I have one. Unfortunately, it's impossible to put any more games on it since its network services died. I don't have RE4 on mine, but yeah, it's an awful fucking mobile port.
what? who is he? why did "he" hear it before me or why did i hear it before him? why would i know? how would i know because who is he? i just said "that sweet jingle"
Tobey, he was replying to the first guy who replied to you and assumed you never heard it before. You missed the whole part where things happened in chronological order.
Man, I miss Viewtiful Joe. It's a shame Capcom shut down Clover Studios, thus relegating Joe to a roster slot in whichever Capcom crossover fighting game they roll out. Clover Studios was, of course, reborn as Platinum Games. But Platinum is wary about working with Capcom again, so Viewtiful Joe feels more like the child of a divorced couple and Capcom is the lousier parent to get full custody.
100% correct. To be fair, VJ2 didn't shape up (great gameplay but the story was off on 80% of its beats and Sylvia didn't add anything to the action) and the other two titles, I didn't play. Mayb there wasn't much hope for VJ as a series in any case - yet a man can dream.
Everytime I watch this I can just imagine him reclining in his chair with his feet up on his desk and his hands resting on the back of his head when he first says "Capcom"
Starts video: I didn't expect to hear that jingle again 5 seconds later: "Yeah I bet you didn't think you'd hear that again did you?" Me: "ARE YOU A WIZARD?!"
The GameCube was actually pretty awesome. Most of my fond childhood gaming memories were coming home from school and playing on the GameCube until I couldn't move my fingers.
Yeah it’s quite the console It’s Bain issues we’re just bad third party support and mini disks Nintendo does live its anti piracy tactical nuclear strikes
I felt compelled to rewatch this one after the review of the remake of Resident Evil 4. Which didn't just polish up the graphics but toned down the corniness and cut out whole segments from the original version. Suffice to say, Yahtzee was FURIOUS and let the new one have it.
One thing I find hilarious about this is that the port of Resident Evil 4 that's widely considered to be the best version of the game is in fact the *Wii* port, thanks to the IR-pointer aiming that works even better than aiming with a mouse.
4:38 I personally believe the main reason that there were no Capcom characters in SSBB was that SSBB was the first Smash game to have 3rd party characters, and even then, the only characters were Solid Snake and Sonic.
The Gamecube had a fantastic game library on the whole... and honestly if any 2-3 decent exclusives would have stayed that way it'd probably have a really solid reputation. But eventually you lose your exclusive Tales of Symphonia and your Capcom games, nobody pays attention to Custom Robo for some reason, and you end up the 'ehhhh' of Nintendo to a lot of folks.
So happy you did one this year, even though we all know it's because of your move and you don't have anything set up yet. I'd really like to see superman 64 when a publisher jumps down the throats of the developer and wb and their continued war upon themselves.
And Nintendo tried optical discs once before and came out of the deal with bruises (3DO). No wonder they didn't want to jump into the CD storage fiasco.
Sure there were some advantages, but the way the industry was moving towards the cinematic made optical the natural choice. Nintendo sticking to cartridges is what lead to Final Fantasy 7 and Metal Gear Solid moving to Sony, which became the Playstation's biggest games. Who knows where Nintendo would've been if they hadn't made that mistake.
The very first words in his video are used to call himself out on that whole retrospective episode thing he did for a bit and then kind of forgot about. This is why I love ya, yahtzee.
I actually quite like pn.03. It had some pretty rad enemy and boss designs. Also although the levels could get a bit same-y it still looked pretty cool. Also busting out out the ultra attacks was a treat.
P.N.03 is easily one of my favorite GCN games...just like GunValkyrie on the Xbox, it wasn't for everyone but it was nuanced and very fun once you nailed the controls.
@@johnnydarling8021 I still wear the promo sunglasses from P.N.03 every time I drive in the daytime. I have a few unopened pairs that I've stashed away, too, in case mine get lost or break.
"The days before Nintendo heard the siren call of motion controls and started calling their consoles after things lil piggies been known to do all the way home" I died xD
The Gamecube never sold as well as it probably should have unfortunately, I have a bad feeling this NX might go the same way. Nice piece of video game history here though.
Well the 3DS was still a major success due to it only competing with the PSVita, and the 3D gimmick is ignored by pretty much everyone at this point, due to it not being mandatory on any games (Unlike a certain Starfox game on a certain home console that shoves its gimmicks down your throat).
There were quite a few reasons the Gamecube failed commercially the biggest one being the atrocious manner in which it was released to Europe which to this day is Sony's biggest market demographic. The Gamecube came out 2 years after the PS2 in it's most dominant region with no backwards compatibility, an exclusive approach to 3rd party developers unlike the PS2's open approach and just a general lack of effort in all regions outside of America. That loss taught Nintendo a harsh lesson one that was learnt by the DS and Wii which remain Nintendo's best selling consoles of all time thanks to a HUGE array of developer support and fair cost for buyers.
