Thread 713944603

How the fuck was this possible 22 years ago?

>>713944603 (OP)
the discs were really small

>>713944603 (OP)
>22 years ago

>>713944603 (OP)
Nintendo was desperate
And I honestly prefer the Nintendo of back then compared to now.

>>713944603 (OP)
Most of the Nintendies that still support Nintendo where literally toddlers or not even born yet.

>>713944603 (OP)
I got this for $50 on sale at BestBuy about midway into the system's life

>>713944603 (OP)
I miss when consoles got cheaper over time.

>>713944603 (OP)
they were just as retarded though
>heh we're gonna go with tiny non-standard DVDs to deter piracy
>nukes their 3rd party support

>>713944603 (OP)

n64 and gamecube were financial flops

>>713944603 (OP)

Reminder that those Gamecubes didn't have digital out and are limited to composite only.

Jet Black 'Made in Japan' model owners, rise up!

I miss ATI, when they got bought by AMD, it was all downhill

>>713944912
I love those whacky prong plugs. Colored like hotdog condiments, as it should be.

>>713944603 (OP)
Struggle nintendo is best than cocky nintendo. We currently have cocky nintendo.

>>713944603 (OP)
nobody was buying them and they were trying to get enough units out for licensing
there was still dozens of them at every other retail store collecting dust at $50 when the Wii came out

>text on top of image
Go back, twitternigger.

It was originally $200 retards. Look at the piece of shit. Shit for media.

>>713944989
What white condiment are you putting on hot dogs? Mayo? Gross. Onions? Also gross.

>>713945083
>It was originally $200 retards
only helping the argument really

>>713945119
This communist faggot has never had a toasted bun with mayo.

>>713944603 (OP)
Honestly feel kind of bad for 6th-gen Nintendo. They really tried back then.

>WHOOOOAAAAAA THINGS WERE CHEAPER IN THE PAST HOLY SHIT GUYS

You need to be 18 or older to post here.

They still made a profit selling a $99 console. PS2 initially lost money on consoles and Xbox never made a profit.

>>713944912
Nobody had S-Video back then and the benefits were marginal.

>>713944603 (OP)
By losing the console war

>>713945062
no vinny, that's not why. it's just different leadership. 3ds nintendo was also cocky nintendo cause the ds sold great, and
yet they still made it a reasonable price

>>713945289
I saved up my allowance to buy some NES games that were $70 a piece. Later I bought a Gamecube bundle that was $50 plus tax.
I'm older than you, nigger.

>>713944603 (OP)
Because nobody was buying them. Did people really forget the Gamecube was the worst selling console of that generation losing to even the Xbox? Even worse, Xbox and Gamecube came out at around the same time and Xbox was a brand new name from the Microsoft Office people against literally fucking NINTENDO so that should have never happened. Both got obliterated by the PS2 and SEGA quit, but I don't understand how people seem to forget that nobody wanted a Gamecube back then and a good amount of people who had them didn't play it as much when they had a PS2 or even an Xbox.

>>713944603 (OP)
inflation calculator says that is around $175 in today's money, this puts in the same ballpark as the Switch Lite

so it's a great price but not that crazy, i was able to convince my mother to buy one shortly after it went on sale for $99 mid-summer as a "early christmas gift" i got it with Windwaker, i have fond memories of that summer.

>>713945165
No. Anything that launched at that price is obviously tech garbage.

>>713944603 (OP)
GameCube was a cheap system to produce.
>>713944810
This, them going all "1 GB is enough space right???" was the exact same issue as with N64, maybe it kinda was early in the console's life.

>>713944603 (OP)
The GC failed so they went really cheap to get sales up, it didn't really work

>>713945165
That’s over $350 in today’s money Anon. For a console with only a handful of really good games across its entire lifecycle.

>>713944802
>>713944802
Lack of console price drops is likely a huge reason why Gen Alpha is so fucked; their parents didn't want to shell out hundreds on a console, so they just got them tablets.

>>713945340
$250 on launch was not reasonable

>>713945527
It was $200 decades ago when PS2 was $300. That's all that matters.

>>713944603 (OP)
The better deal was the Metroid Prime bundle because MP was more expensive than Melee.

>>713945340
Besides the 3DS launch price, it's total price remained way up in the EU for some reason. Like I couldn't find a new N3DS XL under 215€ near the end of its life span.

>>713945776
Switch 2 is $450 when PS5 is $700, what point are you making?

>>713945289
Agreed.

So do you know how I can report a federal employee for fraudulent records? Because I'm pretty sure you have to be 18 or older to work for the federal government, and their inflation calculator suggests otherwise.

>>713945472
>>713944810
Retards, the discs were not why Nintendo didn't get 3rd party support.

>nintendo hasnt gotten greedy
here are better arguments
>paid online when it was free for a long time
>cant buy roms instead forced to rent so nintendo can milk you harder
>$80 games that are not even worth $70
>sold totk for $70
>overpriced joycons and controller with terrible build quality and have drifting issues
>accessories for switch overpriced as shit such as the dock even though they have cheap build quality
>still has no miiverse equivalent or any type of social tab despite forcing you to pay for online
>games never go on sale because...
>fomo shit they pulled with mario all stars to milk more money out of fomo retards

*yawn*

>>713946171
>source - I had a dream about nintendo bravely fighting off abusive third party devs who want to hurt their adoring fans

Reminder that an unfinished early build of a GameCube version of Ratchet and Clank 1 leaked back in January. Leaker worked at Insomniac and said RAC was meant to be multiplat but Sony bought exclusivity

>>713946328
its sad to see wages still relatively low or around the same compared to inflation porn

>>713944603 (OP)
Why does Snoy get a pass?
Piss5 is worse than a $400 office laptop with integrated graphics now.
Yet they charge $700 for it.

>>713946171
It was, objectively. Many of the ports it did get were highly compromised due to the disc constraints, even though it traded blows with the Xbox as the most powerful console that gen.

>>713946339
3rd parties have always sold worse on nintendo hardware because they compete with nintendo exclusives, and the gcn had the smallest install base

>>713946465
kek tendie always coming with the whataboutism

>>713946442
Why pay more when you can import people who work for less? The government picks up the slack and C suite compensation increases.

>>713945921
Do you remember how much they charged for a shitty little MP3 player with 128MB in 2001 or were you not even born yet?

>>713944603 (OP)
And this was a better console + game then any that has came out the past 15 years

>>713946328
Fake news.
Its literally almost 1/3rd of the Switch 2 today AND you get a game.

>>713945320
The digital out was for composite, not S-video. All Gamecubes could support S-video, and the difference was only marginal if you're a contrarian poorfag.

