Thread 722931983

I was listening to an old episode of GameSpot's Hot Spot podcast from 10/26/2005.

They were reading an article about Nintendo basically admitting that the GameCube massively underperformed. The tone was weird, you had Jeff Gerstmann laughing at the host for going all in on the GameCube at the start of that generation. They were suggesting that Nintendo might pivot to being a game only publisher on consoles.

Was it the success of the DS and the Wii that sort of smoothed over the money side of the Cube? Everyone seems to love the thing now, but in the moment, was the GameCube considered a failure?

The western gaming journalist scene were all massive Sony fanboys back in that era. Most of them posted on Neofag, the Mecca of Sony worship on the internet, at least it was at the time.

>>722931983 (OP)
>Nintendo basically admitting that the GameCube massively underperformed
>Was the GameCube considered a failure?
???
But anyway, let's just be clear here. PS2 won because it attracts non-gamer by being a DVD reader. In terms of units moved, in Asian gray/black market it was a success because it got jailbroken much more quickly than the Xbox and Gamecube. Everything just keep snowballing
That's all there is to it.

>>722931983 (OP)
It sold the least, but it's not like they lost money even when the price dropped to $50. Otherwise, they would have gone Wii-U desperation levels by including two games.

>>722932585
No, there is also GTA

>>722931983 (OP)
The Xbox was more of a failure, but at the time people didn't realize it because pretty much the entire western game industry was throwing support behind it also around this time people were making a heavy turn against Japanese games.

They still had alot of money made over previous handhelds in gameboy line so they could afford to take a hit. 3DS was the most notable failure because Iwata and other big heads took a huge cut to their salaries because of it

>>722932821
What are you nonsense talking about?
ps2 is the most japanese console, with the most japanese releases in japan, europe and north américa.
Also 2000-2005 were the most weeeeabo years in vidya and in anime.

>>722933000
Oh and to add onto that they gave away roms for ambassadors (people who purchased during launch year). Such a thing is unheard of for Nintendo. That's how desperate they were to change things around. They ended up releasing 3 big hitters by end of year to save the console (Mario 3D Land, Mario Kart 7 and MH4 for Japan).

>>722931983 (OP)
It was a financial failure, but the games themselves left a big impression on the kids that played them. You have manchilds vying for the glory days of the Gamecube.

>>722931983 (OP)
>Everyone seems to love the thing now
Tendies are not people, they're so brainwashed they bought millions of carboard boxes with a nintendo logo on it for their switch, they can and will defend everything Nintendo does
The C-stick alone is such garbage that it deserve to be hated

>>722931983 (OP)
Not a "flop" per say, the PS2 was dominating so much it became practically synonymous with video games leaving competition battling for scraps, the GC was the kiddie console while the Xbox was the mature console, PS2 had the mass appeal.

>>722931983 (OP)
>Was the GameCube considered a failure?
no colin mcrae entries
no motogp games
no pro evolution entries
no gta entries
no fighting games at all
no king of fighters entries
no metal slug entries
no manhunt, no the warriors, no indigo / fahrenheit
no third party support at all like the previous home console from nintendo.

>>722931983 (OP)
i mean yeah? it flopped but i can admit it had some good ass games

>>722933065
G4 was pretty hard on JRPGs and used a lot of Japanese cultural stuff as "lol look at these weirdos" sort of filler programming. Not that they mattered all that much but still.

>>722933946
Sony counted sales for the PS2 for 20+ years and conveniently "found" another 10 million sales just a few years ago. It hasn't been manufactured for decades, yet the numbers go up. Nothing to see here.

>>722931983 (OP)
It was a failure, it had some good games early on but fell off massively as every third party went all in on the PS2
In hindsight this was the end of the weeb era too (or its peak before the fall if you want to look at it that way), the next gen always felt like a restructuring of things with how badly Japanese studios did and the dudebro era starting

>>722934153
I thought that was just Brazil massively buying second hand consoles.

>>722934153
remember the 160 million goyim, jokes aside there still is wide gap between the two if you discard the fake sales. the gamecube just wasnt as popular. i only knew a few people who had one back then too

>>722931983 (OP)
>dogshit controller missing a second Z button, select button, clickable sticks, and has the worst D-pad known to mankind. it's literally only good for smelee
>no Bully
>no DMC
>no GTA
>no Burnout 3
>no Twistanity
>Budokai capped at 30fps
>no Budokai Tenkaichi
>Wrath of Cortex capped at 30fps
>no Silent Hill
>can't play N64 games like the PS2 can play PS1 games
>can't use N64 controllers like the PS2 can use PS1 controllers
>have to rebuy RE2 and trAnimal Crossing
>no Manhunt
>no Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks
>component cables only sold through select online retailers
>no SSX 1 or Timesplitters 1
>SSX tricky and 3 are missing a quarter of the grabs because the controller is missing 4 top buttons. Just 1 example of the hundreds of games that had their control scheme either gutted or neutered on the shitcube because of the lackluster controller
>can't play DVDs or CDs like PS2 and Xbox
>PS2 and Xbox can play hundreds of games online; shitcube can only play one paid MMO and 3 shitty racing games through a tunneling service
>no Final Fantasy
>draconian DRM through little gay discs and no HDD slot
>half the first party games released by Nintendo are shovelware minigame compilations released under the Mario Party label