Joel Schembri If you play some of the Nintendo Eshop games, like Xeodrifter, Mutant Mudds, Witch and Hero, Bit Boy! Arcade, Cubit the Hardcore Platformer Robot, Box Boy, Pullblocks, and The Denpa Men, you'll find some real gems at the same price as steam games. They also have some really good ports like Cave Story, Binding of Isaac Rebirth, VVVVVV, Shovel Knight, and a port of most classic games from the NES and SNES.
Fun fact, N64 cartridges actually _were_ a significantly better media than CD-ROMs. It's just that they were also a significantly more expensive, and significantly smaller, medium. And this was around the time where game devs were reveling in their newfound ability to make "big" games that could use a (then) ton of storage space to provide significantly better experiences, and there was a medium that provided exactly that at the cost of actually having load times (and basically no other cost, with how relatively-cheap CDs were). N64 games had practically no load time due to essentially being another memory bank, and could support better save systems than CD-ROMs (such as, y'know, _on-medium saves_ ), but just plain didn't have the storage capacity to capitalise on it anymore (and realistically, a lot of games had issues that introduced load times anyways, albeit still usually shorter than PC or PS1 games). At a time when storage capacity was the single most important factor for developers (with many of the advantages CDs brought just being different applications of the extra space), and unit cost was the single most important factor for their bosses. And even if they had the capacity, they were (again) too expensive to make for it to be worth their while, especially for new or troubled companies that couldn't afford a full cartridge production run. If the console had been released a few years later, this wouldn't have been (as much of) an issue; while the shell would still be relatively expensive, potential storage capacity would go up around the time SD cards started to catch on, which would've been the ideal medium by allowing for something close to (but still somewhat behind, IIRC) CD-ROM-level content with cartridge speed. But alas, the N64 came out in the awkward period when cartridges were losing viability to CD-ROMs, and couldn't be made small enough to offset production costs without sacrificing most of their capacity. At least, I remember this being the case; I may be a bit off about when Flash would be viable enough to have started fixing N64 cart issues. -I do distinctly remember GC discs being so small specifically as a heavy-handed anti-piracy measure, though, to make sure you couldn't just copy a game to CD-ROM and load it into the console, and to make it that much harder for companies to release unlicensed games. Nothing new there, really, just Nintendo being Nintendo. xD-
I remember the ad campaign for FF7. The headline was: "Someone get the people who make cartridge games a cigarette and a blindfold." Bang! First shot fired at Nintendo by Square. Then they ended the ad saying, " If it were available on cartridge, it'd retail for around $1200." Boom! Second shot fired!
This was actually really interesting video game history to listen to. Does anyone know offhand names of videos where he's talked about other video game history/business facts? I'd look them up myself but the Zero Punctuation playlist has like 400+ videos and I'm a lazy bitch.
5:07 - It's a real shame that we are in the minority. Not to mention that even if the industry tried to stop doing it, the hordes of entitled little shits that are the current and future generations would roll around in tantrums that they can't get their "unique rewards" (because being one of millions to have it is totally unique).
It's the touchscreen phone generation of at-home video "game" Consoles. *-Fuck this industry, I miss my "Gen 7" tech and offline capability, why did consoles have to become overrated and underpowered versions of PC's? They basically destroyed their consumer base by being fucking retards.-*
Hexerin Null let's not pretend millenials are any better.. I'm ashamed to be grouped together with fat neck beard safe space antisocial autistic retards that are ridiculously spoilt. This generation seems more preferable in my opinion
Actually, Yahtzee, the smaller discs on the Gamecube kept loading times to a serious minimum. Same reason the N64 didn't use discs (That and discs are fragile as fuck)
the japanese section made GREAT game, best in the world in action gameplay actually tell me any developer who can pull combat presentation better than capcom, except platinum, that's just capcom reject going wonderful comcept being capcom reject going shitty
I think that on the next episode of this sub-series, Yahtzee should discuss the failures of the Sega Game Gear and Sega Nomad, and how Sony didn't learn from them when making the PS Vita.
To be fair, when the best thing that can be learned there is "Don't bother fighting Nintendo in the handheld market, they're Kenshiro and you are already dead", I can see why Sony wouldn't listen. xD
@@MrOmegatronic true, but my point was that the Game Gear and Nomad were basically portable versions of their home consoles (ie, they were too powerful for their own good). Sony then made the PS Vita, which was on par with the PS3, but development for those systems are too expensive. (Extra Credits explained this a lot better years ago in their video about why the Vita failed)
the only franchise that i care about from crapcom still is fully exclusive to Nintendo wich is monster hunter wich is a shame coz it would be a great PC game
It started on PS2, then went to PSP, then went to Wii, then went to 3DS, and it has Japanese versions all over the Vita, and a Chinese version on the PC. It's not fully exclusive to Nintendo
Let's hope the next time we get a Nintendo and Capcom team up is for something we can all get behind: Nintendo vs. Capcom I can already see Pit calling out Amaterasu for being inferior to the might of Palutena, and Samus commenting that Megaman needs to better ration his weapons, and Phoenix Wright asking Zelda to help teach some of her magic to Trucy, and even Dantae calling out Shulk and his Monado. I would love to see how Viewtiful Joe would respond to Master Hand and Crazy Hand.
