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"PS2 and GC: The difference"

OK, here's a difinitive difference between the PS2 and GC that we can argue about for a few hours:

The PS2 launch day had people queueing for days, even trailing electric sockets to the stores so the can play on the outside.

The GC launch day went with a bit of a fizz, with a couple of small queues.

Evidentally, this shows that the PS2 was more eagerly awaited than the GC. Why is this?

*TBN stirs the...*

WRONG!

The GC was only launched with Mario 64.

Bonus wrote:
> Considering I bought 5 games with my PS2 at launch, 3 games, none of
> which I would buy for any system isn't nearly enough to launch a
> console with.

2 games (Waverace and Mario 64) launched the N64, Pilot Wings 64 following soon after, and it sold like Vitel in the Sahara. Think the SNES was just the two as well, Super Mario World and F-Zero.

Can't see why it matters really. Sure, buy five games at once but are you going to be able to play them all propperly (noting that this totally neglects the fact that there simply wasn't 5 games worth owning in the PS2 launch line up)? Nintendo are going with their trademark trickle of quality titles. Third party are entering the fray with their launches soon, and Smash Bros Melee is only days away. Okay, something like 21 days, but that's still days ;)

Japanese people aren't the type to kill a company for the sake of pride. Trust me, if the GC fails, they could go down Sega's road. No one thought Sega could ever fall, but we were wrong. The GameCube shows all the signs that the Dreamcast showed.

Bonus wrote:
> If Nintendo do not sell enough consoles, they will have a long hard
> look at whether to even bother releasing the system in the rest of
> the world, maybe just to concentrate on developing for Sony??

You're falling for a common mistake. You don't have to be the market leader for it to be worth your while being in business. The N64 is often labelled as a failure, however it still made Nintendo bucket loads of Yen (though admittedly lost them Grand Canyon sized chunks of market share). Now, considering Nintendo is a business and the sole purpose of a business is making money, its not really too hard to work out. If the Gamecube is selling enough to make money, they will sell it. If not, then they will pursue other lines of business.

There is one thing I'm pretty certain about though. Yamuchi has shown himself to be a very proud, almost arrogant man in the past. Developing for a non-Nintendo console could be seen as admitting defeat so I'd bet if the Gamecube fails financially they'll pull out to the console market altogether.

Not that I'm expecting the Gamecube to be a failure in any sense of the word.

Damn these console wars topics and their uncanny tendency to get me giving my keyboard a good old-fashioned workout.

True im not going to lie about the Japanease launch, its been preety much a non event, but you can gurantee more games for the UK launch. At least 10 probably more.

Considering I bought 5 games with my PS2 at launch, 3 games, none of which I would buy for any system isn't nearly enough to launch a console with. :D

Variety is the spice of life!

Well then granted you've got a problem, but luckily they do apply to me and most people who will be buying the console. I can see what your saying theres not the widest selection of games, but most Japanease people im sure would love to be a monkey rolling around in a big ball (hmmmmmm).

And what happens if none of those "AAA" titles appeal to you, because I certainly wouldn't spend £40 on either of them.

Turbonutter wrote:
> Tiltwhirl, don't act like we don't know what a sphincter is!


Lol