Nintendo's Failed Harry Potter Pitch for N64 - Game History Secrets
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- SUBSCRIBE for more failed, cancelled & beta games ► bit.ly/DYKG_Sub...
Failed Nintendo Pitches ► bit.ly/2rCxYzj
Check out Liam's Channel ► bit.ly/2cOxShZ
Today on Game History Secrets we talk about how Nintendo once made a bid to to acquire the exclusive entertainment rights to the Harry Potter franchise, and planned to make games for the Nintendo 64 (N64), GameCube and more using the license.
Liam Robertson is a video game researcher and archiver. In his spare time, Liam creates videos and articles for various outlets, and will also be contributing to the Did You Know Gaming channel.
Facebook: didyouknowgaming
Twitter: @DidYouKnowGamin
Website: DidYouKnowGaming.com
#Nintendo #HarryPotter #N64
There's an alternate timeline where Harry Potter is now in Smash
i don't see how that's possible
@@SmashLiXs You'd be surprised by how many alternate timelines there could be.
like an alternate timeline where harry potter wasn't created or not be a huge seller or megamind getting sequels & spinoffs instead of despicable me
@@SmashLiXs Precisely.
@@SmashLiXs Many worlds theory:
There are infinite timelines with infinite possible varitions.
It was interesting how the EA games for philosophers stone were entirely different for each platform. GB: turn based rpg. GBA: 2d action, PC/playstation: 3d action, but with entirely unique levels and assets. They didn't make 1 game and port it for 4 platforms, they made 4 entirely unique games.
somehow I don't think we'd see any company do that today...
Can't forget psp versions were basically sidescrolling adventure games.
I believe thay trend went on up until the fourth installment where all the games were basically the same for the fourth movie. The prisoner of Azkaban rpg was something else... And totally different from the console versions (which were starting to be similar). Really good canes out of this. The play station line for the first two have got to be classics.
Would like to further point out that not only are the PC and PlayStation ports different , the PC PlayStation and playstation2/ game cube are all three completely unique games
That was actually a lot more common back then. besides you couldn't make teh same game for all 4 of those platforms.
Also EA is nothing like they use to be they wouldnt even do that today lol even if they did it would be full of micro transactions or pay to win bullshit lol
Harry Potter 64 would've been interesting.
The Game who Died for The Boy who Lived
heh
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets for PC is one of my favorite games of all time
Hell yeah! Love that game :D
It’s so good!
Do you know there are software to make own levels for the first 3 Harry Potter games for PC?
one of the first couple of open world games i played and if they remade it, idk if it would sell amazingly, but it would be almost the best game of all-time.
You should look up speedruns of the game, people are still playing :)
I hope more of Nintendo’s art surfaces at some point. Their interpretation looks and sounds somewhat similar to how I pictured it in my head. I started reading the books around the time that the third one was released in the USA, sometime in 1999. There were no movies or games back then, and I didn’t have regular access to the internet (thus, no fan art or accounts of how other folks saw it), so all I really had to go on were the illustrations in the Scholastic versions (rather than the covers on those UK originals). Purists scoff at them now, but that was Harry Potter to me. I pictured it less as this somewhat serious, dark world with kids running the show... and more like a cartoon with an irreverent, sarcastic, and slightly dark sense of humor, where the kids are along for a crazy ride and just kind of happen to save the day at the end, and the whole thing looks like an Impressionist painting. I hadn’t played it yet, but I guess I saw it as “Earthbound” meets “The Nightmare Before Christmas”, with a little extra 90s attitude thrown in.
LOL What? Harry Potter is EXACTLY that as it does have a dark sense of humor and the kids DO save the day at the end as well as the kids going on a crazy ride of adventure and mystery as they try to solve what's happening. That's what happens in every harry potter story in the books/movies. And the kids aren't "running the show" in the harry potter franchise, they're just students there who are the MAIN characters of the story they're in. And The Harry Potter world, even based on the books, isn't "somewhat" serious, it IS serious and the "dark world" IS what makes Harry Potter what it is as well as brining it together with the whimsical magical vibes to give it even more character which truly makes the series! THAT'S harry potter, as the whole franchise, especially the movies, feels like a dark halloween story theme magical story that progress-fully gets more serious as the characters age.
