I see the Gamecube doing exactly what the N64 did, riding along the outside almost like an entity in itself. It never ever seemed to be completing with the Playstation.
The Gamecube will do well, and be profitable, but I never see it becoming #1. Nintendo seems to be trying to keep out of the whole console war thing all together, which in a way is a good thing.
Nintendo's problem right now is that I believe that Nintendo rushed the launch of he Gamecube to keep up with the XBox. There just aren't enough games for it and look at how much time has passed since its release. Thats just horrible preparation.
I don't think Nintendo's games were pushed back for testing or development problems, I think Nintendo just bold faced lied to their public so that they would buy a Gamecube at or near launch because they thought all the great games would be arriving shortly. Now it looks like it will be close to a year after launch when games like SMS, Starfox and others will be released.
If I were a Gamecube owner who bought the system before the price cut (in the US), I would be quite pissed right now because you paid $50 more than everyone else who bought the console afterwards and I had no games for it.
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