As a long time GFer I have to say deadhorse is wrong. GF had a very strong Nintendo following long before the Wii came out. :) The site is very pro-Nintendo and has continuously become more so every year since 2k4. The Square fans were out in force in 2k3 (thanks to KH), but since then they have waned a good deal and they were the second biggest group (having put FF7 as "Best Game Ever" in spring of 2k4).

HappySqurriel said: I believe it was Epic at GDC (2005/2006 can't remember) who asked the audience of mostly game developers "How many of you owned a Gamecube?" in an attempt to demonstrate that Nintendo was out of touch with most gamers; to his surprise most of the audience (about 75%) raised their hands. A large portion of "core-gamers" love Nintendo for their high quality and purity when it comes to gaming ... Nintendo "lost" the casual market with the N64 and then lost a lot of more core gamers with the Gamecube; as a guess the casual gamers went to the Playstation and the core gamers (in North America) went to the XBox.

OMG... Hehe ... That's just TOO funny!... Nintendo Gamecube for the win !

Wow thanks for making fun of a typo... Oh and about that poll, don't you think it's odd that they left Halo off the list of "all-time favorite science fiction first-person shooter series"?  I mean it's one of the best selling science fiction first-person shooter series of all time, it's sequel is one of the most anticipated of the year, and it's responsible for putting the Xbox brand on the map.

Yeah... U'r right! Kinda odd isn't it?!...

Maybe scrape Serious sam from the list and put Halo instead of that on it!...

I.i.g: Timesplitters should stay! Best SF Shooter if u ask me!

What's your all-time favorite science fiction first-person shooter series? Doom 14.9% Half-Life 22.73% Metroid Prime 30.04% Quake 3.68% Serious Sam 1.35% Star Wars: Jedi Knight 8.95% Timesplitters 10.17% Unreal 8.18%

 where's halo???

PS2 beat out the Gamecube for a couple of reasons. PS2 came out earlier than the GC. The PS2 played all of the PS1 games so that increased the library of games by 100 fold. The PS2 was a DVD based system and not some little disk with less capacity. PS2 ushered in the DVD age in my opinion. So once again, a system with more power, (the gamecube) was hammered by a system that appealed more to the masses (PS2). Kind of like with the PSP and the DS, and the PS3 and the Wii.

How did smash bros possibly beat soul calibur!!!!

ion-storm said: How did smash bros possibly beat soul calibur!!!!

Smash Bros is funner at four player than soul calibur.

ion-storm said: How did smash bros possibly beat soul calibur!!!!

I'd guess that it's probably because it's a better game.

ampillion said: bdbdbd said: @Legend: You are right on that one, since PSX and PS2 gained their 3rd party support because they were so popular. Resident Evil 7?  I'm not sure if they were exactly more popular at the time, depending on what the exact timing was on the release of those games. The PSX however, proved to developers that 1) they would pay less licensing fees to Sony, meaning more money coming to them or less that would be required to get started, and 2) The CD medium would be much cheaper to mass produce compared to the cartridges of the N64 at the time. In effect, it was much easier to get games out onto the PSX than the 64, meaning it was much less risky for the devs to put titles out and they would make a larger margin of profit. There could be many more factors that attributed to this, but from a buisness standpoint, you look not only at what is popular, but the projected costs to profit ratio will look like.Â

I was expecting for someone to comment. Theres no single reason which would have been "it", why PSX sold better than N64. PSX had a good headstart, which turned developers to Sony. Of course the costs for developers and FF7 and Gran Turismo for consumer. Nintendo also was pretty much like an asshole to devs, so they didn't have a problem to turn to a company that had larger installbase, at N64 release, and less development costs. Still the popularity is the main point, makes publishers interested in your system and consumers to buy it because "everyone else does".