Soundwave on 19 May 2013
| NightDragon83 said: I don't agree that the Xbox really hurt GCN sales... if M$ never threw their hat in the ring, last gen simply would have been PS1 vs N64 all over again, only with an even larger disparity between sales of their respective consoles. I think if anything the Xbox took away more potential PS2 sales than it did the GCN, especially here in the west. Exclusives like Halo 1 & 2, the best online service on consoles plus ports of major 3rd party AAA games like the GTA and MGS games convinced alot of people to get an Xbox over a PS2. If Xbox didn't exist, I guarantee you that a minimum of 75% of its sales would have went to the PS2 instead, probably more. |
I disagree, I think Nintendo spent years making the GameCube friendly to develop for and was poised to get a good amount of third party support but that was kinda upstaged by MS making an even easier platform to develop for (basically a PC in a box). All the Western devs flocked that way. So that hurt Nintendo.
Being the only viable alternative to Sony would've at least gaurunteed Nintendo a good amount of the spotlight too, with three consoles, the GameCube seemed to be the one that always ended up getting lost in the mix.