>>722932729
That's fair

>>722934403
>worst 3D Mario
>worst Mario Kart
>Paper Mario TTYD has the first tranny character in gaming, and is a straight downgrade in almost every category besides combat systems, which gets overshadowed by how worse the party member movesets are than its predecessor
>worst Mario Tennis and 2nd worst Mario Golf
>worst 3D Zelda (wind waker)
>worst 2D Zelda (FSA)
>turns Metroid into an shitty console FPS with awful shooting mechanics even for the time and only is good when viewed as a platformer
>only has a dogshit remake of MGS that looks worse than MGS2 despite coming out after MGS2
>two of the 3 new first party IP's it introduces, Battalion Wars and Chibi Robo, suck (though the former redeems itself with its Wii sequel)
>its best game first party game, F-Zero GX, had its development outsourced to Sega because Nintendo was too busy shitting the bed that gen by rushing out Luigi's 2 hour hump-dressers-in-a-mansion tech demo and Shit Waker
The gayfaggotniggerprolapsedanuspozzedHIV+cube is a dogshit console, made by retards, loved by trannies, and is carried entirely by the Wii and Dolphin emulator salvaging its pathetic library. The PS2 mogs it in quality of games, quantity of games, the experimentation in games, online, backwards compatibility, media playback, controllers, and homebrew capability.

>>722934403
i like the gamecube but i hate how much trannies took over the gamecube scene

>>722931983 (OP)
Commercially yes, culturally no. Ditto with the Dreamcast.

Yes and no, it did sold worse than any of the competition including the PSone model, but at the same time Nintendo was making more money than the PlayStation, thanks to Pokemon, the GBA and the fact that many Nintendo GameCube games where profitable.
The deal that Nintendo was in trouble was overblown due to the GC selling like shit specially in Europe, where some stores stopped selling the console due to extremely low sales.

>>722934403
Some of these are very retarded complaints

>>722934491
>The gayfaggotniggerprolapsedanuspozzedHIV+cube
Beautiful language for your friends on /v/.

>>722932585
>PS2 won
because it had better games, more games, the better controller, better online, backwards compatability.

>>722933946
add psone model sales to make it even more realistic.

>>722934596
not at all
The shitcube is so bereft of good games, cubies literally photoshop box artworks of PS2 and Xbox games to feature the GC logos decades later that skipped their dogshit console lmfao.

>>722934654
ps1
102 million world wide
gamecube
21 million world wide
damn

>>722934774
>one autist made a thread
My point is that no one cares all that much about Bully (I don’t care how many people talk about it, Rockstar clearly doesn’t care either), or Twistanity (you mean Twinsanity?) and Wrath of Cortex, those were the death of Crash and some of these others there
Obviously they had shit third party support but those weren’t moving consoles to begin with

>>722935280
It's obviously his own thread. Who the fuck else would bother screencapping something so stupid?

>>722935280
Ok, and my point is people do care about those game, hence cubies seething they can't play them. You're a coping faggot dicksucking the shittiest home consumer electronic simply to lure kids into your smelee concentions to molest them.

>>722931983 (OP)
Nintendo wanted the gamecube to sell 50 million, it didn't even manage half that. So yes it was a flop.

>>722934564
>the gamecube scene

>>722931983 (OP)
>considered a failure
Nogames

>>722935508
Well yeah I was tempted to point it out since even the way he wrote was the same but didn’t want to come across as a schizo

The only thing anyone remembers from the shitcube is smelee and that’s mostly because it’s fun to make fun of the obese pedophilic trannies who play it. Brapcube is an abomination and cubies are subhumans

>>722935601
saying gamecube fandom is even more gay, i have limited options to describe it

>>722935756
>>722935508
>u-u made that thread!
kek go search the /vr/ archive and find it yourself faggot, you can even see the filenames are reposted from different websites. get a new cope and stop molesting children, cubies

>>722935834
What the fuck would searching the archive prove? That the thread existed at one point? No one's arguing against that, you fucking retard.

>>722935908
it would prove your a low iq nigger cubie who can't handle her port begging of 20 year old games was found out because the faggotshitfloppozzcube has 0 games.

>>722931983 (OP)
It sold 22 or 23 million units, didn’t it? For a home console, that’s a failure.

>>722936005
>your
Might want to refrain from insulting anyone else's intelligence when you haven't bothered to learn primary school grammar, champ.

