Sadly, I'm Just Not Sure Nintendo Can Impress Me Anymore

[Mr Khan]

Captain_Tom said:

Ruler said:

How was the gamecube a dissapointment? it got plenty of multi plats in the beginning espacially from western devolopers? And it got some good mature exclusives like resident evil the best looking game in this generation. It was the best nintendo console ever made.
Thats the way nintendo should go and stick with it, evetually their consoles would sell. Their problem is this whole changing around every new generation with new consoles, you never sure what you get with nintendo which scares a lot of people off

Gamecube:

-No online  MP (Don't make me laugh by mentioning one or two games)

-Crappy small discs with many games requiring 2.

-No game diversity.  It had platformers, paper mario, and a couple of other Nintendo staples.  Meanwhile PS2 had FFX, Socom, MGS, platformers like crash/spyro/Rachet and Clank, and unique games like Jack and Daxter and dozens more.

This is a bad representation of both consoles. Relatively few GameCube games needed 2 discs. Some of the Resident Evils and Tales of Symphonia (which also works wonders against your second point).

GameCube was actually a low point for platformer saturation on Nintendo platforms. No main Kirby platformer, one Mario game, the DK game was a Donkey Konga spinoff. Conversely, there was a wide variety in first and third party games. Not so vast as the PS2, but wider than the N64.

Crash and Spyro are not PS2 games that you want to mention, given that this was the beginning of the total degredation of those brands after Sony's deal with Universal ended.