Had some of the greatest games of all time, that's what happened
Sounds like you needed a PS2It sucked hard and was even worse than the legendary WiiU in every possible ways, the 1st ones were it lacks of games, how f*cking idiot the console looks and how pathetic were the OG controlers.
I had one for launch in Europe since its tech was overhype at that time. It was a Nintendo console after all and i loved the N64. So the best was to come, right? 1080 and waverace were not fun at all. Nintendo killed the magic of those N64 titles. Luigi was… not Mario 64, it was obvious to anyone and not a killer app. And Pickmin…oooohhh boys, why would someone play that over any DreamCast game?
Then came the long, long, long moment were players had to wait for… GAAAAAAMES! I remember waiting a lot, like a f*cking lot! The reality was it had like 0 game in the 6 first months. Nothing was coming, no games to play, f*cking nothing on the horizon! I started to be mad (DC was dead too) and to hate it despite Nintendo promesses and that was the 1st time ever i hated Nintendo. The reality was that the N64 was still a better choice at the time… by far! The over reality was how great was the GBA SP. The Game Cube was just dead on arrival.
So I sold it, since no games were coming in Europe, and got a Xbox instead. I loved og xbox! I still have it (i am both a nostalgic and a new tech enthusiasm guy) and i think that says quitte a lot on how Nintendo sh*ts over early support gamers and did not give a f*cking sh*t about us. F*ck Game Cube and f*ck Nintendo for that, the console with no games in the 6 first months. Can you believe it?
It's a purple lunchbox for 'teh kiddies' with 1.5 GB discs and no 3rd party support is what happened.
And mine is silver (not launch). But purple was the color used in the logo and early marketing materials.My launch GC is black.
Nintendos decission against a DVD Player and the fucking mini DVDs wasBut then PS2 had even more of the greatest games of all time, also backwards compatibility and DVD player, so that’s what happened.
Seriously, I enjoyed my GC, had some great titles and Nintendo needs to stop dragging their feet and put GC titles on Switch online already, but PS2 is probably my favorite console of all time. The insane amount of win in the massive PS2 library was insane. With the PS2 also offering the above mentioned features, plus GC missing out on quite a few solid third party titles that gen, it should shock no one who sold FAR more that gen.
I think people really underestimated just how hard Nintendo got hit with that reputation around this time. Nintendo was already getting labeled with that during the N64 era, but when they showed off the purple-handed lunch box, it really looked like they were committing to the Family market. Around 2000 the biggest gamer markets was the late teens and early twenties market, and this just didn't make an impression as something they wanted to play.It's a purple lunchbox for 'teh kiddies' with 1.5 GB discs and no 3rd party support is what happened.
To the credit of the mini-DVDs, loading times on the Gamecube were amazing compared to the PS2.Nintendos decission against a DVD Player and the fucking mini DVDs was
Aside from ssbm, what others? it had good games but goat type? not much.Had some of the greatest games of all time, that's what happened
huh? gamecube is great! it's better than wii and wiiu, switch is debatable. the design is nice and doesn't take up much space, the controller is great especially the wireless wavebird. it had great games as wel.It sucked hard and was even worse than the legendary WiiU in every possible ways, the 1st ones were it lacks of games, how f*cking idiot the console looks and how pathetic were the OG controlers.
I had one for launch in Europe since its tech was overhype at that time. It was a Nintendo console after all and i loved the N64. So the best was to come, right? 1080 and waverace were not fun at all. Nintendo killed the magic of those N64 titles. Luigi was… not Mario 64, it was obvious to anyone and not a killer app. And Pickmin…oooohhh boys, why would someone play that over any DreamCast game?
Then came the long, long, long moment were players had to wait for… GAAAAAAMES! I remember waiting a lot, like a f*cking lot! The reality was it had like 0 game in the 6 first months. Nothing was coming, no games to play, f*cking nothing on the horizon! I started to be mad (DC was dead too) and to hate it despite Nintendo promesses and that was the 1st time ever i hated Nintendo. The reality was that the N64 was still a better choice at the time… by far! The over reality was how great was the GBA SP. The Game Cube was just dead on arrival.
So I sold it, since no games were coming in Europe, and got a Xbox instead. I loved og xbox! I still have it (i am both a nostalgic and a new tech enthusiasm guy) and i think that says quitte a lot on how Nintendo sh*ts over early support gamers and did not give a f*cking sh*t about us. F*ck Game Cube and f*ck Nintendo for that, the console with no games in the 6 first months. Can you believe it?
switch is a home console.Nintendo is not going to back to high performance home console , portable gaming moving forward.
So, just to repeat this for the nth time as this seemingly needs to be repeated every time a "What Happened?" video gets posted:Fuck the haters
I am aware. "Fuck the haters" was not directed at Matt or anyone in particular. Just being a bit cheeky. It's not my "precious purple lunchbox" but sometimes when talking about something as frivolous as videogames I like to be hyperbolic, as do many others.So, just to repeat this for the nth time as this seemingly needs to be repeated every time a "What Happened?" video gets posted:
The series is about games/consoles/movies that have had a troubled development history. It's not about how good the end product is - more often than not it's a turd, but not always. So for those of you who didn't watch the video but just decided to throw a fit over it, it doesn't criticize your precious purple lunchbox, but tells about how it was developed. And no matter how you feel about the result, there certainly were issues.