>>722933820
you're gay

>>722931983 (OP)
It literally shaped that generation, with the benefit of hindsight

>>722936005
take your fucking meds for the love of God

>>722936338
>>722936184
samefagging on different devices wont make the shitcube not be the worst console ever made, cubies

>>722931983 (OP)
the gamecube did moderately well, but not nearly as good as the ps2. at the end of its life it started to taper off but by that time nintendo had already released the wii so it's not like they suffered any great losses, especially when you consider that the wii was a normalfag magnet.

>>722936295
shitcube lost to 64 and ps2 in a bug poll recently thoughbeit

>>722931983 (OP)
yea its was a flop. I had friends who were more interested in runescape than the gc. those are like the same breed of people so that's saying something. At the time mp3 players were starting to become mainstream with kids so they were spending money on them instead.

>>722936617
Even the Xbox has more legacy than the gaycube.

>>722931983 (OP)
except for smash and f-zero literally every first party nintendo IP was better on n64 then gamecube, and f-zero GX is technically a sega game anyway so really its just smash.

Why is this one autist so angry about the Gamecube? Did the Gamecube fuck his mom?

>>722934153
This shit really should get investigated for fraud since those figures sound fishy regardless of what company and product it is.

>>722936969
ITS THE NINTENDO SHITCUBE

>>722937212
It's the gayfaggotniggerprolapsedanuspozzedHIV+cube, commoner.

>>722931983 (OP)
It was. The N64 era was hard carried by a few Nintendo games and RARE. They continued the same sparse strategy without RARE. Now, when you can look back and play the entire library without spending any money it seems like a great console but I was there when it was new and it was bleak.

>>722936385
it's my least favorite console of the gen you stupid faggot. I'll say it again: consume your fucking medication

>>722933967
G4 was not a litmus for the gaming landscape. That's like saying ESPN Sport Center constantly shitting on the Patriots means they weren't the most dominant team in the NFL.

>>722936295
Yeah, it shaped an army of autistic cubebabbies who never shut up about Nintendo's main series' worst entries, like the absolute faggot in your pic.

>>722933309
>per say

>>722934613
>the better controller, better online,
Nah, not at all.
The GC controller and Xbox online destroy PlayStation.

PS2 was like jrpgs, jank horror games, and... That's it, right?
>IT ALSO HAD A DVD PLAYER
yes, I know that's a big win for sony enjoyers that their console plays even more movies

>>722937514
nope, the shitcube's online is objectively worse, and the controller is objectively a barebones pile of shit with a worthless right stick, worthless d pad, missing top button, etc. dilate

>>722934403
>and has the worst D-pad known to mankind.
Are you drunk? It's literally great for playing 2D. Much better than most things I've used.

>>722937529
As opposed to the GameCube that had uh….a shit remake of MGS and uh….the worst Mario 3D game

It was.
It had pretty damn good games, one of the best generations Nintendo ever made.
But it doesn’t change the fact it was considered a commercial failure.

>>722931983 (OP)
The infamous price drop to $99 only happened because Nintendo had a bunch of unsold Gamecube inventory.

>>722937640
No you didn’t, Nintendo had to sell a SNES controller for the shitcube due to how bad its d pad is. Come up with a new cope.

>>722937729
I had no idea someone actually defends gc’s D-Pad lmao.
Love almost everything about the controller, the sticks were so good to move etc., but the z-button and especially the d-pad were awful.

>>722937529
Devil may cry, Kingdom Hearts, Ratchet, GTA San Andreas, Silent Hill 2, Ace Combat, Ape Escape 2, Burnout 3, Metal Gear Solid. Ps2 mogs hard

>>722937729
It's good for me. I usually can't use it for anything. I've been using the analog even for stuff like Silksong with the Steam Deck and the Dualshock 4.

PS2 was the DS of consoles. Cheap, inexpensive, bigass library, everybody knew a guy who would modchip it for you and you could buy copied games at car boot sales for a couple of quid. Perfect console for working class people who were the majority audience

>>722937918
It feels good to me.

>>722936617
>wii 360 ps3
>retro

>>722931983 (OP)
It didn't flop but obviously it underperformed, the freaking color didn't help. Just make it black, drop all the other colors, end of story. All the colorful shit was a 90s thing. If you want something weird make it a limited edition thing

Remember the Gamecube plays GB and GBA games. It's a good console.
I'd still pick the PS2 if I could only choose one, especially if I was young again.

>>722932352
Was Sony or Microsoft paying them?

>>722932585
PS2 won because Sega fucked up, they doomed Nintendo to being the kiddy console, seriously fuck Sega for that, they fucked up with the Saturn, and led to Sony and Microsoft gaining a foothold on gaming and causing a domino effect that damaged gaming as a whole, console, PC, and arcades.

>>722936742
RE4 and Killer7 shit all over anything the OG Xbox has to offer. Xbox was good back in it's day as a multiplayer box but no one goes to it for memorable singleplayer games.

