4th September 2003, 10:45 AM
The Nintendo faithful would buy a new Nintendo system for just about any price, so that's not really an issue. However when a casual gamer goes to Best Buy to buy a new video game console that he or she hopes will last them for a few years, which one are they going to buy? The super-popular $300 PS2, the "most powerful" $300 X-Box, or the $200 E-Z Bake Oven? They're gonna look at the cheap-looking Gamecube and think "Hey, for just a $100 more I could get a much more powerful system!", and that's most probably what happened. In the first few months of the GC/X-Box launch, each GC sold with an average of 1.5 games while each X-Box sold with an average of 2.5 games. How is that possible when the X-Box is $100 more than the Gamecube? It's because more adults bought X-Boxes than Gamecubes, and adults have a lot more money to spend than little kids. If they don't know a lot about games they're gonna ask the Best Buy (or whatever) clerk which system is more powerful and/or has the best games.