Gamecube If you ask me, the Gamecube deserved the L... But at least it tried. A little ramble about the 6th gen console war.

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

1. Discs (say what you want but mini discs held less data and meant no dvd compatibility. They also meant more expense in manufacturing for Big N)

Imagine being so paranoid about piracy that you end up making a product that literally cripples your own system in the process.
At least the XBox HAD DVD support. I could rant about how they locked that feature away (a very Microsoft move), but Nintendo didn’t even give it the time of day. And when your competitor is actively proving why a DVD drive is good idea, I don’t know why you wouldn’t take a step back and at least make it an add on at launch, you feel?

 

[ThatOneLum ThatOneLum]

Imagine being so paranoid about piracy that you end up making a product that literally cripples your own system in the process.
At least the XBox HAD DVD support. I could rant about how they locked that feature away (a very Microsoft move), but Nintendo didn’t even give it the time of day. And when your competitor is actively proving why a DVD drive is good idea, I don’t know why you wouldn’t take a step back and at least make it an add on at launch, you feel?

Yeah, while the focus on gaming is touted by "hard-core gamers" reality makes it pretty obvious that those secondary features can really sell a system.

It almost felt a bit like they used the mini discs to give the platform some uniqueness, but standing out by doing something insane is a good way to get ignored, as I learnt in high school.

 

[Leo-Dash]

It's ok! Everyone have opinions and I respect that even if Game Cube was my childhood, Nintendo did a lot of dumb choices with it that sabotaged it!

I have to say tho
SHOUT OUTS TO GAME CUBE'S INDIGO COLOUR! Gotta be my fav colour

Imagine being so paranoid about piracy that you end up making a product that literally cripples your own system in the process.

FOR REAL! Such a Dumb decision!
That's why Games like Tales of Symphonia was in 2 GC Discs

 

[SoraSquood]

Still wish Nintendo kept the indigo color scheme.

Like yeah, they're the Red of the trio with PS and Xbox being blue and green, but indigo just felt different and then they just swerved to stark white for two gens.

 

[Leo-Dash]

Still wish Nintendo kept the indigo color scheme.

Like yeah, they're the Red of the trio with PS and Xbox being blue and green, but indigo just felt different and then they just swerved to stark white for two gens.

Modern technology after 2010 is so boring! They all ditch colours
They are all either White or Black... and still only nintendo sells colourful consoles
For limited time editions

 

[Sinmenon]

When my friend at university said "I'm bringing my lunchbox," we all knew he was bringing his GC along.

 

[Cardboardtubeknight Cardboardtubeknight]

Why I oughta take my GameCube by it's cute little handle and

 

[Graw]

and the nostalgia needle moves up to the Wii era. People with a soft spot for the Gamecube will be lumped in with bizzare weirdos like myself who have a soft spot for the Dreamcast.

Except the GameCube has a bunch of good games that weren't released on other systems. Any time I go to play a Dreamcast game there's usually a better version of the game on a different system. The Wii is silly and gimmicky. There's maybe a small handful of Wii games I would actually bother with.

 

[moonbits]

Why? It was more powerful than the other two consoles.

it wasn't more powerful than the Xbox.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

it wasn't more powerful than the Xbox.

The Xbox came after. I was referring to the Dreamcast and PS2 back when it got released.

 

[Haruki]

I agree with the op, the cube deserved what it got and I think this is the reason the wii got a full retrocompatibility (controls and memory slots) on the first version and revisions, I am happy with my wii being a smaller NGC.

 

[Bluewyne]

The Gamecube library may have been limited, but every game on it was a certified banger.
I wouldn't say that it lost in the console wars of that era, Nintendo very neatly carved out a niche with its family friendly first party games. Everyone that had a PS2 or an Xbox almost always had a Gamecube as well, because where else could you play Pokemon, Mario, and Zelda?

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

The Gamecube library may have been limited, but every game on it was a certified banger.
I wouldn't say that it lost in the console wars of that era, Nintendo very neatly carved out a niche with its family friendly first party games. Everyone that had a PS2 or an Xbox almost always had a Gamecube as well, because where else could you play Pokemon, Mario, and Zelda?

I don’t think “every game on it was a certified banger” is the hill you want to die on. But I concede: it had a lot of bangers. And, this is a big thing going for it, they all felt like they fit together. In one big family. Mario had never felt more aesthetically connected. Metroid was more alive than ever and paired well with Star Fox. Zelda brought the epic scale with it. And the whole system just has this vibe of liquids, like water.

