The problem with GameCube was Nintendo, console was way more powerfull than a PS2, look at RE4 GameCube and you ll understand how much more powerfull It was, but as always Nintendo wanted to be the "cool guy" using mini DVD instead of regular DVD, this hindered their third party support since mini DVD had lower storage capacity and thus was more expensive to port since It would require the use of more mini DVD per game.
Yeah, you are definitely right. Both Europe and Japan definitely carried the PS3, but I think coming back from not only a terrible start but Microsoft having an entire year head start to come out ahead at all is still a win.
I fucking love jewel cases but holy shit you aren't kidding. You could barely touch them and the hinges would break and they would be scratched. I don't think I have a single jewel case in good condition.the cases did look nice... but yeah, if you even dared as much as looking at them the wrong way they'd break
I love the Vita. It's definitely my biggest "what could have been" console. I heard somewhere (maybe Sacred Symbols?) that the back touchpad was essentially pushed by a single person and that the inclusion of the back touch is or was part of the reason why video out was removed before launch (I know Colin said they the dev kids he used had video out) as costs needed to be kept down.
For sure. I feel like Nintendo always has to do something dumb just to fuck everything up. They just can't be fucking normal.
As a counter-point, the Switch and Switch 2 have defied their propensity to try attempt the NINTENDO way of being different for the sake of being different.
I'd say that the Switch still fits the stereotype it just happened to work out in their favor. I remember people thinking that the Switch sounded dumb as hell when it was announced but look where we are now.
I think Nintendo fans just got acostumed to gimmiks and low end hardware, N64 and GC are two beast that didnt meet their full potential cause Nintendo fuckery, also game cards on Switch and Switch 2 is not Nintendo being different since they use this kind of mídia since Gameboy
the 360 beat the ps3 that generation. it was "the" console of that gen that the majority used.
PS3 outsold 360 been launched one years after.
And yet it still outsold the 360 at the end of the day despite being on the market 1 less year. NA and UK were the only markets that favored the 360. The rest of Europe and Japan favored the PS3.
That was near the end of the gen when it didn't matter anymore and the next gen was coming up. 360 was ahead when the gen was relevant, it remained ahead forever in the usa which is the biggest most important market and uk as well.
Switch 2 is not low end hardware no matter how people try to spin it; since it's in the realm of the Series S, it's current gen. Game key cards suck, but they're better than an all digital future. Let's not pretend like Sony and Microsoft aren't making their software future a murky grey are wherein you HAVE to own their hardware to have access to their software; Indiana Jones is a day -1 purchase for me on the Switch 2.
This hurts.
Eh I don't know about that. The Switch 2 can be both current gen and low end. The Switch 2 is the lowest end of current consoles so yeah it's low end hardware.
I usualy dont like to be that guy, but, XSS is low end hardware by today standards, ppl been fine with low assets, res and frames dosent make the console mid/high end hardware.
Yeah, the XSS has already proved to be an issue with devs where they are having issues getting certain things to run well or run at all so what makes the Switch 2 any different?
I think it's more likely we're going to lose 3rd parties writ large before we lose Nintendo. My belief is if they don't come to grips with the current generation...they're going to drown. Yeah, that's how close I think we are to Atari 2.0.
Should never have been called the WiiU, people thought it was an expensive hardware addon...
What does this prove? So someone says look at Need for Speed and 100 other games and you say "they are games programmed by Sony fanboys" but at the same time you recognize the error of the mini DVD.
Due to coming out earlier, that's literally it. On the other hand, the PS3 outsold the Xbox 360 on pretty much every year from 2007 to 2013, except for 2008 (by a 100K unit sales difference) and 2011 (thanks to the Kinect fad, before the PS3 went on to outsell the Xbox 360 again in 2012):
And had a far superior output of games imo. Exclusives Xbox would die for and eventually did.
Aye, which is why "failed" is in quotations.
The GameCube had a LOT more muscle than the PS2 in a few ways. Gekko ran at 485 MHz, destroying the Emotion Engine at 294.9 MHz. Flipper at 162 MHz, was also stronger than the PS2's GW, which gave GCN smoother graphics, sharper textures, and cool effects like bump mapping. Plus, the GameCube had 43 MB of RAM compared to the PS2's 32 MB, which meant quicker data access and room for bigger textures. Yes, PS2's DVDs held 4.7 GB, way more than the GameCube's 1.5 GB mini-DVDs, so it could pack in bigger games or cutscenes but they could have allowed for comparability with DVD movies while keeping the mini-DVD for games.
Eh we can reverse the argument saying the only reason Xbox 360 beat PS3 was the US, as the PS3 sold more also in Europe too (5 million difference)
Worse, they gave them a stripped-down Windows while they were developping a more gaming efficient OS
