Naw ..at presently no......GC ain't all it could be right now.....I think the same could go for Xbox....but this thread didn't as about that so it's not important.
But in my opinion Nintendo could be doing a lot better ..they had the time to do it......I mean hardly any first party games where made near the end of the N64 life.....so I would have assumed they used that time to develope games and stuff...that why I thought Nintendo would have come out with it's guns blazing . ( and sorta of dominate Microsoft when they came out) but like BJ said Nintendo could have done a lot better.
And not having Mario at launch could be looked upon in two ways.
The bad way:
This leaves the Gamecube without a killer app...plus if they wanted to really get the consoles into homes this would have helped tremendously.
The good way:
Well now everyone has something to look forward to ...Zelda and Mario( although I doubt that Zelda and Mario will launch the same time )
but then again if Mario was a launch title peeps would still have Zelda to look forward to.
Well I hope by the end of the year ......that this opinion of mine changes.