And "purists" don't "scoff" at the Scholastic Harry Potter covers, they're great iconic covers of the harry potter series and key events that has happened, illustrated by Mare GrandPré, which look fantastic as iconic harry potter covers TO THIS DAY which people still praise so I have no idea where yo come from saying this nonsense that "purists scoff at them now" lol no they don't. They're still widely praised and loved to this day! But I'm starting to prefer the new covers for the harry potter by Kazu Kibuishi which looks BEYOND gorgeous and more "modern" than previous covers but they all around look good.
And how you saw it as a kid just seemed 90s as it gets. It's not bad but the way how the movies interpreted and brought alive the harry potter world better than anyone could ever dream to which all looks fantastic with it's gorgeous art direction and aesthetics from character design, sound design, set design, special effect, and gorgeous music bringing harry potter to complete life! !
@@Gadget-Walkmen You’ve misinterpreted me on several points here.
I know that the students save the day in the end. I never said that they didn’t. What I was saying is that when I read the books, it almost seemed like they did it by accident (hence “kind of happen to save the day”). In those first few books, they were often (if not mostly) reacting to their circumstances rather than acting according to a plan (“running the show”; they’re much more proactive in the films than I pictured them). They had strategies, sure, but they also often just found themselves in the right place at the right time. How many times did they just randomly stumble on somebody doing something suspicious, for example, or discover some vital clue when they weren’t even looking for one? It happened a lot.
Perhaps things have changed since I was really into this series, but I HAVE heard people poo-poo the Scholastic editions in the past, and it had nothing to do with the art. I never bagged on the covers or even suggested that others did, the “them” I was referring to were the Scholastic editions themselves (though I have heard a few complaints about the covers as well). Basically, some people didn’t like the very minor tweaks that Scholastic made to the text itself to make it a bit easier for American kids to understand (mostly altered British vs American spelling and terminology). I really don’t think replacing “boot” with “trunk” is a monumental difference that’s worth complaining about, though I do think changing the Philosopher’s Stone to the Sorcerer’s Stone was a bit condescending and unnecessary. But then, I wasn’t the one making a big deal about it. It was mostly Brits who thought that these cosmetic alterations somehow cheapened the series or made it too American.
You also seem to be under the impression that I didn’t like the films or thought they were a bad adaptation. I never said that. They’re fantastic. I’m just saying that I pictured them a bit differently, and it would have been interesting to see this canceled game because it sounds pretty similar to how I saw this world. My interpretation is too nineties? Maybe, but I only mentioned those nineties IPs to give a frame of reference for the tone as I saw it. I definitely didn’t see Harry putting his hat on backwards or dropping references to Nicktoons if that’s what you thought. Again, I was talking about the dark and irreverent elements of them. The way these kids often got pushed around by the adults and left to fend for themselves against a bunch of weird and/or dangerous creatures and scenarios is similar to “EarthBound”. The gothic and fantasy elements, as well as the lack of concern for anyone’s safety, is not unlike TNBC. The extra nineties attitude I was talking about is not the dopey caricature of a stereotype that you see in popular kids’ media of the time, but the nihilistic edge that permeated what our older cousins and siblings were consuming. The teachers would just casually tell the students “stay away from this shit, or it will kill you”, and not really do much to keep them away from whatever it was. It was like they knew the kids wouldn’t stay away from it no matter what they did, so they couldn’t be bothered to try to stop them. “None of it matters, so just enjoy the ride”, that seemed to be an overarching theme.
@@TBustah Alright, I understand you ALOT more now.
I haven't read the first book, even tho I have it in my room right now, and it's been YEARS seen I read the books when I was in middle school. I've watched the films a million times as I love the film adaption but of course it's easier to WATCH a movie than it is to read it all the way through.
But what you're saying about "stumpling" onto a clue is just a harmless plot device in order for the plot to move forward as the kids aren't supposed to be doing any of that investigation stuff to begin with. The kids DO come up with plans like the Polyjuice potion infiltration plan in chamber of secrets and Hermione researching in the library for info on the Basilisk or the Sorcerer's Stone. I would say it's a good combination of BOTH problem solving and being at the right place at the right time to find the answers or a vital clue as plot devices ARE needed in stories like this. As they ARE just kids in a magical world who aren't even supposed to do any of that stuff but do it anyways to save the day as main characters in mystery style story telling.
