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No DVD playback, no GTA, no Halo, no online, "kiddy" image.
Also some people disliked SMS and Wind Waker and MS bought Rare.
The system itself was actually very developer friendly (opposed to the 64) and they were also trying hard to advertise it as well as keep it's price low (lower than the competition).
It also didn't help that it was unhackable for a long time because in less piracy strict countries easy piracy helps move consoles.
this guy doesnt know how to make a cohesive sentence...i tried to read it all but he goes all over the place.. he must not be from an english speaking country..
"Gamecube, it seems it failed because Nintendo was lazy. Also out of their minds"
your out of your mind lol...
1. Didn't read that pile of crap that TC calls an argument.
2. TC you're an idiotic troll. Just quit.
3. Gamecube was a rgeat system.
Wow tl;dr.
I don't really see what your on about. GC sales 21.74 million, Xbox sales 24 million. The Xbox didn't fare much better. The reason for the Gamecube's failings has little to do with the quality of the system or lack thereof of which you are basing your whole argument around. You can dissect it all you want but the short answer is no home console really could have competed alongside the PS2 at the time. Even if all your gripes about the system were somehow magically corrected I doubt that it would have made much of a difference.
Oh really? You thought it was good so it didn't fail? But then where were you when it needed you? Nowhere? Exactly how about reading first idiot. [QUOTE="lordoftheleft"]I said the Xbox failed but since you didn't read because it would break your heart you have to make up something. Oh and no, these are actual reasons why it failed, you just won't admit it. It's ok to be sad. All the things I listed are true, and you really can't deny it, I honestly what's so hard to admit it was a disaster? It actually was a disaster! I didn;t say there was no % of quality, I am saying Nintendo was dumb with it, they failed, it failed and that's FACT, I honestly don't see the problem here. Ps2 has nothing to do with this, your using it to subdue the pain, the XBox was risky and it stopped, the GC continued for years with it's"Better quality and games" with "Great first party support" which no one brought. and the Xbox still won and they gave up on the Xbox so they can use the 360 for a fresh bradn image. That's f*king sad, and you guys are still going with this crap? How about reading the thread, it's all true I din't care if you LIKE IT or not.Wow tl;dr.
I don't really see what your on about. GC sales 21.74 million, Xbox sales 24 million. The Xbox didn't fare much better. The reason for the Gamecube's failings has little to do with the quality of the system or lack thereof of which you are basing your whole argument around. You can dissect it all you want but the short answer is no home console really could have competed alongside the PS2 at the time. Even if all your gripes about the system were somehow magically corrected I doubt that it would have made much of a difference.
AcidSoldner
[QUOTE="magnax1"]same here :P, second best last gen console and that's saying alot! But you probably weren;t around, had to wait for it to die huh? I mean where you thinking of the Gamecube when it was out? Why did you buy no games? Why you no go and talk to people to buy consoles? I mean it's randomly a system that wasn't a disaster now that Nintendo was saved and ONLY saved by casuals. Oh wait, no it was a failure, it was a disater, it doesn't matter your opinion, all the above happened, get used to it, the party is **** over and they **** failed. Now, I am getting tired of randomly cursing out people so once again. If you guys actually have something against any of this then please do, because so far, I see only facts. Let's not try calling my thread :Crazy," maybe actually realizing that you liking it now, does not changes what happened, then, and if there is something wrong, actually point it out. Otherwise the only people "Crazy" are you guys and whatever allicomb or whatever with his Nintendo Bias.Still one of the best consoles ever. Didn't read btw.
JuarN18
@Jakandsig
Holy crap you don't expect me to read all that do you? Why are you arguing with me? I'm a least partially agreeing with you that the GC was a failure, just not for the reasons you specified. I like how you have the time to make a 2248 word rant but don't have the time to run a two second spell check.
If you are trying to engage in a logical argument and come off sounding like you have a ounce of creditability and intelligence it doesn't help when you misspell fourth grade level words.
lazyness= laziness
legenadary= legendary
becuase=because (spelled wrong twice)
exclsuvie=exclusive
guinnea=guinea
knoe=know
cirtics=critics
adverttisments=advertisements
cencelled=cancelled
wiould=would
disater= disaster
exclsuive= exclusive
Save yourself some time and don't respond to this because I won't be reading it.
