it was platform launched in problematic time, Yamauchi was gone Arakawa and Lincoln too, Iwata was new and the American management was well mediocre at best (Perrin Kaplan).
The design was weird certainly, the games extremely polarizing (Wind Waker) or even bad (Sunshine, Double Dash), 3rd party support is hardly relevant for Nintendo but Crystal Chronicle was great disappointment this and Capcom 5 was great example why Nintendo should never trust 3rd party, Rare one of the most capable developer from N64 generation was gone.







