Nintendo, the scapegoat of the industry

[freebs2]

retroking1981 said:

freebs2 said:

Goodnightmoon said:

AnthonyW86 said:
''Nintendo released a purple console that looked like a lunch box, where you felt like a dork owning the machine.''

This one made me laugh, so it's other peoples fault that a company decides to release a device that looks like a lunch box.

To be a whole generation shitting about a console because the external design does not like you is borderline retarded. And it happenend. A lot.

Yes, but if you look at things realistically the purple lunch box matter is just mock. The real reason why most people didn't take the GC in consideration was beacuse it didn't have Final Fantasy X, Gran Turismo 3 and GTA.

and lack of first person shooters to continue a legacy for the Goldeneye/PD gamers. They all flocked to Xbox because of Halo.

Nintendo made no attempt at it, that blows my mind. Goldeneye sold 8.XXm. They conceded to FPS market to MS overnight.

I believe this was due to the lack of manpower (Rare was developing Perfect Dark Zero for GC, but later they were acquired by MS) and for a mis-interpretation of the market. They were committed to create a great first person experince, in fact they developed Metroid Prime, but they didn't realise the market was shifting toward online multiplayer: games like Quake 3 Arena, Unreal Tournament and Counter Strike were released in the same time frame when Gamecube's launch titles were likely already in development.