>>722939308
>as a multiplayer box
I seriously fucking hate Xbox

>>722931983 (OP)
These women are now in their 40/50s.

>>722931983 (OP)
>No DVD player
>shit cross-platform support at a time when cross-platform franchises were peaking
>no splitscreen multiplayer couch games like GoldenEye especially when Halo was taking everyone's lunch
>shit fightan, platformers, sports games, and racers (outside F-Zero) when the N64 had stellar entries in those genres
>Sunshine, Assault, and Double Dash were all middling followups to their N64 counterparts
>cucked Rareware the entire generation, the developer that carried the N64 and SNES success
>Capcom first party games were given horrendous developer support and the dolphin was notoriously difficult to work with so their titles were shit or had better ports on other systems
>no real tentpole franchises launched with Gamecube (arguably SSB since Melee was a breakout success relative to the first game)
Maybe it doesn't look it now, but at the time owning the Gamecube as a kid came with a lot of buyers remorse, especially since PC Gaming was still moderately fringe and most households had one platform so there was a lot of brand loyalty. I was one of the only gamecube owners in the couple of friend circles I was in and, without the internet and netplay, that meant a lot of middling singleplayer games to myself since no wanted to get their ass beat in melee when I could practice it way more than them.

>>722940090
>especially since PC Gaming was still moderately fringe
You were either not alive or not old enough to be aware during the early to mid-2000s.

>>722931983 (OP)
>Everyone seems to love the thing now
Because the retards who grew up with it are older now and Dolphin exists.
>was the GameCube considered a failure?
It is a flop, there was nothing special about it. The GBA carried Nintendo while the GC was shitting itself.

>>722939038
Huge cope. Nintendo did exactly what they wanted to do, Sega has nothing to do with that.

I was the only person I knew with a GameCube until my friend begrudgingly bought one to play Resident Evil 4.

Gamers hated it. It was a "gay purple lunchbox" with "small faggot discs" and "Mario bouncy house baby games".

Blog:
It was the cheapest console so it's what I had. Again, we were poor as shit, so I only got games rarely. Even if I had access to the "vast PS2 library", I couldnt afford it.

>>722939038
The Gamecube's failure had fuck all to do with SEGA. It failed because Nintendo failed to learn anything from the failure of the Nintendo 64. They thought they were still hot shit and that 3rd party publishers would come flocking to them just because they're Nintendo, and they tried to pull the same proprietary media jewery that doomed the N64. And before some retard chimes in: yes, the Gamecube's discs were proprietary. They were not mini-DVD spec; this was ostensibly done to combat piracy, but was done to avoid paying licenses to the DVD Consortium and to charge publishers a licensing fee to use their storage media, the same as they did with the N64.

>>722935765
counter point those are the only things you remember that's a you problem

>>722940894
>this was ostensibly done to combat piracy, but was done to avoid paying licenses to the DVD Consortium and to charge publishers a licensing fee to use their storage media, the same as they did with the N64.
They're still doing it and it's working out just fine.

>>722940169
Nigger, I was in high school and playing the Sims, CS1.6, and Command and Conquer. I know how niche my hobby was. Console sales dwarfed PC until Half-Life 2.
https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/50-years-of-pc-vs-console-gaming-revenue-visualized-pc-maintains-lead-over-consoles-vr-mobile-and-handheld-market-data-included

>>722940894
Nintendo simply knew where gaming was headed, they let the third parties fuck off, like what happened to PC gaming the gen after, because they knew these dumb fucks would eventually come back, now that PlayStation and Xbox are currently failing, those bastards are crawling back to Nintendo and PC which they at one point abandoned.

>>722940169
PC gaming was objectively much smaller in the 2000s, Warcraft III is an absolute classic from that era and it only sold 3 million copies while the biggest console games were selling far more than that.

>>722941119
>those bastards are crawling back to Nintendo
Tendies have been saying that since the Wii, and it hasn't yet started being true.

>>722941119
>Nintendo simply knew where gaming was headed
You don't actually believe this.

>>722941469
It's already started to be true with the Switch 2. The collapse with the death of PlayStation and Xbox is going to be fun.

>>722941069
They're not just "still doing it," they've never not done it. Every single one of their game storage media has been proprietary. The Wii didn't use DVD spec, and the Wii U didn't use DVD-DL spec.

>>722931983 (OP)
I would love another console with mini disks, but it was just never a reasonable thing in a competitive market.

>>722941552
Yamauchi and Iwata talked about it and were spot on.

>>722933967
>G4
>The reddit channel

Nobody in the community took that shit seriously. That channel was treated as a joke within the actual gaming community.

>>722931983 (OP)
>gamespot
Imagine listening to anything by these faggots, they've always had dogshit taste and casual journo scores.

