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Armads on 07 May 2010
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jarrod said:
johnappseed84 said:
jarrod said:
johnappseed84 said:
jarrod said:
johnappseed84 said:
The Gamecube had better core third party support than the Wii has had so far. Almost every major third party multiplatform game of that gen, except for GTA, appeared on Gamecube.

lol.  No, I'm sorry but not even close.

Gamecube did have a port of almost every important third party multiplatform title from last gen.

For starters, It had all the EA Sports games including EA Big titles like the NBA Street series. It had all of the big UBiSoft games like Prince of Persia, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, and Beyond Good and Evil. The Wii hasn't even had one Assassin's Creed game this gen or a version of something as big as Batman: Arkham Asylum or MW2. And, almost all the EA Sports titles are trimmed down for Wii.

lol, what?  Where was GTA?  Where was Silent Hill? Street Fighter? Burnout (after 2)? Guitar Hero?  Metal Slug?  Fatal Frame?

Every EA Sports game was also "trimmed down" for GameCube (at least the Wii versions are online).  Wii gets COD, it gets Lego, it gets Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Sonic, Silent Hill, NFS, and plenty of other big brands.  And more importantly, it actually gets a decent amount of exclusives.  GC never got an exclusive near as big as MH3 or DQX.  The biggest GC got was probably REmake... and that was a remake. :/

I said in my earlier post that the only really notable one missing from Gamecube was GTA, so I don't think I have to say where GTA was. Gamecube had Sonic and NFS. It didn't have Silent Hill, but it did have its own exclusive last gen version of the original Metal Gear Solid. And the remake of Resident Evil One didn't make an appearance on PS2. Also Gamecube had other big exclusives. It was the first place that had Resident Evil 4. It had exclusive rpgs from Namco like Tales of Symphonia and Baten Kaitos. If you didn't have a Dreamcast, it was the only other place you could play Skies of Arcadia. And it was the first place you could play Viewtiful Joe and Suda51's Killer 7.

RE4 was announced as multiplatform before it even hit shelves.  Twin Snakes was panned and bombed (unlike Shattered Memories was celebrated... and uh, bombed) and was made by a Nintendo owned studio anyway. K7 was day and date multi, though GC at least got the better version (PS2 port was outsourced on the cheap).  Suda meanwhile's done 3 Wii exclusives already (NMH, NMH2, Fatal Frame 4).  VJ came to PS2 with extra content, and VJ2 was multi from the start.

I already said REmake was likely GC's biggest exclusive.  It's also on Wii now though.

Namco's already delivered 3 exclusive Wii RPGs (Tales of Symphonia DOTNW, Tales of Graces, Fragile Dreams).  Really, if you want to get into a pissing match with exclusives, Wii destroys Gamecube.

That's not true actually.  Mikami even said that if RE4 appears on any system besides the gamecube he'll cut his own head off with a chainsaw.  He did a lot to try and stop it from being ported but in the end capcom just had another development team scale down the graphics and port the game to the ps2.  VJ was also an exclusive when released and capcom forced a dev team to port it.  This is why both games have a "only on" purple patch on the boxart for their gamecube editions.  Killer7 was intended to be a gamecube exclusive but the fight put up on that didn't last long and in the end it was released as a multiplat on release date.

 

But I don't disagree with you, the Wii has much better third party support than the GC.  Anyone who has both would know that.