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Ruler on 03 July 2016
HylianYoshi said:
Ruler said:

how was it bad? itsa disc

Let's see: They held less than a third of the disc space that DVDs had. The regular DVD was also the standard at the time (PS2 and Xbox), so I bet GCN discs were more pricey to produce for third party publishers.

it really wasnt a big Deal back then, i remember when Doom 3 launched on PC for example it was also on 3 CD Rom Discs to have more space. It was pretty common on PC, Dreamcast and PS1 and later on the Xbox 360

 

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KungKras on 03 July 2016
Ruler said:
HylianYoshi said:

Let's see: They held less than a third of the disc space that DVDs had. The regular DVD was also the standard at the time (PS2 and Xbox), so I bet GCN discs were more pricey to produce for third party publishers.

it really wasnt a big Deal back then, i remember when Doom 3 launched on PC for example it was also on 3 CD Rom Discs to have more space. It was pretty common on PC, Dreamcast and PS1 and later on the Xbox 360

 

here is an informative video

Oh wow. That was one of the most painful videos I have ever watched. From the torture of an intro to the entire gimmick of the channell being a horrible Mister-T impression. WTF is wrong with that guy?

But aside from that, I agree. The industry got everything they wanted with the Gamecube, but the executives have already decided. They don't want Nintendo to lead the industry or make hardware.



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onionberry on 03 July 2016

Nintendo Land as a launch title



PieToast on 03 July 2016

Maybe not as bad as the obvious well known mistake in the industry that have been mentioned here, because a large number of games were very successful in that at that time, but there was a period in the last generation where the most successful genre was military shooters after the first large success of modern warfare, and everyone wanted to make a shooty shooty bang bang game with explosions just like Modern Warfare, even existing horror franchises like Resident Evil and Deadspace.

Like I've said, it wasn't that bad, but developers should have realized sooner rather than later that Call of Duty has its own market and audience, and should have sought after a different market or even the one they already had. So for a few years we were left with a bunch of games that looked boring and very similar to each other.



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midrange on 03 July 2016
Ruler said:
HylianYoshi said:

Let's see: They held less than a third of the disc space that DVDs had. The regular DVD was also the standard at the time (PS2 and Xbox), so I bet GCN discs were more pricey to produce for third party publishers.

it really wasnt a big Deal back then, i remember when Doom 3 launched on PC for example it was also on 3 CD Rom Discs to have more space. It was pretty common on PC, Dreamcast and PS1 and later on the Xbox 360

 

here is an informative video

Missing out on grand theft auto was huge. It was one of the games that made the ps2 the best selling console



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Mr_No on 03 July 2016

Oh, I think I forgot a pretty infamous decision: Konami ditching Hideo Kojima.

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DonFerrari on 03 July 2016
SamLeheny said:
PSP/Vita has had some pretty "what were they thinking?" ads. That stupid squirrel ad or that unintentionally racists billboard.
The biggest blunder in recent memory had to have been the Xbox One's announcement.
Given how much gamers like to bitch and fight amongst eachother, it speaks volumes to how badly they cocked up that all of the gaming world was unified in their disapproval of Microsoft's initial vision for the Xbone.
I honestly think they're still paying for it today. Xbox One sales lag way behind the PS4, in my opinion, because the mental seed of MS being the evil ones and Sony as the cool guys who are like "just let gamin' be gamin' yo!" planted waaay back in E3 2013 are still resulting in people choosing Playstation over Xbox, even if they don't know it.
That really was a colossal misjudgement on Microsoft's part.

Well, there are some users at VGC that still think that X1 initial plan was the best ever, but PS fanboys got afraid of MS stomping them so they started a war against then.



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lionpetercarmoo on 03 July 2016
Zones said:
lionpetercarmoo said:
Not making PS4 backwards compatible like the fat PS3 was.

Oh what a terrible business decision that was. ;)

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Ultrashroomz on 03 July 2016

Nintendo and the whole SNES CD add-on debacle.



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Keybladewielder on 03 July 2016

64 using cartridges
Xbox one reveal
The whole concept of the Wii U
PS3 initial price and marketing