Miyamotoo said:
AZWification said:
The hardware was pretty much the only thing Nintendo got right with the GameCube, it was a lot more dev-friendly than the PS2! The console looked like a lunchbox ( the color didn't help. Yes, there were other colors, but the purple console was the console advertised the most), mini discs were inferior to DVDs, the controller lacked some buttons ( and the D-Pad was pretty crappy in games like Capcom vs SNk 2. It's still my favorite controller though. :P), many 1st party games weren't what gamers wanted ( I love Wind Waker, but that game got a lot of shit when it was first revealed. Mario Sunshine didn't fare much better.) They also let go of the shooter market they had with the N64 and Goldeneye, which is why Halo became so successful and pretty much put Xbox on the map.
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My point is that strong hardware isn't most important thing for console, and GC was stronger than PS2 and even was more dev-friendly.
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The GameCube was salvagable though if you changed a few minor things (like the freaking purple Fisher Price design, added in an option for DVD playback) and launched a year earlier with some better planning, I think it would have been a large success. It wouldn't have beat the PS2, but it likely would have topped the N64 fairly easily and caused the XBox to be dead on arrivial.
Wii U though, probably would have flopped as the Wii craze itself showed strong signs of fading out by about 2011 anyway.