You can do BOTH in detective style storytelling as even fantastic shows like Breaking Bad has Hank finding out who Heisenberg is by simply reading a book in Walter's house during a Potty Break to figure out what WW stands for.
See what I mean. Conveniences CAN happen naturally.
And I never heard ANYONE talk bad or down to the scholastic covers AT ALL, that's the first time I heard of that. I know the UK covers are different from the america version but never in my life have I heard anyone say anything bad about the covers because they ARE iconic. So it's unfortunate that you heard that for the people as they are BADLY mistaken.
The change of Philosopher's stone to Sorcerer's Stone IS eyebrow rising mainly after you KNOW that Philosopher's stone is the how it's widely know throughout the history of alchemy and in OTHER media like Fullmetal Alchemist so it IS weird that they changed but I gotten used to name change and it overall fits and WORKS for the story.
And yeah you're description does come off as 90s as when you described it with your terms, it sounded like a nickelodeon show like "ahh real monsters" vibe that you were saying here with the not so serious but dark funny world you were saying here.
It's not a bad at all but it give me 90s vibes when you were describing it, that's all.
Imagine if Nintendo did get the rights to make Harry Potter on the N64? They could have hired Rare to make it, it could have been released in 2000/2001 and it could have been another N64 classic. I remember when I saw Chamber of Secrets on the GameCube for the first time and thinking "Philosopher's Stone must be on N64". Imagine my disappointment when it didn't exist.
Thankfully, we did get the PS1 Harry Potter games which were pretty good in their own right.
British Media Bully NST would have been making it since they did the pitch.
I loved HP 1-3 on every platform but wouldev been nice to see how the n64 game would have been like
Who's ready for Harry Potter in Smash Ultimate????
Y'know, that would actually be pretty cool.
Considering that James Bond was considered to be in Melee,who knows if Harry Potter wouldn't be in Ultimate if his N64 game was actually released?
Voldemort assist
He’d probably be too OP. Other characters in Smash can use magic, sure, but there aren’t a lot of limits to what the magic in this world can do. Outside of raising the dead, there isn’t much that witches and wizards in the series can’t do.
Alternate Universe where this pitch didn’t fail
I distinctly remember how much the very first Harry Potter game, which was popular on the Sony PlayStation, felt strongly like a Harry Potter-universe version of Super Mario 64.
To me personally it felt more akin to The Legend of Zelda. This was even more apparent in the Chamber of Secrets game. Might be one reason why I actually really enjoyed those two games in particular.
@@BloodRedFox2008 Harry Potter and the Ocarina of Time. :P
Weird thing though the Gameboy Color releases of the first two games felt more like classic Final Fantasy and Pokemon lol. They looked and sounded nothing like the home console and GBA versions too. They were really weird.
That's what I gathered from the footage. With echos of Zelda sprinkled in.
I love the PS1 version because it was one of my first experiences i got with the franchise
@@BloodRedFox2008 i think you may on to something. throughout the chamber of secrets game i had, your tasked with going through dungeons. you gain a new spell/ item which you need to traverse the dungeon to get to your end goal. just like a dungeon in the legend of zelda games.
That late 1900's early 2000's fantasy 3d game vibe is so nostalgic to me, things like the hobbit, fable, and oblivion are just so beautiful, they can't be altered, can't be touched.
Early 2000s fantasy was something special
Nintendo’s version of Hogwarts looked like a factory.
Its sad that Nintendo did not get the chance to try to make Harry Potter games
From what I've seen on Call Me Kevin was the first 5 pretty good, but the rest generic shovelware.
@@TeruteruBozusama It depends on which of the first 3 you're talking about. The PC version of those are vastly different from the console versions and the GBC games are turn-based RPGs.
@@KeybladeMasterAndy I had the Call Me Kevin games in mind when making this comment, so I meant the Playstation games as it's those he played. Bigbro had the first one for PS1 when we were kids, not knowing much English back then we never beat it so I watched the Let's Plays to see how they changed after the one I knew bits about.
i still have Chamber of Secrets on the nintendo Gamecube. and i loved it when i was little.
i was doing the Basilisk final boss, right when it was my bath time, and i remember my parents having a go at me to stop playing and have my bath, but i was like "I'VE NEARLY BEATEN THE GAME MUM!"
