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I remember back around 2003 when a friend told me that the gamecube would/should be Nintendo's last piece of hardware, (I had recently purchased a used one). T
by mankyd 6y ago
I remember back around 2003 when a friend told me that the gamecube would/should be Nintendo's last piece of hardware, (I had recently purchased a used one).
They do seem to follow something of an every-other generation in terms of critical success for their consoles, at least starting with the N64:
+ N64
- GC
+ Wii
- WiiU
+ Switch
(I loved my gamecube, and it does have a few iconic games, but I don't kid myself how it compares to its neighbors in the timeline.)
Hopefully they break that cycle with whatever comes next!
- jolmg 6y agoThe WiiU wasn't as big an innovation as the Wii, but I found the touchscreen controller in the WiiU to enable better participation of a less-dexterous little kid in family gameplay without them being such a drag on the adults' gameplay. Those types of households might have found it a more valuable upgrade than others.
- wincy 6y agoThe Switch is a different thing than what came before, though, because it represents the merging of their Gameboy and TV Console systems into a single machine. It's sort of miraculous that it worked out so well. Since the original Gameboy they've had the mobile gaming market cornered absolutely. Even with the rise of cell phones the "good" games aren't there. You can't play The Witcher 3 on your Samsung Galaxy Tablet even if ostensibly it's very similar, hardwarewise, to the Switch. Interestingly, Nvidia tried to make the Nvidia Shield as something like this, but failed and I think uses the same/similar GPU chips in the Switch now. So the Switch is a merger of two branches Gameboy Advance -> DS -> 3DS N64 -> Gamecube -> Wii -> Wii U And now these two markets have collapsed into the Nintendo Switch (which isn't a bad thing!)
- fomine3 6y agoI remembered that famous gaming journalist in Japan wrote that portable gaming console like DS is getting unpopular in the US so Nintendo designed Switch and Sony never released Vita2. Anyone have thoughts?
- ianai 6y agoIt might be “Switch” as a model like iPhone. They’d do generations but never totally change to something else.