In an interview with Yamauchi, he reveals his thoughts and opinions on GameCube sales and strategies as well as what he thinks of the XBox which is scheduled to be released in Japan in February.

Yamauchi's thoughts on the GameCube's strategy:
GameCube was designed to offer the highest quality software and the real challenge will be in 2002 when the user expects even better games. At the same time Nintendo will listen more to users in regards to development of new software.

Yamauchi's thoughts on GameCube sales:
I am satisfied with early GameCube sales in Japan. The recent PS2 price drop hasn't slowed things down and in the future the machine will be too big and expensive for the average gamer due to Final Fantasy XI which requires a hard drive and a modem to play properly. American sales were stronger than expected, we thought the recent terrorism attacks may have effected sales but they didn't. The final results of the Christmas trade war are yet to come but things are looking positive.

Yamauchi's thoughts on Xbox:
The Xbox launches here in February but with its large size and hard drive loading, it's quite the personal computer! However, it's not about the quality of the hardware but rather the software that plays on it and the current games aren't very interesting.

Source: TendoBox