Would have been cool, but I don't think Harry Potter would have been the world phenomenon that it is if it was just relegated to novels and video games.
Chamber of secrets on Gbc was the last game for the gbc in N.A at least. I got it with a gba for my birthday. I loved finding all the cards and new game + was a rare treat at the time for most rpgs.
Anyone remember the Quidditch World Cup video game? I think we need a modern version of that
ha! Japanese inspired art style...... Little Witch Academia.
Now a manga styled Harry Potter sounds amazing. And imagine it, Harry Potter in Smash Bros.
I LOVE HARRY POTTER AND THE FUCKING WIZARD
BUT THEN REGGIE GOT PISSED - SO HE MADE THE SEGA GEMESIS
CLASSIC TITLES LIKE TARZAN FOR PS1........... THATS IT
...am I missing out on some inside joke here?
Why are you guys typing like that?
@@Westile videogamedunkey's video: History of Gaming
@@Nupero GO TO JAIIIIIIIIIIL HAHAHAHAHAHA
i always forget about the "gears of potter" games so every time i see footage of them i have to go ahhhhh yes that filth was made
I was today years old when I found out they existed.
I had never seen that game before. Seeing Harry Potter as a literal cover shooter at the end is extremely disappointing...
It's insane considering how good the first 3 ones for PC where
I have The Sorcerer's Stone on PS1, never made it far, making it the boy who got stuck.
I only ever played the Lego Harry Potter games, making it The Block Who Lived.
I have both games 1 and 2 on ps1. They are great and doesnt last that long. Around 6 to 10 hours. CoS ps1 ps2 and PC versions are totally different tho. Same with gba/gb versions
@@Finnishmanni 6-10 hours is still better than 4 or so with 50GB of data, when 200MB gave you like 2-4 times that amount of stuff to do XD
While I can't blame the logic of going with a third party so the games could be multi-platform, this is a shame nonetheless. While there have been a few decent Harry Potter games, the majority of them have sucked, and none of them have been great. I can't help but think that Nintendo or even Microsoft would've provided better quality products.
Just think, we could have had Voldemort in Smash Bros as a Captain Falcon clone...
i hope you're joking
voldemort would be like ganondorf or rosalina
Captain Falcon: Show me ya nose!
do you got my nose? the doctors said they could re-attach it if you find it
lmao kinda scary
An N64 Harry Potter game does sound interesting
Pass
Harry Potter and the Ocarina of Time.
Harry Potter's Bad Hair Day
@@chadd990
Goldensnitch 009 3/4
Pass yet the game we got was average at best a game developed by Nintendo themselves on a much more powerful system like the N64 would have been a vast improvement.
I just realized that, had this come true, we'd probably have Harry Potter in Smash lol
nope
didn't originate as a video game character so it would never happen
Pablo Velásquez Campos You know they would’ve done it.
If we can't have James Bond in Smash we certainly wouldn't have H-Pots
@@sephroark the motion sensor bomb comes from Golden eye though doesn't it? so we'd probably have a wand or flying broom item instead of a character
@@NanoAndFriends I'm pretty sure it technically comes from some other game, but it basically comes from Golden eye. So sure, yeah
Fun fact: Nintendo has had a hand the making of the Hamtaro games for GBC and GBA and they are pretty awesome! They are pretty proud of them too, given that they are included in the chronicle in Super Smash Bros. Brawl!
Yeah I had those games, good stuff
@@JoeyJ0J0 I wish they made them available for new consoles as they taught me English and I want to share them with my younger cousins so they can learn English easier too..! I also really wish people took them more seriously! I'd love seeing for example Game Sharks (discord.gg/65pw2HN ) having marathons of Ham-Ham Games over who gets through the game the fastest with for example 10 points taken out by every silver and 20 by every bronze and who can get the fastest through all the minigames in Rainbow Rescue..!
Yeah, Alphadream from the Mario & Luigi series made the Ham-Ham games one.
I adored those games! I only played the first two and sadly lost the GBC one but I always thought they were far better than expected and your comment helps explain why.
The best games by far are all the LEGO Harry Potter games, Sorcerer's Stone PC, Chamber of Secrets PC, and Prisoner of Azkaban PC.
