GameDaily has put together a nice GameCube retrospective that highlights some of the best and worst games the system had to offer. From the article: “Something only fails if it completely disappointed. Only some aspects of the [GameCube] disappointed individual gamers in certain areas, the rest held in place and gave lots of love to the excellent games and the hardware itself. The GameCube may have given Nintendo the learning it needed to take the market by storm with the Wii.”
You can argue all day long whether the system was a commercial success. Profitable? Very much so. Did it meet expectations and sales targets? No. But was it a gaming success? Though I’m in the minority, the GameCube has been my favorite home console to date. It served up the pinnacle, in terms of advancement, of what Nintendo franchises have to offer. Despite its dry spells, the console was a huge success in gaming, at least for me.
Now let’s see where Wii can take us.
It was pretty sucessful no matter what anyone says. Not NES or PS2 sucessful, but very good for the company. I consider the XBOX a failure in a business point of view since it made the company a loss of 4 billion, but consider that company is none other than Microsoft, that doesn't count at least to them. In a gaming point of view, It did pretty good since it stablished the Xbox franchise and made Microsoft a positive opinion in their consumers, something Microsoft hasn't had since Windows 98…
First post here!Anyway, I had a lovely time with my Gamecube this generation, it was succesful to me. It gave me some good games and some not so good games but the good outweighs the bad. RE4, Prime 1 & 2, Wind Waker, Eternal Darkness, F-Zero, and Super Smash Bros Melee were all splendid games to play this generation. The GC was my favorite console this gen and it had my top two games for this gen too: RE4 and Prime.
I guess "successful" can only be calculated on financial terms, but I do consider the GameCube the best Nintendo console so far. Compared to other companies' consoles, I would put it up there with the Dreamcast and the original Xbox. And definitely I would put it above the Playstation 2, which might prove that financial success does not equal highest quality in hardware.
Definitely a success from me for a couple of reaons:1) It got me back into the console market. I had an original NES and then a PS1, which gathered dust. It got me into playing these games with my kids.2) It introduced my kids to the classic Nintendo franchises. My son LOVES to sit down and play Mario Kart, Mario Baseball, or Smash Bros. with me.
The Gamecube made money for Nintendo, and was number 2 in Japan. It was not discontinued like the Dreamcast was either, so yeah, I think it was pretty succesful in that sense. It could have been better, but hey, everyone makes boo-boos here and there.I think the console's strengths speaks to me in a very personal way – a year ago, I didn't know the difference between an playstation and a train station. Having been introduced to games within this time period, I actually settled on the Gamecube as my console of choice – bought the first one six months ago, and couldn't be happier. I have also picked up a GBA and a DS since then. I'm very much one of the people in the market that Nintendo is trying to target with Wii, and it's not even out yet.I hope Nintendo will keep making great software and hardware, and learn from past mistakes.
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