@Jakandsig
Holy crap you don't expect me to read all that do you? Why are you arguing with me? I'm a least partially agreeing with you that the GC was a failure, just not for the reasons you specified. I like how you have the time to make a 2248 word rant but don't have the time to run a two second spell check.
If you are trying to engage in a logical argument and come sounding like you have a ounce of creditability and intelligence it doesn't help when you misspell fourth grade level words.
lazyness= laziness
legenadary= legendary
becuase=because (spelled wrong twice)
exclsuvie=exclusive
guinnea=guinea
knoe=know
cirtics=critics
adverttisments=advertisements
cencelled=cancelled
wiould=would
disater= disaster
exclsuive= exclusive
Save yourself some time and don't respond to this because I won't be reading it.
hOW CANNOT BE THE REASONS I SPECIFIED IF THESE ARE THE ONLY REASONS!? Also where are your commas? I see you have one long sentence there. but you're just using this as an excuse to avoid the fact it failed in general. These are the only reasons they failed what OTHER WAY IS THERE?You're getting this wrong, I'm not saying the GC didn't fail. You claim other can't read yet you seem to do it less, why not take more time to read and less time typing posts nobody will read (no, I won't read this whole post). You're right when you say I never (I have, but rarely) have played a GC, but you are wrong saying I'm defending, it, I never said anything like that, putting words into others posts. I also don't deny the fact the GC lost in sales, I never denied that, yet you claim I'm defending the GC. What I'm saying is, you never post evidence for ANYTHING you say, be it the GC crap, the GBA crap, the TurboGraphx crap, because all you post is opinions, no facts backed up with valid evidence of any kind. And then you make assumptions like "You never had this game". I also never mentioned PS2, this is just more of your inventing to try to go around what I said. The assumptions you make are not assumptions everybody knows, how does everybody know what consoles some one else had or hasn't? You always assume people don't own the consoles you disagree with. Those being the stupid assumptions. And you did mention Programmers, well A48 did, which is basically the same crap. And you're still beating around the bush, you're insulting me, and claiming "facts don't need to be backed up if you know anything about video games". Just to run away from what I'm saying. You're just diggin' yourself deeper and deeper. And you're starting to show how nervous and annoyed you're getting at how people see right through you, because all you rely on now is insults. I wonder if you can defend yourself in your next post without throwing an insult at me.lol at the duderaper
I am sorry, but I need facts to back up the Gamecube was a failure which is a fact are are you so **** desperate that you need to rant back at me because you fund it so hard to believe? There is not one thing to back up if you know ANYTHING about Video games, and you knew ANYTHING about gaming last gen it was a failure, and the Majority of people who are defending the gamecube not gave 4 **** about it last gen.
Denial is a step you don't need it is perfectly ok to be sad. I am not even trying to be a jerk you guys and your freaking love of the Gamecube is blinding you. It failed, why do I need to back up something factually universally knwonw> Are you stupid? I hope not. I mean I have to back up something people KNOW Now? Wow this is terrific.\
Did you know the Ps2 outsold all consoles last gen? Oh wait, I have to back it up. Pathetic.
You guys are here saying my posts are "Crazy" then say something dumb like this and expect to be respected after calling my posts "Crazy"?
When did I mention Programmers? I never even mentioned programmers! I mean your so dumb you are using things I didn;t say against, me. How does that make sense? How do you think I should not be insulting such behavior?
I am making stupid assumptions that EVERYBODY KNOWS!!!!!!????????? REALLY!?!?!?!!?!??
Hey guys, guess PS2 didn;t win last gen!
But hey your like a 5 year old. Your toy is broken but you continue you to believe it's alive. It's so damn ad I mean just cry in the corner come back, and actually tell me what's wrong instead of just saying :I am wrong you are teh crazy ahahahahahahahahahahahahallolololololoyayayaayaya! Like you idiotds keep doing!
Nobody will ever take YOU SERIOUSLY! There is nothing here that needs backing up, it happened! Look obviouly from this you never touched a gamecube since you are defending something you know nothing about, because apparently id didn;t fail to you. or you need to go be rushed to mental institution in the yellow room!
