This isn't necessarily all fluffy, happy rainbow news though - last year, a number of British retailers (most notably Dixons, the largest home electronics supplier in the UK) dropped the price of the GameCube dramatically in an effort to clear stocks of the console before dropping it from their ranges. After sales picked up again at the new price-point however, many retailers had a change of heart and continued selling Nintendo's machine.
As for Nintendo themselves, they today reassured gamers that this wasn't the beginning of the end for their console on UK shelves. "Index is currently running a big promotion on all its products, of which GameCube is one, offering up to 50 per cent discount," the company said in a press release, managing to state the obvious with extraordinary precision. "As far as we are aware, Index will continue to trade with Nintendo at certain times of the year."
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