Damn, the Gamecube is getting bitch-slapped by both Sony AND Microsoft

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I didn't try to deny it, in fact I originally brought up the point. But Nintendo need to put out many more games than they are now (and ever did with the N64). Yes, I know it's unlikely, and I know it's an extreme measure, but it's the only way I can see Nintendo getting back into the game. Third parties have already sided with PS2 and XBox (for the most part), and the gamers, also, buy their third party games for those consoles.

Picture how successful the N64 would have been had it's 1st/2nd party game lineup been 10x the size that it actually was.

Get back into the game?? They are in the game! And your plan is to put them even more firmly into third-place by getting rid of all third-party support. You don't make any sense.

Yet, and it's hardly a fraction of the quality and quantity of games that Sega put out in the same period of time. Nintendo have that advantage that if they had have put out the same amount of quality games that Sega did, they would have been much more successful than they, and Sega are now.

They sure have the quantity part, but quality? I don't think so! Let's see what original games Sega released in 2002, followed with their average rating from gamerankings:

-Shinobi: 75.8%
-Gunvalkyrie: 75%
-Monkey Ball 2: 87%
-JSRF: 88%
-Sega GT 2002: 82%
-Beach Spikers: 77%
-Home Run King: 61%
-Sega Soccer Slam: 80.5%
-Gungrave: 66%
-Virtua Figher 4: 91.7%
-Crazy Taxi 3: 70%
-TJ&E 3: 74%
-House of the Dead 3: 70%
-NFL 2K3: 91.6%
-NBA 2K3: 91.3%
-NHL 2K3: 89%

That's certainly a good number of games, but how many received an average rating of over 90%? Three of them, with two of them being sports game. And how many got scores of 70% and lower? Eight. Now let's look at Nintendo's lineup:

-Metroid Prime: 96.7%
-Super Mario Sunshine: 92%
-Animal Crossing: 89.1%
-Star Fox Adventures: 81%
-Mario Party 4: 72.2%
-Eternal Darkness: 89%
-Metroid Fusion: 93%
-Wario Land 4: 84%

Ok so that's a much smaller lineup, but the GC's first half of 2002 was void of any first-party games, and several other AAA titles never made it to the states this year, like Fire Emblem, Magical Vacation, and Wind Waker. And I'd take Metroid and Mario over Sega's entire 2002 lineup any day of the week. It's also important to remember that Sega has many more development teams than Nintendo does, and they have so many 2nd parties that it's insane.

But yes I agree that Nintendo should invest in more second-parties like they did with Retro and Silicon Knights.