>>722931983 (OP)
The Xbox only sold like 2 or 3 million more units, but no one considers it a failure. The dreamcast and wii u were failures. The gamecube just wasnt a massive success.

>>722932821
>The Xbox was more of a failure, but at the time people didn't realize it because pretty much the entire western game industry was throwing support behind it
Why do zoomers post about events for which they weren't awake? The Xbox was a huge success for a first gen console, Halo singlehandedly catapulted the brand into its best selling years, and Xbox live pretty much framed the discussion for netplay being more than just a fringe feature outside of Japan. And the "western gaming industry" wasnt throwing support behind it so much as it was easy to develop for whereas Dolphin devkit was infamous for its lack of user-friendliness. Xbox came second to the best selling console of all time; it was not a failure.

>>722941962
It was treated as a joke until it killed TechTV. Then it was treated with disdain.

>>722942679
You say all of this like it was a good thing, that piece of shit was the start of Microsoft trying to kill PC/American gaming.

>>722942851
I'm saying it like it's accurate description of the past. There's no value judgment in my post; merely incredulousness at confidently false narratives in this thread.

What British gamers thought about the GameCube just prior to the UK/European launch in 2002.

>>722938879
Well, Sony Entertainment Inc. does invest heavily in several of those websites, including ones owned by IGN, so...

>>722943164
There are no false narratives, gaming would have been in a better place if PlayStation and Xbox didn't exist. Sega's hardware would still be dead but that's okay.

>>722943839
I really do hate these two companies and their fanbases, just nothing but corrupted shit from them both.

>>722943868
Stop shadowboxing. We're talking about what happened, not what "should have" happened. Gamecube flopped, Xbox didn't.

>>722943868
kek imagine the timeline where only the shitcube exists.it would have killed gaming as a whole. you're a weirdo faggot

>>722940581
>Gamers hated it. It was a "gay purple lunchbox" with "small faggot discs" and "Mario bouncy house baby games".
Nobody said that, and you're talking out your ass. You're some youngfag who skimmed wikipedia, maybe watched a video essay or two, and thought he could craft some decent bait, but I see through it.

>>722943596
This was the only gamecube owner from the bunch.

>>722944173
NTA but people in my school did think Billy Hatcher and Wind Waker looked gay. It didn't mean nobody had a GC but it was looked at a certain way. Nobody gave a shit that it was purple but the handle did make it sort of kindergartenish.

>>722944091
It didn't flop, Xbox died and Playstation lost all exclusives. In the end Nintendo won because they focused on games instead of all the forced multimedia machine garbage

>>722931983 (OP)
It was solidly beaten by the Xbox and PS2. In part because of the weird choice of disc.

One of the better first party controllers of the time.

>>722944173
We have people saying that kind of stuff literally in an official Nintendo magazine. >>722943669

>>722944091
>>722944148
You normal faggots wouldn't been shitting up gaming for like 3 decades so yeah, it would have been a significant improvement to what we have today. You faggots gave us wokeness, now you're going have to see the collapse.

>>722944519
not really, the shitcube has by far the most normalfaggot library of the 6th gen. alienated entire genres of games from coming do their dogshit console like rpgs. literally just all shitty ports from the dreamcast and medicore follow-ups to 64 kinos. please come up with a new cope, cubie

>>722936295
This whole thing seems to be caused by zoomers taking an anachronistic look at the release years, seeing what games are on each of the consoles that generation, and realizing that Gamecube games are the only ones that didn't get ported a gorillion times. They don't understand that something like San Andreas or Max Payne can be associated with the PS2, much in the same way Sunshine and Melee are associated with the Gamecube, because they see those games are on PC with mods and better performance and think that's literally the only way people are experiencing those games. Meanwhile, if you want Soul Calibur with Link in it you can't escape Nintendo's boxy logo.

>>722944681
You're coping, all the shit that Sony's been doing since 1995, all the shit that Microsoft's been doing since 2001, has all culminated into their current collapse. Those bastards never gave a fuck about gaming. This is karma for trying to kill console and PC gaming. Those bastards.

>>722944091
>Gamecube flopped, Xbox didn't.
They moved almost the same amount of units. Say what you will about the PS2 selling as much as it did because it was the cheapest DVD player on the market in 2001, but the only reason the Xbox sold what it did is because normalniggers really loved Halo.

>>722944808
you're coping, the shitcube was a normalfaggot poorfag flop for shartmart brownoids with dogshit games, a shit controller, halfassed features like it's pathetic laggy gba compatibility instead of true backwards compatability, etc seethe and dilate, cubie faggot

>>722944843
This, that's all those faggots talked about, some dumbed down piece of shit shooter that they won't let go.

>>722944919
Man, you're coping

>>722945008
Man, you're dilating.

>>722944173
NTA but the lunchbox thing was real and I unironically was laughed at when I dropped my "faggy" minidisc cd book.