>>713946465
>Piss5 is worse than a $400 office laptop with integrated graphics now.
Not even refreshed Strix Point can compare to the PS5's IGP. You don't need to exaggerate like a woman.

>>713946563
>so called inflation expert
DOBSON, WE GOT DOBSON HERE

>>713945527
>For a console with only a handful of really good games across its entire lifecycle.
Lmao that makes it an even better direct comparison to the switch, dumbass

>>713946609
PS5 gets curbstomped by a 3060.
AMD's strongest APU is on par with a 4050.

>>713946505
They used multiple discs all the time dummy, ram/gpu/cpu architecture differences plus the reputation for kids games kept things like gta away, not the disc size.

>>713946604
This, s-video mogs composite.

>>713946563
You cant even buy a Switch 1 and a game for $175 today

>>713946708
16CU Strix Point is absolutely nowhere near the PS5. It is nowhere remotely close. Only Strix Halo is a real peer.

>>713946563
It didn't launch at 99 dollars and it didn't launch with a pack in game either dumbass.

>>713946843
What did I just fucking say. Re-read, dumbass.

>>713944603 (OP)
how many cheese burgers did $100 buy in 2003 and how many do you get for that now?

>>713946837
You shouldn't be able to because it has well crafted games than GC never dreamed of having.

>>713946931
You said nothing, poopskin. Strix Halo is on par with a desktop 4060 or a mobile 4070, not a 4050. Strix Point is much less powerful and the PS5's IGP significantly outpaces it.
Stop talking out of your ass and exaggerating like a woman. Hyperbole is not needed. You are not getting reddit upvotes here.

>>713946938
Depends. There's more bulk buying opportunities today. You don't just buy one burger now or you get fucked.

>friend had pic rel
>every weekend a bunch of ppl would go over to his house
>pitch a big tent in the backyard
>run an extension cable for the gamecube
>crowd around that tiny screen in the tent
>stay up late playing mario kart or melee
i want to go back bros

>>713946938
after tax in my state they were $1.07
America used to be a real country

>>713947045
That's what I fucking said, retard.
>AMD's strongest APU
Fucking moron,

>>713947145
oops

>>713944603 (OP)
>meanwhile in 2025

>>713947218
The 4050 is laughably weaker than AMD's strongest APU. You were purely asspulling. Stop posting, poopskin.

>>713947275
Is that canada or australia or something?

>>713947315
Bullshit. It's a mobile 4060 AT BEST. AKA 4050.
Which still shits all over the PISS5 because it can do 1080p at ultra settings and get 60 FPS minimum. PISSOFSHIT5 can't even do 1080p60 at low settings with PSSR.

Salty salty uncs

>>713944603 (OP)
Why is Nintendo seen as evil for not dropping prices but Sony isn't for raising them?

>>713945921
PS5 is $700 because they found a generation willing to pay this much for the beloved brand. Wouldn't dream of paying that much with all the options there are today.

>>713947225
>On 2001, Nintendo releases officially "starcube" with full size disc, functional internet connection and portable very start.
Gaming history been less difficult

>>713947487
Nintendo is doing nothing to counteract Sony's greed and is joining them. It will be Nintendo's fault if GTA VI launches for $100.

Idk why bad faith faggots screech about games costing more today is actually fair and erm games in the 90's would be over a hundred bucks with adjusted inflation!!
Just show them this, and with adjusted inflation its still under 200 bucks

If they say "erm but it has different specs", call them a mega faggot and remind them that cartridges in the 90's cost a good amount to manufacture so their original argument is GAY and SHIT

>>713947275
Mom and Dad gave up on saving money for home ownership and they know it. Might as well join in on fucking their disposable income.

>>713947428
South America had it worse

>>713944603 (OP)
We used to have it good, nowadays it's all fake frames

>>713945617
On the plus side, that'll bite Bingendo on the ass hard come 10-15 years when they can't rely on Gen Alpha nostalgia to bolster sales

>>713947432
No, retard. Strix Halo is directly positioned against the mobile 4070 or desktop 4060. Its been on the market for months. Benches have been out forever.
Stop posting, poopskin.

>>713947635
also ask them why do digital and physical copies of games cost the same if digital games are cheaper to distribute

>>713947487
It's literally okay with Snoy does it, retard. That's why it's also perfectly okay they're selling a console with no games for the low, low price of $700. And for the minute price, don't forget to spend another $100 because it's missing a stand and disc drive! Only disgustingly jewish Nintendo would charge $80 for a video game, but don't pay attention to Snoy reselling TLOU for the 5th time, but this time at a mere $110.

>>713947629
GTA VI just proves my point, 6 months ago everyone agreed GTA was going to cost $100 and they were ok with now, now they're still ok with it but they're also mad and saying Nintendo is responsible for it

>>713945320
t. third worlder that never had a crt with anything besides composite

>>713947670
>ATI
Isn’t reason Nintendo move away powerpc-core architecture?

>>713947275
This cunt doesn't live in Australia if that's the first time he's seen a $120 game

>>713947635
You didn't have to pay full in the 90s the shit was constantly going on sale.

>>713947760
Try reposting that in English, Juan

>>713945320
My original PS1 used s-video retard

>>713944603 (OP)
Jesus Christ it was really this cheap back then? I guess I forgot but I want to go back so badly now. I'd pick up maybe even two Gamecubes or maybe just one with some peripherals including the thing that allows you to play GBA games on the big screen. I could get a handful of games and not feel like I can't pay the mortgage.

These companies are ripping the consumer a new asshole so much with their overpriced slop.

>>713947893
Enjoy your shovelware machine.

>>713947948
That was the wii.

>>713946271
>nintendo hasnt gotten greedy
literally no one says that besides retarded tendies.

>>713947847
Answer the question

>>713948095
>literally no one says that besides retarded tendies.
look where you are anon

>>713948175
No one can answer incomprehensible gibberish

>>713947763
a nintendo game though
remember back in 2010 when COD and half of the xbox 360 games was like 110-120$ for some fucking reason when everything else was still 80-90?

>>713947893
>These companies are ripping the consumer a new asshole so much with their overpriced slop.
This is why it's a moral imperative pirate games and not give corpos your money. Be the consumer advocate that Pirate Software never could.

>>713948262
Before the Wii, yes Nintentendo games were 120

>>713948262
How the fuck are any of you alive with your middle of Alaska air cargo pricing

>>713944603 (OP)
>It's summer
>You hear Mario's jubilant confident voice.
>Music starts with a jungle rhythm accompanied by the colorful sights of a island beach and Mario gleefully jumping across buildings.
>He wipes off the sweat of his brow as the music reaches a crescendo of harmonic notes from the accordion the music comes full circle to Mario's iconic theme.

