Nintendo Moves on to Plan C

BreakABone · 01-17-2003, 10:02 PM

Well, entering the market at the lowest price didn't help them, dropping the price by 50 bucks didn't help them, now Nintendo is on plan C, they are bundling a free game with the Cube. I guess this is all due to the piss-poo sales of the GCN across the board this holiday season.

http://cube.ign.com/articles/383/383076p1.html

DarkDemonic726 · 01-17-2003, 10:05 PM

I thought they were bundling Super Mario Sunshine with the GCN they had an article about it in EGM last month.

GameMaster · 01-17-2003, 10:09 PM

Quote:

Buyers will be able to choose from four games, including: Metroid Prime, Resident Evil 0, Star Fox Adventures or Mario Party 4.

Metroid Prime is good. Haven't played RE.

Star Fox and Mario Party 4

I would have put Mario Sunshine in replacement of one those last two but that's just my opinion.

Jonbo298 · 01-17-2003, 10:14 PM

If I didn't have a 'Cube, I would get one with Metroid Prime in it. I think that will be the biggest seller when it begins.

Bond · 01-17-2003, 10:15 PM

The Xbox really outperformed the GameCube in the 4th Quarter (holiday!). So it's probably smart of Nintendo to try to make some of that up.

BlueFire · 01-18-2003, 12:01 AM

Pretty soon, Nintendo is going to move on to plan D then E..etc

I hope their sales start picking up soon. Pretty soon their last resort will be to release Pokemon for the Gamecube. Heh.

Joeiss · 01-18-2003, 09:36 AM

I hope this fails... So they release 4 free games and drop the system to 100 bucks Canadian.... Then and only then will I buy a GCN.

viruscool · 01-18-2003, 11:32 AM

I dont think that nintendo will do anything that drastic. Yet.

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GameKinG · 01-18-2003, 02:45 PM

Well having the choice of game is nice.

Angrist · 01-18-2003, 02:52 PM

They already bundled SMS with it (at least here), but I think it wasn't for free.

This sounds good. Now all they need is some advertising for it.

manasecret · 01-18-2003, 03:40 PM

This is a good plan. After this, people who have been wavering will definitely bu...

OH WHO AM I KIDDING?!

Nintendo is DOOMED!!!!11!! Oh god, WHY?!!??11/!

*runs away crying*

Gamer · 01-18-2003, 08:26 PM

I find the sales intersting because at toys r us, where i work, gamecube outperformed x box by far, and sold at least 4 times what xbox sold.

GameKinG · 01-19-2003, 12:04 AM

I think the only two store cube out-performed MS in are TRU and Wal*mart

thatmariolover · 01-19-2003, 12:55 AM

What Nintendo was doing before was packing Super Mario Sunshine with the Indigo system and selling it at $190.00 US. So you were getting $10 off if you bought the package. This way you get the whole game for free.