In an interesting turn of events, Nintendo of America today stated that its reservoir of GameCube consoles has nearly run dry. Nintendo news hounds may remember a time when Nintendo discontinued their console’s production in order to clear a backlog of unsold systems. It seems last year’s price cut certainly did the trick! NOA is now looking to acquire more units from international waters.
Store shelves are just running very dry," Nintendo spokeswoman Perrin Kaplan told Reuters. "I'd say about 50 percent of our stores are out."
Perrin assured Reuters that Nintendo has brought its manufacturing plant in Japan to full capacity to meet the demand in North America.
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Originally posted by: Ajguy
This is pathetic. Of course when you stop making them you're gonna run out. This is all a cheap marketing ploy to make the Gamecube seems more appealing than it is, much like Sony did when it under-produced the PS2 at launch.
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nintendo started production up again a long time ago.
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Originally posted by: Cap
i swear that a bunch of monkeys are running nintendo.
how can you not have systems to ship to stores? nintendo deserves to be in third place with stupidity like this.
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Lack of knowledge, and stupid, are very differant things. This I believe is truest in the video game sector. People just dont know, and this is mostly because they dont care, and have no desire to know. They simply want to play games for entertainment. They dont read reviews, they have never heard of a console war, and nost dont even know that Tony Hawk is a real guy. All this is because they simply dont put any stock into video games, they are simply toys, just another form of entertainment. Nothing more, nothing less. Having shelves full of PS2's and x-box's while the gamecube shelf sits empty is very bad business. Many people who see this will simply assume that Nintendo is done, that they dont sell gamecubes anymore, that is if they even knew about them in the first place. Shelves need to be stocked, advertising needs to be constant, and then, and only then will any of this matter.
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Originally posted by: Oldskool
Funny, some people think Nintendo is dying and doing everything wrong, yet Nintendo is making more of a profit than one of the "mature" consoles, and is doing pretty darn well against the other one. Isn't that called success? Oh well, some people...