| Dolla Dolla said: http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=25399636 "GameDaily's interview was with none other than Perrin Kaplan, Nintendo of America's doyenne of publicity. With surprising frankness, she told the AOL-owned publication straight-out that Nintendo has officially pulled the plug on its perky purple box. "Are we producing any more GameCubes? No," Kaplan said bluntly. "But do we have the inventory there for people to still purchase? Yes." She went on to also say that Nintendo is no longer developing any GameCube titles, which is tantamount to a deathblow for the first-party-game-dependent console. |
Funny you should bring that up. Its one of the reasons Kaplan is widely known as a misinformed idiot, since Nintendo came out soon afterwards to note that they ARE still making Gamecube hardware.
"I can confirm that globally, Nintendo is still continuing production of GameCube hardware and GameCube software," a spokesperson for Nintendo Europe told EuroGamer."
http://www.gamerwithin.com/?view=article&article=2153&cat=4
It doesn't matter though. They'll only ship another couple hundred thousand units. Might as well, when they make a profit on it at $80, and people still want to buy Smash and Mario Kart.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