>>722944919
>poorfag flop for shartmart brownoids
Lol. The only “people” who owned a gc all turned out to be whitoids that troon out

The GC is why Nintendo gave up on the idea of powerful hardware and why the Switch was made and sold 150m units

>>722945071
I'm not a tranny, tranny

>>722945163
anyone who owned a shitcube in 2003 was a poorfag latinx that bought one from their local shart mart because it was the cheapest console with the least amount of games

anyone who defends the shitcube in 2025 is a grooming transvestite wanting you to join their shitcord server and play smelee with like >>722945239

>>722945239
You’re definitely trans

Oh good, the tranny obsessed faggots are cancering up yet another thread. 2015 was a fucking mistake.

>>722945331
>>722945359
You're probably gay, I had a Gamecube for exclusives, GBA, and a PC. I was never mad that GC didn't do as well as others, I was mad at what happened after the 6th generation of gaming.

>>722944843
What Gamecube sold worldwide doesn't matter when you and I live in NA where it sold very poorly compared to Xbox which pretty much solely sold those units in NA. OP asked for the NA reception for Gamecube at the time and the reception was Gamecube was kids and weirdos.

>>722945524
>You're probably game
>I had a Gamecube
kek the projection, go dilate and stop spamming this board you tranny faggot

>>722945524
>I had a Gamecube
So you are a tranny

>>722945601
>Narcissa Wright
Why are literally all gamecubefags into LGBT shit? What went so wrong with that console?

>>722945724
>purple box
>paper mario with the first tranny
>smelee
shitcube is ground zero for faggotry in gaming

>>722934345
Second hand can't count as new sales, though.

>>722944919
>claims the gamecube was for normalfags
>simultaneously brags about how many units the PS2 sold
ok snoygger

>>722945589
Xbox and PlayStation captured the early 2000's zeitgeist better than Nintendo. Everything was getting darker and more mature. Even children wanted entertainment that was more grown up. Nintendo seemed behind the times and overly childish with games like Wind Waker and Pikmin.

>>722941962
The problem was that the normies took it seriously and they were quickly outnumbering the community. But yes you're right.

>>722946117
Imagine defending the brown and bloom era.

>>722946115
i don’t care about the sales, the shitcube was undoubtedly made for brown trannies, its pricing, faggot purple design, and shit tranny games like ttyd and smelee prove it, cubie

>>722941770
Elaborate.

>>722942170
MH is shite.

>>722943868
>lobotomize the DVD support, use obscure mini-disc formats with no support
>overcharge third parties for licenses and manufacturing
>have the worst software development environment
>flip low tier ibm hardware and garbage canadian gpus as the solution
>make a failure prone disc drive that struggles to read your CLV optical media garbage
>sell the smallest memory card sizes possible
>require developers to put later games on two discs for a single disc game on xbox
>scrap all online plans
>sell component video cables exclusively through online retailer
>have no reputation as an online seller so nobody buys them
>use third source manufacturers like mitsumi exclusively for all parts on a controller PCB, they outsource to 5th source manufacturers
>extremely limited launch in just NA, Japan, some European countries and Ausfailia
>blowout unsold stock for major losses in big box retailers
It's honestly a blessing the PlayStation 2 and Xbox existed. The GameCube was a fucking mess.

>>722945601
>>722945667
Yeah, you're probably faggots. Also, stop calling Nintendo players and PC players trannies. It's a shit insult when these disgusting faggots in dresses are also on PlayStation and Xbox. They're all in gaming, every fucking platform. Instead of being console warring niggers, you should try finding trannies in every fanbase and forcefully kicking them out.

>>722943596
Yeah but they're asking about the price, not what they think about the console.
I'd still say the price is good even if I had a PS2 and didn't plan to get a GC, that's the problem here.

>>722946518
>make a failure prone disc drive
Strange thing to bring up, given the notorious failure rate of the PS2's laser.

>>722946171
This

>>722946317
They stated that the pursuit of graphics would lead to massive ballooning budgets that would collapse the industry while traditional home consoles would keep getting more expensive trying to push these graphics for pure realism. They also argued about the problems of games losing their soul and becoming more like movies instead of games.

>>722943669
Based Andy Winters.

>>722946623
yeah you’re a tranny, like all shitcube copers
we can all thank the shitcube for brainwashing kids to choose their weenies off too
absolute faggot tranny-enabling console with shit games

>>722946283
>moving the goalposts
>getting visibly mad

>>722943868
>gaming would have been in a better place if only Nintendo existed
kek

itt: "I'm not obsessed with trannies, I just think about them constantly and post about them all the time"

>>722931983 (OP)
Nintendo is a failure period.