I mean more than most of the Gamecube defenderds could not have had a gamecube when barely any gamers brought the gamecube, there are more defenders than people who had it.
You can cry about what happened, but that doesn;t mean it didn;t fail and all of a suddeen I need BACKUP! Really!?!?!?!?
Jakandsig_
[QUOTE="turtlethetaffer"]That failed so how was it great? oh wait, where were you when it was selling well and it's already small software sales were declining? Oh not playing the Gamecube. And you KBFloyd make my point even more obious, you are denying its failure when it clearly failed becuase you are all in denial. It's ok to be sad. Nintendo WAS lazy and they made out of the mind CRAP DECISIONS! And you turtle, I see the brain must be lowers a notch, I am trolling yet you are not een trying to cover up its failure and you sau Gamecube was a geat system. Does not mean all the above happened and it didn't fail. Your insanity is why people din't give a crap about the console in the first place. Where were you if it was so great? Where was KB? Nowhere. So hey, stop trolling just quit. You Pos. Now if people actually had something factual to go against this then it would be a decet legacy conversation.1. Didn't read that pile of crap that TC calls an argument.
2. TC you're an idiotic troll. Just quit.
3. Gamecube was a rgeat system.
Jakandsig_
So, we're pretending that sales are indicative of quality? Right, but last I checked, the GAMES make the system. And, I don't know about other people on here, but I have somewhere in the ballpark of 64 games for the GC, and I still need to buy some games I missed out on. I have gotten alot of playtime out of the system and still do, and, I'm,sorry you asshat, but that, to me, makes a system great. Not the business decisions surrounding it, not the sales, not the people who made it, but the games. And if you tihnk otherwise, well... you must not be a gamer.
hOW CANNOT BE THE REASONS I SPECIFIED IF THESE ARE THE ONLY REASONS!? Also where are your commas? I see you have one long sentence there. but you're just using this as an excuse to avoid the fact it failed in general. These are the only reasons they failed what OTHER WAY IS THERE?Jakandsig_
Yeah I admit it I am lazy when it comes to comma's, but I'm not the one writing a 2248 word essay here am I? Why does it matter so much to you if people agree with you Captain Hindsight? I said the GC failed, I'm not denying it. I swear no allegiances to the GC or Nintendo in general. I was always an Atari and Sega guy myself.
The PS2 sold over 150 million units, that's over seven times the units that the GC sold. Just the looming shadow of the PS2 effected the Dreamcast sales before it was even released. The PS2 was simply the preferred platform for third party developers. There wasn't much Nintendo could do about it. Except maybe sit that generation out and focus primarily on the GBA. (which in hindsight they probably should have done) Most people who buy video game consoles are casual gamers. The so called hardcore gamer only make up a small minority. Casual gamers usually buy one console per generation and that's it. So tell me after everybody and their mother bought a PS2 who would be buying all these GC's? Do you honestly think that making a few changes here and there would have changed anything? It wouldn't have mattered that much if the GC had DVD capabilities amazing third party support or that whole list of other stuff that you said. There would have been no way that it could have been even close to as successful as the PS2.
oh dear, now I know what another user meant by Jakandsig_ strikes again ,,,,penpusher
He's just some kid who probably read the how to troll article on encyclopedia dramatica. Except for the most part he's doing it wrong.
[QUOTE="penpusher"]oh dear, now I know what another user meant by Jakandsig_ strikes again ,,,,lordoftheleft
He's just some kid who probably read the how to troll article on encyclopedia dramatica. Except for the most part he's doing it wrong.
I figured. I dared to reply to his post about the turbografx, which i doubt hes even bothered to look up on the virtual console, let alone play or even do research on :) Its a bit sad.[QUOTE="magnax1"]same here :P, second best last gen console and that's saying alot!Still one of the best consoles ever. Didn't read btw.
JuarN18
I definitely agree. I actually liked the GC better then the PS2 before it started to die off in 04 and 05, and that's when the PS2 started to take the lead for me. Every console that gen was abnormally great to me though. Especially the PS2.
Wow he's posting in the same thread with two accounts now? This guy. Gamecube will always have a special place in my heart, as will the PS2. Some of the most memorable gaming of my life.
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