Why the Gamecube Failed - The Story of the Gamecube (Part 1)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 พ.ค. 2018
- Beloved by fans, the Nintendo Gamecube had a rocky history. The console failed to make an impact on the video game world when it released in 2001 and is often times overshadowed by much more successful consoles. The gamecube failed.
But why did it fail? I hope to answer that in the first part of this series covering the Nintendo Gamecube.
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The GameCube and the Dreamcast are the most underrated consoles ever made
yeah 2 of my favorite consoles. i really wish i had held onto them along with all the games i had for them.
I disagree , you cant put Gamecube and Dreamcast in the same basket . the Dreamcast surpases Nintendo Gamecube
@@tunkunrunk i liked the dreamcast a lot, but it didn't have as many great games as gamecube cuz they stopped making games for it too soon.
i really wish sega would make another console. it could be very successful if they timed it right.
But the flip side to that coin is they both definitely went unrecognized and has the whole world respect going down as some of the two greatest consoles ever made.
@@tunkunrunk what? Um no i didn't. Also if u want to ake it there the cube was a far better console than the dreamcadt by far. I love the dreamcast it is one of the greatest console's of all time but i would choose the cube over it anyday because of its unique design, way better library and the contribution to the wirless controller the wavebird.
I can sum it up in one sentence: The PS2 could read DVD's and be a DVD player.
How do you compete with that when your own console can only play games?
Celerity 910 Also PS2 was backwards compatible.
XBox also allowed DVD play, and it outsold Nintendo as well.
@@SkyLizardGirl because physical media for movies are less popular now since we got the services like Netflix and others.
@@SkyLizardGirl The difference is that back then, you need a DVD player to watch a movie. The PS2 was able to play movies and was the cheapest compared to other DVD players. Nowadays, you can watch movies digitally such as Netflix, TH-cam, etc.
True, i said the same thing. Also the purple lunchbox and controller looked kiddy while the ps2 looked more mature.
I loved the GameCube still have mine till this day
Nintendo should have realized more than anything, being the company that revived and saved gaming consoles and gaming in general, that thinking there console would sell just because of the “Nintendo” logo is the same mindset Atari had that cause the crash in 1983!
Gamecube was a great system I really enjoyed it when I owned one for the first time at the age of 10 and played until grade 8 when I turned 13 and still continued to play my gamecube titles even when the Wii launched
gamecube is my childhood
Wellplay SD wii was mine however I always wanted to use the GameCube feature on it
I feel your pain 😞
Wii is mine
Great video. Good pacing, good facts, great footage to back up commentary, and good analysis of the gaming environment of the time. Hoping to see this channel grow
for me the nitendo gamecube is the best consol
Power miro no it’s the wii
I agree for GameCube.
Nintendo*
Power miro ps2 or xbox was better than gamecube
@Argeroula Qirjazi I like how even after 2 years people are still saying how the other consoles are better then the GameCube. I even said "for me" and they took that personally.
"Failed to make an impact"
*Has melee
soooooo true man
I personal think the Gamcube wasn’t a failure since it sold more than the Virtual Boy and the Wii U combined. Plus it had a decent 3rd party support.
@Änærchy GøD yeah but no one cares about Wii U bud
It was a failure sales wise but not games wise
@@redcrimson1028 its because of the mini discs that forced 3rd party to go with ps2 and xbox because they were using dvd disc which held up to 2 to 4 gb compared to the 1gb disc the game cube used which resulted in its failure
@@sulaman4280 actually its 1.5 gigs. They were still discs non the less and devs couldve used multiple discs if they wanted just like they did in the ps1era for sony. What u stated wasnt fully complete. What hurt Nintendo was the failure of the n64 which stigma carried over to the gamecube which had kiddy design console and controller and the big blow was not incorporating a dvd drive into their console. The dvd player is what helped propelled the ps2 to be a successful console. People were buying ps2 at the time because it was the cheapest dvd player, facts.
@@redcrimson1028 yep that two the n64 failed aswell due the cartridge format
Dude your content is surprisingly good. No offense your channel looked small you should have way more recognition
Great vids man! Especially about Game Cube. I'd like to see more! You could tell about other Nintendo systems, such as N64, Wii and Wii U as well.
I remember playing mario kart double dash with my cousin on her gamecube.
I'm,really digging the channel man! Please keep it up!
Resident Evil 4 came out on GameCube first and was exclusive for a time, so your point about the game disc size doesn't really make sense in that case.