The N64 stuck with cartridges because they are solid-state media. It meant zero loading times (the biggest drawback of disks) and save data could be stored in the cartridge without proprietary save-cards up until the later end of the N64's life when it had to be given up for some games in order to meet the capacity quota. Cartridges were also much more robust. The downside was that manufacturing cartridges with the same storage capacity as disks was ludicrously expensive at the time, so the N64's cartridges were more limiting on how much game data they could contain and when games started getting more advanced, it strained the crap out of dev teams to fit more and more complex games. The game producer could spec cartridges with greater capacity, but it meant charging more for price of the game. After the GameCube, the argument for cartridges returned with the first DS.
The GameCube was a good console. Not only did it have great games, it had the best controller in all of gaming history. Just thinking about it makes me want to set fire to a Wiimote.
Hmm... yeah, that sounds about right. • Making the main button the largest face button on the controller instantly solves the biggest issue with controller schemes, by making it perfectly clear which button is meant to do what (and, with any reasonable dev, what button _will_ do what in the default control scheme): The big A button handles the most important game function(s) and menu accept, the secondary B button handles menu cancel and the second-most important game function(s), and other buttons are flexible secondary features. • Triggers are pressure-sensitive with palpable feedback, allowing them to provide more functionality than purely digital triggers. • The C stick handles camera controls much more smoothly than the N64's C buttons, and is responsive enough (and just as importantly, remappable enough) to handle whatever other task if camera control isn't important. • The overall button layout makes everything easy to access, and will be trivially memorised in an hour or two tops. Only real issues are that it didn't have stick buttons since they hadn't caught on yet, and that it kept the N64's knee Z instead of going with dual shoulder triggers.
The GameCube controller was fantastic, but I honestly think the Wii Remote is underrated; it was certainly flawed (no second stick for camera controls), but IR-pointer aiming was fantastic. I loved using the bow in the Wii version of Twilight Princess because aiming was a breeze. I honestly kind-of miss it (though gyro aim on the Wii U and Switch is still good).
Viewtiful Joe 1 sold so well in Japan that people were immediately requesting a reprint, as the game was selling out due to Capcom of Japan giving the title a low print run. Capcom of Japan had spent that weekend announcing that the game's sales were disappointing, and went on to say that they wouldn't reprint the GC version until they'd ported the game to the PS2. The Gamecube release of Killer 7 was delayed at least a year just so that Capcom could make a PS2 port of that game and release them together. The story at the time behind the whole Capcom/Nintendo partnership was that Capcom management didn't want an exclusives deal, but were forced into it by Shinji Mikami. Mikami at the time was upset with Sony, and had allegedly went off on the company in an interview, complaining that they intentionally designed their various hardware to fail. Capcom bristled at the deal. Capcom repeatedly knocked and undermined their Gamecube game sales, and actively supported PS2 ports to the detriment of Gamecube sales. There were a handful of claims that some at Capcom were actively out to sabotage Gamecube game sales. Heck, this is the periods where when Capcom realized that it was badly overestimating sales figures for Sony and Microsoft's system, but were meeting their sales figures for Nintendo systems, Capcom's response was to cut future support for Nintendo systems in half. As for Capcom announcing the PS2 port of RE4 a *year* in advance, they were only waiting for Mikami to finish RE4 first. Capcom went on to shut down Production Studio 5 and to allegedly move Mikami to a "we aren't going to officially fire you, but we really want you to quit" position. (Mikami would later quit.)
Exclusive games may seem like a bad concept on paper, because questions like "why would you ever make your game exclusively for one console(unless it's a first party dev)? It's just limiting the people who can buy it" pop up. But in practice, they work really well. The developers only have to focus on making the game work on one version, so that would either A. give them more time to focus on making the game run as smooth as possible or B. Give them more time to work on the other stuff in the game. This is evidenced by the fact that quite a lot of really good games throughout the years has been exclusives. Mario, Pokemon, Sonic the Hedgehog (1-3, at least), Zelda, Crash Bandicoot, Ratchet and Clank, Sly Cooper, the list goes on and on.
At the time, you could get the whole RE collection on Gamecube: RE Zero, RE REmake, RE2 port, RE 3 port, RE: Code Veronica port, and RE 4 -- you forgot to mention RE Zero and the Remake stayed Gamecube exclusive until the HD remaster.
I actually liked PN03! It was definitely no stellar incredible game, but it was entertaining. ...and movung like she had to piss? This game launched when techno was a fad and she was listening to music the whole time... which... considering she was being shot at by robots with laser guns... didn't seem too safe. Yeah that part was dumb, but otherwise the game was fun.