Home.

I had the gamecube, it was ass.
After that generation I would have went sony if not for "five-hundred and ninety-nine us dollars!"
Got a 360, which was way better experience, even with the RROD.

>>713948402
these types of images always felt so fake to me, like it was made by someone who didnt even experience it

>>713944603 (OP)
it's still funny how despite the abysmal sales, Nintendo never cut the price of the Wii U like their other consoles. They didn't even try to recoup their losses with that thing, it's like they knew it was a dud from the start

>>713944759
This, and the company was run by men who actually cared about the industry. Now it's being run by men who will nickel and dime you, and they'd rather take the company down with them than compromise during the hard times.

Crap ports of games people saw on machines that could properly play them.

>>713948327
no they fucking weren't cunt i got TTYD for like $60 in '06 at kmart

>>713944603 (OP)
Same reason this was possible 20 years ago

>>713948585
https://youtu.be/BOHqG1nc_tw

>>713948585
Reminder that they were losing money selling PS3 fats at $599.

>>713948585
>>713948674
Ridge Racer though

>>713944603 (OP)
>It's summer
>You hear Mario's jubilant confident voice.
>Music starts with a jungle rhythm accompanied by the colorful sights of a island beach and the schizophrenic logo.
>He wipes off the sweat of his brow as the music reaches a crescendo of harmonic notes from the accordion the music comes full circle to the Rocky training montage theme.

Home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd0577I78o

>>713948815
Why did you delete and then repost this retard shit

>>713944802
Blame covid retardation. Inflation made money less valuable so in companies eyes thats as good as a price drop. Sucks to be you if your paycheck didnt increase to compensate for that

>>713948723
It's a fantastic game to be fair.

>>713948576
I would buy $20 sports clearance games and then go trade them for new games at Kmart.

>>713948674
>>713948585
HOW the fuck was this even possible, why are people complaining about nintendo?

>>713948402
>>713948815
Really? Just to add a youtube link?

>>713944603 (OP)
>releases a gamecube that can play dvds the same year
>costs more than a gamecube and dvd player (ps2)

>>713945062
>best than
ESL retard.

>>713948939
It is. Fucking loved it.

>>713948972
Are you implying people didn't complain about this?!?
The Ps3 flopped hard on release after the PS2 was absolutely dominate. I'm really getting too old for this place.

>>713948576
Getting games for GC when the Wii released is not the same as release price anon

>>713948972
what website you using

>>713948972
People complained about it a lot. That's why the Xbox 360 was the more popular console of the late 2000s

>>713946171
>Retards, the discs were not why Nintendo didn't get 3rd party support.
how could you fit GTA SA or VC on a shitty gamecube disc, bitchass tendie?

>>713948972
This isn't like physics. Money doesn't have constant value on itself. Its cost of living that determines its value for most people.

>>713944603 (OP)
The Gamecube was a great designed console with piss poor thinking at the end because they gave it mini disks instead of DVDs.
They then filled 95% of the library with children's games and it comically got nicknamed the Crapcube.

I love the GC design. The controller is awful but the console itself is beautiful.
It's just sad that it only has around 15 games worth bothering with

>>713949128
The same way they fit true crime and driv3r on it?

>>713949096
wii didn't come out until end of november/early december bro
...now that i remember, i never got any of my vouchers for preordering the wii from myer

>>713945062
>Cocky Nintendo
Releases Wii U and actually makes games
>Desperate Nintendo
Releases a bunch of Wii U ports and droughts are worse than ever. People go bananas.

Yeah, and also N64 was cocky during N64 and released kino, and GameCube was when they struggled and they released kino. Wii they sold cringe.

>>713949253
Games were 100-120 on release brother
Right up until the Wii release

>before 2008 recession
Simple as. The world was absolutely fucked that year and has never recovered.

>>713946708
>AMD's strongest APU is on par with a 4050.
How many '200usd office laptops' got that APU, you retarded tendie motherfucker?

All GC could do is render a room full of Ganados with very high poly counts.

>>713944603 (OP)
Not even adjusted for inflation did you manage to paint this as a bad deal. Not only is this less than half of what Nintendo wants now, it also included a game. Later on, it was dropped to $50 and they did not discontinue bundles.

>>713949334
gonna have to habeeb it at this point cos google ain't giving me shit

>>713949558
>Misinterpreting this badly
Are you Pirate Software?

>>713949558
Retard

>>713944603 (OP)
the gamecube was stronger than the PS2 and games performed better on it.
The only problem is that IT DIDNT HAVE MUH DVD PLAYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>713949334
no lol

>>713944603 (OP)
$100 GCs only came out towards the end of its lifespan. They were actually $250 at launch, which when accounting for inflation is same as the Switch 2 price today.

>>713949718
>pic: Nintendo hasn't gotten greedy
Moron.

>>713949702
Here's some from the N64

>>713944603 (OP)
I got a GC, Pikmin 2, Mario Party 7 and the mic, and an extra controller for $99. Though that was at the end of its life in 2006 or 2007.

>>713948585
at least the PS3 at the time felt like a push forward and despite the steep price, what it was capable of doing justified the price. the switch 2 is the exact same fucking thing.

>>713949941
That was from a magazine that ships to your house if you order from it. You don't have to do much thinking on why the company went bankrupt.

>>713949831
yes lol, some were more expensive than this

>>713950067
Take this from someone who lived during that era. You're full of shit, zoomer.

>>713950036
Anon, pls
I actually lived through that time, stop lying

>>713949939
I can get people complaining about cost because everyone is poor now and everything is expensive. However, when a dinner out for 3 costs 100 bucks minimum these days, I can't believe that people specifically complain about the cost of a switch when it will provide hundreds of hours of fun while a mean lasts 30 minutes

>>713944603 (OP)
I remember when my local EB were clearing out their last Dreamcasts for $50, and I never bought one. Still haunts me to this day.

>>713950129
I bought games with my allowance money back then. That's how I know you can't be born before 2006.

>>713950067
No game cost more than $50 new. That's probably the price with a guide.

>>713945320
going from composite to S-video was HUGE
TWW was fucking unplayable over composite
and he's not talking about S-video anyway

>>713949941
>130 for conker
what the actual fuck no wonder i always had to rent it

>>713947948
I've played enough GC to know you are bullshitting. It had great games.
>>713948313
I completely agree and fuck that aids skrillex looking faggot right to his face

>>713950248
>>713950272
I hate you lying cunts so much, Yoshi's Island was 120 bucks
Like I said before, release price is not the same as clearance price

>>713949941
>>713950067
imagine being canadian

>>713950378
Australian, that's about 80 USD

>>713950458
grim

>>713950374
>I hate you lying cunts so much
I also hate gas lighters, and what are you doing right now?

