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"Developers thinking twice due to GC poor performance."

It would appear that developers are getting increasingly concerned at the way the Gamecube has cemented it's place as the 3rd console of choice and it's poor performance.

Sega recently shelved all it's GC sports titles in development due to poor performance of its GC titles.

Now one of the big hitters THQ has thrown doubt on the viability of developing for the Gamecube due to the more expensive (non standard discs) developement costs, but mostly to do with the GC continued poor performance particularly compared to the PS2.

Quote taken form Gamepro.com

"Our GameCube portfolio did not perform up to expectations," CEO Brian Farrell said during the conference call. "In response to this, we have reduced the number of products in development for the GameCube platform."

Hold on, doesn't THQ bring us RedFaction 2? I might be wrong on this one - can't remember for sure.

A lot will depend on how the public reacts to great games like Metroid and Zelda. If the games get the justice they deserve, they will sell by the bucketload and give the Gamecube a healthy boost in the sales department like in the US, but if those big titles get ignored by the public (who we know are mostly idiots) then Nintendo may have problems.
I guess we'll have to wait and see how well the big games perform.

Well it'll mean there are less rubbish game out for the GC. Good. THQ is a bad developer - in the days of the SNES and Megadrive they produced horrible squalid excuses for games that were greeted by universal opprobrium for the gaming world. As they are now.

And, to be fair, Sega sports titles were never going to set the world alight were they?

Rickoss wrote:
> It is a wonder why someone who criticises so heavily owns an old,
> mouldy, out-of-date PS2 that got boring after the 40th game spewed
> onto the market not long after release.
>
> GameCube has huge potential, as does XBox, but the PS2 is far too
> boring and lacks any kind of excitement.

Strange how most of the population thinks otherwise. If you are right, and PS2 is really that bad, then no amount of commercials would persuade people to buy it. But what the real world shows us is that PS2 is still good, and people (for the most part) are happy with it.

As for out of date, where is DD5.1, DTS, DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, CD, CD-ROM, USB, FireWire on a GameCube.

Doesn't matter which games are getting the axe, what matters is that any games are getting the axe. True from a playability side, it doesn't make much difference (if you think the games are @rap), but it does matter to other developers and the public. It's an indicator of how the GC is struggling to survive. Back in the N64/PS1 days, Nintendo only had to face Sony's PS1. Today they have to fight it out with Sony and Microsoft for market share.

It is a wonder why someone who criticises so heavily owns an old, mouldy, out-of-date PS2 that got boring after the 40th game spewed onto the market not long after release.

GameCube has huge potential, as does XBox, but the PS2 is far too boring and lacks any kind of excitement.

The latsest NGC has a review of THQ's awful Jimmy Neutron game, tis' a funny one.

Top score wrote:
> Obviously none of them due to the Gamecube pathetic
> installed user base.

I'm sorry, but if you produce games that are essentially nothing more than chaff, then the only console you can expect to sell them on is the PS2.

Their games got less sales than expected. They never said they're thinking twice about developing for the Cube.

Looking at the THQ games released on Cube, it's no wonder that the mediocre crap that they so happily call games is not selling.

It seems to me that the developers who are getting a bit scared are the ones releasing the mediocre toss. Someone needs to tell them that their games won't sell unless they're actually fun to play. They might sell on other consoles but the majority of Cube owners are hardcore gamers who actually do a bit of research into the games they buy and wont plump for mediocre toss just because it has a big license stuck on the front.

Touché.