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First Nintendo IQue Reviews
Major Payne writes "I have found two reviews for the exclusively in china released Nintendo IQue Player which is capable of emulating Nintendo64 as well as SNES Games hardwarewise.
English one is located over at Dextrose.com and is a bit more technically advanced than the German one. Both reviews are very detailed though and interesting to read. I also think those two are the world first reviews for this new hardware and there is also some interesting leads on how to hack the device to make it even more interesting to the rest of the world."
Try playing the game the way it was meant to be played sometime.
Yes, the average buyer of a Gamecube was over 23 years old. Just think of the hundreds of thousands of 45 year old parents buying Gamecubes for their 9 year old sons and daughters. Gamecube is, in my opinion as a techie and a gamer, a crappier console (games considered). Nintendo's only salvation in current generation consoles is the younger user market (and I GAH-RON-TEE that the average user is much younger than 23) which is drawn to more simplistic, cartoonish games.
Oh, please!
1) Nintendo has sold more Gamecubes than Microsoft has sold Xboxes. Official numbers are available from Nintendo and Microsoft.
The Gamecube has at least a 29% less install base than the X-Box.
2) The top selling games for the GC are outselling the top selling games for Xbox. There's nothing to do about PS2 and GBA.
But there are more games for the X-Box, and most of the Gamecube's top-selling games are first-party development efforts.
3) Several multiplatform games sold better on the Gamecube than other consoles, and for a hard core gamer there are several exclusive non-Nintendo titles not found on Xbox or PS2.
The only "hard core" game I could think of is Metroid Prime. What else is there? Mario Sunshine? Mario Party 5?
4) In Europe, the average buyer of a Gamecube at launch was 23 years old. Mature games like Resident Evil sold above Capcom's expectations.
That doesn't even matter and is just an irrelevant fact thrown out to weakly defend your stance.
I can back up everything above, it's easier if you just admit to being clueless and posted what you _thought_ was true.
No, YOU are completely clueless and have clearly ignored hard numbers.
Nintendo had to slash the price of the Gamecube last September 24th due to less-than-stellar sales. In fact, the only thing to show any profit was the Gameboy Advance, and that's just because for all intents and purposes it's the only one out there in the handheld market.
The Gamecube is now the same cost as the SP!
Quotes from just one page I randomly Googled for:
"A number of game publishers have curtailed or ended production of GameCube games, citing the platform's disappointing sales. Analysts were quick to caution that Nintendo was likely to benefit most from the news.
Although this is a positive announcement with respect to Nintendo, we do not expect this price drop to have a dramatic effect on our expectations for the third-party publishers in our universe," Harris Nesbitt Gerard analyst Edward Williams said in a note.
Of the 10 best-selling games for the GameCube in August, according to research service NPDFunworld, six were published by Nintendo - a far higher proportion of first-party games than on any other console.
While the console has been stronger in Japan and Europe, in the United States it has settled into a firm third place, with an installed base about 29 percent smaller than that of the Xbox."
I like Nintendo too, but don't be so blind. Even execs have stated they waited too long to get the Gamecube released, which affected its success, and they won't be making the same mistake with their next system. Nintendo had better start pulling rabbits out of their hat, because they're not seen as the cool, edgy console company anymore, and they're risking being solely a handheld gaming company.
"Sufferin' succotash."