>>713944603 (OP)
Moore's law was alive.
You could wait 18 months and cut the price of all chips by half.

>>713949940
>Switch 2: $449.99
>OP GameCube bundle: $99.99
How has Nintendo not gotten greedy, retard?

>>713950589
Totally irrelevant when there is no die shrink in the hardware

>>713950508
>Calls others gas lighters while gas lighting
Why do you do this?
You bought clearance products, same as you can do now, you didn't buy new releases

>>713948674
Looking back in hindsight it was a much better deal than the 3shitty. You get backwards compatibility with most PS1 and PS2 games while the 3shitty got a more limited bc with the Xbox. So in addition to getting to play thousands of games there was also the eventual games PS3 did get later into the life cycle of the console and the most important part, free online. FREE ONLINE!

True there was supposedly a YLOD issue but it was nowhere close to as prevalent as the 3shitty's RROD issue. Anyone claiming otherwise today is a massive shill for MS to not be listened to.

So PS3 was a much MUCH better deal than the 3shitty in hindsight. I'd gladly spend $600 for a brand new PS3 with full bc right fucking now actually since any YLOD issue would also be completely solved. Imagine having access to all the library of PS1, PS2 and PS3 back then and claiming this is somehow garbage.

>>713950715
Sorry if you were from retard town, but new game releases were $50.

>>713949374
Yup, it was basically the second great depression and they did QE instead of having it come all at once, so it spread everything around over the next 20 years, but it's still fucked.

>>713950775
I'm talking about Australia, why did you insert yourself in this conversation?

>>713948313
why are you soo pathetic that you let some loser streamer live rent-free in your head, and drop cringe blogposts like this? And no, piracy is only moral from AAA developers and/or woke devs, anyone else and you're a shitty poorfag.

>>713950597
It was 199 in America at release, it also didn't have a bundle

>>713950652
Most nintendo consoles had either direct die shrinks or secondary shit like memory chips getting cheaper.

>>713945250
>Honestly feel kind of bad for 6th-gen Nintendo. They really tried back then.

If they really tried they would have sold more systems and I'm speaking as someone who had a GC.

>>713948434
the 360 was the next generation retard, it was competing with the Wii, not the GC. and figures, the last great nintendo console that was just for games went over your pleb-head and you didn't like;
>smash bros, the best console party game ever made
>F-Zero GX, the greatest non-sim racing game ever made, soo perfect Iwata openly stated they never knew how to improve it for a sequel
>Wind Waker, one of the best Zelda games ever
>Res evil 4, a game that spawned its own genre
>and the GBA adapter, allowing you to play GBA games on the big screen for less than ~25% of the price of the GBA handheld itself.

>>713950870
>Games were sooo expensive look at this $ amount
>You were supposed to know I was talking about Australia
Retard. You Australians are also retarded when you say games are so expensive. Every time I adjust your currency to ours you always get the cheaper end of the deal. Every time. Other anon is right, it was most likely bundled with a guide makes your image says "comes with game also". Disingenuous retard.

>>713949941
was star wars racers some major flop? the way people talk about it I expected it to be huge

>>713951112
Rogue Squadron 2 is the best game ever made however

>>713951204
Though be it perchance

>>713947145
>pitch a big tent in the backyard
heh heh

>>713951172
anecdotally everyone I knew with an n64 owned it because the pod race was the highlight of phantom menace. I think the game was successful.

>>713951149
Mate, do you not know how replies work?
Follow it, nothing disingenuous about it
and no, the guides were upsales
please learn to read before posting

>>713949939
Also there was no bundle on the GC launch. You had to buy games for it and the only ones available were garbage like Star Fox Adventures and 007 Agent Under Fire lol

>>713951172
>>713951282
this, same, also basically if you had shown any of the kids playing the pod racer game, F zero GX or even the n64 version, they'd go play that instead, but the pod racer game was better known at the time. At least when i was a kid.

>>713951312
Guides were $20. Games were $50. Together that would be $70 USD, and if you convert that to AUD that would make it $107.19. It's another episode of Australian complaining about game prices because big number when they actually get the better end of the deal.

>mate
>cunt
>G8+

>>713951362
wtf both those are really good games, my second game was fucking spy hunter, one of those cheap midway projects to update their arcade classics

>>713951362
it was 007 Nightfire retard. Which was actually pretty fun, had a hot chick in it, and there was a crazy minigame in multiplayer;
>enter multiplayer settings
>turn on remote controlled helicopters
>allows you to command in 1st person, basically a drone with infinite ammo
>play on splitscreen
>both pickup a drone on the opposite ends of the largest map, a ski-trail
>duel in the skies trying to blow each other up
crazy good fun, and the base game was fairly well paced, with decent AI bots for the time aswell.

>>713944603 (OP)
I got my Gamecube for £40 second hand and it came with Super Mario Sunshine, Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2 and Wind Waker, along with two pads.
It was a fucking steal for that price, found it in some charity shop back in the day. I can only think it was some pissed off mother giving away her child's console to teach him a lesson.

>>713951510
agent under fire was also good, it had jetpacks

>>713951412
Games were 100-120 here, guides were another 30-40
Stop inserting your own shit onto the conversation between aussies, why are Americans always so obsessed with us?

>>713947487
When people were ready to pay scalpers $1200 to own a PS5, I don't think they care what Sony does

>>713951619
Do you pay a VAT?

>>713951660
Tax is included in the price

>>713951684
okay, well tax isn't included in the american price

>>713950067
No one bought games advertised directly from the magazines like that you 'tard.
They were always marked up way above what they were worth. You went to something we used to have called a game shop where you could exchange something called cash for something called a physical box and inside that physical box would be a disc that contain the data of your game.

>>713951729
read the reply chain before you get mad

>>713948972
Why do you think the PS3 is still a huge meme nearly 2 decades later? It was a straight up miracle that Sony was able to bounce back from the catastrophic PS3 launch.

Nintendos refusal to pay licensing fees for DVD is why the Gamecube failed.

>>713951710
Tax is 10%
you guys still paid a lot less than the rest of the world, most likely due to trade deals with other countries

>>713951765
Gamecube games weren't even remotely that expensive you tit. It was the bastard child of the console race between PS2, Xbox and then the gamecube, they were a bloody bargain around $20-$30 at most. I not once saw a game above $39.99 and that was for brand new hot ticket games like Mario or RE4.

