Nintendo, the scapegoat of the industry

[Goodnightmoon]

Srassy said:

Goodnightmoon said:

GC had most of the third parties and a lot of the biggest classics of the generation (Metroid Prime 1&2, Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, Resident Evil 4, F-Zero GX, Mario Sunshine, Pikmin 1&2, Animal Crossing, Smash Bros Melee, MK Double Dash, etc etc etc), now everyone praises the console and is widerly considered one of the very best consoles ever, yet it was mockered on its time even worse than WiiU, we all know that. And no, the reason why Ps2 sold 150 milions is because it was a cheap DvD, even my grandmother had one, and she havent played a game on her whole life, don´t fool yourself. 

 

I'm not disappointed. :)  You always were the most defensive of the Nintendo users here.

Right.  I've looked up the software attach rate of both consoles.  Guess what?  Both 10!  So if most people bought it as a cheap DVD player then the actual gamers were able to buy themselves far more games than Gamecube users.

Also there were 662 games released for GC and 2469 for PS2.  On the top of my head, I distinctly remember a lack of Square-Enix on GC which would have definitely contributed to a lot of console sales.

Once the console was inmensively successfull thanks to be a cheap dvd of course it was the console with more games. Without a dvd it would have done shit. Dreamcast came after, GC exclusives were much better at first and Xbox made online gaming on consoles popular, both more powerfull too, even Dreamcast was more powerfull in some aspects. DVD is the only reason why its numbers were so big at first. Also most of those games were shovelware, Ps2 was like the Wii of its time, and also lot of people use it just to play karaoke, eyetoy and things like that. I remember that as it was yesterday.