Anon remembers the $49 GameCube

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• FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Eh, a bit of an exaggeration. I think they were just old inventory and undesired at the time, hence the price and lack of security measures

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  • cubism_pitta@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I actually remember around 07 there being a big display of PS3s at BestBuy you could just grab the box.

    That said they may have been empty displays but my memory tells me they had some weight to them.

    I used to spend a lot of time at Bestbuy playing Guitar Hero with randos :)

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I can’t really remember because it was ages ago but I think we actually got a load of empty boxes from the warehouse specifically for display, they weren’t just boxes that had the consoles removed they were display boxes. They didn’t have a barcode on them.

      This would have been for the Xbox 360 and PS3.

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  • Varesti@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, at least where I lived, everything was in constant supply and nobody had issues with sold out stock/scalpers until the Wii came out.

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    • drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is my memory as well.

      The only time there were shortages of anything was during black friday (which people went feral for) or maybe for one or two days during the debut of a super famous highly anticipated product (like, the next iPhone, that level of famous).

      The only things that were scalped for months on end like they are now were concert tickets.

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  • papalonian@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure that when I bought my Wii it was just on the shelf as well, granted this was less than a year after it came out (so ancient history at this point) and my memory could be incorrect.

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• RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yup. America used to be a land where most people were financially stable

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  • rockerface@lemmy.cafe ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And then all those Europeans came

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  • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The US had a homeless problem since way before the gamecube came out.

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    • Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes, and it didn’t used to exist on this scale

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• kinkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I was a little miffed when I finally convinced my parents to get me a used GameCube for $100, only for the retail price to drop to $100 a couple months later.

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