For anyone wondering, the zeebo is a brazilian indie console with a tiny library, with Resident Evil 4 as it's one big game.
deathpyre42 It has some shitty budget games on what I'm assuming is linux based. And also Resi 4
I have one. Unfortunately, it's impossible to put any more games on it since its network services died. I don't have RE4 on mine, but yeah, it's an awful fucking mobile port.
> Brazilian indie console
Well, god bless 'em for trying.
It had a Viewtiful Joe ripoff too
@@deathpyre42 Tax benefit in BRAZIL?
"...and the graphics tech was practically next gen--that is to say, mostly brown."
Gets me every time.
GTA 4
"Lets all laugh at an industry that never learns anything tee hee hee" Love that jingle XD
its amazing.. XD
its amazing.. XD
its amazing... XD
its amazing..XD
its amazing.. XD
"Because Resident Evil 4 is in academic terms FUCKING SWEET" set me laughing so much I almost pissed myself
For me, it’s the image of an anthropomorphic copy of Resi 4 literally humping a pile of sugar.
wow. you suck ass, dude
"And constantly moved like she was busting for a piss."
After looking up some gameplay, I can safely say there's no exaggeration in this.
As someone who grew up with the gamecube, never in my life have I been so offended by something i one hundred percent agree with.
"And I do not say that lightly, because I just ate an entire fruit cake."
I'm stealing that.
that sweet sweet jingle
Somebody's new to zero punctuation, I've had that jingle memorized for years now.
For all you know he heard it before you even did. He just said that sweet sweet jingle. Never said if or when he first heard it
what? who is he? why did "he" hear it before me or why did i hear it before him? why would i know? how would i know because who is he? i just said "that sweet jingle"
Tobey Duiker you know, his profile pic of a confused Nick Cage fits this conversation perfectly.
Tobey, he was replying to the first guy who replied to you and assumed you never heard it before. You missed the whole part where things happened in chronological order.
Man, I miss Viewtiful Joe. It's a shame Capcom shut down Clover Studios, thus relegating Joe to a roster slot in whichever Capcom crossover fighting game they roll out.
Clover Studios was, of course, reborn as Platinum Games. But Platinum is wary about working with Capcom again, so Viewtiful Joe feels more like the child of a divorced couple and Capcom is the lousier parent to get full custody.
Viewtiful Joe is an even sadder version of Geno and Mallow's story. Great things which are never coming back.
I watch ye Sleep what?
@@user-yi5mt2df5q no they didn't
I really wanted to see VJ3, and learn about the black Vwatch ='(
100% correct. To be fair, VJ2 didn't shape up (great gameplay but the story was off on 80% of its beats and Sylvia didn't add anything to the action) and the other two titles, I didn't play. Mayb there wasn't much hope for VJ as a series in any case - yet a man can dream.
"What should've been the laying down of a winning hand became the laying of a cruel fist upon the goolies"
Gets me every time 😂
The segment is back!
Missed it? So did I.
Max J he should do this more often
This segment is like the Spanish Inquisition, it's better if we don't expect it
Max J NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pretty sure everybody expected that though... :P
Everytime I watch this I can just imagine him reclining in his chair with his feet up on his desk and his hands resting on the back of his head when he first says "Capcom"
Looking at that trailer, a functional and fun version of PNO3 *was* eventually released - it was called Bayonetta.
Starts video: I didn't expect to hear that jingle again
5 seconds later: "Yeah I bet you didn't think you'd hear that again did you?"
Me: "ARE YOU A WIZARD?!"
2:38 make that 12 consoles, Nintendo switch was added to the list
"Kitchen appliance" appeared two separate times in this video. Did Yahtzee get a new kitchen appliance and nobody's told me?
The GameCube was actually pretty awesome. Most of my fond childhood gaming memories were coming home from school and playing on the GameCube until I couldn't move my fingers.
Yeah it’s quite the console
It’s Bain issues we’re just bad third party support and mini disks
Nintendo does live its anti piracy tactical nuclear strikes
This was actually really really interesting. Yahtzee should do documentaries!
"Billions of billious blue blistering barnacles" -Captain Haddock
I'm so glad I got to hear that intro jingle again, wait, that's a bad thing
Shedding tears of joy from hearing that sting again.
"Bathroom disinfectant as a drink mixer"
PLEASE stop predicting the future man
Angeeel L.M. What, eating tide pods traumatized ya?
Hearing that jingle made me so happy!
The fact that RE:4 is likely being ported to VR in the immediate future makes this list even longer.
I love this segment of yours, Yahtzee. Your take on gaming history is detailed and hilarious as ever.
I felt compelled to rewatch this one after the review of the remake of Resident Evil 4. Which didn't just polish up the graphics but toned down the corniness and cut out whole segments from the original version. Suffice to say, Yahtzee was FURIOUS and let the new one have it.
"Let's all laugh at an industry that never learns anything tee hee hee"
I laughed way too hard on that one
I've never fucking heard of Zeebo.
