The Failure Of The GameCube Really Is Where It All Went Wrong

[GhaudePhaede010]

SanAndreasX said:

GhaudePhaede010 said:

Not going to lie... the original post is ludicrous.

Nintendo's biggest mistake was breaking their deal with Sony for the SNES CD. Every other mistake was a side bar to this mistake.

Nintendo's smartest move was using Gunpei's ideology to create DS and Wii. Unfortunately, they stopped paying attention to Gunpei once they got to the top and the mistake of the SNES CD snafu has outlasted the positives of paying attention to Gunpei.

 

The SNES CD would have flopped just like the Sega CD did. People have never shown any willingness to buy expensive add ons. And that was in the days when the primary audience for video games was children. Very few parents were willing to shell out another $200 for a CD-ROM add on when most of them were bitching about the cost of the core hardware. I doubt it would have forestalled the PS1 either. The only thing Nintendo would have gotten was losses and another embarrassment like the Virtual Boy. Nintendo made the right choice pulling the plug there.

Nintendo's mistake was using cartridges for the N64 and losing support from Square and Enix. 

Yeah... you do not get my point.

The SNES CD stops the Playstation from being made. Even if it flops, Sony does not enter the home console market and is not a competitor to Nintendo and that changes the whole history of gaming. It also gives Nintendo the privilidge to do almost anything they want because Sega is dying and Microsoft does not exist yet. It is not about the success or failure of the product, it is about what happened because that product never hit the market.

That SNES CD becoming the Playstation is Nintendo's biggest mistake, period.