How was this possible 22 years ago? Did they even make any money from this?

They put $90 worth of components in it.

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>>714223936
It will keep being posted until you finally go do something about runaway greed in the gaming industry

>>714223712 (OP)
Nobody had or wanted a Gamecube, bro. Not even peanut price could save it.

>>714223712 (OP)
From the console? No. I believe it was sold at cost or less than to get people invested into it to buy the games later.

>>714223979
>It will keep being posted until you finally go do something about runaway greed in the gaming industry
Nintendo was just as greedy back then. They were just in a worse position, so could thus demand less.

>>714223712 (OP)
>Not pictured: The PS2 winning so hard and the xbone taking the second place scraps to the point nintendo HAD to do this.
If only we still had that kind of competition today this wouldn't be a problem but both snoy and microjeet keep shooting themselves in the foot.

>>714223712 (OP)
I’m sure whoever made that wasn’t alive in 2003. I hate these people so much

>I was still in my Dad's balls when this came out!

>>714225487
Of course they weren't. They have no idea that you could build a decent computer back then for like 100 usd

>>714225487
I was alive. Gamecube stuff got super cheap, especially towards the end of the generation, they literally couldn't give that stuff away. I bought a second Gamecube at a yard sale for $40, and I bought Ocarina of Time Masterquest at Gamestop for $10.

>>714223989
gamecube was the last good Nintendo product thougheverbeit not counting handhelds

>>714223712 (OP)
Reminder this isn't the launch price. Nintendo Gamecube was doing so poorly they had to lower the price multiple times and it still wasn't enough. It launched at $250, then they had to drop it to $150, then they dropped it to $99 and STILL nobody bought it because nobody wanted it. Gamecube wasn't popular and having one at the time wasn't great if you didn't have a PS2 or even an Xbox to compliment it. 3rd party games were all better on PS2 or Xbox save for RE4, Viewtiful Joe, and Killer 7 and even then it was mostly in visuals and loading times. PS2, the weaker console, still beat Gamecube in the 3rd party games it took from Gamecube (RE4, Killer 7, and VJ were all supposed to be Gamecube exclusive) by offering more content and features in the games. Although I don't think Killer 7 had any added features though. The disc size meant Gamecube wouldn't even get games that the PS2 and Xbox got despite being well within the power range to get them. Which meant Gamecube had to rely on first party games to sell the console. So you had Super Mario Sunshine, Wind Waker, Luigi's Mansion, Melee and Animal Crossing being the big games there with Metroid Prime and F-Zero also existing on the platform. Nobody was going to trade God of War, Halo, Fable, KOTOR, Burnout 3, Ninja Gaiden, Midnight Club, Tekken Tag Tournament and CvS 2 (on a non gimped controller), GTA 3/Vice City/San Andreas as well as a multitude of games you can play online so you can play with Mario cleaning up dirt on the ground, Saturday Morning Cartoon Zelda, Animal Crossing, and Melee. Nobody was going for that when they had other, better options around.

>>714227208
I apologize for the long response, any typos in it, and run on sentences. It just gets annoying seeing the constant attempts to make it seem like the Gamecube was anything special when it wasn't at the time and it isn't now. By almost every measure it deserved to flop like it did. From the disc size, the controller, the image it created for itself and Nintendo based on the games it used as marquee titles that identified the console, even the little thing where you hear a baby laughing at the end of seeing the Gamecube logo when you held down the Z button on boot up with 1 controller. Sure, people who grew up with it and make YouTube retrospectives and such about it are fine, but this idea that the Gamecube was anything close to "peak" was ridiculous then and it is now.

>>714227208
Nigga didn't even list all the PS2 jrpgs and racing games. You HAD to have a PS2 to complement the GameCube. I've always been a Nintendo fan, bought all their shit at launch, but the GC isn't even nostalgic to me. It really wasn't great. Granted it had a few of the most important games of that generation (melee, wind waker, metroid prime)

>>714223712 (OP)
Bro mcdonalds burgers were 49 cents back then.
People think companies have gotten "greedy" but a $60 game costs like a quarter of what a $60 used to cost

>>714227208
Sometimes stuff just went on sale

>>714223979
why don't you make threads about Sony or Microsoft's greed then?

>>714228353
>1 console = 2 games
Why doesnt the Switch 2 cost $160 today?

Gamecube was the console that made me never buy a console again. I almost got a PS3 when my PS2 died but fortuitously they removed backwards compatibility at the same time, then PCSX2 took off.

Cost me $420 for N64 with Mario 64.

