Australian Gaming Bargains, November 14th

If You don't have a gamecube, GET ONE!!!

Damn there's some awesome games on GC. Pikmin 2 is amazing, and now with Metroid Echoes coming out, Damn!

It's a damn shame it hasn't taken off here (Australia is GC's worst market in the world, but worldwide GC is No 2, mainly since ther's basically no xb in Japan).

I hope Next generation MS and Nintendo make their consoles compatible. It probably won't be too hard, since Nintendo is keeping the same Partners' components (IBM, ATI) MS is using the same companies for the next thingy of theirs.

How awesome would that be? I'm sick of having to buy several consoles to have all the best games.

And you could have the best of all worlds: I'd love to play Halo with a wavebird, and also not have to buy 4 controllers and expensive component cables for EVERY machine, not to mention a switch box.

Please make this happen!!!

Here's a bloomberg link to show that GC is ahead of xb in japan:

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000101&sid=a6lnGKueKIro&refer=japan

Doesn't have the figures, but basically GC has a 3 million lead in japan, which keeps them over the top, even though in USA xb has a 1.5 million lead. (I'll see if I can find more links later)

GC is more popular (then xb) in most of mainland europe (germany, france etc), but not in the UK.

they both get thrashed by Sony, though. Worldwide the user base is basically 70/15/15 percentage wise.

Oh, and keep in mind that 2 million halo 2s is a lot for a day, but both GTA3 and Vice city sold more then twice halo 1 EACH (Both sold over 10 million), and for comparison Smash Bros Melee sold almost 4.5 million. And even then, Super Mario Bros 1 sold more then 5 times GTA3 and Vice city. (Mario 1 sold 60 million copies)