>>713951881
Again, read the replies
I swear you cunts are getting mad at nothing that involves you

>>713944942
I agree somewhat but they still make the best scalable graphics processors and consoles and handhelds prove this.

>>713950298
I played wind waker over composhit and it was fine

>>713951874
we have the largest consumer market and a robust intercontinental logistics system

>>713951953
Are you retarded? I genuinely think you might be lacking in braincells.

>>713951953
So instead of admitting you were wrong you double down, what is it with people refusing to admit they were wrong? Do you think you're going to suffer ego death on an imageboard? Fuck me stop being so fucking stubborn and learn to accept what people are saying.

>>713952052
Are you?
It was Australian prices, learn to read

>global southerns butt into the gamecube thread
>oi cant, woi dun yu read tha bladdy thrid?
>mfw

>>713944603 (OP)
The hardware was cheap?

>>713952132
Yes I read that, are you retarded? $99 aussie dollars isn't even remotely the price of the games, that's over double what the normal price of the game is because no one bought from magazines you absolute mong.

>>713944603 (OP)
The Gamecube was one of the very few consoles to be sold at a loss by Nintendo for retail.

>>713944883
Here's a (you) dumb nigger

>>713947145
Just have kids and do that shit every weekend. You will be father of the year if you just do this and your sons will greentext about you on message boards two decades from now.

>>713945467
I always thought gamecube games looked the best of 6th gen consoles even though xbox had better specs

>>713952265
You sound like a 12 year old or you did not live in Australia
EB was not a "magazine" it's a store that had catalogues for its games
This was the release price for games, as well as Kmart or Target
They never released at half that price, are you crazy?

>>713950036
>>713950272
>>713950508
>>713950775
>>713951729
>>713951881
>>713952265
Ausfag here. Fuck off zoomers. I was alive back then and can confirm PS2 games RETAILED for $109.95. GBA games were $99.95. PS3 games later for $119.95. Just because you bought the greatest hits years later on sale for $20 doesnt mean thats what all games retailed for, retards.

>>713947629
Okay snoyim

>>713952719
I think GBA game were 60-70 but yeah

>>713952719
>Ps2 games
We're talking about Gamecube games, why the fuck would you bring up PS2 games? Fucking mass replying cunts can't even read the cliff notes.

>>713947760
PowerPc is a dead arch, but Ati now amd was the gpu provider, maybe if the wiiu used a amd x86 CPU it would not floped

>>713948476
Nintendo cut both the wiiu and 3ds prices

>>713948707
200 usd

>>713946505
it wasn't, most third party games weren't even 1gb. look at any piracy site, most games were half a gig at best

this cube. I remember my buddy allen bought me one. fuck you allen

>>713944759
This
Same reason the 3ds and Wii U both had price cuts and big software deals when they were shitting the bed

>>713948476
wtf?
I bought the Wii U for peanuts, not sure what you’re talking about

>>713953210
>bought a Wii U for deez nuts
I can't believe you would stoop so low as to prostrate yourself, anon

>>713952894
Pro Tip: GC games were the same as PS2 games, around $100.

>>713947487
sony unironically pays people to shit on nintendo online. they've always tried to control the media narrative around video games.

>>713953131
Look at the actual disc image sizes retard, those downloads are compressed as fuck. Most PS2 games are around 2GB and many are bigger. Of course devs had use for more space and many relied on it and of course it would have benefited GC as well.

>>713953436
Pretty easy to hack so I could uncensor games
I paid 100 bucks for it, I got the white one

>>713947487
Sony already went through its corrosion of perception from the PS3 onwards. Nintendo, though they have always been anti-consumer fags, has always been the affordable option in the market. Their bs lawsuits and trigger happy lawyers can be ignored by the average customer. Them jacking the price on consoles and games is something people can't glance over. There is no affordable option anymore and the ones who were providing it are stepping on the gas to push prices higher while giving you less.

>>713954246
Sometimes it feels like people are expecting charity from Nintendo, yeah they were the affordable option but they were also the garbage hardware option people complained about all the time, since the Wii their favorite rumour was always how the "Pro" version is about to come out, and when it does they don't want to pay for it, even now, despite all the "DROP THE PRICE" and shit people still were also mad about the screen not being OLED, basically asking for the console to be even more expensive, or as I said before about charity, expecting improvements to come for free, it's even dumber with Nintendo when they never sell anything at a loss

>>713948549
they killed iwata over a bear run of course theyre nickle and diming. they dont care if nintendo expodes into irrelevance, they'll have let someone else hold their bags this time

>>713953958
There isn't a single multiplat game on the gamecube compromised by its disc size.

>>713944759
fpbp
supply and demand
nobody fucking wanted a gamecube

>>713944603 (OP)
$100 twenty years ago is like $2000 today

>>713952719
when people say 90 dollar games theyre not talking upside down money retard. we're talking about the (((petrodollar)))

>>713950907
actually this is a good idea. australians, please start calling your money dollarydoos
dont worry about what canadians are going to call it, we'll call their money dollarydoos and they will get mad. trust me it will be funny. This will be a sacrifice on my part too since I can no longer call my own burger money dollarydoos.

>>713944603 (OP)
the gamecube was a massive flop, bruh. people were buying playstations en masse. stores were bundling these things with anything they could. i got one for free with a used widescreen

the Wii was a white Gamecube with motion control and Free online. And you get more (play ISO files, emulators) with a modded Wii

>>713946604
just because 30 years later you are able to waste your junior dev pittiance on a half functional trinitron doesn't mean anyone believes you had one then.

>>713954548
>they killed iwata
fuck are you talking about iwata died of cancer

>>713954985
trash image, way too soft, and a waggleshit layer

>>713944759
Satoru Iwata was the last bastion.

>>713955913
Last bastion of what?
How many of you people said Nintendo went to shit after the GC?
That the Wii was the end of Nintendo because it's just gimmicky shit
This place is too fickle

>>713956020
I say that.

>>713944603 (OP)
>How the fuck was this possible 22 years ago
>DVD type technology
>No online features unless you got the adapter
>Controller doesn't have NFC, gyro, accelerometer, infrared camera, haptic feedback, Bluetooth, LEDs, lithium battery
>Console doesn't have screen, speakers, Bluetooth, wifi
>No lithium battery
>Also console was being phased out because it sold "poorly"

>>713955706
>he doesn't know

>>713956090
What are you talking about anon?

>>713955706
good one buddy

I got this for 150€, would have been worth it on it‘s own, but WW is on par with MP, as is REmake

>>713944603 (OP)
We need to go back Gamecube bros

>>713944603 (OP)
I recently bought a gamecube to live the childhood I never had.

