1. 62 million at the time was absolutely phenomenal.  Especially considering the generation before is part of the famed Crash of 1983.  The size of the market today versus the size fo the market back then is incomparable.

2.  Click the green Quote button at the bottom right of someone's post.   Might not be there if you are on a mobile device.

Nintendo has it in the bag... 60M minimum.

This guy obviously is a youngster.  62m was good but not great...  lol... He probably doesn't even know about the home console crash.

Clicks on his profile and sees age 31...  wtf?

What is succes? Total units sold or a great market share? Or maybe the beginning of something great after a demise? I dont know. What i do know is that they paid a high price then with their third party strict business policy. So ironicly speaking, their great ''succes'' was the beginning of the end. And then came the wii.

It was a market, sales and financial success that also single handedly revived a dead industry.

I'd call that a success.

And while their licensing practices are seen as poor today, they were revolutionary in their day and all 3 console makers still use it as the foundation for their licesing model.

You really need to consider the circumstances of the market and industry back then rather than looking at it from today.

When you do the math, the GC sold an average of 83K per week... If you factor in the 5 Holiday season sales it received, that is terrible.

Nintendo would really have to screw up bad in order to pull a GC 2.0.

They're halfway there, all they need to do is release the Toon Wii U Zelda gamers don't want, and boom, Gamecube sales.

Great kickstarter indeed. But there ''good'' decisions then formed there arrogance later on. So no, it wasnt a succes. It was the beginning for someone else his succes. The revival of the industry? Ofcourse. But only in the handheldbussiness they hold there own.

I think it is quite sad that Nintendo, coming off the heels of a console selling 100m units, is now having a console sell comparable to their biggest console failure (minus the VB).

Gamecube was a pitiful console. It had its gems, but because of its colossal failure, Wii was born. Maybe if the Wii U continues to emulate the Gamecube, the Wii U successor will be amazing. Wii U's problem isn't a lack of marketing or a 'misunderstanding' by consumers to fully grasp the awesomeness of assymetric gameplay. People get it, understand it and are rejecting Nintendo's current direction. As a poster once said, The Wii U and its Gamepad is a solution in search of a problem.Which is in total opposition to what the Wii was.

All of your criticisms about the U's gamepad could be made about the DS.

ergo, it's bullshit.