According to an article on 'the enquirer' website Nintendo's GameCube is still going strong because of Nintendo's relatively big margins on the console compared to Microsoft's loss-making Xbox:
 Unconfirmed sources close to Nintendo have told the INQUIRER that it costs Nintendo just $20 to make each Gamecube, while Microsoft is known to make a loss on each X-Box it sells. A spokesman for Nintendo refused to confirm the figures, while insisting the company remained "on target" with its console. |
Sony's Playstation2 remains king of the consoles despite increasingly aggressive tactics from Microsoft to support its X-Box. In the UK, unattributed retail statistics from the website computerandvideogames.com show some 66,500 PS2s were bought by punters in the last week alone. Microsoft sold some 15,060 X-Boxes, while Nintendo managed to shift just 8,000 Gamecubes.
Nintendo's main selling product is its Game Boy Advance of which it sold over one million copies in the U.S. alone in the last two weeks, according to the inquirer article.
Source: the inquirer
