>You could get a console and a great game for 99 dollars in the past What the fuck happened to the industry?
wtf kinda unit is MSRP? Mesopotamian Rape dollars?
>>719505705Yeah but you end up with an underpowered piece of shit with nogaems.
>>719505795Good Morning Saar.
>>719505842the gamecube and ps2 had way more games worth playing than all modern platforms combined
>>719505845>Random Redditism over a jokeGoddamn tourists
>>719505795Manufacturers suggested retail price
>>719505923>the gamecube and ps2 Heh, I see what you're doing. No, cube has nogaems.
>>719505705>inflation stats sperg incoming to screech that it’s ACKTSHULLY a worse deal than modern systems
>>719506258its a much worse deal. Modern systems don't come bundled with Melee
>>719505705>What the fuck happened to the industry?
In 2009 you could walk out of Gamestop with a Gamecube, a full gameboy player, an extra controller, a copy of Mario Sunshine and a pair of Donkey Konga bongos (just for the hell of it) for less than $50.
>>719505705>launch price was double that>only went to 100 because nobody was buying it>inflationNot to mention that development costs have gotten insane due to gamer retards doing "muh power"/"muh graphics" bullshit, and for nintendo in particular paying out much higher wages now then they did in 2001, this isn't surprising.
>>719505705Consoles today have much higher specs and can do more than those 4 gens ago
>yes i'll have uhhhh, 3 gamecubes please
everything was so cheap in 2001
>>719507039That deal is not from 2001, it's from 2004 or 2005.
>>719505705>>719506971When game systems got cheaper over time...VGH
>>719506953The N64 was FOUR TIMES more powerful than the COMPUTER THAT GOT US TO THE MOON, and didn't cost even close to another Apollo mission. Gamecube after that somehow was even cheaper.
>>719506587no you couldn't lmaogamestop marked up everything, including used gamesno matter how shit or obscure the game was, they'd sell it for like 80% of brand new retail price
>>719507135no anon, 2002 or 3, it wasnt even a full two years before they dropped the price.People forget how grim shit was for the gcn, they act like the wii/blue ocean thing was out of nowhere, but its just because first party was so strong early on that people misunderstood the level of success.
>>719506953so why aren't game systems just getting continuously more expensive every gen? "it's more powerful than last gen, so it's more expensive" would mean game consoles should be going for like $5000.
>>719507507not just a gamestop thing, people forget that gamecube was in a weird spot. Majoras mask came out a year before the gamecube and despite it literally being a cashgrab dlc that required a fucking memory expansion pack, it was 70 fucking dollars, which in todays money is like 150 bucks. The gamecube came out much cheaper than the n64, even more so after the price cut, but no other system was that cheap and the very next gen prices went up, even the wii was 250 bucks and that was the budget option.
>>719507850>cashgrab dlc>70 fucking dollarsBut enough about Tears of the Kingdom.
>>719507608NTA but manufacturers sell at a loss and then hit you on their storefronts where they take a huge profit from various prescription services and digital sales.
>>719505795Metropolis Street Racer pesos
>>719506862>only went to 100 because nobody was buying itAll systems got cheaper over time back then. Now they don't because fuck you that's why.
>>719507507Yeah you could. I was there buying all of that stuff.
>>719508154Gamecube was not selling anon. Nintendo already priced it budget against the ps2 which came out the year before for a 100 dollars more, when sony went to 199 the gamecube sure as fuck wasnt going to make any money without another price cut, 50 bucks was killing nintendo and it was looking really grim until the wii flushed the coffers with cash. People talk about the wiiu because it followed the wii, but the gcn (while doing better long term than the wiiu) hurt bad.
>>719505705It dropped to $50 at some point. I know, because that's when I go it, bundled with Mario Kart DD.>>719505842It was the middle console in everything but storage, dumb Zoomie.
>>719510040>It was the middle console in everything but storageironic considering its only use was storing weed
>>719506971Insane how the internet seemingly refused to record or acknowledge this price drop. You can't find any info on this one.