You clearly never played the Game Boy RPGs. They're great, and extremely accurate to the books.
have you ever play Prisioner of Azkaban on GBA? is an outstanding RPG game.
Sorcerer's Stone on PS1 and Chamber of Secrets on Gamecube are really good too.
I really gotta check out the pc versions of the first three. The console versions and the gba for the third movie were played heavily in my childhood.
Gamecube’s PoA was really good too
Sad, the games we got were pretty much movie tie-in shovelware. A Nintendo quality game universe would have been great.
Some were okay, but Deathly Hallows really undid whatever goodwill I had to the game adaptations.
I doubt the ridiculous deadlines to release the games at the same time as the movies would have allowed Nintendo to do much better, honestly. You can only get shovelware quality when you have a timeline of less than a year to throw together a game based on the various set, costume, and storyline designs that only come your way during or after the shooting of the related movie...
@@Tustin2121 maybe they wouldn't have done yearly releases for the movies, but rather focused on quality games every two or three years. Sadly, we'll never know.
biglevian - If they had gotten the rights the first time they tried, directly from Rowling, then that’d certainly have been the case. But once they were getting the rights from the movie companies, I’m 98% sure that releasing at the same time as the movies would have been a requirement of the contract.
Have you played the original PC trilogy? Incredibly underrated games for the time.
There was a Harry Potter and the sorcerers stone on GBC that was a turn based RPG with random encounters
THAT music from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets pause menu
That said, the Gameboy color RPGs were the best Harry Potter games ever made, with some of the best music made for the system too.
Sorcerer's Stone also got a Mac OS port as well. Was one of the first games I got with my OS9 machine when I was real little
Did you know? Saying you’re first doesn’t mean anything!
Huh I just saw u at another vid so uh how r u
The Normal Jolteon
Pretty alright, how’re you doin?
NANI!!!
*Head explodes from that fact*
does that mean your comment doesn't mean anything?
Great work as always Liam.
Seeing the concept art, it really looked like something very different for Nintendo, yet have the same magic.
Still I'm grateful for the PC versions of Harry Potter 1, 2, and 3. Some of most comfy games I've played and a part of my childhood.
I still have my Sorcerer's Stone PC disc and GameBoy color Chamber of Secrets cartridge. May need to break them out again...
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets for GBC is a great RPG
one of my favourites actually
I'd recommend everyone to check it out!
I played the Philosopher's Stone GBC game back in the day, do you know how the second game compares?
That footage from The Chamber of Secrets on PC was incredibly nostalgic just to look at. Such a fun and wonderful game.
I enjoy EAs first 3 games on any platform, plus Quidditch world cup, but thr rest after, just didn't have the same feel sadly. Though my favourite has to be the PS2 versions of Philosophers, Chamber and Askaban. Exploring Hogwarts was a lot of fun. Though not gonna lie, The top down gbc version of Philosophers is fun too
*Wait! Harry Potter was made into movies?*
you're not funny
SmashLiXs
Kinda funny.
not really
SmashLiXs, pretty funny tbh
Yeah, it’s funny.
Would actually be interesting if Nintendo try licensing the current books based on Potter’s universe.
3:53 this is at the point where I got annoyed slightly, goddamn it's just the most annoying shit ever hearing this crap all the time from nintendo, " AHAH WE WANT FULL RIGHTS EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS TO THIS ONLY OUR COMPANY TY "
it's just obnoxious.
4:50 This is even more annoying, could you fuckin Imagine, " BRUH AIHAAHARRRY POTTER ANIME XDDDd WOW1!1!! "
NST can fuck right off with their goddamn exclusiveness and weeaboo garbage.
Just think, we might have had Harry Potter in Smash...maybe
no we couldn't. james bond didn't even make it in smash bros because the royalties were too high
game boy color has the best harry potter games
2 great rpgs, better than the ones on the gba
3rd one on GBA is also a great RPG
So anyone exited for Harry Potter RPG?
I bet out there, that there is a alternate universe that this game was released and Nintendo actually got the rights for it.
And it was one of the best selling games made on the N64.
I wish that I was there 😂
If they had gone with Nintendo then the games might have actually been good... Shame.
