecube and an Xbox)

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i think he was being sarcastic. otherwise he's wrong cuz sony is making profits for ps2.

technically that's only half true. Sony has started making money on each ps2 sold, however they sunk so much money into developing the system that they haven't recoverd the costs of building it. i remember the creator of playstation in a new york times article saying damn we are just about to break even on the ps2 and now we have to start developing for the ps3. i think it's going to cost them like 3 billion or some stupid figure like that to make develop the ps3, make etc..i'm not sure how much money Nintendo sunk into the Gamecube, so it's possibly they are in the same situation as Sony, though probably not to the same extent.

of course by MS choosing the quickest way to develop a system, it saved them some money, but of course they still lose alot on it and they never said they would make a profit on it.

so going into this next round of consoles, it's going to cost them all a how bunch of millions to develop the consoles and when they are first released, they will all be operating at a loss techinically.

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Yep, Xbox was relatively cheap to design. The sound chip is something nVidia had already been tinkering with on their own. The video chip a GeForce 3/4 hybrid. The CPU essentially a mobile P3. Not much R&D cost for Microsoft on any of those parts, just expensive to actually build the system with.

Sony's box is COMPLETELY custom, massive R&D there. Nintendo is in the middle, with a modified IBM PowerPC CPU. And totally custom sound and graphics chips. Both of their systems are cheaper to build though.

As a result Xbox gets further and further away from paying for it's own R&D cost with each unit sold, while PS2 and GameCube get closer to paying for the R&D with each unit sold.

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I have a PS2, but I was waiting to let the GameCube price drop down. One of the reasons I like the Gamecube is because of the graphics and all the games it has, especially Mario games. But, I never would of thought it would drop this much. :blink:

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I must confess this sounds pretty tempting.. I've been wanting to try out Zelda and Metroid. I'll see if I can find some money laying around in the winter. If Nintendo is dropping the price here in Europe too that is..

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Ummm

There was a program on a second ago and they said that nintendo are stoping the production of gamecube games!

The only game on gamecube worth getting is

METAL GEAR SOLID : TWIN SNAKES!

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