If you look at the sales figures for the NGC or Xbox vs PS2 you will see the PS2 is winning the console wars hands down!!! I mean not even close. Just look at the retail install base for each to see what I'm talking about.
So to think Nintendo is doing "really well" with the NGC would be a false statement, even for the sales they are getting. Yeah each title is a hit, but when you have such a limited catalog to choose from what are you going to do, wait?
Like with their Snes\N64 carts, few developers will develop for Nintendo because Nintendo controls the media (mini-DVD's are about $15US for blanks, and at least as much for production runs), so again Nintendo is trying to control the developers and increase their profits. And performance wise their is no gain. Sony is brilliant in their handling of developers, which is why they have like 10x more games for the PS2 then Xbox or NGC.
Best games, true it's in the opinion of the gamer, and NGC does have some good games, but it only has a FEW games. The magazines that rate the games cannot be considered a fair measure either. For starters it's THEIR opinion, and second they only spend enough time with the game to write the article before moving on to the next title passed onto their desk. That's not to say the games they rate aren't good, but do you really trust everything you read?
Resident Evil is on two disks, that's the only one I know of for sure. Having worked on several titles for multi-platform launches (inlcuding the big three), the NGC does lose out a lot on the extra content because of space. Game DVD's are ~4.7G, while the NGC is only 1.5G. Yeah most games will easily fit only a CD (700M), but consumers want the extra's, and a mini-DVD can't keep pace, it's the same problem the N64 cart had. Only one game off the top of my head I know had FMV's for the N64, everything else used weak scripted sequences out of necessity.
As for the DVD potion, Panasonic has a DVD capable Gamecube, but it's only available in Japan. (http://www.nintendo.no/japan/hardware/gamecube/ma tsushitaq/q.htm) -Japanese text.
Now ask your friends: How many bought a PS2 or Xbox because it could play DVD's too?
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"And really, I dare you to find a game that has more than 1.5GB worth of content on the disc (not counting FMVs)."
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If you look at the sales figures for the NGC or Xbox vs PS2 you will see the PS2 is winning the console wars hands down!!! I mean not even close. Just look at the retail install base for each to see what I'm talking about.
a tsushitaq/q.htm) -Japanese text.
So to think Nintendo is doing "really well" with the NGC would be a false statement, even for the sales they are getting. Yeah each title is a hit, but when you have such a limited catalog to choose from what are you going to do, wait?
Like with their Snes\N64 carts, few developers will develop for Nintendo because Nintendo controls the media (mini-DVD's are about $15US for blanks, and at least as much for production runs), so again Nintendo is trying to control the developers and increase their profits. And performance wise their is no gain. Sony is brilliant in their handling of developers, which is why they have like 10x more games for the PS2 then Xbox or NGC.
Best games, true it's in the opinion of the gamer, and NGC does have some good games, but it only has a FEW games. The magazines that rate the games cannot be considered a fair measure either. For starters it's THEIR opinion, and second they only spend enough time with the game to write the article before moving on to the next title passed onto their desk. That's not to say the games they rate aren't good, but do you really trust everything you read?
Resident Evil is on two disks, that's the only one I know of for sure. Having worked on several titles for multi-platform launches (inlcuding the big three), the NGC does lose out a lot on the extra content because of space. Game DVD's are ~4.7G, while the NGC is only 1.5G. Yeah most games will easily fit only a CD (700M), but consumers want the extra's, and a mini-DVD can't keep pace, it's the same problem the N64 cart had. Only one game off the top of my head I know had FMV's for the N64, everything else used weak scripted sequences out of necessity.
As for the DVD potion, Panasonic has a DVD capable Gamecube, but it's only available in Japan. (http://www.nintendo.no/japan/hardware/gamecube/m
Now ask your friends: How many bought a PS2 or Xbox because it could play DVD's too?