5th September 2003, 10:22 AM
Yes, and those were the parents who didn't want to spend too much money on video games. There are basically two main camps that bought Gamecubes: the Nintendo faithful and parents (for their kids). Big Nintendo titles sell very well the first week of release and then drop considerably the following weeks, and that is because die-hard Nintendo fans buy their games as soon as they can, often on the day of their release. Mature-rated games sell poorly on the system while games targeted towards a younger audience sell well, so you can deduce from that that aside from the "die-hard" Nintendo fans most people who own a 'cube are relatively young. Software sales for the GC are also much lower than that of the PS2 and X-Box, which also proves that most GC owners can't afford to buy many games each year (kids). Nintendo didn't attract the adult gamer to the Gamecube, and that is one of the (if not the main one) reasons why they're #3.