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hsrob on 04 January 2010
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foxxycontin said:
Farmageddon said:
foxxycontin said:
Khuutra said:
foxxycontin said:
johnsobas said:

that's not what he was talking about, he was saying the cube was $50, which it never was.  There was a sale on amazon sometime early last year where they sold the GC for $50, but it was just a clearance on amazon.  Wal-mart was giving away $100 gift cards when you buy a $200 system, doesn't mean anything. 

The point I was trying to say was, they were selling it for $100 in 2003. The Wii is just a Gamecube overclocked twice as fast. This goes into the conversation of if its possible for Nintendo to make a profit if the Wii was $80. I personally think it'd be a little more than that, but still, selling a Gamecube for $100 and still making a profit off of it says something.

I don't think that really captures the difference between the systems on any level

What's so different between them then?

Go play Sunshine and then Galaxy. Do you even own a Wii?

But yeah, everyone knows that SEGA does what NINTENDON'T.

I played Sunshine and Galaxy when they both came out. Galaxy is actually one of my most favorite games. Also someone said I was calling the Wii two Gamecubes. I dont know why someone else said that to me because I never said that. I just said its overclocked twice as fast, which it is. That doesn't mean anythings wrong with it.

The point of the matter is Nintendo can easily lower the price and still make a profit.

People say this over and over but making a profit is only an end-point if, no disrespect intended, you are in the position that Sony's games division currently occupies, the position MS entertainment division occupied since the beginning of the Xbox's life or the position that dragged Sega under.

For Nintendo to profit means nothing special, they have always profited bar one financial quarter in the company's history.  They have loftier ambitions and their goal is to profit as much as possible and that doesn't involved cutting the price of a system that just had the biggest week for a home console ever.