>>719505795Minimum Set Retail Price.
>>719508154That doesn't change his point. Gamecube was selling poorly, so it went cheaper faster than the PS2, hell even the X-box didn't drop as fast in price as the Gamecube.
PlayStation happened.
>>719505705Retards voted from drumpf.
America was on top of the world until Obama came and legalized fag marriage, which was a satanic ritual to mock God, making us all subject to punishment because of the folly of our gay evil leaders.
>>719510531vgh... without tarrifs the ps5 would be $99
why are you asking an obvious question to a site that is 1/3 reply bots, 1/3 corpo cum guzzlers and 1/3 people who know what you mean but have gotten tired or pointing out the obvious and would rather talk about actual games or other shit?
>>719505705>Great GameSmelee sucks though. Brawl was the best Smash Game
Where did the idea that the GameCube was the weakest of the three six gen consoles come from? The PS2 was the weakest
>>719510781No one intelligent believes otherwise, but PS2 library mogs the everliving fuck out of gaycube
>>719505705https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgSuNUNz-vQ
yeah i still regret not buying my friends gamecube he traded it for and xbox 360
You have to think of the cost of things in McDonalds happy meals.
>>719505705I want to write more but this is just shitpost thread and people spam tldr if I write more than 1000 characters.So a short very simplified version.Capitalism. Line goes up. If you "undermine" shareholders investment, they can sue you. Elite and 0.01% wants more money and any money taken from them is communism. American dream is dead.
>>719510886Anon Katamari Damacy started development on the GameCube before the devs moved development to PS2. The only reason the PS2 has a good library is because the jews at sony kept begging devs to keep their originally multiplat games exclusive to PS2
>>719511138I read up until the cringe climax of you blaming capitalism you little commie fag, but tldr the rest. Eat shit loser
>>71950570599 was pretty expensive for that POS in the mid 2000s.
>>719505705It's the power of selling like shit
The GC sold like shit and had almost no games in that market. Remember, you could get a brand new Wii for $249 that was fully backwards compatible just a year after this "deal" was introduced.
>>719505705The previous generation was thrifty. They would hold out until prices fell to a reasonable level. No cut = no buy, simple as. Their kids were annoyed by the waiting. Now those kids have grown up, eager for instant gratification, incapable of collectively holding out to force the price cuts to happen.
>>719505705yeah lol they were giving those away, I'm glad Nintendo is doing much better now
>>719505705Nintendo's sales target for the Gamecube was 50 million units but the system failed to sell half of that. Before this price drop they had to stop manufacturing the console for nine months in 2003 because of unsold inventory but even cutting the price to $99 and bundles weren't enough to save the system. Basically you should blame the consumer because clearly they didn't care and bought the more expensive options.
>>719505705Nintendo used to actually try. Being successful was the worst thing that could've happened them.
>>719505705Mine came with Star Fox Adventures
>>719512236Nintendo peaked at the NES, which in fairness is the greatest console of all time, but they peaked early. Sega peaked at Saturn, Sony at PS2
>>719507507zoomie missed out when you could get 9 games for sub $40 because every third one was free
>>719512236*consumers used to not buyit's on sale for a reasons, idiot
>>719512145>Basically you should blame the consumer because clearly they didn't care and bought the more expensive options.Can't blame people for buying the system that had way more games.
>>719513110That's fine, but then bitching about pricing makes no sense. Consumers showed they clearly value other things more than pricing.
>>719508068Nintendo doesn't loss-lead with their consoles. That was Sony and Microsoft trying to undercut Nintendo/each other, by selling consoles more powerful than the price would imply. Nintendo responded by dropping out of the performance race.
>>719505842>buy $99 gamecube>go to gamestop>pick up a handful of $5-20 used games>entertained for a good whileThere was nothing like it. You never knew what bangers you'd find for cheap on a given day. Made the shit that held its value or was impossible to find all the sweeter.Best $7 I ever spent was on SSX 3. Next best $4 I spent was on Burnout 2. Shit was incredible.
