Topic: Gamecube is now cheaper than GBA SP

[ActorJ]

So the Gamecube is now selling for ten canadian dollars less than the GBA SP is.

How bizzarre.

While I suppose I understand, and therefore suport Nintendo's decision to cut the price down to next to nothing, I can't help but think that what will be good for Nintendo in the short term, coiuld hurt them even more in the long term. If the Gamecube was percieved as a toy before, it surely is seent aht way even more now. You and I know differently, like we always have, but the general public are morons, and they just won't get it.

I think Nintendo, buy appearing to the public to have lost faith in it's product thanks to this latest price cut, will have it work cut out for them next gen, as if they didn't already.

:-(

[KnowsNothing]

$10 less?  here in the states it's exactly the same.  you canadians are werid...

[SuperLink666]

Nintendo doesn't care about making money on system sold , they make it on software. More people will buy Mario Kart if they have the system then if they don't..

[KnowsNothing]

People are going to buy MK: DD whether they have a GC or not.  THAT's how awesome it is.

[Cap]

nintendo has actually lowered the gba:sp price so it is the same as the gc.  

[Hostile Creation]

I agree, knowsnothing. Dang, that made me laugh very hard. . .

[PIAC]

ill own five!

[Don'tHate742]

When do you think the GBA: SP will price cut?

Probably till after the holiday season, i'm guessing.

Oh ya, and you guys are forgetting that Nintendo still needs to clear out there warehouses. They stop production remember? So I see this, not as a great business move, but as an act of desperation. I could be wrong though. I don't know why people hate the cube or think its a toy. I play it more than any other system.

[PIAC]

its both don'thate, its the lead upto the holiday season globally, most people who want one have a ps2, and if they are in the market for another system its either an xbawx or gcn, and now gcn is so very cheep, why not pick one up? once the backlog is cleared out they are keeping the system at this price.

[Mario]

Nintendo are trying to sell as much cubes as possible NOW, so stores order heaps more for the christmas rush in November/December.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Yeah, kinda like using VFX powers.  Use it when it makes sense (at the eve of a good game line-up).

[Berny]

Yeah, the whole SP costs the same as the Cube thing is making me mad. I want an SP and it's absurd that they cost the same. If they drop the SP price, it'll sell even better during the holiday season....possibly....well I'll get one. Anyways, I've got a GBA; that'll have to do for now.

[Flames_of_chaos]

I really hope SP price goes down at least to 79.99 or 69.99 but if they do that GBA will probably be 49.99 or 39.99