According to a recent Reuters report, Nintendo is seeking to bring in supplies from other territories to meet demand for its GameCube console in the United States. Last year, production of the GameCube was halted for a time due to slack demand, but sales surged when the price of the console was cut to $99 in September.
According to Nintendo spokeswoman Perrin Kaplan, January Cube sales were up 60 percent over the same period in 2003, while the month's GameCube game sales rose a whopping 101 percent. "Store shelves are just running very dry. I'd say about 50 percent of our stores are out," said Kaplan. "We're getting as much inventory as we can from other territories and making sure that Japan has production ramped at maximum to feed the need."