>>719510781The graphics of the Gamecube are noticeably better than the PS2 on multiplats that appear on both consoles (like RE4). On top of this, the video signal output from the PS2 is wet garbage, even in good looking games. There's a weird fuzzy edge to everything that's difficult to clean up--not the case with the Gamecube. That said, the PS2 has the better library by several miles.
>>719506258even with inflation it's like $180
>getting up early on Black Friday to get the Zelda collection bundle>Almost didn't get it because my faggot dad decided to shop around fucking SEARS just to buy nothing because he's a hillbilly retard and talking to wagies is the closest he'll come to pussy that's under 500lbs
>>719505705The occultist pedophiles that run the planet continue to fuck the economy just enough to keep you eternally stressed and worried and not happy so you forget that the world is run by occultist pedophiles that are above the law and always will be. That's what happened.
>>719505842>Luigi's Mansion>Melee>Sunshine>Pikmin 1 and 2>Star Wars Rogue Leader>Metroid Prime 1 and 2>Wind Waker>REmakeThat's just off the top of my head, and the GC had better hardware than the PS2.
>>719506953Consoles today can't even maintain 30 FPS.
>>719505705I always thought the built-in carrying handle was a weird design decision.
>>719505705world went to shit
>>719505705jews
>>719517125Interesting anon, and it just did so all on its own? Not because of blacks Democrats and Jews? Haha crazy, guess it just is what it is as the kids say
>>719516560Man that's some garbage.>GC had better hardware than the PS2Lmao.
>>719517474It did in many respects this isn't subjective
>>719517692Correct, it's objective. The Gamecube was insanely weak despite bigger number on paper. Paper tiger.
>>719515981PS2 had better texture capabilities. You can compare something like Baten Kaitos to the various FFs (especially XII). It's not quite night-and-day, but the difference in the level of detail is quite apparent. Way less stretching because they actually had the memory/processing for high-resolution textures.
>>719505705Moore’s law is dead. Old chip tech used to get super cheap super fast. Now die shrinks are getting really expensive rather than just making things cheaper on every metric, and you’re still going back to TSMC for over-booked foundry allocation thanks to AI. Compared to back then we have cheaper games and more expensive hardware.
>>719517357>$2 trillion wars initiated by Republicans>The fact that we have to pay interest on all of those loans surely doesn't factor into why politicians are constantly telling us that we can't pay for things we need>ZIRP under Obama AND Trump didn't strip the middle class's purchasing power, investments booming while wages stagnated and savings eventually inflated awayIt's not a partisan thing, anon, the rich stole from you.But I also feel like the $80 game complaint is a particularly zoomer thing because I remember $80 N64 games, when $80 was a fucking lot. Imagine being just a bit short of buying a Switch 1, just for one game.
>noooo why should i pay $70 for a videogame its extortion
>>719505705Are you just going to pretend that the Gamecube was not selling at all Nintendo had to do anything to get surplus systems sold?
>>719505705Sounds cool until you realize this was absolutely a desperation play by Nintendo.
>>719517928>Textures vs polygons
>>719517474GameCube used very advanced technology for the time
>>719506971Unironically. have one for all the TV in the house.
>>719508154>All systems got cheaper over time back thenWhen Sony decreased the price of the Playstation 2 in early-mid 2002, it was a direct response to the launch of the the Gamecube and Xbox and to strengthen its already dominant position, especially after the 2001 holidays.
>>719518659>Sounds cool until you realize this was absolutely a desperation play by Nintendo.Sound even cooler desu
>>719510339My mom bought me this VERY model after she saw my original purple's laser went to shit, I rented RE4 and Geist and played them that night shit was cash.
>>719518725Ah yes like a limited disc size that completely cucked it.
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>>719518725Gamecube was an excellent technical response to the Dreamcast. Unfortunately it was up against the PS2, and even came out *after* the Xbox was released.>>719518661>Can't tell framerates apart>is defending the cubeProving the point.
