Yeah, that is Gamestops regular price for them. That is the reason I bought one. $40 plus $5 for a year warranty. Used PS2s still go for $99.99, and the old bulky PS2s go for $79.99. XBox for something like $110 I think. Now being the owner of both a PS2 and a Gamecube, I can say that if my Gamecube died on me I would be okay without replacing it for a while, but if my PS2 died on me, I would be at a loss. Much like with the N64, the GC games that are good are really good, much better than those of the PS2, but there are very few good games that are unique to the GC. I really hope they make a big effort to fix that with the Wii. I would really like to see it become true competition to the other consoles and not just because of the Wiimote and the low price tag. Which of course is the other reason Gamecubes dropped in value so much, the Wii is 100% backwards compatible with GC games, and it is only $249 for a brand new system, which makes the GC very replacable. PS2s and Xboxs still hang in there because their successors are not 100% backwards compatible, and their successors cost close to four times as much as they do brand new. Brand new Cube is $99 while a brand new Wii is $249, compared to a brand new PS2 at $129 and a PS3 at $499 (and I think that is just the price of the 60gb edition, which is no longer being made, editions with larger hds cost more.)

Originally posted by: sean wookie

Originally posted by: C3PX
I have heard of people accidently leaving their PS2s on all night and coming back to find a melted laser lens. Since my old NES (which is very likely the poorest quality Nintendo console) is still working to this very day, I have come to expect pretty decent products from Nintendo.

I try to stay away from 3rd party products thats why I never bought any other wireless controllers other than The Gamecube.

I was talking about the systems themselves, but yeah, I have had rotten luck with 3rd party products. For my old N64 I bought two InterAct brand controllers to save money, they worked fine for a while, then their joysticks stopped responding correctly. The Logitech wireless PS2 controller is third party, but it is also officially licensed by Sony and I have only heard great things about it.