Wright said:
TheLastStarFighter said:
Wright said:
TheLastStarFighter said:
People say Mario Sunshine, Zelda: Windwaker, Smash Brothers, Luigi's Mansion, Pikmin, Metroid Prime and MarioKart DD couldn't sell Gamecube and they were amazing games. I'm sorry, but they aren't. Well, they may be great games, but I wouldn't know, because I didn't play them and didn't want to. I bought a PS2 instead. And an XBox. Mario Sunshine was a dorky name for a game with Mario using a watergun on vacation. Zelda was a cartoon. Metroid Prime may be amazing, but to me it looked weak and boring compared to Halo.
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Well, that sums up pretty well what's wrong with your arguments.
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How so? I'm saying whether or not the GC games were good, I didn't want to play them because their theme sucked and the system looked like a purple candy box. People say GC didn't sell in spite of great games, I'm saying it didn't sell because it was purple and BECAUSE of games that may have been good but had sucky themes and/or styles. It's like Infamous. People say it's great and wonder why people don't buy it more. I can say that myself, and the masses, are not interested in it's theme of some generic superhero that shoots lighning and chooses between good and bad. Mario on vacation cleaning stuff? pass. Mario flying through space jumping from planet to planet bending gravity? Sold!
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You're blaming marketing then.
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Absolutely not. I'm blaming the games and the sytems themselves. The games were poorly thoughtout. They may play well, but a major component to any game is the theme and art style. In the gamecube era Nintendo made terrible decisions. Mario with a watergun was a very bad decisision. Calling the game susnshine was a bad decision. Making Zelda a cartoon was a bad decisison. No amount of advertising could make these games seem cool. The games were flawed in their very themes. If you took God of War and took away the greek theme, made it cell-shaded, and had Kratos running on the beach cleaning buildings, God of War: Jamaica would not sell well and definitely wouldn't move systems. And if you put said game on a purple box with a handle it wouldn't sell systems, no matter how good it was.
