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by Steve Gibson, Nov 20, 2001 6:25am PSTNintendo is the first one out of the gate announcing some kind of sales figures for the GameCube. They stunned quite a few people with the number of just under $100million in sales for Sunday. Beating out Harry Potter they say for raw $ numbers. Of course GameCube's are $200 a pop as opposed to the $5 to $10 most people pay for movies. An IGN story quotes a Nintendo rep saying "It's over what we think Microsoft's allocation was". No word yet from Microsoft on what their sales figures were. Also Nintendo declined to say how many units were sold. The top selling games were Luigi's Mansion and Rogue Leader as expected. Update: Goldman Sachs did a survey among U.S. retailers in big cities, and so far 73% had sold out of the Xbox and 47% out of the Gamecube. Microsoft shipped an estimated 300,000 Xbox consoles around the nation, while Nintendo delivered some 700,000.
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MS was losing something close to 30% of the console price AFAIK, that'll be $90 bucks per console (Since the RRP is $300), so MS has lost close to 19.7 Million on console sales alone.
Not knowing how much MS or Nintendo are charging for licenses on the games the rest of the analysis is void...
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First, a lot of people are waiting to actually play them before they make any decisions about which they're gonna buy, and second.....it would be kinda dumb to have a new console on the shelf a week after launch. You've either been delaying the lauch for too long or have way too much capacity. You could have either launched like a month earlier and beat the competition or now you have 24515215215x the manufacturing capacity you need. Granted with MS they're outsourcing the components, but if they order a billion at once its gonna cost them a lot more than smaller shipments. Ideally you want to undersell but not by a ton. That way you still sell a decent number of games, and hopefully build some hype for the xmas season. Since consoles normally cost more to produce than they sell for, spreading that out helps absorb the financial hit too. The first wave of xbox game sales absorbs the loss from the second wave console sales. Granted MS isn't really in financial trouble but it still helps justify the program.
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Nintendo sold 330,000 GameCubes (consoles)
Microsoft sold 225,000 Xbox's (consoles)
nothing has been said about MS's $ sales, but assuming the approximate $100 million is accurate, that means the average person spent $303 dollars on GC and accessories.. $200 for the console (we can assume most bought a GC at least) and $103 for accessories/games. make the assumption that they bought 1 accessory at $30 and you average about 1.5 game per purchaser.. this doesn't seem too far off.
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More people with Xboxes than PS2's? I would believe there are about 50% more people with PS2s, AT LEAST? And GameCube coming in six percent below the Xbox, when current (albeit sketchy) reports are saying the GC sold more? I guess that Shackers are generally more Xbox friendly than the rest of the public though. That still doesn't explain how more people voted for the Xbox.
I'm not sure what to buy myself.. maybe a GBA :)
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Where are these stores? Are they in some magical 'video-game-console-in-stock-happy-land'? Because, I swear, as the average consumer, I never ever never ever find them. Could you imagine walking into an EB today and just getting an X-Box off the shelf? WHERE IS THIS ELECTRONICS BOUTIQUE?
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I'd like to see an independent survey on NUMBER OF UNITS SOLD.
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$5? Shit, I wish.
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