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prayformojo on 01 August 2013
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spurgeonryan said:
BossPuma said:
spurgeonryan said:

Some would say it was because there was not a lot of options. I am impressed by how well some games did though. It is just sad that so many said it was a great console, yet no one did anything about it. It is one of those things that make you wonder, "What did Nintendo do so wrong?" Then you see the Wii U and live through it first hand and you go ...oh! I see. It is possible for this type of thing to happen. Not because the system is that bad or because the games are bad, just because of some pour ..poor...decisions on Nintendo's part.


Sales dont determine a great console or game...

I agree. See Dreamcast and N64 for example.

 

But sales do determine how many great games a great console will have. The Wii got way more than it would have gotten just because 100's ( 1,000's?) of devs wanted to get games on the system to play the "Lottery" and hopefully have one of the 100 million owners buy their games. Luckily, some of those games were good and it got a nice library of decent games in the end. People will still be digging through all the hidden treasures for years to come. So many games that were lost in the mix of all the shovelware.

Although, Nintendo did put some effort into the GC. Just was still too little too late. The N64 years had Nintendo making too many bad choices, and I think that hurt the GC some as well. People were mad that they did not get some third parties, third parties were mad at them, and the lack of games at times was not good. I was going to buy a GC either way, but some may have had a bad taste in their mouths. Which they did, so they bought a PS2. The rest is history. As is Mario Sunshine. It loses because of all of this. If it would have been on the Wii, it would have been different. History is written by the winners. Mario Galaxy is that winner. Huge review scores and huge sales. Only reason NSMB sold 3 times better is because of the Casual rush.


People didn't buy PS2's because they were disgusted with the N64. The N64 got killed sales wise. The bought PS2s because PS1 was all the rage and they were promised more of the same experience, only BETTER.