>>722946946
no goalposts were moved, the shitcube had bad games, a shit controller, shit features, and marketed itself towards troons and poorfags kek >>722946867
>>722944919

>>722946518
>lobotomize the DVD support, use obscure mini-disc formats with no support
A game console is for playing video games, not watching movies
>overcharge third parties for licenses and manufacturing
Like I care
>have the worst software development environment
Git gud
>flip low tier ibm hardware and garbage canadian gpus as the solution
See above
>make a failure prone disc drive that struggles to read your CLV optical media garbage
PS2 and Xbox had the same disc drive problem of the 360 of eventually opening and closing because the stupid thing gets misaligned
>sell the smallest memory card sizes possible
Oh no
>require developers to put later games on two discs for a single disc game on xbox
You didn't complain when the 360 did this
>scrap all online plans
Fuck online gaming and fuck you for advocating for paid online gaming
>sell component video cables exclusively through online retailer
and?
>have no reputation as an online seller so nobody buys them
See above
>use third source manufacturers like mitsumi exclusively for all parts on a controller PCB, they outsource to 5th source manufacturers
Then buy the first party ones
>extremely limited launch in just NA, Japan, some European countries and Ausfailia
Based, fuck the globe
>blowout unsold stock for major losses in big box retailers
Who cares
>It's honestly a blessing the PlayStation 2 and Xbox existed
Sony and Microsoft nearly killed the game industry, you rat

>>722946948
Nintendo and PC

>>722946867
You must really love trannies, I bet you even watch faggot porn with them.

>>722947150
>A game console is for playing video games
True, too bad most third parties either skipped the GameCube or were neutered because of the shit discs format. The rest of this post is pure copium lmao "t-the globe doesn't count!".

>>722947103
>I lost but you didn't own me.
>I'm not mad. I'm actually very calm right now.

>>722947219
>You must really love trannies
nope I’m not the tranny(You) cock sucking the homo lunchbox with the tranny paper mario game lol

>>722946782
That shit has nothing to do with the argument.
Also Nintendo has been selling tablets for 400 and 500 bucks lmao. And I own them, btw.
And on top of that, the only fun games Nintendo has is Pokemon. None of their exclusives are fun.

>>722931983 (OP)
Yes it was a failure. You know it was bad when they slashed the price of the GC down to $99. It is part of why Nintendo took such big risks with the DS and Wii.

i had a ps2, gamecube, and dreamcast and the gamecube was my least favorite of those. the cube was fine and all but that was an amazing gen and mario sunshine and windwaker weren't it. melee was obviously 10/10 and there were some other cool games like metroid prime and animal crossing but the ps2 and dreamcast had a lot more games that interested me.

>>722947310
>I lost but you didn't own me.
>I'm not mad. I'm actually very calm right now.
true, this is what you’re doing. at least type something funny when you reply to me with this crybaby shit, cubie

>>722947219
>Nintendo and PC
Most sane Nintrannie.

Coming from someone with probably more Nintendo consoles than you.

I had a PS2 and a Gamecube but I didn't have an Xbox. Reply to me with opinions and questions.

>>722947379
>melee was obviously 10/10
>dreamcast had a lot more games that interested me
You peopl are weird.

>>722947150
>Like I care
true, so stop crying about muh xbox ruined le gaming
>Then buy the first party ones
those were mostly shit in that gen, sunshine and wind waker blow
the shitcube has literally nothing appealing about it

>>722934592
>The deal that Nintendo was in trouble was overblown due to the GC selling like shit specially in Europe, where some stores stopped selling the console due to extremely low sales.

Morale at Nintendo was at rock bottom though. Yamauchi went on record for saying that the DS was a make or break moment for Nintendo. Had it failed, Nintendo would still be able to keep doors open but morale would have been so bad that the employees would be like headless chickens.

>>722947385
Oh, I get it! You're MERELY PRETENDING to be retarded. As a joke.

>>722947264
They were neutered because they kept taking Sony's and Microsoft's guidance instead of thinking for themselves. The moment some shit company tells me how to create my games and how I should run my studio and change its "culture" is the moment I'm dropping that platform for game releases
>t-the globe doesn't count!
The globe brought a bunch of turd worlders from their failing garbage countries to developed nations and destroyed them from the inside so yes, any company that cares about primitives should go out of business.

>>722947379
The gamecube mostly thrived off of bad ports from the Dreamcast. No third party support, lacklustre output from Nintendo, trash controller, trash online, no backwards compatibility.
Awful fucking console

>>722947590
Oh, I get it! You're a COPING FAGGOT. Thats the reality.

>>722947319
You clearly are since you can't get those freaks out of your mind.

>>722947331
Pokemon's a buggy mess, you just buy what's popular.

>>722947683
i clearly am since some fat stinky cubie with his taint wound (You) keeps spamming this thread, huh
go get that thing sewn up, tranny

>>722947002
>do this
>improve browsing /v/ by at least a factor of three

>>722947509
>true, so stop crying about muh xbox ruined le gaming
It did

I dunno why people seethe so much. there was great games on all the platforms that gen. The consoles were super cheap like 3 or 4 years in as well.

