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Originally Posted by BreakABone
I think it goes hand in hand at times
We would never have gotten stuff like Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time, if they didn't come out with the N64 controller which was a hardware gimmick.
Similar to how Luigi's Mansion and Pikmin were products of the GameCube and all of its quirks.
And we have our disagreements on the Wii, but I do think motion controls and even the lack of power made for some interesting choices this generation.
I still think Nintendo is a remarkably talented group, and they make a ton of fantastic games. The problem is a lot of them get lost in the shuffle between the latest Mario or Zelda or Pokemon game.
As for IPs, I'm fairly certain Rare owns most of them. I mean since they've been with Microsoft we've gotten a new Perfect Dark and Banjo game and a remake of Conker.
Only ones they didn't do are Jet Force and Killer Instincts, I believe.
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Ha...was the joystick the gimick, or was it that stupid 3rd handle with the most useless joypad evvarrr? Nintendo did revolutionize gaming with their joystick.
Also, I thought Nintendo had the rights to Conker and Banjo for a bit (or still might). Goldeneye had to be remade, and I'm still not sure where those licensing rights lie (and who cares at this point). Starfox and Donkey Kong are forever Nintendo property, Diddy Kong Racing got tied up because of Banjo And Conker I believe. Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts is not Banjo-Kazooie or Banjo-Tooie.
I never had issues with the Gamecube hardware. It's a solid as fuck console with THE BEST controller for console games that are not FPS. The lack of DVD was considered an issue for some, but at that time I felt like having a dedicated DVD player was still the way to go. The lack of online support wasn't a big deal at the time because XBox Live was in its infancy. And the Gamecube has the best graphics after Xbox, I believe.
My beef with Nintendo during the Gamecube period was their lack of 3rd party support. And we did see 3rd party developers drop like flies. That was a good generation to own a PS2 and Xbox along with your Cube. In retrospect, some awesome 1st party titles came out on the Cube, including the retrospectively low-balled Mario Sunshine. The Gamecube was also padded by the fantastic Gameboy Advance, which is probably my favorite Nintendo handheld bar none. The SNES revival we saw with the GBA was fantastic.
Every 3rd party failing on the Cube was sort of remedied by the huge ass GBA game library. It was an okay time to be a Nintendo fan if you could dig their GBA.