I still haven't, even after you've mentioned it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeebo
found it
Who thought that porting RE4 to that was a good use of money?
Martin Johnson
'shrugs'
It's basically a quick port of the mobile version. Probably didn't cost much, and Brazil is a relatively big market.
One thing I find hilarious about this is that the port of Resident Evil 4 that's widely considered to be the best version of the game is in fact the *Wii* port, thanks to the IR-pointer aiming that works even better than aiming with a mouse.
Literally the only game on the Wii that works that well too
4:38 I personally believe the main reason that there were no Capcom characters in SSBB was that SSBB was the first Smash game to have 3rd party characters, and even then, the only characters were Solid Snake and Sonic.
"Here's your consolation prize, Nintendo. It's a bag of lawn clippings and dead wasps."
I'm so happy to hear that Yahtzee likes Viewtiful Joe.
I need the lyrics to the jingle, so I can annoy my friends.
lets all laugh at an industry that never learns anything teeheehee
I appreciate it.
Let's all laugh at an industry
That never learns anything, tee hee hee
Haha youll get them good buddy, epic prank
Random documents and audio logs~
Oh, wrong jingle.
I can't even begin to describe how happy that opening jingle made me
Did I just see the legendary Captain Haddock? The legendary drunk of a Sea Captain with the catchiest catchphrase in the history of ever?
The Gamecube had a fantastic game library on the whole... and honestly if any 2-3 decent exclusives would have stayed that way it'd probably have a really solid reputation. But eventually you lose your exclusive Tales of Symphonia and your Capcom games, nobody pays attention to Custom Robo for some reason, and you end up the 'ehhhh' of Nintendo to a lot of folks.
I loved custom robo as a kid.
Genuinely never used to care for gaming history until you started pumping these out...
Nice to see this series back, I've enjoyed the other entries as well.
So happy you did one this year, even though we all know it's because of your move and you don't have anything set up yet. I'd really like to see superman 64 when a publisher jumps down the throats of the developer and wb and their continued war upon themselves.
now hold on a minute, what do you have against oscilloscopes?
While optical media was probably the best choice at the time, it's not as though cartridges were completely without benefit.
And more durability
But the disadvantages far outweighed the advantages
And Nintendo tried optical discs once before and came out of the deal with bruises (3DO). No wonder they didn't want to jump into the CD storage fiasco.
Sure there were some advantages, but the way the industry was moving towards the cinematic made optical the natural choice. Nintendo sticking to cartridges is what lead to Final Fantasy 7 and Metal Gear Solid moving to Sony, which became the Playstation's biggest games. Who knows where Nintendo would've been if they hadn't made that mistake.
Agreed. Those benefits weren't worth an extra twenty bucks, though.
For the curious and terminally lazy, 0:19 Cap.com redirects to Capital One’s website.
Lawn clippings and dead wasps...now I know what to get my mother in law for Christmas.
4:31 for some reason i can't stop laughing at this gamecube falling
that lawn clippings line literally broke my brain, thank you
You said kitchen appliance twice
Andrew Craucamp
Well done, I see you hearing is doing alright.
Beeble TV i see you spelling is great as well.
Holy shit, did you hear how many times he said Capcom?!
Frodo, I see your grammar is doing well. My lying isn't though.
Good job Andrew! Now that you have learnt that, lets try crawling.
The very first words in his video are used to call himself out on that whole retrospective episode thing he did for a bit and then kind of forgot about.
This is why I love ya, yahtzee.
I actually quite like pn.03. It had some pretty rad enemy and boss designs. Also although the levels could get a bit same-y it still looked pretty cool. Also busting out out the ultra attacks was a treat.
This was both hilarious and educational. The best Zero Punctuation yet.
I was just thinking about "lets all laugh at an industry that never learns anything teeheehee"
I must be able to see the future
can't help myself, i have to head bang everytime i hear the intro, Rock On!
"let's all laugh at an industry that never learns anything tee hee hee" want that as my text alert.
"Dead Phoenix won't rise again" is certainly the headline you were looking for
this was pretty entertaining. I'd love to see more episodes of this spin-off series in the future.
Holy shit, that Captain Haddock joke made me piss myself laughing! Well played.
I sing that jingle every time a GameStop employee asks me to preorder this year's CoD.
Vasche Braev right cause it’s not like cod still sells millions every year. Nope you don’t like it so they shouldn’t bother selling it
Probably more a comment about Gamestop than COD.
"the color brown" made me laugh so hard. love these
Please make these segments more often!
I feel like I'm the only one who loves P.N.03. It's a unique playing experience with a sweet soundtrack!
Here come the fives, better look alive Clive.
Checking voltage waveforms is a thing of the past now? What did I miss?
P.N.03 is easily one of my favorite GCN games...just like GunValkyrie on the Xbox, it wasn't for everyone but it was nuanced and very fun once you nailed the controls.
And here I was thinking that I was literally the only one who liked those two games.
