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Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - Dark Jaguar - 7th October 2003
No I did not. I only found out about the 100 dollar cube thingy thanks to a link to an article about it at news sites. Didn't read it because the article's link name said it all, I had assumed.
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - Great Rumbler - 7th October 2003
Quote:No I did not. I only found out about the 100 dollar cube thingy thanks to a link to an article about it at news sites. Didn't read it because the article's link name said it all, I had assumed.
I meant about people being stupid. :D
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - A Black Falcon - 7th October 2003
Wasn't that obvious? :)
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - Dark Jaguar - 7th October 2003
Well not really...
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - A Black Falcon - 7th October 2003
But its a well-known fact that people are stupid...
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - Great Rumbler - 8th October 2003
Yeah, it's a well documented scientific fact.
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - Dark Jaguar - 8th October 2003
...
I meant it wasn't obvious that he was talking about the human stupidity, because that's what I thought ABF was commenting on. I thought he was making a comment about it being obvious you meant that.
Yeesh, the irony here disgusts me.
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - A Black Falcon - 8th October 2003
No, I was commenting that it was obvious that he was commenting about how stupid people are! :)
Then I said that in this case, I disagree. It doesn't say that people are stupid to say that they are actually paying the same price for the system when they now can CHOOSE which games to get... what if they want a $20 game and a $30 game instead of one $50 game, huh?
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - Dark Jaguar - 8th October 2003
That's it...
Oh come on ABF it was only a low calibur handgun... Just a .44 magnum is all.
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - Weltall - 8th October 2003
There aren't a whole lot of $20 Cube games worth buying, and few $30 for that matter. A $20 Cube game is a third-party game that wasn't any good and didn't sell too hot, except in the extreme case when it's a game that the other consoles had and it is now $20 on one of them.
As for the thirties, I can't help but wonder why. Nintendo has to know that Sony's Greatest Hits sell like spring water in the central Sahara both because of the price and because the lineup is very good. So why is Nintendo's Players Choice selection both ten dollars higher and ten times smaller?
Was it OB1 who said Nintendo just likes being in last place? Sometimes I can't help but agree.
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - OB1 - 8th October 2003
Indeed, Nintendo just doesn't seem to want to be in the lead, or even number two. There is absolutely no reason for their Player's Choice titles to be $10 more than Sony's and MS's. Nintendo also should have followed Sony's decision to make all first and second-party games only $40, but that would be aggressively competiting with Sony and we can't have any of that!
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - Weltall - 8th October 2003
Even some third-party games. Silent Hill 3, for instance, was $40.
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - EdenMaster - 8th October 2003
To be fair, Nintendo is lowering the prices on some of their Players Choice titles. Luigis Mansion, Pikmin, and Resident Evil will soon be (or have already been) lowered to $20, to correspond with the inception of Metroid Prime, Animal Crossing, and Mario Sunshine.
Sunshine, Prime, AC, and Melee will still sell for $30, which is completely unnecessary. The price drop is because you've made ENOUGH money off the game that you can afford to cut the price, and then get the money from people who wouldn't buy it at full price. Nintendo is being incredibly foolish for starting their GH titles at $30, but at least they're lowering the price on some of them.
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - A Black Falcon - 8th October 2003
Yeah... there ARE $20 games worth getting. Some Player's Choice titles are $20... and some more are $30. And there are a bunch of decent third-party games in that price range... not to mention used games, if you go to the specialist retailers...
Oh yeah, I think Mortal Kombat: Dark Alliance will soon be a $20 Player's Choice title.
On a related note, there are still a bunch of N64 games selling used for over $20.
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - Dark Jaguar - 8th October 2003
Well some used NES games also go for that, if they are rare and popular enough.
Also to be fair, Nintendo is beating the other two on console price, which seems to be working very well.
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - A Black Falcon - 9th October 2003
I will admit, they're going down... just last December, for example, Mario Kart 64 and Banjo-Tooie were $30... and hadn't dropped in price in years... now they're $20, and Banjo-Kazooie was $10! But still... it seems like a lot. But some games are cheap... of course, most of them are bad...
