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Originally Posted by Canyarion
Has the quality of their games been the same? Look at the games for the Cube, half of them are 'average' games. While on the N64, perhaps 1/4 were average.
I'll make a thread about it soon.
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and 3/4 of Nintendo 64's games were either exclusive or had exclusive visuals and features that boosted it above Psx, while less than 1/4 of Cube's great games fit the same criteria in the face of competition. Nintendo didn't get worse over the last 10 years, the competition just got better. The Nintendo Difference with N64 was it's superior hardware and exclusive content. Now they have good exclusive content, but it's not a generation ahead of the the competing companies. That is why I say that the key is the impact the system has made on the industry.
GC>N64>SNES>NES as far as games go, but some still say SNES is better than N64, or NES is better than SNES, why? Because the impact it made at it's time was much bigger. If Superman 64 was released on SNES or NES (looking and playing just like on N64), it would be on many top 100 games of all-time lists. Not because it was better then what came after it, or because it's the best 3d game ever, but because of the impact it would have made had it been released at that time.
So, Xantar, you are right, side by side it's no contest, Gamecube is better. But Gamecube isn't more revolutionary, and isn't better compared to the other gaming companies. Would you rank Gamecube higher on a greatest console of all-time list? Gamecube isn't even better than Xbox or Ps2 head up.