Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

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I'm pretty sure that was the marketing ploy they were after, although the sales didn't turn out the way they wanted. But that wasn't Mario's fault, the GC was already, within a year, branded as teh kiddy. Even though there isn't a soul on earth that hasn't played SSB:M. :D

I would say the NGC launch was quite succesful actually. With Rogue Leader taking a huge chunk of the pie and promises of new titles released every week after launch. I think Nintendo purposely stepped down from the launch line up to show the NGC's third party support. I would have to say Nintendo seemed pretty ready to me, but the gameplaying public just cannot stand to be branded as a person who likes 'children's games' even though the system with the most games for children has been the PSX by far with a hundred Mary kate and Ashley series, Barbie series, Elmo and Sesame Street series, Bob the Builder, Blue's Clues, etc etc. It's amazing how much the 'cool' factor can play in to the marketability of a tech device that plays entertainment software products, since PSX fans never cared that they were getting more 'kiddie' software than anyone else. But they were getting more software period. :D

Well it's not like it wasn't Nintendo's fault. They did release a console that looked like an ez-bake oven, after all.