>you don't know what you hadReminder that this photo was taken in 2006 (five years after the console launched) when retailers were having a fire sale with their GameCube stock because the Wii was completely backwards compatible with it (people forget that the Wii even had GameCube controller ports) and no one would buy a GameCube when they could get a Wii that would play all the new games and their entire GameCube library.
>>743328741OH MY GOD THERE'S A FIRE... sale
>>743328741The GameCube was a joke. It had smash brothers and metroid prime (which was just the gay baby version of Halo). It wasn't until retards started posting video essays on YouTube that anyone ever thought that console was good.
people buying extra of something they already have just because everything has been turned into a speculative grift is a large part of why the economy is in such a shit state
>>743328987>The GameCube was a joke. It had smash brothers and metroid primeIt had the superior version of RE4
>>743328987WindwakerTwilight PrincessFour SwordsCrystal ChroniclesTTYDDouble Dash, the irrefutably best version of Mario KartKirby Air RideFE 9 and 10RE4Battalion WarsAnimal CrossingPikminSuper Mario Strikers
>>743328741My God, this is verbatim a xitter post. Is this site just over? Not even the courtesy of a screen cap anymore
>>743329368Yes. This site officially died in 2020.
>2006I was born a year before this photo was taken, is it too late for me?
>>743332195It's too early for you to post here, if anything. Start using the site at 18, but lurk for 2 years before posting, as God intended.
Controller was great for Cube exclusivesController was shit for multiplats, playing Tony Hawk on Gamecube -stinks-
>>743328741I was 21 when this picture was taken, already was on my second apartment.
>>743329318You forgot Viewtiful Joe.
>>743328741>$5 t-shirts
>>743332787Old Ojisan, why are you still here? is it true? are we really here forever?
>>743333290>$2 gas and $5 Fast Food>Average price of gas is almost $5/gal>Average price of a fast food meal is almost $15
>>743333673make it stop
>>743333673If only Joe Biden hadn't made Trump implement those tariffs and bomb Iran.
>>743333290I bought a bunch of $1 T shirts at wal mart back then to wear to work
>>743329318Fire emblem 10 was on wii you retard.
>>743328741Gamecubes were literally stuck in retail inventory during the entire generation, the reason behind such a low prices compared to Xbox and PS2. Already in 2003, a Gamecube could already be found for only $100.
>>743334025Everything still was cheaper, seeing what was considered top of the line hardware at less than 200 dollars, less than 100 for handheld, is crazy compared to the prices of today.Even the generation after was marginally less expensive than now
>>743328741I miss this shit so much. I bought a brand new PS2 slim from Walmart on clearance in 2009 for like $40. Best $40 I ever spent.
>>743332693So a faithful port then.
>>743333346I know I'm here forever. Where else is even an option? Reddit? Tiktok? Rather stay here with you guys. My oldest boy is almost the age I was when I first started posting here. Makes me feel a little old
>>743328741Meanwhile 3DS handhelds go over +$100 used
>>743328741I can't wait to play uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.Wait, first I need to buy a 3rd party controller that isn't retarded.
>>743334234You must be one of the rare anons who didn't gave up on a normal life yet stayed here.how does it feel to have experienced the golden age of the internet and seeing how everything is going down, even more in recent years?
>>743334234I had a coworker who was an OG oldfag from like 2005. He was in his 40s at the time. Probably is almost 50 now.
>>743334274they had a cheaper model at less than 100 but it didn't had 3D features. and it was still below 200 for the stronger models.
>>743328741The state of the retro market today makes me sad, I remember my dad taking me to a flea market near me and buying a bunch old N64 games for like $5 each in the mid-late 2000s.
>>743334162>2009nigga please.
>>743328987Rogue Squadron sold me on it at launch. It has the best graphics I'd ever seen at the time (as perceived on the dilapitated store demo unit tv).
>>743334324It's funny, I never thought of myself as "normal". I'm a fucking sperg. Eveb being a sperg I met the love of my life, got through school and have a great career, own a house, have 3 children and a dog. I was in special ed for all of middle and high school. I guess>how does it feel to have experienced the golden age of the internet and seeing how everything is going down, even more in recent years?The internet feels so small now, so many little owner operator fiefdoms are just gone. I still use a few forums outside of 4chan, like overclock.net and hardfourm but they are slow moving. Even my boomer car forums are slowing down. Reddit is unusable for me, same for tiktok. I will say having fast internet and YouTube is great.>>743334365I have a few friends I met on here that are my age. We all still post here. I wish they jannies did a better job deleting tranny/gay/BBC threads. I'd think about letting my kids use 4chan if they did.
>>743334556That was pretty much the only way I could afford gaming growing up. I was always one gen behind buying from used entertainment stores.
>>743334025yeah it was a pretty big flop and barely had any games. lack of third party support really killed it
>>743328741Why are you copypasting twitter posts? Fucking faggot.
>>743334151I don't think so.Here's the prices adjusted for inflation
>>743335791No one cares about your inflation meme, retarded goyslave.
>>743336072Are you really that retarded?!
>>743335791Even adjusted for inflation those hardware prices are much better than modern day ones
>build pc in 2020>lol i'm never going to use more than 16gb of ram>2026>ps3 emulator needs more than 16gb of ram>ram prices through the roof
>>743336972Are you? Schlomo dicksucker.
>>743333673when i was a kid my dad would take me to a chinese restaurant and buy 50 pieces of chicken for $18. today those 50 pieces cost $100.
>>743329368whenever I see posts like this I wonder who the fuck thinks like thisas someone who doesn't use xitter I wouldn't know if this was a xitter post or notit's an interesting enough topic for me to scroll through the thread and that's what really mattersI don't give a shit if the random internet stranger who thought this up posted it on xitter or /v/ first and I give even less of a shit if OP plagiarized some post from xitterkill yourself retard
>>743334025>Already in 2003, a Gamecube could already be found for only $100.despite the low cost, every console still made a profit. nintendo never sold a console at a loss.
