# Nintendo Price cut
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nintendo-price-cut/109949
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 20, 2002, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nintendo-price-cut/109949 "2002-05-20T15:11:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2002, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nintendo-price-cut/109949/1 "2002-05-20T15:11:13Z")
In case anyone here is following the Console wars, Nintendo just announced that they are cutting the price of their Gamecube to $149 US – A cut of $50.
[http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/05/20/e3.nintendo.price.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/05/20/e3.nintendo.price.ap/index.html)
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### Author:  [@VenusProbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusProbe)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2002, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nintendo-price-cut/109949/2 "2002-05-20T15:13:38Z")
W00t!
Too bad I already have one. ☹
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2002, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nintendo-price-cut/109949/3 "2002-05-20T15:18:25Z")
Guess they don’t want to cut into their gba sales by getting to close to that.
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### Author:  [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2002, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nintendo-price-cut/109949/4 "2002-05-20T15:50:28Z")
Go big N! I have one already, but hell yeah. I [heart] Nintendo!
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2002, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nintendo-price-cut/109949/5 "2002-05-20T22:33:57Z")
Iwish it was $100 like they just did for the xbox & ps2.