Exactly. It is my understanding that the Xbox is narrowly beating the Gamecube for second place in North America and the United Kingdom. Everywhere else (including Europe taken as a whole) the Xbox is in third place. Hell, in Japan the Xbox is doing so badly it is just embarressing, with something like two thousand sales per month if it is lucky.
Nintendo hasn’t made a yearly loss in a long, long time. They aren’t at the minute with the GBA and Gamecube. Microsoft is making a massive loss with the Xbox.
Yet everyone seems to think the Gamecube is the one struggling. I will never understand this.
What games on N64 would you consider real gems? I’m curious because we have a travel tv/vcr rigged with N64 and I’d like to go on e-bay and get a few more games for it.
Remember this: it doesn’t matter if a company loses money on each console solds. Companies do this on purpose, and plan on doing so until the console has been out for several years.
Look, it’s simple:
PS2/X-box (at launch): $300 unit with, oh, say, $400 of components
But people buy ONE console. They buy MANY games, which go like this: $50 game that costs next to nothing to manufacture and comparitively very little to develop.