Mikami hated Sony, and MS didnt knew at the Time What it wanted to be. (Check out Mikami and MS meeting about RE4)
So as a revenge (and not because Mikami liked Nintendo) went to Nintendo and Made RE4 for NGC instead of PS2
@@lannandogarcia4391 he's saying re4 was a huge game with some of the most impressive visuals of the time and it all fit on one of those little discs, so limited disc space should not have been an issue for developers.
If PS2 couldn’t read DVD’s then I doubt it would have sold so well.
I don't know, sony proved itself with the ps1 with over 100million sold, alone set up ps2 success.
Well, the PS2 had Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts which were more than enough to sell the console so...
PS2 DVD playback was low quality. Sony did it on purpose to not compete with their other DVD players
Most people didn't notice because it was their first DVD player and were comparing it to VHS
Yeah, cause without the DVD the PS2 would just be a stupid console with shitty exclusives like Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Kingdom Hearts, Metal Gear Solid, Gran Turismo, God of War and all those weak titles no gamer really plays. They just sold a record 1.2 BILLION games on it, without the DVD Sony would probably retired the console business together with Sega...
It would have done league better than gamecube because ps1 and familiarity
I love the GameCube and nintendo, this is why I subscribed to your channel bro.
me to
Fun fact, other games like Eternal Darkness, Resident Evil 0 and Dinosaur Planet (later renamed to Star Fox Adventures) were all developed for the N64 and later moved to Gamecube.
Also, Animal Crossing was originally developed for the N64, but the Western version was cancelled in favor of just releasing it first on GC.
In India, people only knew PS2 and Xbox. Either those two or nothing. Not even electronic store assistants had heard of GameCube.
That reminds me of the PlayStation TV and Vita
@@MrDmoney156 they are also failures, yes. But people at least seem to know PS Vita here. PlayStation TV on the other hand is more unknown than Apple Pippin
The Nintendo Gamecube may have failed, but it never failed to create our memories!
Did you know they released call of duty for the GameCube
The only appreciation for gamecube from mainstream audiences is: party games, smash melee specifically.
imo the gamecube had more amazing exclusive single player games than any nintendo console since. i havent bought a nintendo since the gamecube because of the lack of games i have the desire to play. breath of the wild is the only game that's really tempted me since. the gamecube had several console buying games for me. metroid prime 1 and 2, wind waker, re4, re remake and zero, skies of arcadia (even though it was on dreamcast first). i know there are more but i can't think of them right now, it's been a lot of years.
@@Jack_80 Totally agree with this. There's a huge library of games for the GameCube I'm currently working my way through which I either never got round to playing or didn't complete. Because of this it's getting WAY more play time than my Switch as a result. And like you say, BOTW (and perhaps a few others) is arguably the most appealing game the current generation has to offer.
Wow, I found a hidden gem! Great video, I learned a lot!
The gamecube didn't sell very well cause of the Xbox and PS2 competitions
I chose a GameCube over ps2 as a kid and my cousin picked ps2 we would just got back and forth lol we did the same with n64 and ps
dude, ur videos r great!
PS1 had 8K games and N64 only had 296. Both systems had about 20 - 30 great games. and 40 - 50 good games.
And the Ps1 had the same problem as the Wii backthen, lots of amazing games but at the same time the system suffered with lots and lots of shovelware titles.
Fantastic video, just got to get that out of the way. It's really not fair to say that "people were only into games about killing." Yes, GTA: 3, Vice City, and San Andreas were popular and certainly were among the PS2 and Xbox best selling games, but they only make up a small percent of the best selling titles for those platforms. On the PS2, that top 10 is shared with Gran Turismo 3 and 4, Final Fantasy 10 and 12, Kingdom Hearts, Tekken 5 and Metal Gear Solid Solid 2. On the OG Xbox things fall in line more with that statement with games like Halo 1-2, Fable, Counter-Strike, and Ninja Gaiden, though a good amount of sports and racing games make up its list.
I still have my two Gamecube's. One black and one silver and one brand new, still in the box.
Why don’t you have more subscribers your videos are really good content
Thank you! I'm trying to get my videos out to more people. I'm hopeful that with more videos, more people will watch.
Keep the content coming
The gamecube discs aren't called 'mini discs'. The mini disc is a proprietary format developed by sony for music players and recorders.
daniel jimenez I think he is just referring to the disc as a mini disc so he doesn’t have to explain it and keep the video rather short
But technically they are.
WHEN'S PART 2
Drunk Metroid Next week!
I wanted a DVD player. PASS THE PLAYSTATION 2 PLEASE! Oh by the way...Thanks for the Blu-ray Player, PS3!!! And way to kick HDDVD out of the format wars...
