Magnus said:
Jumpin said:
You're exactly the sort of person I am talking about. Creating a fictionized version of the generation in an attempt justify blind fandom of a failed console. The gamecube era was a terrible and bleakest generation to be a Nintendo fan.
It had, perhaps, the weakest and most sparsely released lineup of any Nintendo console; the biggest title being a Smash Brothers game, which is depressing to say the least; Wii U had a stronger lineup in the end. The biggest problem was the philosophy: an economy-class PS2, which they achieved by gimping its features and cheapening its software - then justified it all by aiming the console primarily at children, but with a few gun-games for the big kids. Creating a console whose greatest appeal is in how it immitates the competition is very unNintendo-like. The Gamecube would have been more accurately called the Nintendo PS2 Jr.
The only darker time I can remember in Nintendo's history was when nearly all the Japanese third parties flipped Nintendo the bird and moved on to the PSX. Gamecube retained that terrible status quo, but raised the N64 with no DMA (Rockstar) and no Rareware.
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Gamecube had an exclusive Zelda, an exclusive Mario Kart, Fire Emblem, Animal Crossing, two Pokemon RPGs and a lot of great third-party titles. Gamecube had a far better lineup than Wii U. The only consoles from a mayor console maker worse than Wii U are Virtual Boy and possibly PS Vita.
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I feel like Nintendo 1st-party in the GameCube era had more originality put into it. It's hard to quantify, but it's not just the nostalgia talking----lately I've been playing a lot of GameCube games on my PC (via Dolphin and a USB GameCube controller). Developers really tried to go all-out instead of making cheap, shitty cash-ins (compare the brilliance of Mario Power Tennis to the horrendous Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash). I think it's because in the GameCube era developers weren't stymied by Miyamoto who jammed his vision of a budget-obsessed, sterilized Nintendo down everyone's throat.
Case in point:
