What was wrong with the Gamecube?

[Rob2600]

Damn. Here in the U.S., DVD players were as low as $35 in 2002.

http://news.cnet.com/DVD-players-no-..._3-820169.html

Nice article on the cost of DVD players in 2002. Rewriting history indeed.

It does say they're available for "less than $100", and that's the beginning of 2002. By the end of the year they were cheaper than that. I don't know that they were $35, but he's probably not that far off.

In late 2002, Radio Shack had progressive-scan DVD players stacked up in the middle of the store for $35 each. I bought one to use in the bedroom. I also bought a Polaroid DVD player around the same time for $50.

Two years prior in December 2000, I bought my JVC DVD player *on sale* for $200 (originally $300). So yeah, the price of DVD players fell dramatically during those 24 months.