| RolStoppable said: What's the point of this thread? An altered timeline like that wouldn't have led to the creation of the Wii and instead resulted in a crushing loss for Nintendo in the seventh generation. The DS might have not existed either. |
There's pros/cons to both sides. On one hand the Wii was incredibly successful for 4 years, but dropped like a rock afterwards.
On the other hand, had the GameCube been successful, it likely would've resulted in a lower peak but much longer than 4 years of success.
There likely would be no Microsoft XBox in the business and Sega would still be out, leaving Nintendo to probably sell 50-55 million GCNs, then with the Playstation 3, if Sony had made the $600 error, Nintendo likely would've pounced on that and won that generation or at the very least made great inroads. So maybe a hypothetical "GameCube 2" sells 70-80 million units like the XBox 360 did.
Motion gaming still could've been a thing on a hypothetical "GameCube 2" or even the GameCube itself ... Nintendo was researching the idea as early as 2001 (see the article), it was originally intended for the GameCube.
Regardless of the console side, the PSP was coming no matter what, so Nintendo would have had to repsond to that one way or another.