>>719505842it may have lacked a huge library like PS2, but Melee, Double Dash and 3 or 4 Mario Party's were games that you could dump hundreds of hours intoespecially if you had friends
>>719518882If you had friends you were partying up with them in XBL or if you're hanging out doing 4 player online split-screen in Halo 2 against 12 other people.
>>719510890>I just love smacking that Princess PeachRude.
>>719518882Not him, but I was a teenager in 7th-12th grade during the GC's run and you were seen as a loser if you admitted you owned a purple lunchbox. God forbid you claim owned Animal Crossing either.
>>719512145Nice revisionism you filthy fucking kike. Back then, we had it good because Jews didn't control our economy or companies like Nintendo who cherished its fans and their money. WE HAD IT GOOD!
there is good pc gaming now so it doesn't matter yeah and what do you expect in the year 2025? we're lucky not to be in some dystopia by now, we're in the tariff world and ukraine so everything is fucked up. oh I didn't get that steal in 1998, touch grass or end yourself right now if that is going to be your attitude about it all. b-b-but my hamburger isn't what the ads say, figure it out.
>>719505705now go calculate how many big mac meals you get for $100 in 2004 and for whatever bing-bing-wahoo slop costs right now. Turns out you get less food. Entertainment needs to be cheap so you don't notice this shit.
>>719511474they were thrifty with shit for (you) maybe.they're not thrifty anymore in retirement all of a sudden. And really never have been. Because they didn't need to, ever.Being thifty was for lower-class underskilled plebes. Nowadays it's for every non-nepo baby if you even THINK of buying a house some day.
>>719505842Games like Metroid Prime and F-Zero GX would have been impossible on the PS2. Gamecube was more powerful than the Xbox if given to a competent developer. Just look at how much RE4 was gutted for the PS2 port. Metroid Prime ran at 60fps.
>>719518878>Implying the PS2 could hold a steady framerate to save its lifeI don't know what contrarian thing you're on, but it's commonly-accepted that the GCN beats the PS2 technically.
>>719520742>Metroid Prime Shoebox sized rooms? Doesn't seem difficult to pull off.>F-Zero GXMeh, doubt it.>Gamecube was more powerful than the Xbox You're delusional.>>719523312See: >>719517928You're mistaking your experience with Dolphin for the real hardware cubie.
>>719515981>There's a weird fuzzy edge to everything that's difficult to clean upit was because the ps2 didn't deinterlace its signal, leading to it looking like fucking garbage on anything but a crt
>>719509037The PS2 had price drops. As did the Xbox, the Xbox hardly outsold the Gamecube. These were not old stock they tried to liquidate as they would be reusing the hardware for the wii anyway.
>>71950584RE remakeRE4Metroid Prime 1 and 2Super Mario SunshineWind WakerEternal DarknessPikmin 1 and 2Super Smash Bros MeleeViewtiful Joe 1 and 2Killer 7This is off the top of my head and not complete, but these are all wonderful games.
>>719506862It wasn't $99 in 2001 retard. Gaming has exploded when it comes to the size of the market. Development costs are bloated due to DEI / scammers that don't actually do any work.
>>71950570599 dollars.... is too mu.... much money.... for a...... nintendo.... SHITCUBE
>>719523606No, I'm going off of years of reviews when the hardware was the only way to play these games, as well as my own experience. You're posting emulated examples, not direct feed footage. The PS2 shot was peak framerate that the console couldn't maintain for even the amount of time you showed; it's actual performance was slowdown city. Gamecube games were more performant in that regard.
>>719520742>Gamecube was more powerful than the Xbox if given to a competent developerI'm a tendie but wake up dude, the Xbox could reach much, MUCH higher highs than the Cube ever could.
Why the fuck are daily gamecube bad threads a thing on this board
>>719524989Negros who got whipped during the oughts console wars and never got over the trauma
>>719524989IIRC it started with Twitterfags shitting on TTYD in masses which lead to shitposters bandwagoning and turning it to hate for the console as a whole.