@@johnnydarling8021
I still wear the promo sunglasses from P.N.03 every time I drive in the daytime.
I have a few unopened pairs that I've stashed away, too, in case mine get lost or break.
And now Resident Evil 4 has a VR port “exclusive” to Oculus Quest 2
HAHA, Jokes on you, Yahtzee. I watched your retrospective review of ET for the Atari 2600 yesterday. That jingle was still in my head from then.
"The days before Nintendo heard the siren call of motion controls and started calling their consoles after things lil piggies been known to do all the way home" I died xD
The Gamecube never sold as well as it probably should have unfortunately, I have a bad feeling this NX might go the same way. Nice piece of video game history here though.
+Joel
What about the NES mini?
Also I suggest you watch 'OBE1plays' I believe he is part of that legion,just watch 1 video and give me feedback.
Well the 3DS was still a major success due to it only competing with the PSVita, and the 3D gimmick is ignored by pretty much everyone at this point, due to it not being mandatory on any games (Unlike a certain Starfox game on a certain home console that shoves its gimmicks down your throat).
Joel Schembri Yeah,Nintendo aren't thinking straight anymore.Haha glad you checked his channel,that's the same way I felt
There were quite a few reasons the Gamecube failed commercially the biggest one being the atrocious manner in which it was released to Europe which to this day is Sony's biggest market demographic. The Gamecube came out 2 years after the PS2 in it's most dominant region with no backwards compatibility, an exclusive approach to 3rd party developers unlike the PS2's open approach and just a general lack of effort in all regions outside of America.
That loss taught Nintendo a harsh lesson one that was learnt by the DS and Wii which remain Nintendo's best selling consoles of all time thanks to a HUGE array of developer support and fair cost for buyers.
Joel Schembri If you play some of the Nintendo Eshop games, like Xeodrifter, Mutant Mudds, Witch and Hero, Bit Boy! Arcade, Cubit the Hardcore Platformer Robot, Box Boy, Pullblocks, and The Denpa Men, you'll find some real gems at the same price as steam games. They also have some really good ports like Cave Story, Binding of Isaac Rebirth, VVVVVV, Shovel Knight, and a port of most classic games from the NES and SNES.
Fun fact, N64 cartridges actually _were_ a significantly better media than CD-ROMs. It's just that they were also a significantly more expensive, and significantly smaller, medium. And this was around the time where game devs were reveling in their newfound ability to make "big" games that could use a (then) ton of storage space to provide significantly better experiences, and there was a medium that provided exactly that at the cost of actually having load times (and basically no other cost, with how relatively-cheap CDs were). N64 games had practically no load time due to essentially being another memory bank, and could support better save systems than CD-ROMs (such as, y'know, _on-medium saves_ ), but just plain didn't have the storage capacity to capitalise on it anymore (and realistically, a lot of games had issues that introduced load times anyways, albeit still usually shorter than PC or PS1 games). At a time when storage capacity was the single most important factor for developers (with many of the advantages CDs brought just being different applications of the extra space), and unit cost was the single most important factor for their bosses. And even if they had the capacity, they were (again) too expensive to make for it to be worth their while, especially for new or troubled companies that couldn't afford a full cartridge production run.
If the console had been released a few years later, this wouldn't have been (as much of) an issue; while the shell would still be relatively expensive, potential storage capacity would go up around the time SD cards started to catch on, which would've been the ideal medium by allowing for something close to (but still somewhat behind, IIRC) CD-ROM-level content with cartridge speed. But alas, the N64 came out in the awkward period when cartridges were losing viability to CD-ROMs, and couldn't be made small enough to offset production costs without sacrificing most of their capacity.
At least, I remember this being the case; I may be a bit off about when Flash would be viable enough to have started fixing N64 cart issues.
-I do distinctly remember GC discs being so small specifically as a heavy-handed anti-piracy measure, though, to make sure you couldn't just copy a game to CD-ROM and load it into the console, and to make it that much harder for companies to release unlicensed games. Nothing new there, really, just Nintendo being Nintendo. xD-
I remember the ad campaign for FF7. The headline was: "Someone get the people who make cartridge games a cigarette and a blindfold." Bang! First shot fired at Nintendo by Square. Then they ended the ad saying, " If it were available on cartridge, it'd retail for around $1200." Boom! Second shot fired!
Killer 7, still my favorite game of all times
5:07 My hero...
This was actually really interesting video game history to listen to. Does anyone know offhand names of videos where he's talked about other video game history/business facts? I'd look them up myself but the Zero Punctuation playlist has like 400+ videos and I'm a lazy bitch.
Ruth E. his E.T. video
ET and Daikatana
Also Quake and Shadows of the Damned. They weren't Zero Punctuation specials like E. T. and Daikatana, but they did contain some neat history
5:07 - It's a real shame that we are in the minority. Not to mention that even if the industry tried to stop doing it, the hordes of entitled little shits that are the current and future generations would roll around in tantrums that they can't get their "unique rewards" (because being one of millions to have it is totally unique).
