Digitimes: Nintendo NX will be released in 2016.

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Soundwave said:
Wii U will gain cult status in time too. The system was basically destined for it.

Also at this stage of the game the GameCube did not have Baten Kaitos, RE4, Metroid Prime 2, or several other games, so if it's a little unfair to add in games when you're not factoring in what the Wii U could add to its library.

I personally was really dissapointed with the GameCube. I felt like Nintendo allowed Microsoft to basically take the FPS market away completely unchallenged, totally f*cked up the Mario 64 and Zelda: OoT/MM sequels but adding changes that no one asked for, and became very far removed from classic Nintendo. The system wasn't even going to have a d-pad in the original design, Miyamoto only relented at the last minute and they basically used the same tiny d-pad from the GBA (awful).

GameCube is something I'll always look at as having a lot of potential, but it all got blown.

It's very unlikely without cult games and only 2-3 excellent games, GC is THE console that brought the first Metroid Prime, it's big and it was already cult when it released, it's as cult as Zelda OOT for metroid fans.

It's not unfair, it just shows how Wii U died much faster in reality, WII U will never have those games, no matter how long you wait, it's even over before the GC since it's harder and longer to develop a game nowadays , so they had to shift dev to NX much sooner, like 2 years before NX launch if they want to make a game a bit ambitious. Only remain games already announced.

 

I dont understand how you cant like GC and worse, prefer Wii U, while GC had so many more quality exclusives and even a lot more 3rd party support, exclusive and multi platform ( who didnt play TimeSplitters 2 on Gamecube )