>>719505842When I got the GameCube it was my first console of that generation, it looked fucking amazing compared to the 64 and the ps1. I played the ps2 at my friends houses and always thought the graphics looked like shit. The ps2 has good games on it but unless you were rich, you were only going to own like 10 or 20 games on a console. So I felt like I made the right choice picking the GameCube over the ps2. Then the Xbox came out and I jumped to that. I never bought a ps2 until they deep discounted it everywhere in like 2010 and while I enjoy using it from time to time the graphics still look like dogshit and the Xbox and GameCube still look way better.if you were growing up at the time, melee was a mind blowing experience that everyone talked about at school. The graphics looked amazing for the year it came out and being able to fight using a bunch of Nintendo mascots was great. It was the last good Nintendo console IMO.
>>719524505The Wii isn't literally using the exact same chips, they were on a smaller 90nm process, they couldn't just recycle unsold hardware. And yes there were issues with unsold stock for the Gamecube leading to Nintendo halting production for a bit, you can find plenty of articles about it from back in the day.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3134651.stm
>>719505705This ad came out in 2005, the same year Xbox 360 came out.It'd be like buying a Switch 1 bundle right now.
>>719507507I got a lot of ps2 games for like 7.00 in 2010 because as I said in my previous post I never bought a ps2 until 2010 because the graphics looked like dogshit. At some point they did discount everythinf to get rid of it
>>719524989Zoomers don't like hearing how much better it used to be. I can't blame them. Just take solace in the fact that you had a console that was actually good and they didn't.
GameCubes were 50usd with prime at Bestbuy in 2004 I remember almost buying one over MGS3.
>>719524818These captures are all real hardware. You are relying on your fuzzy memory, I'm telling you what I recorded yesterday. I don't emulate.
>>719525458The saddest thing about modern consoles is how much of a chore it is to use and set them up. If you got a GameCube or some other console on Christmas you plugged it in and put the game in and it run in 2 minutes. If you get someone a console for Christmas today they have to log in to a bunch of shit tie it to a credit card update the console patch the games INSTALL the games etc which can take hours. At some point it’s like they forgot this is a machine that is essentially just a toy to play videogames. It should just work quickly and be as simple to use was possible.
Reposting this but I bought some GameCube games from Facebook Marketplace and this disc was in one of the game cases. Does anyone know what this is? I put the disc in my GameCube but it didn't recognise it.
>>719519071The way it worked in my friend group is none of us had all 3 consoles so we would play each others consoles and games. Some of us had 2 consoles OG we were lucky. the fact my friend had a GameCube was a big deal during the summer of 2005 or so because our entire group was playing resident evil 4 on that. We also used the Xbox a lot at that house to play ninja gaiden. We essentially never played the ps2 at all. We didn’t dislike it, it just wasn’t relevant in our group other than for MGS3
how autistic do you have to be console warring 25 years after the consoles came outalso lol @ poorfags who could only afford one growing up
>>719505705Nintendo and Sony wonBut here is the thing: THEY WON, people who shilled and supported them will not be retributited for their support. You bult the ark, you are left behind in the flood. Companies only show charity when they are at risk, which will never happen again
>>719525774The Gamecube NR reader was a special dev model Gamecube, the NR discs only run on it and likewise the console cannot play retail Gamecube discs.
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>>719505705GameCube was a failure and they were desperate for people in their ecosystem
>>719505705You better believe that retailers in my neck of the woods never took that suggestion seriously and we're selling that shit for $200 bucks until the Wii was announced.
>>719507507if it wasn't a popular game it was $10-20 used at EB Games. I got so many PS2 and DS jrpgs and dungeon crawlers for $15 bucks back in the day.
>>719507507>he didn't browse the bottom shelf for gemsfound some of my favorite games there, all for $5-$20
>>719505705you can get a new switch lite, or used/refurbed LED switch 1 for that money today. Throw a few bucks more and you get a series s. Things aren't that different really
>>719505923Even when combined with PS2, there are absolutely NOT more good games worth playing.The amount of good games available on PS5/Switch2 annihilates the library of PS2/GC, ESPECIALLY more than GC..t 38 years old been gaming since 1991
