New Gamecube Bundle: Buy a GameCube, get the Game Boy Player FREE starting June 23rd

[Storm]

Its kind of old news with E3 but heres the link.

LOS ANGELES, May 15, 2003 ? Nintendo today announces a new worldwide retail offer combining its Nintendo GameCube? home console with the new Game Boy® Player. The combination allows players to enjoy more than 1,200 Game Boy games on the home TV screen, along with the full library of more than 300 Nintendo GameCube titles.

For a limited time, Nintendo will include Game Boy Player for the regular price of the Nintendo GameCube system. This offer will be available at retail on June 23 for an MSRP of $149.99 in the United States, and on June 20 for ?199.99 in Europe.

"This offer builds on the incredible momentum generated by our Game Boy® Advance line, which has already sold 35 million systems worldwide," says Peter MacDougall, executive vice president, sales and marketing, Nintendo of America. "Once we saw the enthusiastic reception given to the debut of Game Boy Player here on the show floor at the E3 trade show, it was an easy decision to move ahead with our plans to combine these two products."

The Game Boy Player is a platform less than an inch thick, which acts as a base for the Nintendo GameCube. By simply inserting Game Boy cartridges into a slot in the Game Boy Player, consumers can use their Nintendo GameCube controller to direct action on the TV screen.

In North America, Nintendo is riding a wave of momentum generated by three dominating product launches this spring. Game Boy Advance is the hottest selling system in the market; The Legend of Zelda®: The Wind Waker? tops the console hit charts; and the combined Pokemon® Ruby and Pokemon® Sapphire are the top two selling titles in the portable game category.

Now to me its not a big deal since I dont own either a Gamecube or a Gameboy Advance but it might sway GBA Advance and SP owners that dont own a Gamecube to pick one up. It seems kind of pointless since the Gameboy is all about portability, I guess they are banking on current(?) and future Gamecube games to have a lot of connectivity.

I think the biggest effect this bundle could have would be to slash the standalone Gamecube down to $99.99. I think that will possibly spur Sony and MS to make further cuts especially if Gamecube sales pick up.

Also another question would be starting June 23rd would this bundle include a free game too?

Edit
I did a search for Gamecube, but if this is a repost I'll ask to lock.

 

[rgwalt]

I think the GB player is a great concept. I would love to play GB games on my TV. For $50 you can play all the GB titles on your TV as long as you already have the cube. For me, I don't want to spend $100 on a GBA SP as I'm not that interested in portability. There are some excellent titles out for the GB that I know I'm missing out on though, so I think this gizmo is a great idea.

Ryan

 

[Ciber]

Bah.

They need to lower the price, screw that stupid adapter.

 

[HamSupLo]

Gamecube needs more 3rd party games to spur more sales. I have a cube but it would be nice to have a wider selection of games like the other two consoles.

 

[ElFenix]

its nice because i don't always want to play gb games on the tiny little screen. they had one of these for the snes as well