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the_dengle on 02 February 2013
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happydolphin said:
Screamapillar said:
I don't agree with the premise of your topic. N64 and GameCube didn't fail at all. They both had five or six year lifespans and turned large profits for Nintendo through software, hardware, and accessory sales. If anyone says N64 or GameCube were "failures" they do not understand the definition of the word "failure".

I mean going from being the #1 brand in the industry to being a distant second, and meeting serious business threats were it not for the release of miracle wonders such as Pokemon RGB.

You know, the common-sense definition of failure... the one that says that Nintendo may not have been in the game much longer were it not for Pokemon.

That sounds like the common-sense definition of a what-if scenario. It's just a hypothetical alternative. The fact that Pokémon played a large role in maintaining Nintendo's profitability doesn't mean you can ignore it and call them a failure without it. It wasn't an act of God, it was a product they marketed and sold. You don't say Sony "might have lost gen 6" if the PS2 didn't double as a DVD player.

You wouldn't say the American Revolution was a failure because the colonists might have lost if they hadn't been supported by France. You wouldn't say Apollo 13 was a failure because the astronauts could have died.

Why not call the NES a failure since its success was so reliant on Super Mario Bros?