>>714223712 (OP)
it was possible because they charged an additional 20 dollars for a memory card which was basically required to play any game

>>714223712 (OP)
I remember seeing GameCube's for $30 all the fucking time

>>714224417
exactly why success ruined them, thank you.

>>714223712 (OP)
>company inexplicably got greedy over time
Are there any hard cases of this actually happening? Companies just charge the market price they think will end up turning out the most profit and benefit to themselves, they don't go "we should slash a third of the price for our product because it's the nice thing to do :)," or "raising the price would be mean :(," whether they raise, lower, or keep their prices is just due to cost-benefit analysis. Some people strangely don't seem to grasp this. Companies are selling $70+ games as opposed to $60 because they can get away with it or believe they can. They didn't before because they didn't believe they could get away with it.

>>714223712 (OP)
NoA wasn't as greedy as Ninty Japan until Reggie stepped down.
Remember in 2006, the Wii and Wii Sports bundle almost wasn't a thing. Reggie and his team got Ninty Japan to go with it, and only Japan didn't get the bundle at launch.
Now they're more aligned, especially with NoA's President previously working with EA as it's vice president.

I never understood the hate for the gamecube. Sure it's not the PS2 but it still had a lot of fun exclusives and it was the last nintendo console without an annoying gimmick.

>>714223712 (OP)
realistically no, they were desperate

>>714223712 (OP)
Ah, this thread again.
Times were different, and corpos hadn't seeped their consultant infested hands into the industry yet.
Systems were peak performance and games, made for gamers.
It may not have had movie games, or iMmErSiVe ViSuALs, but that gen was the end of gaming's last golden age
>Muh 4k, hdr, ray tracing, and online play for the PrEmiUm GaMiNg ExPeRiEnCe

>>714223979
I'm abandoning modeen gaming, and plan to mod my smash edition switch this weekend.
About all I can do

>>714228775
Hey, cool it with the antisemitic remarks

>>714230446
Based, you're doing your part

>>714223712 (OP)
$99 in 2003 would get you the same as $600 in today money, possibly even more

>>714229967
>Muh DeeVeeDee pluher
>Muh unline
>Muh vury grown up and maturr hooker killing in gta 3
You can please some of the people some of the time, but you can't please everyone all the time

>>714229967
I don't think people hated it, it was simply not as good and didn't have the massive library that the ps2 had and the power of the xbox which usually had the best way to play a game, the gamecube was stuck with licensed kid stuff and a small number of very good games, largely first party

>>714230612
Thanks, anon. In the wildly unlikely scenario that nintendo comes to it's senses and changes it's ways, I'll get a S2 same day.
But they won't, so I won't

>>714223712 (OP)
>Did they even make any money from this?
Yes, in fact. Nintendo isn't retarded selling at loss unlike other failing brands.

>>714227208
The PS2 was absolutely fucking crazy.
It had at least 2-3 masterpieces per genre and then another half a dozen great games per genre if not more.
There must be 75+ games in the platform that are considered top of the line.
We will never see anything like that.

>>714228353
I can smell this image

>>714230684
$99 from 2003 is $175 today. You cant get a new Switch 1 and a game for $175.

After having constant hardware issues with the PS1, I avoided the PS2 entirely and had a Gamecube+Xbox+PC in 6th gen.
Almost 30 years later I still haven't bought any Sony hardware since the PS1.

>>714223712 (OP)
It didn't, the Gamecube was a flop that no one wanted even at $99 with a game. Companies are only generous when they are desperate and losing

>cubesnoys still trying to make their failbox a thing

Launched for $200 in 2001. Later cut the price to $100 in a desperate bid to stay relevant against the PS2. $200 from 2001 is equivalent to $360 in 2025.

Switch 2 costs $450 at launch. Adjusting for inflation, that's 25% more than GameCube. GPU prices are inflated thanks to cryptocurrency and LLM's. Does that and the portability make it worth 25% more? Debatable, but the market sure seems to think so, given that it sold 5 million units in a month.

Is it greedy to charge market prices for an elastic good when you're not desperately fighting for survival?

>>714231232
>Everything is over x10 as expensive
>Somehow the value of the dollar is only half than what it was

>>714231232
>b-but the inflation
you're buying shit now, not in the past ffs. Why are inflationfags so fucking retarded?

>>714231561
The Dreamcast did ok considering that all it's hype died out in like a year

>>714223712 (OP)
usd was worth more back then.
and games were cheaper and quicker to produce

>>714223712 (OP)
We didnt know how good we had it back then...