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Nintendo Gaming / New Games for only $39.99

« on: February 13, 2003, 11:17:32 PM »

I was browsing EBgames and noticed a growing trend among upcoming Gamecube titles. It seems that a lot of preorder games are selling for $39.99, $10 less than most new games sell for. There are even a few games you can preorder for even less than that. It made sense that RE2 and RE3 sold for $39.99 because they were older ports that were not enhanced (many would aruge they should sell for $19.99), but these games I saw are brand new.

The bad news, of course, is that most of these titles suck. Out of all of them the only two I'll probably end up buying are Ikaruga and Rayman 3, but it's nice to save $20 ($10 on each game).

In other news I decided to make this purchase this evening from EBgames:
$24.99   Pikmin - Preowned
$24.99   Super Smash Brothers Melee - Preowned
$9.99   Hunter: The Reckoning
Subtotal:            $59.97
Total Discount:          -$10.00 (20% off preowned games)
Shipping:            $4.99
Total:            $54.96

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Nintendo Gaming / Drought? What drought?

« on: February 09, 2003, 01:08:30 AM »

I was just reading a thread on a different forum where a Gamecube owner was complaining about a lack of titles. The idea that there’s not enough quality games on this system is extremely foreign to me. I admit I’m relatively new to the GC lifestyle (having gotten my own last December), but from where I’m sitting it seems like there’s so much to go around I’ll never have time to finish it all.

I’m a peculiar situation gaming-wise since I’m a college student with no job (maximum free time), and because of scholarships I have a sizable income to blow on entertainment. Since getting the Cube I’ve bought nearly all the games ranked near the top of GameRankings through internet sites and auctions. Surprisingly I didn’t go broke, and there’s still a handful of games I wouldn’t mind owning.

I was able to afford all these great games, but I feel like I’ll never have time to play them all. The only games I’ve put any serious time into have been Super Mario Sunshine (finished), Metroid Prime (35%), and SSX Tricky (huge high scores, but not finished). At this rate it’ll take me all year just to beat the games I already own, much less upcoming time-consuming releases like Master Quest, Skies of Arcadia Legends, and The Wind Waker.

Depending on how picky you are, if you bought every game you wanted to play you’d either run out of money or run out of time to play them. So long as you’re not one of those, “I only buy 9.0+ games” people you’re likely to fall into one of these two categories. What’s really scary is that when asked what 2003 games I’m looking forward to, I can easily blurt out 10-15 titles that I have an idea will be worthy of a buy. Where will I find time to play all those games?

Even though the Gamecube library is the smallest of the three major consoles, it’s still big enough to keep me perpetually gaming, perhaps even after Gamecube’s demise. I don’t think I’ve met a person who genuinely starved for a good GC title.

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General Gaming / Xbox loses $380 million for Microsoft

« on: February 03, 2003, 05:47:01 PM »

Xbox loses $380 million for Microsoft

It's amazing how well Xbox can do over the holidays yet still lose so much money. Still, such losses are only a ding in the Microsoft Corporation. Nintendo may have had more modest sales, but at least they're not losing hundreds of millions of dollars.