| TheWPCTraveler said: This is built like a GameCube 2.0. As such, it will end up like a GameCube 2.0. You do realize that Nintendo fans have been touting how unique their platforms are lately, right? Something something Gunpei Yokoi? Something something Satoru Iwata? Something something Blue Ocean? |
GameCube would've finished an easy no.2 that generation had it released a year before the other two consoles and didn't have the silly purple lunchbox design.
That and the weird choices for virtually every Nintendo IP ... lets make a game with only tropical Mario levels, lets make a Donkey Kong platformer that plays with bongos, lets add a double rider mechanic to Mario Kart and cut the number of tracks, lets make Link look like a Powerpuff Girl, instead of a GoldenEye style multiplayer FPS we'll give you ... a Metroid FPA that you didn't ask for (albiet that game did turn out well), etc. etc.
If the GameCube avoided those pitfalls I think it would've sold as much as the N64 fairly easily (33 million) and probably a good deal more than that.
Even if they did none of those things but just launched the GameCube a full year earlier, I don't think the XBox ever could've caught up. Just not enough race track left for MS to gain enough ground quickly enough.