Also, a lot of people had it for the Nintendo IP, yeah, but also because it was so cheap. Nintendo slashed that price so much because they were desperate, so GameCube BUNDLES could run only $100 at times. Wild.

 

[Pinballbuzzbro]

its the same problem the switch and switch 2 have IMO.

The stuff Nintendo develops themselves for it is OUTSTANDING, some serious must play stuff!.....
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But 3rd party stuff? Absolutely not. More often than not the worst way to play em'.

This doesn't sound TOO bad on paper, but having to pay hundreds of dollars for a system only to play like 10 games max is NOT something people are willing to do, the Switch 2 is actually doing bangers sales wise, but you can still see this reflected in how almost EVERY 3RD party port to the system so far has been a financial failure for their respective companies. Playstation, Xbox, and PC have always p much been the objectively superior option for third party stuff barring the Wii with stuff like it's Resident Evil 4 port and the Wiiware stuff, and people simply flock to them instead.

 

[zacharinolongpants]

I love the GameCube but it just didn't have as many bangers as the PS2 for my moneu. It had some AMAZING games though. The Zeldas on it are top notch, Metroid Prime, Double Dash, a four player version of Nightfire without needing a multitap... lots of great stuff.

I probably would take the GameCube over the Xbox. But the PS2 just had SO much stuff. Viewtiful Joe and RE4 would have been great arguing points but they ended up on the PS2. Even if there are points to be made about port quality, they aren't make or break differences. Tough to compete with a console that has the Silent Hill, Grand Theft Auto, Tekken, Final Fantasy, Star Wars Battlefront... the list goes on for a long time lol

 

[demo]

there are some hot takes in this thread. the GameCube was amazing! though most of my favorite games of all time were on the PS2, the GameCube has some absolutely amazing all timers

resident evil 4
mgs twin snakes
animal crossing
fzero gx
wind waker
Twilight princess
viewtiful Joe
eternal darkness
pso ep3
tales of Symphonia
killer 7
Crystal Chronicles
super monkey ball
resident evil remake
resident evil zero
metroid prime
Mario Sunshine
paper Mario
double dash
path of radiance
lost kingdoms
baten kaitos

damn so many classics and those are just off the top of my head

 

[Questless Knight]

Honestly I never owned a GameCube ever heck I did not own N64 or wii either. I got the Wii when Wii u was out and I got it for like 40bucks.

To me Nintendo quit being good after the SNES and I went over to Playsation and I mean it look at snes So much JRPG and platformers and other unique games. Then look at N64 it had like what 388 games and how many of them where rely good games and basically not a single final fantasy game or such.

Then gamecube have what 651 games so only 300 more than N64 but compared to PS2 that had 4,200 to 4,400 games. Also just like N64 gamecube did not have much big titles more than zelda and mario and Final fantasy crystal chronicles. Heck I can barely name any more Gamecube games.

Honestly Nintendo has been disappointment for the past 4 console generation and it´s a no wonder Nintendo become so messed up in the head they been utter shit for 4 generation and thanks to Switch they are suddenly relevant again becoming bigger than PlayStation and Xbox. Their fame wait right to their heads and now they are super scared they will lose that so now they are on a WAR path to destroy any an all emulation and Brick your switch 2 if you don´t suck their D hard enough.

Yes Nintendo has always been anti emulation but if you look on the time before the switch they did not care that much compared to today they even involve the FEDS.

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

I agree.
While the gamecube had some juicy exclusives and underrated gems , it was still rather dissapointing in its library .

But in that console gen , alot of great and interesting projects we're cancled .

Unseen64.net provides what companies never wanna tell and actually fear from the past .

 

[athleticyawler]

They made some pretty serious mistakes that could’ve easily been avoided. The system had a great GPU and memory streaming that mostly went to waste, and it’s a darn shame when good hardware isn’t fully utilized

On another note, Nintendo really needs to make a sequel to Eternal Darkness. Geist also had tons of potential that could be realized with a sequel. I know it has a 69 on Metacritic, but Killzone 1 got similar scores and received a sequel that got a 91.

Why? It was more powerful than the other two consoles.

From what I understand, the CPU wasn’t that great. Criterion and a game developer on Beyond3D who went by ERP weren’t fans, and the devs of Red Faction II and Spawn: Armageddon ran into some issues during porting. Then again, a homebrew dev made a retooled version of Minecraft’s engine for the GameCube, and they got it running at 60 FPS with the Switch version’s draw distance, so there may be more to the story

The GameCube also used a split memory pool and lacked programmable shaders, which were also major setbacks