Oh yeah, and the GameStop in the Maine Mall has about fifteen copies of Superman 64... :) All the stores with used games have dozens of wrestling games, but that was special... they even had a copy of Carmageddon! :D
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - OB1 - 9th October 2003
Toys R Us has been selling off stock of Paper Mario for a measly $10 a pop. Check your local TRU to see if they have it.
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - A Black Falcon - 9th October 2003
Last week might have been the first time I'd ever seen Mario Kart 64 for under $25...
Oh yeah, and Gamestop sells used consoles. A whole lot of PSX'es and PSOnes, some Dreamcasts, and a old-style NES... :)
And when I got Paper Mario in December '01, it was $50... but that was almost two years ago and it was a new boxed copy.
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - Dark Jaguar - 9th October 2003
Just say PS1. There's a PSX coming out!
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - A Black Falcon - 9th October 2003
Never!
Well, maybe the week after I call the Gamecube the'GCN'... :S
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - Weltall - 9th October 2003
Quote:Originally posted by A Black Falcon
Never!
Well, maybe the week after I call the Gamecube the'GCN'... :S
But the PSX and the PSX are two drastically different things.
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - Dark Jaguar - 9th October 2003
Exactly!
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - Great Rumbler - 9th October 2003
Yeah, one plays PS1 games and the other like makes toast or something.
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - Dark Jaguar - 9th October 2003
Yeah, the other... makes PORTABLE toast, doesn't it?
In any case, just call the original Playstation the PS1 from now on. Makes things easier. Don't make me count to... 4! (No wait that's a horrible counting number...)
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - Weltall - 9th October 2003
Quote:Originally posted by Dark Jaguar
Yeah, the other... makes PORTABLE toast, doesn't it?
In any case, just call the original Playstation the PS1 from now on. Makes things easier. Don't make me count to... 4! (No wait that's a horrible counting number...)
Four is a great counting number, musically speaking.
17, now that's a rotten counting number.
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - Great Rumbler - 9th October 2003
It's also a good idea not to start at a high number like 1,345,343,532,324 it's just not a good idea.
Now go read my new comic!
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - lazyfatbum - 9th October 2003
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FUCKED A MAN WITHA REACH-A-ROUND
PUKED FROM MY ASSHOLE ON-THE-GROUND
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A: Grease her hips and push
doo doo doo!
OB1 has no higher brain functions. ~The President of the United States of America
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - A Black Falcon - 9th October 2003
Its been the PSX since 1994 and its a bit late to change now... :)
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - Dark Jaguar - 9th October 2003
Not officially. Never was officially (except maybe the name of it when it was an SNES add-on, but that doesn't count). Besides, now it's just confusing, and everyone knows what one means when they say PS1. Too late? Hardly. Most people already call the first one the PS1 as it is. It's only the hardcores that still cling to that outdated name. Before the PS2 came out I just called it the PS.
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - A Black Falcon - 9th October 2003
Why should I care if it was official or not? You don't see anyone going around saying GAMECUBE NINTENDO all the time, do you?
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - OB1 - 10th October 2003
The PSX was the official internal name for the system over at Sony.
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - A Black Falcon - 10th October 2003
I thought it was at some point... its just that some time later they decided they disliked it. It was way too late by then... and trying to change it NOW? Its just dumb.
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - OB1 - 10th October 2003
Sony called it that because it was the Play Station EXperiment. Or experience. I forgot.
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - A Black Falcon - 10th October 2003
eXperimental, I believe...
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - OB1 - 10th October 2003
Yeah something like that.
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - Great Rumbler - 10th October 2003
Play Station eXtreme.
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - A Black Falcon - 10th October 2003
No.
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - Great Rumbler - 10th October 2003
You can't deny the awesomeness of the "eXtreme".
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - EdenMaster - 10th October 2003
No, if the X is capitalized then there should be no E, and the capitalization of the T is optional.
XTreme!
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - A Black Falcon - 10th October 2003
NO!!!!
It is Xtreem... though random capitalization of the letters after 'X' is of course fine. :)
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - Great Rumbler - 11th October 2003
Random off-topicness...to the Xtreem!!
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - EdenMaster - 11th October 2003
That's what TendoCity is all about :)
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - A Black Falcon - 11th October 2003
And to be even cooler... use 1337!
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - Great Rumbler - 11th October 2003
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You're insane!!
Price cut launch GC sales through the roof. - A Black Falcon - 11th October 2003
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