Why did the Gamecube fail?

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IcaroRibeiro said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

I live in the US...

I see this point and it actually makes sense (I'm myself a kid who learned about Mario and Zelda from 3D games) and I can understand the absence of SNES players on N64 userbase

But still 3rd party in all is important and gamers didn't "jump" 2 generations from SNES to Wii, they bought PS1 and then PS2 exactly because of their extensive 3rd party library

I think you and Rol are both partly right.  Third party games were definitely important on the SNES, but not quite as important on the NES.  This is because Nintendo's resources on the SNES were split between it and the Gameboy.  The NES had a lot more first party games than the SNES did.  Nintendo first party games were still the most important ones on the SNES, but third party games picked up a lot of the slack.  When those third party games later went to the PS1 that was a heavy blow to Nintendo.  They also significantly changed the gameplay on their biggest franchises Mario and Zelda, and they didn't have anything like a DKC or 2D Metroid game either.  That made a nasty 1-2 punch.  Nintendo first party changed and third party games left.

Switch is more like the NES though in that all of Nintendo's resources are back on one system.  Third party companies are choosing to support it simply because it is too successful to be ignored.  For the first 3 years most third party games have been either indies or ports.  Now Switch has big exclusive third party games like Monster Hunter Rise coming.  Nintendo first party did the heavy lifting for the first several years, but now more third party games are coming on board too simply because of Switch's success.