If Nintendo was the new guy...

03-15-2002, 04:53 PM

...would GameCube be selling how it is now or would people call it utter crap? Nintendo has a history of great games but let's say GameCube was Nintendo's first console. Would you really buy it based on what its been offering? Or would you lean more towards the other two consoles? Think about it...

GameMaster · 03-15-2002, 04:55 PM

No, I would still buy it. I like the games that have come out for Gamecube a lot. Next question.

DeathsHand · 03-15-2002, 04:59 PM

If they were the new guy and they had the games they had out now and we didn't know anything about how Nintendo and their second party games are always good quality and such, then no, I would probably just stick to my PS2 and not even think about gamecube...

As it is now, there's only 1 game I can think of that I REALLY want, and that's Rogue Leader... along with one other game I kinda want, which is wave race, but I havn't been in much of a racing kinda mood lately... I want another rush

Ginkasa · 03-15-2002, 05:24 PM

Hmm.....

It depends. If Nintendo were the new guy but doing the exact same things as they are now the GCN would probably be ignored. But I'm sure they would do things differently if they were new so its kind of hard to tell.

Joeiss · 03-15-2002, 05:45 PM

The only reason that I want some games on the GCN is because of their past games of the same series. So, I probably wouldn't give the GCN a second glance if it were the "new guy".

BigJustinW · 03-15-2002, 06:22 PM

You have to think about a lot of things in this question...

If Nintendo was new, and did the exact same thing (advertizing etc) Gamecube would have been dead already... why?

1) Nintendo didn't pay for third party support like Microsoft, and Gamecube wouldn't have gotten half of the support it has now.

2) People would judge Nintendo by there first party games... Luigi's Mansion would not be the record holder for most launch sales...

3) Nintendo's main games are sequals... Smash Bros, Rouge Leader, Waverace, NBA Courtside, Etc... If Nintendo was the new guy making these games, these game would be considerd a Joke, like Ampped, NFL Fever, and NBA Inside Drive for Xbox.

4) Nintendo's advertizing campaing was weak... if you lived in a city with a Cube club, more power to ya, but 95% of the country doesn't even know what the cube clus are, and they will probably will never know... They needed a better place for Hype (Taco Bell maybe?

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But I dunno, if Nintendo was the new guy, there advertizements and games would have been a lot different... it would have been a lot more like Xbox... and Nintendo would have spent more money...

GameKinG · 03-15-2002, 10:40 PM

If nintendo were the new guy it wouldnt have its drones of fans. So...

Joeiss · 03-15-2002, 11:53 PM

Imagine if Nintendo was the new guy? Super Smash Bros Melee would be looked upon as kiddy and weird looking with all those short fat plumbers and weird looking animal things. Oh, we can't forget the big big gorilla!

Ginkasa · 03-16-2002, 12:51 AM

After thinking thsi through for a bit, I've decided that this thread is impossible. If Nintendo's a new guy then we have to of course figure what the gaming industry would be without Nintendo until now. It probably would not exist. Or if it did it only be a small thing that only a few people liked. The games would not be nearly as developed technologically as they are now because there would be no motivation to push systems to as much as they can. Games would probably be worse, loess customers means less money for development. Different consoles would be out, maybe even only one, or none.

There's no way Nintendo could be a new guy. So I deem this thread impossible.

*cough*

GameMaster · 03-16-2002, 01:00 AM

I believe PlayStation would dominate :eek:

It's good we have Nintendo isn't it

Gamer · 03-16-2002, 01:05 AM

Well, if Nintendo was the "newbie" I would still buy Gamecube. The reason being that i love lots of the games that are coming out on it. Like all the RE games, Zelda, Mario, Starfox, Metroid.

JamesDark · 03-16-2002, 10:24 AM

Good question. I think I would've gone with XBox had I not known what Nintendo was capable of.

Revival · 03-16-2002, 10:43 AM

I think I might have given them a try.

Joeiss · 03-16-2002, 01:25 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by gamer
Well, if Nintendo was the "newbie" I would still buy Gamecube. The reason being that i love lots of the games that are coming out on it. Like all the RE games, Zelda, Mario, Starfox, Metroid.

Do you really think so? I do not think that RE would be anywhere close to a GCN. People would look at Zelda and say "what the hell is this little cell shaded dwarf. Give me something else". People would look at Mario and say "That guy is too fat and short to do all of those jumps". And Metroid would be regarded as a HALO wanna be.

Idiot · 03-16-2002, 03:29 PM

If Nintendo were the newest competitors, I would have probably grown into senior citizenship and contracted arthritis,( Thus stopping me handling the controller) before the GameCube arrived in the UK.