Europe-Nintendo.com writes: While recently taking a gander at what my local GAME had to offer, I noticed that there were Wii games where they usually kept their (realtively small amount of) Gamecube games. This surpised me, so when I made my purchase I questioned the man behind the counter and he told me that in the past month they had only sold three gamecube games.
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
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Everywhere sells the Gamecube games far too expensive secondhand, I wouldn't mind building up my collection a bit since getting a second hand gamecube a few years back.
I hope Game isn't really doing that.
Does anyone care if Madden '04 Gamecube version goes missing? Seriously?
Chances are all of those games aren't worth buying, if there was only a small stock of them and only 3 of them were bought in a month.
GAME are a bunch of scums...
You should take a look at this website : cex.co.uk if you live in UK.
Well, it doesn't surprise me in the least. Gqmestation had a fantastic selection of retro games before they were bought over by game. What do you think happened to these games and consoles?
Scrapped.
It is such a shame as there are loads of gems there.
Er, this is REALLY old news. Game stopped selling GC games about three/four years ago and have to almost literally be forced to accept trade-ins of GC consoles or games.
It's quite sad as there's no doubt in my mind that the GC was a fantastic console. Just a pity that it didn't sell half as many as it should have...