It's the touchscreen phone generation of at-home video "game" Consoles.
*-Fuck this industry, I miss my "Gen 7" tech and offline capability, why did consoles have to become overrated and underpowered versions of PC's? They basically destroyed their consumer base by being fucking retards.-*
Ain't that the truth.
***** Still more honest than a post-2008 gameplay trailer. props mate.
I am of this the next generation and I fuckin' hate the newer consoles. I only have an Xbox One to play stuff my laptop cant run.
Hexerin Null let's not pretend millenials are any better.. I'm ashamed to be grouped together with fat neck beard safe space antisocial autistic retards that are ridiculously spoilt. This generation seems more preferable in my opinion
Actually, Yahtzee, the smaller discs on the Gamecube kept loading times to a serious minimum. Same reason the N64 didn't use discs (That and discs are fragile as fuck)
Which is nice. But, using standardized hardware tends to not scare developers away.
I actually never thought I'd hear that jingle again, it's been a while...
Haven't heard that opening jingle in a while. It gets me every time.
i Was about to check the date of this video when he said "Yeah, didn't think you'd hear that again did you?"
God, I miss Viewtiful Joe... which I played on the PlayStation 2 (actually the sequel), but still, the Viewtiful Joe games are kinda awesome.
I thought he said vengful joe, about a game putting his ex-wife, co-workers and boss into a lumber shredder.
Viewtul Joe 2 was good, but not even close to the first. You should really try to get a hold of a copy of number 1 if you can.
If you have a Wii U you should check out Wonderful 101. Its from the same director and imo just as good as Viewtiful Joe
And if ya get VJ1 for PS2, you get Dante exclusive (from DMC)
I did not think I would hear that jingle again, you're right
After all, capcom have made some good dames, like okami for example.
That reminds me, did Yahtzee do a review on okami?
the japanese section made GREAT game, best in the world in action gameplay actually
tell me any developer who can pull combat presentation better than capcom, except platinum, that's just capcom reject going wonderful
comcept being capcom reject going shitty
He joked about it in a positive way at the end of his Zelda Phantom Hourglass review.
Zachary Erickson
Manstah Hantah
Did now.
Actually Yahtzee when I clicked on this link, that song was in my head, and I was thinking it was one of those videos.
I was right.
I think that on the next episode of this sub-series, Yahtzee should discuss the failures of the Sega Game Gear and Sega Nomad, and how Sony didn't learn from them when making the PS Vita.
To be fair, when the best thing that can be learned there is "Don't bother fighting Nintendo in the handheld market, they're Kenshiro and you are already dead", I can see why Sony wouldn't listen. xD
@@MrOmegatronic true, but my point was that the Game Gear and Nomad were basically portable versions of their home consoles (ie, they were too powerful for their own good). Sony then made the PS Vita, which was on par with the PS3, but development for those systems are too expensive.
(Extra Credits explained this a lot better years ago in their video about why the Vita failed)
I still love the gamecube's design, it's so sexy
the only franchise that i care about from crapcom still is fully exclusive to Nintendo wich is monster hunter wich is a shame coz it would be a great PC game
Yeah Monster Hunters would do great on pc.
Jerry Longbones I thought they had some versions on the psp
Oh 'CRAPcom.' I get it. Aren't you hilarious with your overused, unfunny, joke.
It started on PS2, then went to PSP, then went to Wii, then went to 3DS, and it has Japanese versions all over the Vita, and a Chinese version on the PC. It's not fully exclusive to Nintendo
they need to bring the latest PC version to the US, just look at the game play alone, i think it would become another peak in the MMO market
Let's hope the next time we get a Nintendo and Capcom team up is for something we can all get behind: Nintendo vs. Capcom
I can already see Pit calling out Amaterasu for being inferior to the might of Palutena, and Samus commenting that Megaman needs to better ration his weapons, and Phoenix Wright asking Zelda to help teach some of her magic to Trucy, and even Dantae calling out Shulk and his Monado. I would love to see how Viewtiful Joe would respond to Master Hand and Crazy Hand.
Why would you throw out oscilloscopes?
i will never stop singing that jingle.
*Hears the industry jingle*
It's been 10,000 years
The N64 stuck with cartridges because they are solid-state media. It meant zero loading times (the biggest drawback of disks) and save data could be stored in the cartridge without proprietary save-cards up until the later end of the N64's life when it had to be given up for some games in order to meet the capacity quota. Cartridges were also much more robust. The downside was that manufacturing cartridges with the same storage capacity as disks was ludicrously expensive at the time, so the N64's cartridges were more limiting on how much game data they could contain and when games started getting more advanced, it strained the crap out of dev teams to fit more and more complex games. The game producer could spec cartridges with greater capacity, but it meant charging more for price of the game. After the GameCube, the argument for cartridges returned with the first DS.
