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""...And Nintendo GameCube.""

Ever noticed how whenever you see a new advert for a newly-released video-game, and it's multi-format, the GameCube is always mentioned last?


"Available now on PlayStation 2, X-Box, PC... and.., er.... Nintendo Game.... uh... Cube!"


I always thought it was bad-enough with the average gamer and their neglection for the GameCube and Nintendo, but this only appears to make things worse!

Imagine little "I-own-all-3-consoles" Timmy, sat at home watching TV one-day, when the an advert for the latest Harry Potter game comes out, and he can't decide for which of the 'Big 3' consoles to get it on...
First thing he hears - PlayStation 2 - "the gamer's choice!"

And before the narrator's even got the the final 'X' in "X-Box", he's in the kitchen whining to his mum about how he "must have this game on PS2 NOW!!!"... GameCube doesn't even get a look-in.


Okay, so maybe that's going a bit too-far, but it's crystal clear to the world that Nintendo's GameCube is getting left-behind in last-place, no matter where you look.

Will we ever hear "Nintendo GameCube" at the front of that list??
("I don't think so, Tim!")



Surely Nintendo-Europe themselves could do something about this??
And while it may not instantly - or even at-all - help sales of the 'Cube and its latest releases, it would show at least SOME people that Nintendo ain't the "pushovers" they appear to be!

And to make things worse, they seem to just 'ALLOW' Microsoft's Robbie Bach to continue spewing-out all that "RUBBISH" about how their X-Box "is" in second-place behind the PS2, when clearly, the sales-figures show it's the GameCube... Why don't Nintendo fight-back?
(It's not like anyone could be short on come-backs and insults for Microsoft, Bill Gates and their X-Box!! ;D )

At least I can fit my thumb in the Xbox D-pad.

gerrid wrote:
> The Xbox D pad is also complete ballicks.
> Dreamcast's was the best of this generation, although it did start to
> hurt your thumb after excessive playing on Virtua Tennis.
> It was called Tennis Thumb.

I heard that Sega had to pay Nintendo to use their D-pad design.

And Blank. Playstation analogue are fine.

If you jump back in time to 1996. :D

Well I measured the width of the Cube and PS2 controller D-pads - Cube was 1.7 cm, while PS2 was 2.3.

And don't start on the analogue sticks, they're fine.

The Xbox D pad is also complete ballicks.
Dreamcast's was the best of this generation, although it did start to hurt your thumb after excessive playing on Virtua Tennis.
It was called Tennis Thumb.

*accidently diagonal

Cube D-pad is about as bad to be honest, playing Agent Under Fire was a biatch with that D-pad. I'd go for the xbox one, little chance of going diagonal with that.

Harhar.
The cube hardly even has a D pad.

One question before I tell you something - is the Cube D-pad better, worse or the same as the PS one?

Blank wrote:
> Hedfix, unless you have a knackered controller you are wrong. The
> D-pad has never made me go diagonally when I've tried to go forward -

You have small thumbs then. :)

> next time this happens, look down. You won't be pressing it straight
> on. You see, not having a button for diagonal there has to be a mix of
> two.

Yes, but it's TOO SMALL.
>
> And what the hell is wrong with the shoulder buttons? They're just
> buttons, like on any other pad.

They were surpassed on the original PS1, the whole pad is now really ready for an update or at least an official alternative pad. If they had an alternative pad (blatant xbox copy for instance) I might get a ps2. But as it stands they have the worst analogue controllers i have ever used.

Hedfix, unless you have a knackered controller you are wrong. The D-pad has never made me go diagonally when I've tried to go forward - next time this happens, look down. You won't be pressing it straight on. You see, not having a button for diagonal there has to be a mix of two.

And what the hell is wrong with the shoulder buttons? They're just buttons, like on any other pad.