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Nintendo finally admitting serious GC problems...

Seemingly, Nintendo has given up on its “all is well, honest” stance, admitting that the GameCube has some serious problems that need to be overcome, and fast.

Speaking yesterday, Nintendo of America’s George Harrison made the most candid comments to date regarding the plight Nintendo faces in an increasingly hostile three-way console race.

“The real question is, as we start ‘03, what are we going to do differently?" said Harrison, the senior vice president of marketing for Nintendo of America. "For us it’s about trying to get the GameCube business moving and restore the confidence of the licensees."

This follows practically all the industry’s key third party-publishers taking a tentative step away from GameCube support over the past few weeks.

THQ, Sega, Electronic Arts, Codemasters - the list goes on, and the problem, with snowball-like effect, will only get worse unless confidence, both at consumer and industry level, is restored. Nintendo’s problems in the UK have been compounded by rumour that key retail chains are considering reducing GameCube exposure, or removing the machine altogether, in what would undoubtedly prove a killer blow.

The upcoming Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, a hotly-anticipated game sure to be a massive hit, is expected to revive the GameCube’s sales and profile as a killer-app hosting machine. “It’s [Zelda] clearly what we need - to get the GameCube moving,” stated Harrison.

What was it I said about a superiority complex? You sound like one of the agents from the Matrix! Does human stench sicken you?

I'm going to leave this thread now as I posted it as news and not to encourage another flame war.

I'm concerned as well.

But there is little I can do about the fact that human beings, as a species, have no form of natural selection, and freely allow the chaff to walk among the wheat, so to speak.

They say an idiot is born every minute. That's not entirely accurate. i think several of them are born every few seconds. The world is full of gormless mongs who take whatever the latest opinion is in the papers or the latest rumour around school to be gospel and act on it.

The idea of looking into something before making a decision is completely unheard of. I can see the world running short of decent management potential in the next 30-40 years, and then it'll all fall in on us.


So am I concerned? Yes, but not for the reasons you might have thought. I'm concerned because the human race dumbing itself down and believe that by doing so it is making itself better.

But there is nothing I can do about that but pontificate and sermonise to deaf ears, while everyone else goes about their business believing nothing is wrong.

Well, the the senior vice president of marketing for Nintendo of America seems to be concerned. You'd better call him and tell him what you told us.

And here is where I have to inject, AGAIN, that Nintendo are profitting more than any of their competitors...

I heard they just needed to put the games on other platform because they were not making enough money on them, for example EA sports game are released on every format therefore 100% market while Nitendo games are only released on the GC which only holds about 10-15% of the market while PS2 holds 60-65% and X-box about 25%. They can sell many games if they only sell on their own format.

Willyum

You're all making an assumption about the lack of sales performance of the Gamecube. I think it's probably got more to do with the large gaps between AAA titles than the nature of those games. I don't know anyone who would refuse to play Mario or Zelda because they were 'kiddy'... but I do know people who wouldn't buy a console on the strength of two games. (This is just an example, before you all go off writing lists of how many games you have on the GC).

P.S. I bought a Dreamcast just for Soul Calibur, so I'm playing devils advocate here.

Because they're ignorant mongs...

Totoro wrote:
> But you can also write from a different perspectvie here.
> I had an N64 when there were adult games like GoldenEye, Shadow Man,
> Perfect Dark and Turok while the PSOne had kiddie games like Croc,
> Crash Bandicoot and Spyro.
> Each console has their fair share of adult titles and their fair share
> of kiddie games. The N64, and ideed the GC had/have plenty of decent
> titles for older gamers, but some people wish to ignore that fact.

yes I agree. Many still label Nintendo consoles as kiddies consoles.

Shadow Knight wrote:
> I have never played GTA3 or Vice city so that dose not apply to me. I
> admit that I have never played on a Gamecube but I used to own an N64
> and games like Banjo and Kazooie and Diddy Kong racing were around
> while the PSX add games like Metal gear solid, death trap dungion and
> GTA. Also don't forget Nintendo have Pokemon which is a kiddies game.

But you can also write from a different perspectvie here.
I had an N64 when there were adult games like GoldenEye, Shadow Man, Perfect Dark and Turok while the PSOne had kiddie games like Croc, Crash Bandicoot and Spyro.
Each console has their fair share of adult titles and their fair share of kiddie games. The N64, and ideed the GC had/have plenty of decent titles for older gamers, but some people wish to ignore that fact.

Insane Bartender wrote:
> Never played Pokemon then?

yep I used to own Pokemon blue a few years ago on my Gameboy pocket but found it naff and tedius so I gave it to my cousin (who was about 10 at the time).