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Soundwave on 31 October 2013
| Shadow1980 said: I still wouldn't call it an outright failure. "Disappointing," maybe, but considering it did about as well as one would expect given the conditions of the sixth generation (when the systems came out, how much they cost, what games they had, and marketing are all factors), the fact that it still made money for Nintendo, and that generation-over-generation software sales barely declined, I'd say it was a mixed bag overall. Had there been no Xbox (and if MS had not bought Bungie, we probably would have seen seven-digit sales figures for the system), it's conceivable that it could have sold over 40 million, but things were what they were. |
Honestly I kinda wonder if Nintendo maybe should've just accepted Microsoft's deal and used a Windows kernal or whatever in the GameCube, rather than saying no and kinda forcing them to have to make their own console.
MS collaborated with Sega on the Dreamcast and it didn't seem to hinder the console in any way or force the user to boot into Windows or something crazy.
And honestly MS could've helped Nintendo with online infastructure and what not.
With no other viable alternative, I agree the GameCube probably would've sold upwards of 40 million.
