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Soundwave on 15 June 2023
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Wman1996 said:
Soundwave said:

GameCube is pretty much the test case for this.

It really, really (reeeeeeeally) needed to launch in like November 2000, which would've been a year earlier. 

Giving the PS2 a full year+ headstart (18 months in Japan) was too much and then having it release alongside the XBox while XBox had a killer app in Halo and the GameCube really didn't have a game on that level was a big problem.

GameCube should've launch in US/Japan in November 2000 with Zelda: Majora's Mask and Perfect Dark (taken from the N64, lets face it, Perfect Dark barely ran properly on the N64) as launch titles.

I think if this happens, do they beat Sony? No. But they probably would've had a healthy no.2 position, and XBox would've kinda been DOA, far too late in the game as GameCube would have a larger userbase with the year head start. 

I almost put the GameCube for some of the reasons you mentioned. Also keep in mind that N64 sales were dead after Q1 2000. The remaining sales for the next 2 years were under 3.5 million. 

GameCube would've sold better with an earlier start, maybe even hitting 30 million or more. 

Majora's Mask and Perfect Dark could look and run better than on N64, even if they didn't take full advantage of the GameCube. I know it's a cutesy life sim, but all the GameCube ports of Animal Crossing had N64 graphics and few seemed to mind. 

Yup, they should have moved Majora's Mask, Perfect Dark, Sin & Punishment, Conker's Bad Fur Day and Paper Mario probably should have been moved off the N64 and made for the GameCube instead. 

Fall 2001 launch for the GameCube was a disaster, especially since the hardware was finished by summer 2000. 

I think Gamecube honestly could've sold a pretty healthy 40 million units or so (more than the N64) if it didn't get caught coming out so late and then got into a pissing match with the XBox. 

While you're at it just ditch the dumb (but cute) mini-disc format, the GameCube actually was big enough as is to accomodate full sized discs anyway, they should have just released a seperate DVD remote accessory for DVD playback, that would have kept DVD royalty fees away from the base unit and if DVD viewing was what you wanted, you could just buy the remote (XBox did this, Nintendo was planning to do this with the Wii too but dropped it I guess because everyone had a DVD player by 2006). 

Last edited by Soundwave - on 15 June 2023