Cube price cut works

[StefanS]

However a 20 percent drop in a single week is a considerable amount. it shows that the sales are dying down and we'll have to wait for more numbers over the next few weeks to see if tha ttrend continues.

Do you have any idea when exactly the next North American numbers are published?

 

[zurich]

There's some from the MagicBox.. I'll make a new thread for them.

 

[StefanS]

There's some from the MagicBox.. I'll make a new thread for them.

Thnx, zurich!

Seems like the sales are more or less back to normal. Qroach you were right about NA sales. Maybe at least the European sales numbers won't drop back to the former horrible level.
Maybe the price point is not so important anymore or a lot of potential buyers have already used the 150$+1 free game before... then sales will stay low for the near future...

 

[cybamerc]

The numbers on Magic Box are from September. The October TRST data is what will show what if any effect the price drop has had.

 

[Goldni]

I smell the GBA catching up to an passing the PS2 in total US sales around the middle of 2004. Maybe even beforethe end of the 1st qrt '04. This is the GBA SP's first Christmas..and it'll be HUGE in terms of sales. It's got the best library of any system. Yes I said that! And with new releases coming out it's gonna be big. The damndest thing is it's outselling it's own attach ratio.

As far as the $99 GCN drop. It's still early. After Christmas we'll see if it can be called a success or not. With marketing and promotion and Mario Kart DD..the GCN will have a great Christmas. It will be bigger than last year (which it should). What I like about the moves Nintendo is making is the preception that it gives ppl inside the industry (and consumers). I've had two seperate developers mention over the phone that they are really pleased with the action that Nintendo has taken. One said he liked the aggression that Nintendo has shown over the last few months of this year. Here's what Eric Mattel wrote..read what Brett Tosti said.


Nintendojo Special Report: Nintendo of Canada Media Conference!

October 28, 2003 ? Eric Mattei reporting for Nintendojo at Nintendo Canada?s press event at the stunning Liberty Grand on Lakeshore Avenue in Toronto, Ontario Canada.

The Show had some nice pizzazz to it. Upon entering the first room there was a lot of super high end Panasonic gear some ?synergy? advertising that featured Panasonic Batteries with GBA games displayed together and several current releases on display including Viewtiful Joe and Star Wars Rogue Leader: Rebel Strike.

It was at the Rebel Strike display that I met the amicable Brett Tosti of Lucasarts. Brett?s comments to me were that Nintendo is definitely picking up steam since the latest price drop. When I asked Brett what his suggestions for Nintendo on their next system would be; he said that they need to get the dev. kits into developers hands as soon as possible so that they can create a large volume of games for the upcoming console. Also, Brett said that it?s a misconception that Nintendo is hard on third parties. He mentioned that if you have a great game, Nintendo will support you.





Interesting read. Nintendo still has alot of work ahead for itself. I really see them continuing "partnering programs" and making deals with the publishers who count. I'm hoping this Christmas will be positive for the GCN..as the GBA is having no problems.

 

[Gollum]

Jvd,
No, apple doesn't count as they don't develop an OS for PC hardware. If they did, then it'd be a different story. Btw, IBM contracted Microsoft to make DOS for thier PC architecture.

Yes, they didn't make a direct DOS competitor for IBM PC's but that doesn't mean jack. The point is that Apple was a direct competitor for the IBM PC itself in the home computer market in the first place, thus making it a competitor for MS too, everything else is just technicalities. If Apple had "won" and managed to further establish the Macintosh as the #1 personal computer (which was a much more real possibility then than it seems today), MS would have been screwed. BTW, MS didn't even develop DOS themselves, they bought it in its almost completed form.

Apple was on its way to becoming a corporate giant when MS still was in its shabby infancy and there was quite a deal of direct conflict involved in those roles reversing. It's actually a quite interesting story between the two (and IBM), you should go and pick up a good book about this whole area, there are a few good ones out there that provide a fascinating insight into what happened back in those days...

 

[jvd]

Jvd,
No, apple doesn't count as they don't develop an OS for PC hardware. If they did, then it'd be a different story. Btw, IBM contracted Microsoft to make DOS for thier PC architecture.

Yes, they didn't make a direct DOS competitor for IBM PC's but that doesn't mean jack. The point is that Apple was a direct competitor for the IBM PC itself in the home computer market in the first place, thus making it a competitor for MS too, everything else is just technicalities. If Apple had "won" and managed to further establish the Macintosh as the #1 personal computer (which was a much more real possibility then than it seems today), MS would have been screwed. BTW, MS didn't even develop DOS themselves, they bought it in its almost completed form.

Apple was on its way to becoming a corporate giant when MS still was in its shabby infancy and there was quite a deal of direct conflict involved in those roles reversing. It's actually a quite interesting story between the two (and IBM), you should go and pick up a good book about this whole area, there are a few good ones out there that provide a fascinating insight into what happened back in those days...

Thank you. I was going to responed but don't have much time to (waterpump took my motherboard with it when it sprung a leak.)