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In Switzerland:

Gamecube: 329.-- CHF (293 $)
PS2: 699.-- CHF (622 $) (if i recall correctly, not sure about this one)
X-Box: 700 something, but Price was cut a lot very fast because it didn't sell at all
X-Box 360: 579.-- CHF (515 $)
PS3: 899.-- CHF (800 $)
Wii: 399.-- CHF (354 $) and like everywhere else its still sold at its launch price
DS: 259.-- (230 $)

the Dollar prices are all at current exchange rate, so when those systems launched it was even more expensive for us because the $ was way more expensive at some of those times.



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NJ5 said:
Thanks all for the info :)

By the way, it would also be nice to know about price drops if you remember those... I remember PS2s sold out at launch because a friend of mine had a hard time finding one, but I don't know how fast they had to drop prices after that.

 

Well Microsoft dropped the 479 euro launchprice when the gamecube was gonna to be released by a whopping 180 euro! making the xbox 299 against the 249 launch of the Gamecube..

The ps2 dropped it price fast to 999 gulden = about 450 euro then to 699 gulden = around 330 euro

the ps2 dropped to a 249 euro price at august 2002 and the xbox followed.. http://tweakers.net/nieuws/23106/prijsverlaging-playstation-2-xbox-uitgebreid.html

And then the gamecube dropped it's price to 199.. and then to 99 in 2006?

Something like that... >_>

 



 

Face the future.. Gamecenter ID: nikkom_nl (oh no he didn't!!) 

Germany:
Xbox - 479–540€
Playstation 2 - 869 DM (444€)
Gamecube - 199€
Dreamcast - 499 DM (255€)



I thought the Xbox got a pricecut like one week after it was released;..






konnichiwa said:
I thought the Xbox got a pricecut like one week after it was released;..

 after 2 months when the gamecube was released.. BUT Microsoft did compensate early buyers by giving them 2 free games (and a controller but that I'm not 100% sure off.. got to look in my old Power Unlimited magazines for that)

 



 

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Yes they gave 2 games and a controller to all the early adaptors. I'd still would have been pissed if i paid like double than those who waited 2 months



i remember when we bought our n 64 and it was a launch console for 280 DM after that rhe euro came and it should have been 140 euros but the sold it for 260 euros i remember that



N64 is the ONLY console of the fifth generation!

bet with *no one yet* that the combined first week of Monster Hunter 3 in america and europe will be 600k or more! winner changes looser sig and avatar for two months!

koopatrooper said:
i remember when we bought our n 64 and it was a launch console for 280 DM after that rhe euro came and it should have been 140 euros but the sold it for 260 euros i remember that

 

 You mean GC right =p?






no i dont i mean the nintendo64



N64 is the ONLY console of the fifth generation!

bet with *no one yet* that the combined first week of Monster Hunter 3 in america and europe will be 600k or more! winner changes looser sig and avatar for two months!

PS2 launched at $729 in Australia. Not sure about the others, but the Xbox was close to that and the 'cube was in the $200 range.