Nah, the first 3 EA Games on PC are perfection. Starting with Goblet of Fire is when the series went bad. Still play Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, and Prisoner of Azkaban on PC to this day. I do own Goblet of Fire on PC, but have barely played it at all over the years.
Magitroopa Couldn't agree more, though the GameCube/PS2 version of CoS is also top notch as well
Honestly, I'm actually pretty fond of the PS1 versions of Philosopher's Stone and Chamber of Secrets, and I also hear the RPG versions of the first two games for GBC and the 3rd one for GBA are quite good as well!
Michirin9801 Yeah the first and second game were solid.. EA stopped trying after that.. Nintendo though.. That would have been excellent.
The first three games were pretty alright. Philosopher's Stone was... okay. Not the greatest, but it sort of placed the stepping stones for what a Harry Potter game could be like. Chamber of Secrets and Prisoner of Azkaban were absolutely fantastic, though. Goblet of Fire, though... I don't even know how in the world it went sooooo wrong. I guess it was just because EA was starting their downward spiral into complete and total mediocrity. Order of the Phoenix was... okay... but then Half-Blood Prince and both Deathly Hallows games happened... effectively killing the franchise entirely, when it comes to video games. Not counting the terrible mobile game. Those games are probably why no other spinoffs exist. We'd probably have more Quidditch games and possibly a game based off of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. We might even have one based off of The Cursed Child.
Welp, you don't have to inmagin what the characters look like in the Japanese/ manga look, there is a lot of fan art in that style so look that up. I even have a signed copy of thd frist book when I was only about 11. I met JK at a local book shop in my city.
On the one hand, it would have sucked to have needed to buy one specific console to play the Harry Potter games but on the other, I would love to take a peak into the universe where Harry Potter 6, 7 and 7-2 were Nintendo Exclusives. I loved Order of the Phoenix on the 360 but HBP and DH were just borderline unplayable.
The fact that they made a Gears game out Harry Potter still makes me laugh.
i still have Chamber of Secrets on the nintendo Gamecube. and i loved it when i was little.
i was doing the Basilisk final boss, right when it was my bath time, and i remember my parents having a go at me to stop playing and have my bath, but i was like "I'VE NEARLY BEATEN THE GAME MUM!"
Imagine if Nintendo got the license to make games while Warner Bros made the movies
What series would you want Nintendo to make a licensed game out of?
Ocean's 11 etc
Phenomena, a Norwegian book series
th-cam.com/video/4lCl6LTlsq8/w-d-xo.html
Personally did I like it a lot more than HP growing up, but then again the Norwegian translation/localization was weird :/
@@TeruteruBozusama He means Warner Bros movies.
MisterZygarde64 A game about the flash like the cancelled one
Tom and Jerry
Rare Ltd. (The makers of Donkey Kong, Goldeneye, Banjo-Kazooie, etc) shouldv'e been the one to make Harry Potter games, not from Mr. Krabs company, known as EA.
This topic is super interesting, because EA was such a bad choice in the long run (e.g Ego shooter Potter, mobile nightmare)
What if:
- Nintendo got only the game rights
- Rare would have developed the game, because they are british
- Rare's Potter game would have been successful
- Nintendo would have bought Rare
The later Rare games weren't that great and losing them for Harry Potter, wouldn't be that bad.
Sure Nintendo has its own issues, but their games are fun.
Chamber of Secrets for PC is my favorite video game ever. The PC versions of Stone and Prisoner are also excellent.
tfw in an alternate timeline we have Harry Potter in Smash
i enjoyed it, but the unclimatic ending to it all did not sit with me well, however that is not your fault, that is at fault of the context which you cant do much about.
and EA botched half their Harry Potter games (PC version of Prisoner of Askaban, all versions of Goblet of Fire, for examples).
@@DTBootlegs mainly the pacing and how badly the story was done. It also felt extremely short, and there were some complaints about the party system. I feel the gamecube version was better, but still didn't really do the story justice.
I only liked the first two games for PC. It kinda stunk that the rest of the games seemed to be really worse.
Yay EA!
I mean...
Why EA!!! :/
Five words: We've Got to have Money...