>>722936385
Anon, the screenshotted thread is from 2025. And Kingdom Hearts is on the Switch. What are you trying to prove? Everyone thought Kingdom Hearts was a perfect fit for Nintendo all throughout its lifespan (I was always a nintendie and I still bought a PS2 just for KH), so much that Sora was leagues and above the most requested character for Smash.

>>722947670
HAHA good one!

>>722947804
anon, the screenshotted thread from 2025 is specifically talking about the gamecube on a retro forum. what are you trying to prove? coping your shitcube had no games?

>>722947876
HAHA good one!

>>722947765
this thread is mostly coping cubies crying after being reminded how dogshit the shitcube is and their nostalgia doesn’t hold up

>>722947493
melee with friends back then is some of the most fun i had console gaming. absolute banger of a party game.

the dreamcast was a god tier system in the couple years it was out. i often had to make decisions about what games to purchase because there were so many good ones coming out. shenmue, skies of arcadia, and grandia 2 all launched within the same month.

>>722947605
i bought a fair number of those dreamcast ports, pso is the game that i spent the most hours with on gamecube. which is part of the reason why i rate the gamecube lower than the dreamcast because my favorite game to play on gamecube was a dreamcast port . i even bought episode 3 and played that a fair amount but it was way worse than episode 1&2. i love skies of arcadia legends and ikaruga but those are dreamcast games, not gamecube ones.

>>722947605
>the gamecube mostly thrived off of bad ports from the Dreamcast
Like what, anon? Please, enlighten us.

>>722948097
no thanks cubie, find your own games (lol you have none)

>>722946117
This anon is correct. Moreover, it cannot be undersold how much graphical realism was a driver for reception of games at the time. There was not a distinction between resolution, fidelity, and art style like today; it was all graphics. The bit wars evolved into which console had the best graphics and the general consensus was that console gaming should be (and largely was outside of the early Gamecube titles) moving toward "better graphics" and the genres that were relevant would adapt or die. It's why the PS2 stayed relevant even though it was still the weeb console of choice. I can remember the Budakai series being the first games that I encountered which showed cel shading could work in 3D games. They actively tried to look like the source material instead of photorealistic.

gamecube had good games therefore its a success

>>722931983 (OP)
>Was the GameCube considered a failure?
In the eyes of the games enthusiast public, sure. It was popular to dunk on Nintendo for being stuck in their ways and especially for being too kid-friendly when everyone was desperate for the next 'mature' monoculture hit title. Nintendo themselves thought the GC underperformed, too, but...
>Was it the success of the DS and the Wii that sort of smoothed over the money side of the Cube?
The DS and Wii generation saw insane success for Nintendo, but it's not like Nintendo was strictly in a sink or swim situation before then. The Game Boy (Advance) had still been doing well and keeping the company afloat.

>>722947931
It's one thing to joke around, but don't you EVER impersonate me again, do I make myself clear?

>>722931983 (OP)
Why did they remove the little disc window in the final product?

Anyway, the Wii deprecated the Gamecube.

>>722948615
>The Game Boy (Advance) had still been doing well and keeping the company afloat
Sure but even Nintendo said they needed a hit console to keep going, which Wii/DS obviously ended up being. Long-term Gamecube has pulled in a lot of money, there's a ton of interest in GC games still, GC controller, selling the games again etc.

>>722948739
single colour plastic probably saved hundreds of thousands in manufacturing costs

>>722948707
ill stop when you quit impersonating your female gender, cubie

>>722948097
Sonic Adventure 1 and 2. Didn't come out on PS2.

>>722947683
I buy what I like. I hate popular things but I hate more to not buy what I like.

>>722948036
>shenmue, skies of arcadia, and grandia 2
Don't care. Never gonna buy a system for that stuff. Not even interested in emulating.
Party games? The PS2 era was the era of Pro Evolution Soccer nights with the lads. What kind of fucking loser would spend the evening playing some kiddie fighting game? The kind that grows up thinking he's a woman, that's the kind.

>>722948423
>Moreover, it cannot be undersold how much graphical realism was a driver for reception of games at the time. There was not a distinction between resolution, fidelity, and art style like today; it was all graphics. The bit wars evolved into which console had the best graphics and the general consensus was that console gaming should be (and largely was outside of the early Gamecube titles) moving toward "better graphics" and the genres that were relevant would adapt or die
This. This was when Final Fantasy was at its peak. Everyone wanted bigger and better. If it wasn't realistic it was inferior. I was part of the dumb choir.

>>722949053
But if it's my gender, how is it an impersonation? ;)

>>722941358
dont add runescape or all the pc games just wow

>>722937529
Name a 1 (ONE) genre that the PS2 didn't have good games in.

Dead genres don't count.

>>722950810
it's not your gender, that's your dysphoria speaking, cubie