We are the Borg...oh wait, that's something else.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.planetgamecube.com/news.cfm?action=item&id=2516">www.planetgamecube.com/ne...em&id=2516</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>News Article: GameCube Production to Increase in April<br>News Date: 01/16/2002 <br>Source: GC-Inside <br><br>Link: <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.gc-inside.com/news/20020115unit.html">www.gc-inside.com/news/20020115unit.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <br>(Might be a Japanese site...I'm not 100% sure...hope your browser can display it...)<br><br>How does a million GameCubes a month tickle your fancy? <br><br>Nintendo is currently producing about 600,000 GameCubes per month out of its Japanese factories. However, it's just been discovered that starting in April, it will up the production to one million GCNs a month for worldwide distribution. According to GC-Inside, Nintendo will be opening up another production facility in China to reach these kinds of numbers.<br><br>As for the system itself, 1.4 million Japanese GameCubes have been produced so far, as well as 1.3 million North American systems. Nintendo plans to have shipped 4.5 million GameCube units by the end of March. Yamauchi and company want to make sure that there are plenty of systems going around, including Europe, where a Spring 2002 launch is still planned. <br><br>*Is this real? That's an awful lot of Cubes. Not that I'm complaining, but can they really sell that many? Will they drop their price with an increased volume output?*<br><br>ZL<br> <p>Empires wax and wane; states cleave asunder and coalesce.</p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub19.ezboard.com/btenchimuyo79943.showLocalUserPublicProfile?login=zhugeliang>Zhuge Liang</A>  <IMG SRC="http://www.ezboard.com/ezgfx/gicons/black_greenspot.gif" BORDER=0> at: 1/16/02 1:55:43 pm<br></i>

That seems like an awful lot. that's 12,000,000 cubes made a year. Do they really need to make that many? <p><Center><img src=http://zeth.homestead.com/files/gackt.jpg></center></p><i></i>

Hopefully masproduction will equate to lower prices. But, I doubt it. The company execs are to greedy. That and quality on such a high volume will undoubtably yield low quality. ;-; <p> "Hashiriya are lonely drivers so, we do not need girlfriends."<BR><a href="http://www.utep.edu/anime">El Paso Anime Society</a></p><i></i>