If Nintendo had just shelled out originally you KNOW they would have made back their money times 10 by now... and we'd still have a bunch of harry potter games on the market. (there is no way they wouldn't be milking it for eternity)
You can map out the decline of EA by how good each Harry Potter game was
I am very curious what Nintendo's Harry Potter series would have been like. I almost imagine something like Chibi-Robo but...in Hogwarts. Day and night cycles. Tons of sidequests to help out different characters. Earning points for your house. Nice video, dude. Really makes you wonder what could have been.
It's not that _bad_ for the early HP games. I have good memories with the Philosopher's Stone on GBA and Chamber of Secrets on PSone. For the later games, EA just didn't care anymore. Nintendo would have kept them top quality. It may have become a legendary Nintendo series.
Harry Potter 2 for the GameCube is a very nostalgic game for me
Nintendo would have done a much better job than EA
EA back then was nothing like the EA of today, and made games with actual effort.
Not everything pretendo touches is gold
@@waverazor True, just the majority of what they touch
There are games on Nintendo systems!
Imagine how good they would have been if they where made by Nintendo as they are top developers only problem would have been they were on an under selling system as Nintendo no longer knew how to design and sell home consoles which is why they eventually pulled out of the home console market.
I'm so pissed that this great game franchise is stuck in mobile app hell. Why am I not currently preordering a second Fantastic Beasts game for my Switch?
Better question: why is there not a huge MMO set in wizarding Britain where you can create your own wizard?
The nostalgia that hit me when I saw the old N64 cartridge
Love hearing a north-east accent on channels I subscribe to 👍
Would probably have been awesome games.
I have conflicted feelings on this. On the one hand, it's kind of a shame that we couldn't have gotten some cool adaptations of the games that I'm sure would've been of great quality, given Nintendo's track record.
But on the other, it's hard not to think that this really wouldn't have worked out, even if Nintendo had gotten the rights. I feel like a lot of the appeal of making the Harry Potter games for them was painted by the wide range of fun scenarios the first few books contained that mostly focused on adventures in Hogwarts. But starting with the fifth book, the possibilities for what they could've done might've started to dwindle, what with the increased focus on drama and a more linear narrative. I mean, hell, one of the main themes of the series is how Hogwarts slowly becomes a less and less friendly place as the books go on.
That, combined with them having wanted to present the series in a more shounen-esque manner, makes it seem like it was going to be built upon a shaky foundation with little by way of a firm direction.
I for one am heartbroken we didn't get a Harry Potter first-party Wii game where I could've swung my WiiMote around for a wand like the real wizard I am
You did in Half Blood Prince lol
That building is now a warehouse
Nintendo should had bid higher. A franchise made by Nintendo in a popular IP would probably do bonkers. Look at Spider Man for example. Good game + popular IP = profit.
Aw yeah, I'm loving all the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets PC footage, I played that game to death as a kid, lots of nostalgia.
I had Chamber of Secrets on the Gamecube. Was a pretty neat game :)
PS2 version was even better. For some reason, while flying, the PS2 version allows you to land in more spots than in the others.
Personally, I hated the GameCube version due to not allowing me to land my broom anywhere and the broom being too sensitive to control in comparison. The PS2 version makes me feel like I'm exploring a living and breathing part of the Harry Potter universe.
I know this is really irrelevant but I’m so happy that you’re using the PC gameplay/music in this video. Not enough people give those version enough credit
Asking for Exclusive rights to make games was the no-go that screwed Nintendo. Nintendo were really greedy during those times, weren't they? messing with Philips and Sony with their disc expansions, to name a couple of instances.
Hey, at least every version of Philosophers Stone was unique on each platform: PS1, PS2 and PC were 3D adventure games but were all vastly different experiences; the GBC version was an RPG, and the GBA version was an isometric platformer.
Well EA DID wind up making a quidditch game a whole console generation later, in 2003 with the multiplatform release including Gamecube. Notably, it is the only one that exists too. This video failed to mention that Chamber of Secrets onward were also released on the Gamecube and Wii.
I'm kinda glad EA took over cause that led to various interesting takes and re-adaptations on various systems whereas if it were nintendo it would be very limited. Sure I imagine if Nintendo were to make those games they'd turn out higher "quality" buut I kinda like the hilarious mess we got from EA for the first 3 entries and then for the 5th and 6th entry (4th and last 2 can go and die)
For the life of me I can't remember the name of the song at the end of the video.
