| Mensrea said: The Gamecube sold abysmally. Sitting just around 20 million, it's Nintendo's biggest failure sans Virtual boy. Yet I would argue that it was Nintendo's greatest system. Sporting a comfortable controller, the best Nintendo first party since the SNES, some great third party, and all of these games looked amazing because of the powerful hardware. The Gamecube was without a doubt a "Core" gamers console. I think that the reason it failed wasn't because of what it was, but simply becuase of the PS2. I don't think we will ever see a force as dominant as that console out of the big three again. I think the market is much bigger now, and more open minded to owning two or more consoles.
So here is my scenario. The Wii lifecycle is completed, Nintendo announces a console with specs on par, or slightly better than PS4 Nextbox, normal controller, updated Wii mote, great online services, and a bevvy of First party and third party support.
How would it sell? Would it recieve third party support? How would it be viewed.
I think that in a market where there is no PS2 equivilent, the GCN2 could outsell it's competitors. Nintendo already has a lot of families buying the system for Mario, regardless of what control scheme/power. So they have that crowd locked up. Then let's se they gain 10-15 million core gamers that are open minded, their typical 20-25 million core fanbase, and another 10 or so million for the casuals.
I think that a GCN2 would succeed. |
GCN2 would probably not succeed, its just too late at the moment, microsoft pulled off a miracle to get 50% core audience from the ps3, lets face it microsoft made all the right moves and sony made a fatal mistake, yet sony is still gonna outsell the 360 sometime in the near future, nintendo doesnt have an online community like xbox live and psn, that gonna take nintendo at least 7 years to build and they would need all the third party support they can get and they won't cause gamers that buy blops 2, halo, gears, battle field 3 and all the other big name selling online games are not gonna leave there communty to go play on a nintendo system and that's proven by how pathetic blops 2 sales are on wii u.
