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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."

Updated wrote:
and people don't want to keep changing discs over in this day and age. So switching discs is detrimental to the game play. Made worse when there is a format like dvd-rom that can hold more data so avoiding the problem.

But it's not detrimental to the GAMEPLAY in any way or form.

Updated wrote:
> Just a thought, why is IB around so much at the moment? Thought IB was
> going away and just looking in from time to time.

I got over my depression. Thanks for asking.

I get the feeling that his work is quite unfulfilling but he'll never pass up the chance to comment on moronic statements devoid of any logic...or semblance of reason.

Example.

Resident Evil.

I change ONCE. Near the end. Done.

Baldurs Gate - PC! GOOD GOD! 7 CDs.

Change every 15 minutes. Fine. Its still a great game.

Yeh IB you said you were going away. You said it around X-mas didn't you?

Just a thought, why is IB around so much at the moment? Thought IB was going away and just looking in from time to time.

Swap disks ocassionally or play crap games?

I can't think which one i'd choose.

So you got peeved playing pretty much every FF game in history?

I hope for your sake you never played Monkey Island on the Amiga.

Insane Bartender wrote:
> Update2.01 wrote:
> Who wants a game over 2 discs (GC), if it's possible to put it on a
> single disc (PS2 or XBox DVD-ROM).
>
>
> I'm going to keep on asking you this question until you actually
> answer it you vacuous simpleton. What difference does that make to the
> gameplay of the game?

I would be well peed of if I had to change the disc mid way through a game. Remember VCD? Apart from the lower quality than DVD, the main reason it failed was because most films were to large to fit on a single VCD disc - and people don't want to keep changing discs over in this day and age. So switching discs is detrimental to the game play. Made worse when there is a format like dvd-rom that can hold more data so avoiding the problem.

Update2.01 wrote:
> Who wants a game over 2 discs (GC), if it's possible to put it on a
> single disc (PS2 or XBox DVD-ROM).


I'm going to keep on asking you this question until you actually answer it you vacuous simpleton. What difference does that make to the gameplay of the game?