>>713950067
>Australian rating logo
Nice try

>>713957061
Yes anon, you're like the fourth American to not follow the reply chain

>>713944603 (OP)
It wasn't a launch price. The GCN was in freefall at that point and they were trying to get rid of them with a quickness.

>>713954467
pretty much, they cry "anti-consumer" just because nintendo doesn't give away games at deep discounts.

>>713944603 (OP) just selling the stuck inventory

>>713944603 (OP)
that's desperate nintendo, something we've only seen during the gamecube and wii u era's.

>>713944603 (OP)
Everything was similarly cheap.

Personally i can't imagine spending $500 on a nintendo, you could buy like.... 125 cheeseburgers with that money.

>>713944603 (OP)
2003-early/mid 2007 was peak human civilization and we've only been in freefall ever since. The US never recovered from the 2008 recession.

>>713944603 (OP)
Bro, your inflation of the prices for... everything?

>>713944603 (OP)
Nintendo was doing bad but the games were freaking great. Mini discs were a blunder, an attempt at stopping piracy.

>>713948972
Sony some greedy fucks, look at the price of their TVs and phones.

>>713944603 (OP)
This was their worst selling console before the Wii U, the Gamecube's failure made Nintendo reinvent their entire business strategy. I'm convinced people who want a return to the Gamecube era just want Nintendo to fail.

>>713944603 (OP)
inflation, obviously

>>713944603 (OP)
400 dollars today adjusting for inflation. Melee was never a pack in btw.

>>713960601
>I'm convinced people who want a return to the Gamecube era just want Nintendo to fail.
is that really a bad thing?

>>713960601
>MORE CONSOLE SALES = BETTER GAMES
how many shares of nintendo do you own, anonberg?

>>713960630
yeah inflating nintendo's pockets

>>713944883
not even dreamcast was a financial flop, afaik only wiiu was

>>713944603 (OP)
They were really losing at the time and ate a lot of hardware cost to get it in homes

>>713959968
They werent. The gamecube had nearly as many games as the xbox did. Like 500 vs 600 its that close, ps2 stomped both by scooping exclusivity deals and getting the bulk of the install base early with their built in dvd player.

Devs didnt give a fuck about the mini discs being small.

>>713949042
your not more better then him for be native english speaker

>>713945320
You are fucking completely god damn brain dead. S video is analog, but comparable to component.

>>713955706
yeah, and Yokoi died of a car accident

is there any point in modding my gamecube when I have a modded wii?

>>713956020
Nobody said Wii was the end of Nintendo you retard. Wii was a massive success almost instantly. We said Wii was Nintendo giving up on its original fans to appeal to normalfags, which was true. Switch is even more casual than Wii.

>>713961189
>Nobody said Wii was the end of Nintendo you retard
lol, this guy is 12 for sure

>>713960601
I think it's partially nostalgia, the Cube was the last time Nintendo was directly competing in the console war. The decision to go with carts on the 64 and being hostile to 3rd party devs since the 80's really screwed them. Nintendo never really recovered from the 64 so now they do their own thing. Fuck the game keycards though.

>>713960941
> more better then him

>>713954646
>fpbp

>>713945289
Use an inflation calculator before posting again, retard.

>>713954646
Kill yourself, my family bought 2

>>713960925
I'm sure the devs were glad to make a separate build of the game with lower detail textures and compressed audio and video.

>>713948313
>piratefaggot drama finally ended months ago
>some shit about SKG gets brought up again
>have to see this ugly faggot's mug for ANOTHER 2 fucking weeks AGAIN

>>713961792
>lower detail textures and compressed audio and video.
Gamecube games were consistently more highly detailed than their ps2 counterparts

>>713959053
Fuck off Lahey.

>>713948889
It's because back then tech was advancing at a rapid pace, while now we're living in the wonderful land of diminishing returns until a new breakthrough invention happens.
Do you not live in the real world?

>>713947763
Australians don't know that their currency isn't the US-Dollar. They also don't know what taxes are.
Australians are pretty dumb when it comes to money.

>>713948175
OK, near the castle door cellar big running scissors thick clam.

>>713962297
American doesn't understand that even with tax we paid much more than you up until recently
Look, I get you had your feelings hurt itt but it's time to move on

The GameCube was really cheap and all the games were kino, just like Dreamcast and OGHUGE

>>713951138
>After that generation
>the 360 was the next generation
>retard
>retard
>retard
>retard
>retard
retard
Didn't read any of your green shit, btw.

>>713948434
>I had the gamecube, it was ass.
You have awful taste
>After that generation I would have went sony if not for "five-hundred and ninety-nine us dollars!"
>Got a 360, which was way better experience, even with the RROD.
Once you pay for online a couple years and buy your replacement after the second rrod, and buy your fucking hd dvd peripheral (LOL), and factor in that you cant fucking sell your ps2 and or og xbox to put money towards the new system because you still need it to play 6th gen games becauae the fucking 360 didnt launch with backwards comaptibility,

Youre gonna be paying close to that 599 bro, might as wellve waited it out another couple years for the ps3 price cut and for the best games that gen anyway instead of begging mom and dad for the 360 to play just another fucking halo and nothing else

>>713948707
If were playing that game, microsoft admitted to losing money every single gen. Theyre dropping out like sega now btw

>>713962673
Sony has lost every gen btw

>>713948434
>have went
ESL.

>>713963027
Mmmmmm not every

>ctrl+f:inflation
>cope cope cope cope cope
Ah, such is life. Maybe it'll hit home some day.

Hmmmmm not this one either

>>713951510
Nightfire came out later. Trust me, I know since I played A LOT of it with my friends. It was pretty much the successor to Goldeneye.

>>713963027
they won 5th and 6th
Unless you are counting handhelds, in which case it still won 6th

>>713944603 (OP)
Because this was before immersionfags, normies, moviefags, and the industrial shareholder complex as we know it today seeped into the industry.
That gen was the last truly great gen for GAMERS.

>>713946876
It didn't launch in 2003 either.

Nintendo: GameCube vs. Switch 2
This comparison shows the evolution over 24 years, from Nintendo's iconic 2001 console to its 2025 powerhouse.

Raw Power: The Nintendo Switch 2 is approximately 32,772% more powerful than the GameCube, delivering nearly 329 times the raw graphical performance.

Consumer Value: Accounting for launch prices, the Switch 2 offers a 14,455% increase in performance per dollar, showcasing a massive leap in technological efficiency.

PlayStation: PS2 vs. PS5
This comparison spans the 20-year gap between two of Sony's most popular consoles, highlighting an even more dramatic increase in processing capability.

