Nintendo: GameCube Price Drop Quadrupled Sales; Market Share Now 37%

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 4, 2003 - 8:28am.

Redmond, Wash. -- Nintendo of America announced on Tuesday that, since discounting the price of its GameCube video game console in the U.S. to $99 just over a month ago, sales of the product have quadrupled. The company also cites sales figures gathered from the nation's largest retailers that show the GameCube has risen from 19% to 37% of game console market share, ahead of Microsoft's Xbox. According to data from NPD Group, Nintendo GameCube sales are up 2% percent over figures from last year, while sales for Microsoft's Xbox dropped 3% and Sony's PlayStation 2 dropped 17.5%. The company also announced that on Nov. 17 it will begin selling a $99 package that includes the GameCube console and its "The Legend of Zelda Collector's Edition Bundle" -- which features the original title for NES, "Zelda II: The Adventure of Link," "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time," "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask" and a playable demo of "The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker."
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