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Title: GameCubes Back in Production
Post by: WindyMan on November 06, 2003, 09:13:24 AM

They've sold enough of the backstock to need to make more of them again.

Mostly in part to the $99 price drop, along with recent bundle deals, the GameCube has been selling like a storm in recent weeks, not just here in North America, but across the world as well.  Before that, however, GameCubes were being backed up in warehouses, and because of that production of the system was stopped in January of this year.

That's not the case anymore, though.  For virtually the first time this year, Nintendo is restarting their GC production lines in Japan to restock emptying warehouses across the world, especially those here in the United States, where GameCube marketshare has skyrocketed to 37%.

George Harrison, Nintendo's VP of Marketing in America, said that the company hopes to sell two million more systems for the all-important holiday season.  Additionally, cuts and bundle deals for Europe should mean increased sales for Nintendo of Europe's marketing efforts.

Title: RE:GameCubes Back in Production
Post by: BlackGriffen on November 06, 2003, 10:40:34 AM

"Mostly in part..."

So, which is it?

BG

Title: RE: GameCubes Back in Production
Post by: Pale on November 06, 2003, 10:48:56 AM

I would say that if something is mostly, it is not the whole....thus it is still part of it....so... both...  =P

Title: RE:GameCubes Back in Production
Post by: nolimit19 on November 06, 2003, 12:55:52 PM

wow it was backed up a lot more then i thought. i thought they would have had to start production sooner...or maybe they did and didnt state it until now. and did i hear correctly that noa wants to sell 2 million cubes by the end of the holiday season. wow....if they sell 2 million in america by 2004, i will be a little suprised.

Title: RE: GameCubes Back in Production
Post by: GaimeGuy on November 06, 2003, 01:13:22 PM

So if my math is correct, Nintendo  had shipped about 14 or 15 million GCs, but  33% of which was   backed up.  That 33%,  four or five million consoles, have all been sold  in the course of the past  ten or so months.

Title: RE: GameCubes Back in Production
Post by: PIAC on November 07, 2003, 01:10:45 AM

so i guess nintendo isn't doomed hey.

Title: RE: GameCubes Back in Production
Post by: Oldskool on November 09, 2003, 08:50:32 AM

Oh no, Microsoft's agents have discovered this piece of news and are replacing it with news of Nintendo losing millions... save us...