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RazorDragon on 24 March 2013
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TheJimbo1234 said:
RazorDragon said:
TheJimbo1234 said:
RazorDragon said:
GC's case actually didn't made any sense. It had games(1st and 3rd party), it had the controller, it had the online features, it had even an add-on that played GBA/GBC games and also GBA connection that allowed new gaming possibilities, it was the smallest and most reliable console of that generation and, most importantly for the gaming forums crowd, it had the graphics.

So, what can we conclude from all that? Gaming market makes no sense.


It couldn't be used for media and lets be honest, the games were not new or fresh. Fable was new. Halo, DMC, GTA, PoP, SotC, ES 3, KOTOR were new games. The list is huge. Splinter Cell, Ghost recon, Killzone, Hitman, Red Faction, Time Splitters, NFS etc etc etc.

Mario, metroid, and Zelda AGAIN were not new, but simple remakes. Yawn, I'll pass thanks. When they make a new game then maybe Nintendo have a chance.


Really? Geist was new, Eternal Darkness was new, Pikmin, Batallion Wars, Baten Kaitos, Resident Evil 0, etc. It also had every one of these IPs you mentioned(except Killzone, which is a Sony exclusive) and many 3rd party exclusives, mostly from Sega(since DC was dead) like Sonic Adventure 1 & 2, Phantasy Star Online, Ikaruga, etc.

Your argument is invalid, except for the "it couldn't be used for media" part, which is somewhat true(if you didn't had that Panasonic GC which could play DVD movies).

Bar Pikmin and a Resident Evil exlusive (NOT a new franchise), I have not heard of those other games which says it all really.

Sonic was not new so no  one really cared, and the other games are targeted at a tiny Western Market and a Jap market. That is why it doesn't sell well. The West now wants new franchises every generation and a majority of Western styled games (a few slip past eg FF series, SotC etc). Nintendo do not offer that.

 

My argument is utterly valid, otherwise why didn't the console sell? Hm? Why not? There is a reason, so stop pretending like it sold well when it did not. That is simple denial.


I've never heard of many games, and that doesn't change the fact that they exist. Your argument is invalid because every game you mentioned that wasn't exclusive had a Gamecube version, and the GC offered new franchises and Western styled games. Hell, GC even had an exclusive MGS game.

Also, I don't know if you read my first post, but, as I said there, there's no understandable reason GC sold so low IMO, and, whatever the reason was, it certainly didn't had any correlation with the games.