How would Gamecube have done if

[Mr Puggsly]

Soundwave said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Soundwave said:

Mr Puggsly said:
This tread is pretty ridiculous. You're basically asking what if the Gamecube did everything different and got more big exclusives.

Perhaps the Gamecube had to happen for Nintendo to learn what not to do.

Actually a lot of the mistakes they made were pretty stupid.

You don't give the market leader an 18 month headstart, the N64 had run its course by about 2000 anyway.

The GameCube hardware was finished by 2000, they sat around for like a year basically handing the market to Sony and even letting Microsoft come in late and upstage them for launch with Halo. Microsoft basically completed the entire XBox project in half the time. There were a lot of games that barely ran on the N64 anyway, Zelda: Majora's Mask didn't work without the Expansion Pak, and basically Perfect Dark didn't either (you could play very limited modes). Those games would've been better served as GameCube launch titles IMO.

Also, Miyamoto's creative fetishes or whatever should've been put on lockdown. No purple GameCube (or only as a limited release one-off color released later on), no cell-shaded Zelda before a realistic Zelda, no weird Z-button or tiny d-pad, etc. etc. Make great games, buddy, leave the hardware design decisions to someone else.

What was the point of getting Resident Evil exclusive if you were going to tie it to a system that looked like something Fisher Price would make? It just didn't make sense. Too many conflicting POVs.

They should've made the system intially for teens/adults and let the N64 cater more for kids for a couple years.

Uhmmm... nobody is denying a lot of mistakes was made with the Gamecube. And clearly those mistakes were noted with the Wii.

Not really. The Wii was a complete retreat from the traditional core gaming console for Nintendo, a position they shouldn't have been in if they had executed the GameCube better.

The Wii was its own thing. Even though it generated tremendous profit for Nintendo for 3-4 years there, I think over a 10 year haul they'd have been better off if the GameCube had done well, locked the XBox/MS out of the industry, and then overtaken Sony with this generation in all likelyhood IMO with their $600 PS3 mistake.

Nintendo never really went for the core gaming audience in a significant way. They generally relied on the 3rd parties to fill that void on all their platforms.

How would Nintendo have locked MS out of the industry? For that to even be a possibility Nintendo would have had to make the Wii about as powerful as the PS3 or 360.

Basically you're suggesting Nintendo should have done everything different in spite of their great success in sales and profits.