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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."

Sod you...

Bonus wrote:
> I'm a dirty smelly fanboy...

Insane Bartender wrote:
> I'm going to allow myself to be smug and say that this post which I am
> quoting here is the reason I am a notable, and Blank is not.

Identity mix-up!

Bonus even...

Updated wrote:
> If GC were really that great, and most people didn't
> mind disc shuffle,

You're an idiot! You're the only person who seems to make a deal about changing a disk ONCE!

I know nobody who has problems with it, you have a break every now and then while playing games, it's literally a 30 second break...

Bonus wrote:
> That's all because the Gamecube sucks, quite simply. I have a PS2,
> Xbox and Gamecube, and can easily say its the worst console of the
> three for exclusive games just now.
>
> For cross platform games, they are generally better on the Xbox than
> any other console, and Xbox Live is just the best gaming experience
> available at the moment.
>
> The PS2 has the best single player exclusive titles.
>
> The Gamecube has, pretty colours and "cute" discs. Have
> Nintendo not realised that outside of their core fanbase, their image
> stinks? How many people 20+ want to have a modern, contemporary
> styled flat, with a purple Gamecube sitting near their TV?? Not many,
> the Xbox fits in with the expensive stereo seperates and DVD player
> style, and the PS2 has the Sony name on it, style is everything, even
> Britney wouldn't be seen dead with a Gamecube.


I'm going to allow myself to be smug and say that this post which I am quoting here is the reason I am a notable, and Blank is not.

redundant point?

What you have to ask yourself is, Why is GC not doing better?
Even if you take GC in joint 2nd place with XBox, it is still a garden mile behind PS2.
Ok, so PS2 had a head start, but even now, PS2 is still selling more units than GC. If GC were really that great, and most people didn't mind disc shuffle, lack of dvd, etc, etc, etc, etc, they (Ninty) should be taking over from PS2. People would be trading in PS2's in very large numbers for GC's.

So no, it's not redundant. For the boss at Ninty, it''s a center stage issue.

This topic amuses me...

You make it sound as if the game lasts 10 seconds and you have to spend half of that time changing disks!

It's literally the same as putting a game in...

A 10 hour game, you have to change the disk once in the middle of it, is it really gonna ruin the game? It will if you play the game for 10 hours constantly with no breaks but people rarely play the game solidly with no breaks at all...

You just get wound up DaveRJR/Update2.01/Update and seem to think that swapping disks is a mega issue when really, it doesn't affect gameplay at all..

You realise you only have to swap disks once on ONE game on the GC.
And once you've changed disks you just coninue using that one instead.
It's a redundant point really Updated.

You're just rewording the same answer and posting it over and over again.

Very boring.

*yawns*