# Is Nintendo hurting?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nintendo-hurting/224108>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 12, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nintendo-hurting/224108 "2004-01-12T03:30:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nintendo-hurting/224108/1 "2004-01-12T03:30:32Z")

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Ouch. A misplaced thread, and the hampsters ate it.

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**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nintendo-hurting/224108/2 "2004-01-12T05:21:39Z")

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Well, if I’m reading into the thread title correctly, no. They may have lowered the price of Gamecube and be in “last place” (which isn’t exactly true, but we won’t get into number arguments here), but they’re not out of the race. They’re well into planning their next console to compete with the next Playstation and X-box. Of course, we can’t forget their complete domination of the handheld market with Gameboy, which they still make plenty of money on.

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**Author:** ![Duderdude2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@Duderdude2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duderdude2)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nintendo-hurting/224108/3 "2004-01-12T07:24:18Z")

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Bingo, they’ve been a very profitable company for the last 100 years. They only recently posted their first loss ever, however, this does not look to be a continuing trend as the price drop has increased sales dramatically (GameCube even outsold PS2 for a 2 week period, and has been outselling Xbox for a few months).

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**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nintendo-hurting/224108/4 "2004-01-12T09:24:39Z")

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Obviously, you’ve never been whacked in the head with one.

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**Author:** ![Freiheit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e8c25b/32.png) [@Freiheit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freiheit)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nintendo-hurting/224108/5 "2004-01-13T05:28:06Z")

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Whoops. No OP, and I still got my answers. Thanks, guys.

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**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nintendo-hurting/224108/6 "2004-01-13T05:42:19Z")

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> [@Smeghead](#):
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> Obviously, you’ve never been whacked in the head with one.

Well, the 'Cube has that handy handle so you can get a proper grip for maximum damage.