>>743335791that's significantly cheaper than modern consoles
>>743328887A FIRESALE??!?!?!!
>>743337385if they were still making profit at massively reduced prices, maybe it would've been wise to sell the console a little cheaper to begin withmaybe it wouldn't have flopped so hard
>>7433372092020 was 5 years ago and browsers were already eating up a gig per tab. How did you not just work 3 more shifts at McDonald's and pick up 64gb? Are you retarded?
>>743337614The Gamecube was always $100 cheaper than the PS2 throughout it's life, it was easily Nintendo's cheapest generation ever. Even their games were the cheapest they ever were at $50 MSRP (much lower than their previous cartridge based systems) with a massive line of Player's Choice games that were discounted to $20 after hitting a certain sales threshold. Also I've seen a lot of conflicting reports but it does seem like they were selling the Gamecube at a loss, at least for a moment when it hit $100 in 2003. You can say a lot of things about the Gamecube but it was easily the greatest bargain in Nintendo's history.
>>743338357>bargainIt was the shittiest console of its gen, they rotted in warehouses while the Xbox even outsold it. It was only a "bargain" because only the smelly kid whose dad left and his mom survived on food stamps would buy one over a PS2 or an Xbox. Even black kids in section 8 housing saved up for a PS2 instead of buying a shitcube. It was truly the white inbred trailer trash of consoles.
>>743338327>Are you retarded?yes....
>>743328987Mystic HeroesLost Kingdoms 1 and 2Custom Robo
>>743329368I bet nobody on twitter is willing to admit the REAL reason we don't see stuff like this anymore.
>>743338507All of those systems and games have massively appreciated in value like crazy, from that perspective it absolutely was a bargain. The Gamecube had some of the highest rated games of that generation and is arguably the most beloved today despite being a commercial failure in it's time.
>>743338776It's only beloved because of how good the dolphin emulator is and YouTube shoving Scott the Wiz content down every dumb zoomers throat. It's false nostalgia from people who weren't even alive when the console came out.
>>743329318You forgotResident EvilResident Evil 0Resident Evil 4Rogue Squadron 2 Rogue LeaderEternal DarknessStar Fox AdventuresStar Fox AssaultViewtiful JoePokemon ColosseumLuigi's MansionTales of Symphonia Super Mario SunshineIt had a killer library.
>>743338973>It's false nostalgia from people who weren't even alive when the console came out.Anon, if you're not exaggerating, those people are so young that they only play Roblox and Fortnite. No one born in 2003 gives one fuck about Mario Sunshine, they can't even run emulators.
>>743332639Anon...2005 was 21 years ago. If he had followed your advice, he'd still be able to post right now.
>>743338973Why aren't there any popular PS2/Xbox Youtubers evangelizing their systems? The simple truth is Gamecube just aged better than it's competition.
>>743328741By your own admission; the GameCube was made almost entirely obsolete by the Wii? The Wii even had GameCube controller and memory card ports. Plus it could even output 240p so it is an amazing device when softmodded and used on a CRT TV. You can literally play ROMs from the SD card.
>>743339335People that played PS2/Xbox either grew up and got jobs or are rotting in prison. None of them have the time to worship some gay purple cube for YouTube views like tendie fans do. They're a cult.
>>743337468God fucking dammit I got the bear
handhelds saved nintendo during the n64 and gc era.
>>743339147I was in my Senior year of high school, then...
>>743333290Of all the things you could have picked from that picture, that brand of t-shirts is like a dollar more now and regularly goes on sale for $4.
>not even mentioning f-zero GXreally guys
>>743334712PS2s were still definitely being sold in 2009. You have to remember it was still getting big exclusives like God of War II even in 2007. And they released the pink variant in some territories like Australia in 2007 too.
>>743339990Gotta mention Star Fox Adventures and Luigi's Mansion instead lmao. 'cubers are mentally buckbroken.
>>743335791The only products that are more expensive here are the screen addons, because screens are some of the few things that have gotten cheaper over the years
>>743337209Why don't you just buy a PS3 instead of emulating it though? Pretty sure you can jailbreak them now to play everything off the HDD.
>>743333673I cant believe fast food is so expensive now. The hibachi steak lunch special at my local japanese restaurant costs the same as a large baconator meal. And both places expect you to tip now. Imagine tipping some drive-thru monkey.
>>743332195You can buy a handheld emulator under $200 that can play the greatest vidya games ever made.
>>743340240I want high resolution, high frame rate, fast loads.
>>743328741>le nostalgiayou guys know you can still get older hardware for cheap rightyou can get a Switch off eBay for like $100you can get a refurbished Switch 2 for like $220
>>743340259>And both places expect you to tip now. Imagine tipping some drive-thru monkey.I would sooner kill a man than tip a fucking fast food worker
>>743340083looks like an eraser
>>743332195Yes, you were born after everything went to shit. I sincerely feel bad for you.
>>743339756i don't even know what brand they are
>>743339701I always wonder what would have happened to nintendo if pokemon flopped in the west. Would they have attempted to fully acquire rare so they could produce more games for a western audience or would they have tried to buy amother western studio they've worked with like Rockstar or Midway.
>>743339990It was off the top of my head, of course F-Zero GX is up there too. It's been 20 years anon, I can't remember all of them in one go, I'm getting old.>>743340127They were good games.
>>743328741meds
>>743328741Around that time I bought a GC with Mario Party 7, Pikmin 2, and an extra controller for $100 at TRU.
>>743333768Why are you making this political? Grow up
