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the gamecube was a great console don't get me wrong, it was my favourite console last gen, i just don't like the gamecubes gay design.. its like it was destined to be in last place




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the reason the wii's in 1st place is because it has huge viority of games for everybody




MonstaMack said:
Lets also not forget Wii sales. The Wii has won based on sales alone. No contest there.

I remember the good ol' days when all the Sony/MS Fanboys, hell I think even Nintendo fans called it the purple lunch box lol.

lol am i the only one who likes how it looks? it's just so damn huggable.



PATRIOT7ME said:
archbrix said:
theARTIST0017 said:
archbrix said:
I think the Gamecube was better in its day against its competition than the Wii is today. Sales, however, are in stark contrast to my opinion.

Wait WHAT?! In what way. You mean in the way that Gamecube got little to nearly no 3rd party support? Oh You think I'm kidding? Remember Capcom 5? Yeah Capcom promised Nintendo fans 5 exclusive games for Gamecube fans. What did we get. Resident Evil 4. Yup Gamecubes arguably best game that was exclusive for a year then went to the PS2. OH wait. It doesn't end there. Gamecube also got screwed over by Namco. How you ask?! Soul Calibur 2 best sold on the Nintendo Gamecube, then they took the third game and made it exclusively for the PS2 now thats bullshit. It doesn't end their. RARE. What happended. Nintendo practically owned you and how many games did you make for the Gamecube? One. Thats it. Just one game. The Nintendo sold them to Microsoft for $370 million. Wow. Just wow.  The Gamecube is better know for its first party support. Mario had every kind of sports game you can think of for it. Now when you talk about Wii vs the competition, Wii is actually doing better than Gamecube is. Both the HD consoles fight against each other for HD games, then the Wii melts in perfectly with both of them offering different games, thus gamers nowadays owning a PS3 + Wii or 360 + Wii or just a Wii. Wii has 3rd party support. 2010 shows it. This year looks to be a great year for the Wii. Metacritic, if you ask me isn't the best source for comparing consoles. Its more like a summary of oppinions (mostly biased nowadays.)

 

Wii > Gamecube

No, that's not what I meant; all of your points are well taken.  What I meant was my own opinion of how its games and system capabilites fared against competition.  The Gamecube had great tech for its day where as the Wii hardware is FAR behind the 360 and PS3.  The Gamecube is where Metorid Prime and RE4 were born.  True that the Wii has them both, but being the same games, they don't have the impact several years later on a current system as they had back in 2002 and 2005, respectively.

To me the Wii has only two games so far that I would say are worth buying the system for alone:  Twilight Princess and Galaxy (And the GC has the former too, although since they released at the same time I like the Wii version much better).  The Gamecube, however had Metroid Prime, RE4, Eternal Darkness, Wind Waker, the beautiful remake of Resident Evil, Rogue Leader, etc.  And lets not forget that it did receive many versions of third party games that were on PS2 and Xbox, such as Splinter Cell and Soul Calibur for example.  The Wii never receives cross-platform games that the other two systems have simply because the hardware just isn't on par.  Look at Resident Evil 5 and Street Fighter 4.  How about Call of Duty and Bioshock?  Batman:AA?  Final Fantasy 13?  See a pattern?  Pretty much everything that's a big 3rd party game always finds its way to 360 and PS3.  Instead Wii gets on-rails RE games and Final Fantasy hand-me-downs from 3rd partys, so I disagree with that point.

That's not to say I don't like the Wii, I do.  I LOVE the fact that Nintendo came out with something different and kicked Sony's and Microsoft's ass this generation, only to have them both scrambling to copy the trend that Nintendo created.  And there are plenty of good games on Wii; NSMB is great fun, MK Wii is FAR better than Double Dash, SSBB I like better than Melee, and games like Zack and Wiki are very unique AND only possible on Wii (until now, anyway).  SMG2, Metroid other M and the inevitable masterpiece that will be Wii Zelda are just as high on my anticipation list as God of War 3.

I'm definitely not saying that the Wii isn't doing as well for itself as Gamecube did, as I stated by pointing out Wii's incredible sales.  I'm just saying that, so far, it doesn't have as many excellent games, first or third party, as the 'cube did.  So far.

 

The wii has a lot more games that are worth buying. You are full of BS.  I own 18 wii games, 31 VC games, 9 wiiware. I also play 20 cube games on it. Gamecube sucks deal with it

Hey you it's his opinion. You're as full of BS as he is which is 0 because no opinions are BS.



Siko1989 said:
the reason the wii's in 1st place is because it has huge viority of games for everybody

I think this is the best thing I've read so far in this thread.

 

 

 

OT:

 

I love my Gamecube.

 

I also love my Wii.

 

Why put one above another?



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When reviewers reviewed GC games they compared them to PS2 and XBOX.
When reviewers review Wii games they compare them to PS3 and 360.

These comparisons directly effect the reviews that each system receives. I feel that the Wii has a much larger selection of high quality games releasing for it than the GC had. That is just my opinion however, and I understand that the opinions of the reviewers are never biased and always rooted in reality. This of course makes it a great standard to judge quality on. -.-



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More GC hate? that little purple box gave us Smash bros melee, double dash, Windwaker, Twilight Princess, Eternal darkness, Pikmin 1 and 2, The bst Metroid game ever (MP2, for those who're wondering :P) Fire emblem. As well as some great 3rd party games such as Resident Evil and Timesplitters 2



The two best games the Gamecube ever had; RE4 and Metroid Prime both came out on the Wii with vastly improved and more enjoyable controls.

And who cares about Metacritic? Wii Sports Resort is one of the best games of all time and it's rating is quite low.



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Chrizum is the best thing to happen to the internet, Period.

Serves me right for challenging his sales predictions!

Bet with dsisister44: Red Steel 2 will sell 1 million within it's first 365 days of sales.