Edit: th-cam.com/video/TiE9Vvmlxew/w-d-xo.html Found it!
Christmas morning in the early 2000s i woke up and there was a tv set up in the kitchen with a gamecube running harry potter and the chamber of secrets, that was the first gc game ive ever played
1:25 whats the music that plays
I'm actually glad this never happened, a manga style of Harry Potter wouldn't have worked.
The game play footage are blast from the pasts
We almost had Harry Potter in Smash Bros, almost.
There should've been a N64 version.. I mean c'mon, it was on Gbc for Christ's sake.. And on.. Ps1, Ps2, gamecube, gameboy advance, Xbox, and pc..
Everyone knows the first game was Mario Brothers.
But did you know the second Mario brothers wasn't even actually Mario 2?
YEAH
It was actually a Japanese game called Harry Potter and the Fucking Wizard!
? To me, this is a moot topic. Harry Potter: Years 1, 2, Quidditch World Cup, 3 and 4 all came out on Nintendo Gamecube, and in the months prior to the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2, beat all 5 in a row, starting with Year 1. Plus, Harry Potter: Years 5, 6, 7-1 & 7-2 came out on Wii. I'm just thankful that the HP videogame series was completed in its' entirety at all. They so compliment my Ultimate Edition DVD sets of the movies, and that really something to be thankful for. On the other hand, it would have been a travesty if Harry Potter went the way of the Narnia videogame series.
A Nintendo made Harry Potter game? Well, the first couple of games are pretty Zelda-like. But imagine what Nintendo could have done with it... most licensed games tend to suck while the first few Harry Potter games were pretty alright. But maybe, if Nintendo had gotten the rights to the series, all games based off of each book could have been good instead of just a small handful. I would have loved to see a version of Philosopher's Stone for the N64 made by Nintendo.
Just think, if Nintendo hadn't said 'Nah, screw what the author said, EVERYTHING must look like manga' Harry Potter could have been a long running Nintendo legend.
That probably wouldn't have made the difference, admittedly, but who knows...
who had the EA Games Chamber Of Secrets game? I had the ports for GBC and GameCube
(ok fellas now that the women have stopped reading this comment; in retrospect, its a good thing in that Nintendo wasn't entangled with J. K. Rowling
's catlady bible)
5:28 that looks alot like the spooky level from conkers bad fur day. dont believe me look it up
As a kid I *loved* the PC version of Harry Potter 1 and 2. (though after a recent replay I could see that they definitely haven't aged well. Don't know about the console versions, though ^^)
I can't even imagine how amazing the games would've turned out if Nintendo (+Rare with Grant Kirkhope's music?) made them! O_O
Harry Potter: Battle Bash. Pre-order now for 10,000 flavored beans to use in game.
Exclusive Nimbus included.
Harry Potter character locked, Unlock now for the low price of 200,000 flavored beans, or $200!
*The Philosopher's Stone* game on *GameBoy Color* is a wonderful, underappreciated RPG game. I highly recommend it.
In some sense, while not having the franchise on N64, Nintendo at least got a Harry Potter GameBoy exclusive.
Man I bet Nintendo would have made some awesome original Harry Potter games.
It's sad, I love the Harry Potter series but I don't care much for JK Rowling.
She's definitely a social justice warrior, she called PewDiePie a fascist for fuck's sake lmao.
She sure does her research, huh?
I'm actually glad it didn't happen after playing Harry Potter on PS1 and growing up with an N64 too. I like the franchise. But it would have been a poor platform choice. Especially given the N64 controller.
"Over 700 pages of reading to catch up on, in only a few days!" The narrator says as if doing so is difficult. Like I can read a 400 page book in like 3-5 hours by myself, 700 pages with an entire team shouldn't even take 2 days lmfao
There was a harry potter game for gamecube. Chamber of Secrets. Also a Quiddich game. So nintendo eventually got what they wanted, it just wasn't exclusive and not on the N64. Funny because Nintendo was always seen as the family oriented game console and Harry potter was seen as family oriented as well. Surprised they couldn't come to an agreement.
What do you mean "failed?" That's clearly the Nintendo Dreamcast port of the original Super Mario Bros. two game called Harry Potter and the Fucking Wizard.