PS3 vs GC (Japan+Americas)

[haxxiy]

bdbdbd said:

haxxiy said:

Tremble said:
Well that's interesting but remember the price of the gamecube and now check the price of the ps3. You cannot compare a 99€ console to a 399€ console. If you wanna be fair, wait ps3 price to fall at 149€ and compare with the cube.

 

There was no real demand for the GC. It was already too spread out the thing 'gc is for kids' and the smaller capacity media killed third party support. And PS3, unlike GC, is sucessor to a 130 million selling console.

PS3 is the new N64: different and expensive media, uber hardware, late launch.

 

Actually the "for kids" thing started in general during the Gamecube. The smaller capasity media didn't kill 3rd party support. M$ paid for GC exlusives going to Xbox, PS2 was so dominant that developing for any other platform was financially pretty stupid. GC  was easy and cheap platform to develope for and it had pretty good 3rd party support right out of the gate, the support was gone due to it selling so badly. And lastly, there was demand for GC, atleast pre-launch, but it went down the drain with the 3rd party support.

Indeed the GC was the easier to develop to but the small media surely gimped down a lot of titles, like doing midi sound , compressed textures and low res movies. Actually using 8cm mini-DVDs as media format is more expensive than standard 12 cm DVDs. That's because 12cm is far more produced and therefore cheaper. For instance you see that many third party titles reached both XB and PS2 but not the GC, which missed many many good games.