GameCube's Timeline, Accomplishments Charted 154
Thanks to GameSpy for its article charting the progress of Nintendo's GameCube console from launch to the present day, as part of an ongoing series that has also included the Xbox. The piece starts with the bold statement: "Despite being the wrong product at the wrong time, Nintendo's durable GameCube game console has demonstrated lasting power in a market for which it was not well targeted", and ends by noting: "GameCube will certainly end this generation in second place internationally -- the virtual shutout that Xbox received in Japan settles that part of the race, and it may yet challenge Microsoft in the U.S. and European markets." What's your view of the success of the GameCube and its software titles in the current console generation?
Re:Some notable GC exclusives... (Score:5, Informative)
Metroid Prime
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles
Animal Crossing
The Resident Evil series
and many other excellent first-party games (Mario Golf, etc.)
And that's not counting the thousands of Game Boy games you can play with the Game Boy Player. There's an endless supply of classics to sift through.
Re:Some notable GC exclusives... (Score:3, Informative)
Resident Evil 0 and the remake of Resident Evil are Cube exclusives. I believe they're going to release one more Cube-exclusive RE title, as well.
Re:The only thing lacking. (Score:2, Informative)
OK, I give you GT3 (and soon GT4) and PGR2, but the Cube is getting the Metal Gear Solid remake and has Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles.
Not to mention the rest of the Cube's exclusive titles. While we're talking about racing games, where's an equal to Mario Kart on ANY platform? Or, for that matter, F-Zero GX?
None of the consoles of this generation has managed to have everything everyone could possibly want.
hate the griping about the look. (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Steven L. Kent, crack fiend (Score:1, Informative)
You've GOT to be kidding. The Rare of today is NOTHING like it was. Perfect Dark? Those guys aren't in Rare any more. If you want to play the next great fps from those guys, go get Timesplitters 2 out of the $10 bin. Perfect Dark Zero will be new guys cramming old code into a different console; it'll suck like gravity.
Nintendo didn't so much "lose" Rare as "get rid of" Rare. Seeing their first attempt on Xbox, I can understand why.
Re:My opinion (Score:3, Informative)
The real question is, do the few games that the pirates actualy buy offset the 'real' lost sales? I think they do, but I wish there was a good experimental proof for this, one way or another.
Re:Nintendo hasn't messed up the formula (Score:3, Informative)
Give the PS2 some credit... (Score:3, Informative)
X-Box
Interested in:
KotOR
0% non-RPG interesting games. Failed.
GameCube
Interested in:
SSB:M
SC2
Metroid Prime
SMS
ToS
WW
Pikmin
Animal Crossing
SoA
FF:CC
Eternal Darkness
MK:DD
Viewtiful Joe
66% non-RPG interesting games. It works.
PS2
Interested in:
FFX
Disgaea
Shadow Hearts
Suikoden 3
Xenosaga
FFX-2
BoFV
Grandia 2
Okage
WA3
0% non-RPG interesting games. Failed.
(For some explanation: Halo is the same old shooter stuff; I already played Goldeneye thank you. GTA frankly never interested me. I suppose I should add Kingdom Hearts to the PS2 list, I just haven't felt the impulse. And...I'm likely to get multiple consoles eventually, so no point getting Soul Calibur 2 unless it's the best version
To be fair, however, the GBA does outshine all three systems for number of good titles (I don't even want to try and list the GBA stuff); so yes you are probably better getting a Gameboy player than a PS2 (or XBox). If you don't mind hunting bargain bins and don't have one already, PSOne is also a very solid choice, especially since all its games are so cheap now; you just have to know what you're looking for (there's a lot of garbage PSX titles). Well I for one bought a PSOne within the last couple years, at least....
Re:Some notable GC exclusives... (Score:2, Informative)