Raw Power: The PlayStation 5 is approximately 165,706% more powerful than the PlayStation 2, providing roughly 1,658 times the graphical power.

Consumer Value: The PS5 delivers an incredible 98,757% increase in performance per dollar, demonstrating a monumental growth in value for gamers.

>>713944603 (OP)
melee is sick

>>713963623
That's not even the ps5 pro

I was promised this kind of thing would come back after the election

>>713964190
>fell for it award

is this where we dump old magazine pictures and reminisce about the old days

>>713961734
Why do midwits not understand anecdotes

>>713944603 (OP)
Anon, that price was there because the GC wasn't selling.

Reminder that this came out costing $40 but that ass port of Donkey Kong Returns was already the full $60.
This will never happen again

>>713944603 (OP)
It was two democratic presidents ago

>>713964603
minus the ic

the switch 2 is 100x more powerful than the gamecube. stop comparing prices between things that aren't even in the same league.

>>713950748
Fucking this faggots didn't know how good they had it back then

>>713964602
donkey kong has a lot more mass appeal than metroid so they can get away with charging full price for donkey kong. metroid, not so much

Why does 10 years ago feel like nothing but 20 feels like eons

stop saying that xbox never made a profit. One month of ads overrode any possible loses they made on hardware

>>713944759
Don't worry, it's the Nintendo cycle. They'll never go broke and collapse; too large a warchest and a culture of always ensuring profit. But they've been humbled before. They become arrogant and greedy whenever the experience success, overreach, and then are forced to become consumer friendly again. Either this generation or the next will see them stumble again, and they'll have to change their ways (at least for a little while).

I fucking hate nintendo so much. I pirated almost everything on my 3DS and Wii U and emulated the couple good Switch games.

I don't care about the hardware cost but the fact they don't reduce prices on older games just pisses me off so I'm just gonna pirate everything.

>>713966470
Maybe if Sony manages to pull their head out of their ass.

>>713966470
besides gamecube they were hardly ever consumer friendly

>NES and SNES do pretty well
>Get greedy with the N64, third parties fuck off, they get shit on for expensive games and a fucking expansion pack and some other nonsense, only relevant because of Pokemon
>Gamecube turns out amazing but too late for that shit
>Wii does really well, get greedy again
>Wii U is a failure for the ages, they try getting back the fuck up
>Switch becomes a massive success
>Get greedy again

It will come. They will eat shit again. But they don't have the great minds of yesterday, so this time, they'll do a Sega.

>>713967819
>8 mil sales
>3rd most sold game on N64
honestly if Rare didn't back nintendo for some fucking reason they would've been died during n64, maybe even during super nintendo. Donkey Kong Country was like the most talked thing back then

>>713968150
And they went away too.
It also happened with handhelds, btw. The DS was an enormous success and they thought "what if we sell this piece of shit hardware with this 3D gimmick for an absurd price?" they had to take it back quickly after. They show moments of stupid, irredeemably greed. And those who are loyal to them eat shit, like with the ambassador program. 10 fucking ROMs in compensation, what a fucking embarrassment that was. Early 2010s for Nintendo were just dread and misery.

>>713967430
Sony is going through their own massive Jew phase so yeah Nintendo is not going to be humbled anytime soon.

>>713954985
Motion controls were primitive until they released the Motion Plus.
Online was trash, the only cool feature was having it do updates and such on standby. Mario Kart and Brawl online were nearly unplayable.
However I agree that it was the best thing to have modded back then. Even better than the classic Xbox, despite it being still more powerful. It was the best platform for emulation on a CRT for a good while. And the classic gamepad was solid and they managed to figure out decently low input lag wirelessly (god knows the wavebird was the laggiest piece of shit controller back then). And you could use a hard drive and put a fuckton of games in there.

>>713968647
>Motion controls were primitive until they released the Motion Plus.
IR is better for aiming than gyro

>>713949128
>how could you fit GTA SA or VC on a shitty gamecube disc, bitchass tendie?

Just compress the music

>>713947275
I read this in Tony Soprano's voice for some reason

Money was worth more, but also technology was developing a lot faster. Consoles would more rapidly become cheaper to produce with time, which simply doesn't happen now.

>>713968150
>honestly if Rare didn't back nintendo for some fucking reason they would've been died during n64, maybe even during super nintendo. Donkey Kong Country was like the most talked thing back then

Nintendo owned 50% of Rare and Rare without Nintendo were making Shovelware. They needed Nintendo's funding to get the equipment to render DKCs models.

>>713969254
>technology was developing a lot faster
This is the big one. Everything moved so damn fast back then. Prices plummeted as manufacturing costs dropped, and companies vied for your business. It also helped that most games weren't 1000 personnel studios and we weren't in an eternal recession at the time.

>>713968647
>Motion controls were primitive until they released the Motion Plus.
Nice headcanon. Motion controls on the Wii simply just worked on the get go.

>>713970318
Right they didn't need calibration and they didn't fuck up if there was any bit of interference whatsoever at all. Nope!
What worked "on the get go" was just basic motions. What TP on the Wii had which was just basically waggle does one function which is press a button that isn't there. Fishing on that game was retarded.

>>713945393
Nobody's buying Xboxes either and they just raised the price.

>>713944912
I hook up my Wii to my 27" Trinitron CRT TV via composite and everything looks perfect and 240p.

>>713946381
Why am I not surprised. Ratchet would have definitely sold well on the GameCube too

>>713946381
Got any proof of that?

>>713969254
They were designed that way, Sony built the PS1 specifically to get cheaper over time cause they knew the initial price point was too high for mass adoption. Now they know you're gonna buy it no matter what, so they don't need to lower it.

>>713971546
The original PS1 were also dogshit compared to the revision
It had disc reading problems and messed up graphics output

>>713951968
the environment looks like vaseline smeared shit even over the cleanest connection possible tho

>>713951968
6th gen games looks better on component

>>713948549
>This, and the company was run by men who actually cared about the industry.
console not selling this retard omg they so cared about us

>>713947487
>Sony isn't for raising them
are you talking about game prices? most drop to like 20dolla after 1/2 years so that raise means fuck all

>>713948991
that thing is so ugly

>>713972382
>He didn't like 2000's panasonic technology

>>713970779
I’ve only known people who have xboxes
Never PlayStation
I guess just because cuckold Europeans worship niggers they think the PlayStation is good over there or something when it’s always been objectively the worst console

>>713952719
This must have been why I skipped the PS2 gen as a kid and played pirated games on PC instead. I only got a PS2 Slim in like 2010 when they were $98 at JB Hi-Fi.

