19th February 2003, 10:29 PM
According to IGNCube's chat special, GameCube is still #2 worldwide. Xbox has sold at best 400k in Japan, and GameCube is probably about 3-4 million. So that's a pretty wide lead. But it doesn't really matter, Nintendo is getting destroyed.
Matt mentioned that a certain big name developer is considering canning their new GameCube project and moving it to the new Nintendo system. Something tells me this is a Nintendo inhouse dev team, because otherwise the company would can the GameCube version and make a PS2 or XBox game instead. I have a feeling it's SK or Retro, as neither will be ready to release any new projects for a year or 2. That would give them time to get a launch game ready.
It's Insider-only right now, but don't read that ICQube special unless you want to be depressed. Honestly, I don't know how much longer Nintendo will be around. I know they are making a ton of money still, but that amount is getting smaller and smaller continually. Eventually Sony or MS will release a handheld, and unlike the Wonderswan it will be marketed well, have a huge lineup, and will do all the link-up things that Nintendo always claimed they were working on but never really were. Then when this happens, Nintendo is going to be hurting bad. I don't know if they can ever pass MS or Sony with any console ever again. Sony made almost every possible mistake with the PS2 and they are still dominating. EVERYONE hates MS, they've had zero support from Japan, and they were the newbie coming up against the new biggest console maker and the company synonomous with videogames. And now the XBox is outselling the GameCube 2:1. People don't buy game machines to play games, they buy them to be cool and watch movies and kill time for a few minutes. We've seen it happening for a while now, but it's now official and the consequenses are worse than I ever imagined. Games are completely mainstream- and the ones who brought games to this place are getting run out of town. It's pretty sad.
Matt mentioned that a certain big name developer is considering canning their new GameCube project and moving it to the new Nintendo system. Something tells me this is a Nintendo inhouse dev team, because otherwise the company would can the GameCube version and make a PS2 or XBox game instead. I have a feeling it's SK or Retro, as neither will be ready to release any new projects for a year or 2. That would give them time to get a launch game ready.
It's Insider-only right now, but don't read that ICQube special unless you want to be depressed. Honestly, I don't know how much longer Nintendo will be around. I know they are making a ton of money still, but that amount is getting smaller and smaller continually. Eventually Sony or MS will release a handheld, and unlike the Wonderswan it will be marketed well, have a huge lineup, and will do all the link-up things that Nintendo always claimed they were working on but never really were. Then when this happens, Nintendo is going to be hurting bad. I don't know if they can ever pass MS or Sony with any console ever again. Sony made almost every possible mistake with the PS2 and they are still dominating. EVERYONE hates MS, they've had zero support from Japan, and they were the newbie coming up against the new biggest console maker and the company synonomous with videogames. And now the XBox is outselling the GameCube 2:1. People don't buy game machines to play games, they buy them to be cool and watch movies and kill time for a few minutes. We've seen it happening for a while now, but it's now official and the consequenses are worse than I ever imagined. Games are completely mainstream- and the ones who brought games to this place are getting run out of town. It's pretty sad.