makingmusic476 said:
Why are y'all ignoring the GameCube? I swear, the GameCube is the most underrated console ever.
List of "core" Nintendo games on the GameCube in the first three years (published - I'm too lazy to look up developers):
Luigi's Mansion (excite truck)
Pikmin (Twilight Princess)
Super Smash Bros. Melee (Brawl)
Wave Race (Punch Out)
Eternal Darkness (Batallion Wars 2)
Metroid Prime (Metroid Prime 3)
Star Fox Adventures (Super Mario Galaxy)
Super Mario Sunshine (Sin and Punishment 2)
Doshin the Giant (Japan/Europe only) (Another Code: R)
1080 Avalanche (Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat)
F-Zero GX (New Super Mario Bros)
Kirby's Air Ride (excitebots)
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (plus Master Quest, etc.) (Fatal Frame 4)
Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour (Mario Strikers)
Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (Mario Kart Wii)
Wario World (Wario Land Shake it)
Donkey Konga (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn)
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords (Super Paper Mario)
Mario Power Tennis (Mario Super Sluggers)
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Metroid Prime Trilogy)
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (Disaster: Day of Crisis)
Pikmin 2 (tact of magic)
Pokemon Colosseum (Poke'mon Battle Revolution)
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Yes, ALL of those games were released before the end of 2004, and I even left out a few like Mario Party, WarioWare, and Animal Crossing. Nintendo has only grown each generation, and that's why their N64 titles outpaced their SNES titles, as shown above, and why their GC titles outpaced their N64 titles.
That's my main issue with Nintendo this gen. Despite being larger (and richer) than ever, their release list is smaller than ever. I mean, seriously, only Punch Out, Wii Sports Resort, and New Super Mario Bros. Wii for this whole year? Are you kidding me?
Look at the GameCube. By this point in its life, we had seen a new Paper Mario, Super Mario, Smash Bros., Mario Kart, etc., PLUS new IPs like Pikmin, reinventions of old favorites like Metroid Prime, and new iterations of franchises like F-Zero, Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, and WaveRace. We've gotten half of that on Wii.
Why haven't we gotten more WaveRace, Mario Tennis, or Mario Golf? Those franchises would be PERFECT for the Wiimote, but instead we get tech demos like Wii Sports Resort. They're demos of what *could* be in something like WaveRace. Why not give us WaveRace?
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