>>713956090
>console was being phased out because it sold "poorly"
It got mogged in sales by the Xbox, so yes it did sell poorly.

>>713973553
The local second hand store selling games for 20 bucks each helped a lot with playing games

>>713973281
>cuckold Europeans worship niggers
cuckold americans worship niggers
FTFY

>>713944810
It honestly doesn't matter what nintendo would do. 3rd parties will ALWAYS have a grudge against them.

>>713944603 (OP)
as they say 'the first hit is 99.99' then they got u by ur BB-balls

>>713947487
unironically because no one has any respect for sony anymore and they've been slimy business wise for decades

>>713951138
Although our tastes are different, you're absolutely right
>>713962383
You're a no taste zoomer retard
>>713963372
This anon gets it too
Unfortunately, the market is so far conditioned to all the modern sensibilities, there's no going back. At best, in the EXTREMELY UNLIKELY scenario, things will stay the same. At worst, the practically guaranteed scenario, corpos, investors, casuals, immersionfags, specfags and movie gamefags will only cause more irreparable damage, but will feign superiority because it's what's trendy, or that playing a movie somehow seems more sophisticated.
With the exception of a few anons, you all in one way or another likely deserve all the shit that is, and is to come

>>713946381
That's news to me. It would've been cool, and I think it was smart of Sony to buy exclusivity. Unfortunately for the IP, Sony trooned out, and RaC was just as vulnerable as any of their other IPs. So sad what the industry has become. It's not even that I don't have the same time I did as a kid, gaming HAS changed, for the worse, but ignorant consoomers don't care because they have excessive realism, bloated resolutions, gimmicky lighting physics, and every other game is open world because they apparently NEED games to feel like it's real

>>713947145
What this anon said >>713952506
Nostalgia is mostly just your brain telling you to procreate. The experiences you "chase" are primarily just a vehicle for the mind to consider "What if I had kids and imparted onto them these experiences?"

>>713944603 (OP)
>Why is a completely different situation completely different?
Is this the best Snoys can come up with now?

>>713977630
neither anons, but as a upcoming father, I do like that approach. That said, I feel there really has been a significant shift for the worse, but marketing has convinced "gamers" it's actually the best it's ever been because
>muh realistic looking storytime

>>713978173
I think all 3 camps are in a perpetual state of coping.

>>713946012
fucking delete this your amoral piece of shit

>>713946876
>It didn't launch at 99 dollars
The Switch never got that proportionally cheap at all, so why do you keep saying that?

>>713948585
Keep in mind the PS3 was also a Blu Ray player at the time when most Blu Ray players were about a grand.

>>713944603 (OP)
>$175 in 2025

>>713948585
Out of the modern gaming rat race, but at least with the initial PS3, you had backwards compatibility with TWO gens, free online, and the end of the golden age of gaming, before practically EVERYONE got hung up on resolutions, wanting their games to be compelling movies, and opened the floodgates to normies and casuals.

>>713978458
Says who?

>>713979509
nta, but at least 1 or 2 anons have posted in this thread a 2003 to 2025 inflation calculator screenshot

>>713979580
Yeah and who decides inflation?

>>713944912
My EU Gamecube has RGB SCART.

>>713944603 (OP)
Fire sale prices for a failed console.

>>713977630
>Nostalgia is mostly just your brain telling you to procreate. The experiences you "chase" are primarily just a vehicle for the mind to consider "What if I had kids and imparted onto them these experiences?"

>>713980319
Why do you think the issue of parents wanting their kids to just be another version of themselves is so pervasive, anon?

>>713979742
I see your point, it's all relative, without a definitive standard. About as accurate as weather predictions, but that's what we have to work with, essentially a educated guess. That said, it's still remarkable. And as long as there was real games being made for a modern 480/720 system with real character, and not just reverse engineered to make shareholders a gaggle of money, I'd buy one in a heartbeat.

>>713944603 (OP)
I would punch the person who makes these. It's probably a zoomer. Zero context. The GBA-GC link cables anyone? Four Sword Adventures didn't take controllers. The PS2 100 million+ and GameCube was 10 million at that time the price drop hit. This image was made and mass shared by zoomers who use Facebook and Twitter and regurgitate our threads.

The beach games of 2000s were yelled about here first in 2018. Suddenly it's a talking point on Twitter and Facebook -- using our same image example -- in the last 2 years. Then the threads come back here. Same as this GameCube thread. Fucking ebaumsworld zoomers.

>>713944603 (OP)
>tfw bought the GCN at launch for 200 smackers
>tfw when sold it to gamestop for 25 monpoly money
>tfw when bought another one a few years later at full price
>tfw when I was cheated because I was a retard teenager who didn't realize that prices dropped so some asshat at hastings sold it to me for 200 even though it had dropped to 50 dollars elsewhere
>tfw when I ended up selling that too

>>713960438
>greedy
>Sony sold each console at a loss o hundreds of dollars per console
>lost so much money that gen it wiped out PS1/PS2 profits
You're a fucking retard and should kys

>>713966470
As much as I'd love to see Nintendo get humbled you can't ignore the fact they just became the fastest selling console of all time with the switch 2. This generation is already off to a ridiculous start so I doubt this will be the gen it fails unless some defect happens that causes the switch to explode or something

>>713944912
DOL-001 chads rise up

>>713981321
shit.
i sold a half dozen SNES games as a kid and got like $10 for them. never sold games after that. only 1:1 trades with friends

>>713944603 (OP)
nintendo felt like they had to compete. today they dont feel that way, they just sell plastic junk, cardboard, and ports with the nintendo logo and all the consoomer tards shower them with money.

>>713955706
Everything is a conspiracy. The official story is never true. Question everything.

>>713944603 (OP)
They understood software sales made the money.

>>713944603 (OP)
>How the fuck was this possible 22 years ago?
The Gamecube was a massive fucking flop. There was a ton of unsold units. So nintendo put the systems on deep discount in order to move those units rather than have them rot on store shelves.

>>713984773
>>713985160
No. No one was buying GameCube so they had to do massive price cuts just to move stock, zoomies.

>>713987172
so in other words, they felt pressure from competition? maybe if you stop buying their cardboard they will feel it again.

>>713983964
I have two.

>>713987394
Why would I? When the "competition" is still even more expensive? Should I just stop playing modern games altogether?

This is the trap that we all fell into, enjoy.

>>713944603 (OP)
>>713944721
I’m really starting to question the “official” story of the holocaust.

>>713944603 (OP)
How the fuck did they get away with charging ten grand for a GameCube?

>>713952719
I miss when controllers cost less than the games.

>>713952719
Games were 60 dollars in america, ps2 itself was only like 250 if that