[Vicious_2003]

Well I am not sure how much it costs now.. but when i bought the game when it first came out the whole setup ran me 250 bucks

And considering the game (Disc) itself wouldnt cost more than 59.99, that means the rest, nearly 200 bucks is the cost of the controller. Thats almost two Gamecubes my friend, TWO !. Of course it's probably cheaper now

I don't think Nintedo dropping the Cube's price to $99.00 is a big deal

I see where your coming from. Thats even how I kind of felt after the price drop before this one. But come on. 99.00 $ ?. When your droping a 200.00 $ piece of hardware down to 99.00 $, theres a little more than strategy at play. I mean, if it were a good strategy to drop prices that low Microsoft and Sony would have done it themselves. Clearly they are better strategists* than the good folks at Nintendo

You are right about people possibly leaning towards the Gamecube slighly because of its price though. But that doesent change the fact that the reason there dropping it so low is just to peddle off as many of thier inferior systems to non gaming parents looking to buy thier kids something for christmas as possible who see it and say "wow that one's cheap, Ill take it" as possible.(I hope you can make sence of that long winded sentance) I dont mean to bash Nintendo or anything, Ive still got love for my main man Mario, but they need help, LOTS of help. And a blind man could have seen the flaws in the Cube form day one, big mistake.