Why hate on Gamecube and Wii?

[MrPopo]

3rd parties should be banned from the Wii unless they plan to give it their best development teams and some good funds to make a worthy game.

I'm not sure you understand how a business works.

And you got that how? Stating his opinion is not stating business practices. You can know how something works and not agree with it.

Way to miss the joke.

[noiseredux]

3rd parties should be banned from the Wii unless they plan to give it their best development teams and some good funds to make a worthy game.

Way to miss the joke.

EDIT: this.

[gtmtnbiker]

When you say traditional game player are you meaning PS1 era and up? Because I find the Wii more for the traditional gamer which is regards to Atari and NES player. You pick up and play, easy to learn controls,

I have to give credit to Nintendo for simplifying the controls. I found the controls for New Super Mario Bros Wii to be just about perfect. I remember being flustered the first time I used the Xbox controller to play Halo. I'm better nowadays but it's not that easy.

[pepharytheworm]

Way to miss the joke.

Sorry, wasn't funny.

Sarcasm is Blue or a . Without those I can't hear your tone in typing.

[noiseredux]

Way to miss the joke.

Sorry, wasn't funny.

awe man. Too bad. I was really hoping to get a laugh out of you...

[noiseredux]

Way to miss the joke.

Sarcasm is Blue or a . Without those I can't hear your tone in typing.

oh crap I forgot! I'm usually the one pushing that too! Dammit.

[AmishSamurai]

I'm not particularly a fan of any of the three consoles. My main gripe with the Wii is the fact that purchased digital content is locked to that one machine. The excessive plastic I could care less about because nobody is forcing me to buy it.

Gamecube is one of my favorite systems though. It's just so fun.

[Gnashvar]

I'm not particularly a fan of any of the three consoles. My main gripe with the Wii is the fact that purchased digital content is locked to that one machine. The excessive plastic I could care less about because nobody is forcing me to buy it.

Gamecube is one of my favorite systems though. It's just so fun.

Wiiware and Virtual Console are also expensive compared to other digital distribution services like Steam.

[J T]

I was very late to the party on the GameCube. I've maybe had it for a year. I played GameCube during its heyday, but never felt like I had to have one. A few titles were nagging me though. I had played Ikaruga and it was the best shooter I had ever played (still is), and I am also a big Metroid fan, so not having the Metroid Prime games was bothersome. As a fan of cell shading, Zelda: Wind Waker also held appeal. I figured I would get one eventually. It just took a long time before I really felt the need to buy one.

In all honesty, part of what steered me away from the GameCube, is ironically what drew me back to it later on: Mario games. In 2000, I was Mario'd out. I had NES, SNES, and N64 and GameCube just seemed like more of the same. Though I loved my old Mario games, Playstation 2 seemed like something new and exciting. It was. I was so into my Playstation 2, that I didn't really pay any mind to GameCube. So, my desire for Nintendo games faded, momentarily.

A million zombies, space marines, urban antiheroes, army men, wide-eyed anime people, and post-apocalyptic worlds later... Mario suddenly feels fresh again. I'm happy to play a cartoon character running around in a bright colored world for a change. I've grown tired of the push for more realism and more gore. Mario is just fun.

And he's all over the GameCube: Mario Sunshine, Luigi's Mansion, Mario Kart Double Dash, Super Smash Bros Melee, Mario Power Tennis, Mario Golf, Super Mario Strikers, and Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. It's like talking to an old friend that I haven't seen for years who has a lot of great adventures to share from our time apart.

So, yeah, I think the real reason to own a GameCube is the system exclusives. In addition to the traditional Nintendo canon of Mario, Zelda, and Metroid, there are also great games like Pikmin, Eternal Darkness, Battalion Wars, Chibi-Robo, and Baten Kaitos that you just aren't going to find anywhere else. It's also the go to system for the definitive releases of Resident Evil games.

[fastbilly1]

It's like talking to an old friend that I haven't seen for years who has a lot of great adventures to share from our time apart.

That is probably the most amazing way to describe something Ive ever heard.