In hindsight with the GameCube, knowing what we know now, I would probably tell Nintendo of the late 90s ...
- GameCube has to launch in late November 2000. Fall 2001 is too late, lets Sony get too much of a head start and lets Microsoft get their behind schedule XBox into the mix.
- The purple Fisher Price plastic design needs to go. Make it look like an Apple product or ditch the cube design entirely.
- Mini-DVDs are out. Full sized discs. DVD playback is optional via plug in dongle, so Nintendo can off-load the DVD licensing fee costs.
- Zelda: Majora's Mask, Perfect Dark, and Conker's Bad Fur Day are off the N64 and launch window GameCube software. To play basically any of these games you need the RAM expansion pak anyway ... hire extra artists if need be to work double time to bring the graphics performance up to snuff. N64 becomes more of the kids/Pokemon spin-offs machine in the later years of its life.
- Mario Sunshine time is given more time to bring the game up to a higher level.
- Controller is tweaked, d-pad is larger, L and R buttons.
- This is probably cheating, but buy Bungie/Halo IP before Microsoft does, lol.
