It was recently announced that Gamecube has sold more games per machine than Microsofts' behemoth home brick the Suxbox.

Nintendo had sold 12.8 games per console compared to 12.0 per console for the Suxbox.

Nintendo's market share also rose 21% in Q4 2003 and rose another 6% in Q1 2004.

Pretty cool, huh?

Yeah, that is pretty cool, though they are loosing heaps of money on the console side by selling it less than xbox or ps2.

uuh, dude. there's no need to be a fanboy about it. It's cool that you're so into nintendo but don't let that blind you.

The fact of the matter is, considering this is Microsofts first forray into console gaming, they've done a pretty damn good job of 'holding their own'. Infact, it's quite surprising that an industry 'newbie' is competing neck-in-neck with an industry veteran.
Imo nintendo messed up with their gcn game plan and while nintendo is gaining a lot more japanese 3rd party support this gen, they're losing just as much western 3rd parties.

On the upside though, for the first time in a several years, nintendo has single-handedley got me excited about gaming again with the introduction of the DS. It's potential is staggering to say the least.

anyway, i'm way off topic. Great news to see nintendo market share rise considerably. Is that WW or just in Australia?

oh also, i'd just like to say that Nintendo is infact NOT losing much money on gcn hardware. The reason they're selling gcn hardware at such a low price is because they can. The components used to create gcn from the start of this generation were financially cheap to manufacture in comparisson to xbox & ps2 hardware. That's why ps2 & xbox are more expensive and nintendo can take deeper dives in price cuts. Not to say Sony or Microsoft can't make such a move, but if they did, they WOULD lose money on hardware. It's already well known that Microsoft hasn't made a single profit off xbox (infact it's been reported that they've lost over a billion dollars in xbox related ventures); but they're microsoft, they can afford to take a hit.
Sony-wise, well..... they're the market leader. Whaterver loss they make in hardware they can more than make up for in software sales.

I think Microsoft is making money now. Last time I checked...
However Bill Gate fortunes has decreased after the tech bubble burst. His fortunes went tumbling from 120 billions to 60 billions, yet his still the richest nerd.
Note: Nintendo's last president is also a billionaire, so don't feel sorry for him. Ken from Sony however is richer than him.According to BRW, he is among the top 100 richest man in the world, you see. So the point of my narrative is that go and buy GamePro Magazine because it rocks and you will help those writers through the bleak outlook of the economy(with the SARS virus and drought) Did you know that Australia is in it's worst drought in more than a 100 years? Nope. So be considerate when using water. Fines can be issued for those living in the state of NSW( the oldest state of Austalia).

The GameCube would be doing even better if Nintendo focused on it more. They're focusing on the GBA way too much and if they poured just that bit more marketing muscle in the GameCube's direction then the console would be doing a lot better.

And I agree with mango-country about the whole fanboy thing. The word Suxbox is ancient.

Yeah I hope they focous more on their next gen console.I am going to buy this one.I went PS2 instead of Game Cube but I will get both a PS3 and a Revolution.

As it has already been pointed out "suxbox" is old.It was only ever used by people who are fools.Sorry to say it that blunt.But every console has some good games on and if you stay loyal to one and never play the others you miss out on lots of good games.

I have a ps2 and a gamecube
but for the new game line up I think ill buy ps3 and xbox360 and skip the revoluthin all thow xbox 360 has sold out in the usa and europe on its first day out so it could be hard 2 get 1