Nintendo Learns from Mistakes with GameCube

kukyfrope writes "Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America's Executive VP of Sales and Marketing, talks about what went wrong with GameCube and how Nintendo will not make the same mistakes when launching Wii. Reggie admits that the initial software lineup for the GameCube was simply not 'diverse and strong enough from a first and third-party perspective,' and by Nintendo's showing at E3 2006, the Wii will launch with a wide variety of games for may types of gamers."

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I think I read this article already....

[ASimPerson]

Except it was called "Nintendo learns from mistakes with N64".

Seriously though...I've seen a few articles like this for the Wii, but I can almost remember them saying nearly the same things about how the learned from mistkes with the N64 and promised for 3rd party support for the 'Cube.

Hopefully, it work this time.

Re:I think I read this article already....

[Anonymous Coward]

What a lot of people miss is that Nintendo has been learning from their mistakes since the N64. Basically, the N64's problems were:

1) No/Bad third party support
2) Difficult development enviroment
3) Expensive, small capacity, storage format
4) Huge waits between game releases

The Gamecube's problems were"

1) No exclusive third party support
2) moderate capacity storage format
3) moderate waits between game releases

The Wii seems to be (once again) a small step towards fixing these problems; the system appears to be getting a lot of exclusive support from third parties (I think there are only a couple of multi-platform games), DVD is a perfectly reasonable storage format, and the lower cost development environment (as well as the virtual console) should limit the wait times between game releases.

Re:Wow

[twistedsymphony]

They did A LOT of things right actually, just from a hardware standpoint
- Excellent Price point
- 1st party wireless controllers (as usual ahead of it's time)
- choice of colors
- durable as hell, can easily take more of a beating then the other consoles of that generation
- Widely available 480p video modes in games... 2nd only to the Xbox, and way more coverage then the PS2 had
- easily the most comfortable controllers of last generation
- from what I hear a fantastic development environment, almost Xbox 1 level graphics from apparently "inferior" hardware

Despite the fact that most of the good games are 1st party, it still remains the best "party" system on any console. with the exception of say Halo, or DOA on the Xbox 1 you wont find as many quality 4 player party games on any other console...