The GameCube was a good console. Not only did it have great games, it had the best controller in all of gaming history. Just thinking about it makes me want to set fire to a Wiimote.
Hell yes. At least the Wii had the good sense to make most of its games compatible with the GC controller.
Hmm... yeah, that sounds about right.
• Making the main button the largest face button on the controller instantly solves the biggest issue with controller schemes, by making it perfectly clear which button is meant to do what (and, with any reasonable dev, what button _will_ do what in the default control scheme): The big A button handles the most important game function(s) and menu accept, the secondary B button handles menu cancel and the second-most important game function(s), and other buttons are flexible secondary features.
• Triggers are pressure-sensitive with palpable feedback, allowing them to provide more functionality than purely digital triggers.
• The C stick handles camera controls much more smoothly than the N64's C buttons, and is responsive enough (and just as importantly, remappable enough) to handle whatever other task if camera control isn't important.
• The overall button layout makes everything easy to access, and will be trivially memorised in an hour or two tops.
Only real issues are that it didn't have stick buttons since they hadn't caught on yet, and that it kept the N64's knee Z instead of going with dual shoulder triggers.
The GameCube controller was fantastic, but I honestly think the Wii Remote is underrated; it was certainly flawed (no second stick for camera controls), but IR-pointer aiming was fantastic. I loved using the bow in the Wii version of Twilight Princess because aiming was a breeze. I honestly kind-of miss it (though gyro aim on the Wii U and Switch is still good).
Viewtiful Joe 1 sold so well in Japan that people were immediately requesting a reprint, as the game was selling out due to Capcom of Japan giving the title a low print run. Capcom of Japan had spent that weekend announcing that the game's sales were disappointing, and went on to say that they wouldn't reprint the GC version until they'd ported the game to the PS2.
The Gamecube release of Killer 7 was delayed at least a year just so that Capcom could make a PS2 port of that game and release them together.
The story at the time behind the whole Capcom/Nintendo partnership was that Capcom management didn't want an exclusives deal, but were forced into it by Shinji Mikami. Mikami at the time was upset with Sony, and had allegedly went off on the company in an interview, complaining that they intentionally designed their various hardware to fail. Capcom bristled at the deal. Capcom repeatedly knocked and undermined their Gamecube game sales, and actively supported PS2 ports to the detriment of Gamecube sales. There were a handful of claims that some at Capcom were actively out to sabotage Gamecube game sales. Heck, this is the periods where when Capcom realized that it was badly overestimating sales figures for Sony and Microsoft's system, but were meeting their sales figures for Nintendo systems, Capcom's response was to cut future support for Nintendo systems in half. As for Capcom announcing the PS2 port of RE4 a *year* in advance, they were only waiting for Mikami to finish RE4 first. Capcom went on to shut down Production Studio 5 and to allegedly move Mikami to a "we aren't going to officially fire you, but we really want you to quit" position. (Mikami would later quit.)
So Gabe still asks for payments?
Watching the Let's Drown Out for RE4 really shows just how much Yahtzee really loves that game.
RE4..one of my favorite games of that generation.
Exclusive games may seem like a bad concept on paper, because questions like "why would you ever make your game exclusively for one console(unless it's a first party dev)? It's just limiting the people who can buy it" pop up. But in practice, they work really well. The developers only have to focus on making the game work on one version, so that would either A. give them more time to focus on making the game run as smooth as possible or B. Give them more time to work on the other stuff in the game.
This is evidenced by the fact that quite a lot of really good games throughout the years has been exclusives. Mario, Pokemon, Sonic the Hedgehog (1-3, at least), Zelda, Crash Bandicoot, Ratchet and Clank, Sly Cooper, the list goes on and on.
Member Killer 7? Member Storm Troopers? I member! Ooh ooh member Resident Evil 4? Member the Las Plagas? Member Han Solo?
"Let's all laugh at an industry that never learns anything, tee hee hee!" I squee'd.
0:12 thats ringtone worthy right there
Wow, Yahtzee needs to do more of these yesteryear reviews
Wait, Hillary Clinton doesn't have "bollocks" ...does she?
Where's the fact checker when you need it?
(Maybe yes)² * ∞?
I always assumed that people called Hilary a "she" to support her decision.
AmatsuKona Where did you get that profile pic from?
goody2shoos "monster girl gamu"
At the time, you could get the whole RE collection on Gamecube: RE Zero, RE REmake, RE2 port, RE 3 port, RE: Code Veronica port, and RE 4 -- you forgot to mention RE Zero and the Remake stayed Gamecube exclusive until the HD remaster.
I actually liked PN03! It was definitely no stellar incredible game, but it was entertaining. ...and movung like she had to piss? This game launched when techno was a fad and she was listening to music the whole time... which... considering she was being shot at by robots with laser guns... didn't seem too safe. Yeah that part was dumb, but otherwise the game was fun.
I just took it for a game that featured "dance fighting" as its main mechanic.
Which is awesome. I loved the game too.