| O-D-C said: DVD, both the PS2 and XBX could do DVD and that point having a DVD was 'in' third party supports for the Gamecube was fine pretty much till 2003-2004 (look at Capcom and Ubisoft games) but in the end the lack of a DVD player made the Gamecube look like it was missing something when compared to the other 2 |
This. Pus no real online support and pretty sad to think the current one for Wii is a massive upgrade for online.
Not to mention Nintendo confirmed it's then "kiddy" image with a console looking like a fisher price lunch box.
Wii looks elegant and sleek like an Apple product.
For those asking why is DVD so important when it's disabled in Wii and does fine.(btw Wii can play DVDs but it's disabled in software so Nintendo does not have to pay royalties) Well back in 2000 DVD was fairly new and in Japan when PS2 launched turned Akrihabra from a bunch of game stores to a bunch of DVD selling stores(this also was a big nail in Dreamcasts coffin) best selling thing with PS2 was the DVD of the Matrix. DVD players were not standard yet by any means,VHS was still king...a 30 year old format.
Today everything has a DVD player and most people have more than one DVD player of some sort,but back in 2000-2001 not having one in a console was a big deal esp in Japan.
