Eidos To Stop GameCube Development

Thanks to The Times Online for their article indicating that Eidos has announced that they will no longer develop GameCube titles. The article, based on comments made as the company announced their financial results, explains that "...there were no plans for Eidos, Europe's second largest games developer, to release any games for the struggling GameCube, which has sold about 1.8 million units in Europe compared with sales of 15 million for Sony's PS2." Eidos CEO Mike McGarvey commented: "The GameCube is a declining business... If other companies follow us [Nintendo] will have a hard battle to fight." This follows similar anti-GameCube comments by Acclaim a couple of months back.

Comments

Re:Sega also

[Anonymous Coward]

Looks like?

As far as I'm concerned, that's almost how it has been since day 1. With a few exceptions (ie, Sega's Super Monkey Ball, Namco's SC2), most of the AAA titles (Zelda, Metroid, Mario Golf, etc.) have been 1st party titles, most of which also been sequels or related to an earlier Nintendo game in the past.

I like my Cube just as much as my XBOX and PS2 (although a bit more than my PS2 at the moment), but I faily to see how this is any different from their last system. Nintendo needs to get on the ball when it comes to third party support, and while their sales may be good, they need to work on THEIR PUBLIC IMAGE IN THE CORE GAMING DEMOGRAPH. That's the only way they could climb out of the "hole" that they're in.

Re:The problem I find with Gamecube...

[StocDred]

It's called the Nintendo Gamecube. Take a look at every piece of 'cube hardware you own. Even the memory cards and the GBA/GC Link Cable say "Nintendo Gamecube." Feel free to keep calling it "playing Nintendo," just like I'll keep calling you "dumbass."

Good riddance

[Yorrike]

I am a big Nintendo fan. The reason I have great admiration for Nintendo and give them a large amount of money every year is because they produce vastly superior, quality products, giving me a good experience for the money I hand over.

Eidos produce nothing but crap in-house. Sure they have some worth-while third parties who publish through them (Free Radical being the good people who worked at Rare and produced GoldenEye), but all the same, for the most part, the GameCube and all it's happy users will be much better off without the crap mongoring crap monkeys that are Eidos pushing their crap onto us.

Sorry Eidos, but Tomb Raider isn't big, or good anymore, so no one cares what you think.