Leadified on 13 November 2016
| Cloudman said: Also, Nintendo did try to follow the trends with the Gamecube, using CDs and power to boot, but it still sold poorly. It's likely the result of the poor sales of the GC that Nintendo went in a new direction. So the answer's not so easy as to just follow what everyone else was doing. It wouldn't have gotten us the Wii, and likely wouldn't have gotten us the Switch either. |
Gamecube was a half-hearted attempt at best. The problem with the Gamecube is Nintendo did not jump onto two major trends at the time: multi-media and the changing perception of video games. Nintendo failed to take advantage of these new trends to improve upon the mistakes made with the Nintendo 64 by not taking advantage of CD/DVD playback and marketing towards a broader audience.
It was almost there but it wasn't enough.
