Topic: WHERE IS THE LOVE? (With bonus scans!)

[Infernal Monkey]

Now even EB won't let people know the GameCube is on the market. EB! Hello folks, would you like to buy little Timmy a new video gaming device for Christmas this year? We have ever so many!

We have GBA SP and Xbox, because GBA is the newest portable machine on the market and it has Shrek. Xbox has graphics and the internet! What? Little Timmy already has the MA15+ Halo 2 and every possible version of Shrek on GBA? Well then, have you thought about getting the PS2? Hmm, what's that? You have one? You got it years ago? WELL WE HATE YOU. There's a NEW PS2 out, and it has graphics and the internet! It's also SMALL.

THAT IS ALL. PLEASE BUY ONE. Oh, I think we also have the childish Nintendo GameCube trash, it's purple. Little Timmy will TRANSFORM into a flaming homosexual if you get this system for him, please avoid it. We've slashed it from $199.95 to $139 with a free memory card and controller because children fear its lack of graphics and internet.


FIFTY THREE PAGES OF PS2 AND XBOX. GC gets a whopping one page. Wanna know what's on the page before it? GBA! Pac-Man World is the focus, because it's the best game on the market. What's on the next page? GoldenEye. They did focus all attention on the GC version though, because we all know it's much better to advertise than Metroid Prime 2.

, where are you? ;___;  

[Mario]

BUSY TAKIN' NAMES
-|>
/ \

You know, 2 years ago things seemed to be going okay. GC had just launched, 5 of the top 10 games were GC games (for one week NEVER FOGHAT ), Xbox was a relative failure, GC had a few good hits with Super Smash Bros Melee, Resident Evil and Super Mario Sunshine all doing well on the charts. Then... I dunno, Microsoft woke up. NAL were sitting back because they thought had already done their job and didn't need to do anything else. Then BAM the price of the Xbox was pretty much sliced in half thanks to that money bleeding Sega bundle.

That's where it all started falling apart, nobody cared about the Xbox when it launched despite Microsoft ramming it in peoples faces, but all of a sudden it was the COOL console. What happened? Was it the new price? Better advertising? I can't really put my finger on it. While Microsoft were riding this new hype wave what were NAL doing? Advertising Game & Watch Gallery Advance. They must have spent all their advertising budget for the GC at launch, hoping that would be enough. WHOOPS FAILED. Hopefully they learn from their mistakes and are going to push the Nintendo DS to success, but honestly, I have no faith at all in them. The situation they put the GameCube in is just pathetic, it's like they're trying to sell as many PS2s and Xboxs as they can. It might come down to the fact the Australian market can't handle three consoles, imagine the mayhem when the PSP and NDS are out...

I'd really like to have a one on one conversation with an employee of NAL, but they seem pretty... non-existant, any chance Planet GameCube could try to get an interview with them or something?  

[Hybrid Hunter]

Also, it looks like Mr. Iwata isn't coming down under this year at all, unless he wants to spend Christmas here.
Someone needs to interview NAL or something, or pay them a visit to see whats up.