| LuckyTrouble said: It's an argument about what the systems have done for Nintendo's relationship with gamers as a whole than anything else. The Gamecube was a moderate success in that Nintendo was still trying to appeal to the core gaming crowd. The Wii was a failure in the respect that they abandoned the core gaming crowd for one that abandoned them this generation. |
Maybe in the internet forum echo chamber, but I don't know anybody in real life that favoured Gamecube, but disliked the Wii.
And for the record, it wasn't Nintendo who abandoned the core gaming crowd, it was third parties. Nintendo made Mario Galaxy 1 and 2, Metroid Prime 3, Xenoblade Chronicles, two Zelda titles, Excite Truck, Smash Bros, Punch Out, Sin & Punishment, The Last Story... and others. And most of these incorporated motion controls... and most of them are lauded for being great games.
And in the meantime, it also appealed to others who could be called "lapsed gamers" - the kinds of people who played a lot of games back in the NES and SNES days, but who stopped playing because they weren't interested in modern gaming.
Only on the internet did you find the trolls who insisted that the Wii's motion controls were bad. And only on the internet do you find people who praise the Gamecube while simultaneously trashing the Wii... and most of those do so with an argument along the lines of "cazualz bought the Wiiz, real gamers moved from Gamecube to PS3"... never mind that there was no indication whatsoever of this happening, and most Nintendo fans were highly pleased with what came on the Wii (up until about 2011, where there started to be an end-of-generation drought for the Wii - makes sense, 5 years after the Wii released).