Hey brow, you would do the history of Dreamcast. I believe that more gamers will like.
dreamcast and gamecube were 2 of my favorite consoles ever, i'll never understand why they failed. consoles with far fewer good games have been far more successful.
Gamecube controller is hands down the best till this day. So comfortable!
"To this day they still fail to match online capacities of other consoles" - Aged like diamonds
Did it really fail? It didn't win its console war, but was pretty popular then.
It failed because of later release, no dvd, and gta3 are the most pressing reasons, the same with xbox but gta got ported years later.
Nintendo made huge mistakes and did not embrace trends still to this very day smh
so confused by this. define failed? i loved this sh!t
Almost no games needed two discs.
Thats the point.
@@lannandogarcia4391 I think it had less games then ps2 because of "royalties" not small discs....
@@mr.orange2179 ikr, re4 was a huge game with very impressive visuals at the time and it fit on one little disc just fine.
@@lannandogarcia4391 Weeb
@@BitchChill more like lazy, havent bothered to change it for 14 years, i dont even watch anime now tbh.
The gamecube failed because it wasnt a cube
I’ve never seen a GameCube which is weird because I’ve seen an ps 2 and Xbox in this era
i wish i still had my gamecube. i had a lot of great games on it i'd love to play again, especially metroid prime.
So this is what basically happened??
N64- didnt fail
Gamecube- failed
Wii - didn't fail, was very popular
Wii u - failed but I still play it lol 😂
Nintendo switch - still growing, I don't have one :c
So if there is going to be a switch pro, or "new" switch, or switch 2 it will fail because the Wii u failed after an achievement on the Wii and now the Nintendo switch 2 will fail because the switch is popular
N64 understood the culture
i have the nintendo switch but it broke so i have to get it fixed
The GameCube did not fail it was replaced if you remember like the ps2 system's with something bigger and so called better units just like the game's themselves💰😔💰💙💰💔💰
Referring to your gaming system as "toy" shows how out of touch they were and in some ways still are
ITS SQUAREITCALL, SQUAREITCALL
I love how people say the PS2 was the go to because of DVD. Yes, it was an advantage but overall it was the games. The console was just better it's as simple as that. It had way better 3rd party support and in the end it killed the Gamecube in my opinion. I lost all interest in Nintendo since the N64 because it wasn't anywhere near what people make it out to be. So I skipped the Gamecube until late in it's life and even then I still seen nothing on it that interested me. The PS2 was catered more towards the mature gamers where as the Gamecube was aimed more towards kids. So this myth that the PS2 sold best simply because of the DVD compatibility is ridiculous because it would have still succeeded without it over the Gamecube.
Nintendo became arrogant and thought Mario and Zelda was going to keep them on top. And because of that they soon seen others like Sony and Microsoft passing them by. I still say to this day that there will never be consoles made by Nintendo better than the NES and SNES
Failed because of the failure of the N64
Pretty sure it sold like shit in UK too. Growing up I could tell gamers young and old barely knew what the thing was, it wasn't advertised at all. You either had a PS2, and Xbox, a PC or nothing. I never really saw the games or the console being sold anywhere. I saw dreamcast games being sold more than I saw fanciness games in shelves. lol. Maybe it's the area I lived in. But when ever I hear people talking about how much the gameplay made their childhoods and stuff. 90% of the tine they are American.
Some personal things for me which I find pretty funny:
I had 3 friends who owned a gamecube growing up. Only 3. To this day some of my friends say they don't really know what it is, just a console of the ps2 era that no one really got. I know one of my friends had a cousin who owned it, and he thought it was the coolest thing ever. When ever he went to his cousins they would play it. But he didn't know what the console was called until I showed him it was the gamecube xD. I remove him just telling me "I had a cousin who had this sick console. We used to have a blast on it all the time. It was blue and it looked like a lunch box. Don't know what it is though." I laughed out loud.
So Gamecube in the UK was hidden from public view like was done with Dreamcast in America by 2001? I remember being in some store & seeing the Gamecube had the most colorful selection of games. Don't forget Sonic on a Nintendo system was huge. I knew I wanted the Gamecube for my 1st console.
Same the only reason I knew it existed was because of the wii and random GameCube games from used game shops
Sadly, even where I live in the bad ol' US of A, I also only had 3 friends who had a GameCube. (Used to be 2 until I talked my friend into getting one. ^^) Not sure why that was, other than everybody and their mothers had PS2's.
I was extremely young when the 6th gen started. I didn't know any better back then. The only console I knew the name of was the PS2. I chose that foolishy without looking at its games because I thought that was the only console that existed. I didn't know what a GameCube was until a year after when me and my cousin played Smash Bros Melee. I wanted a GameCube so badly, but my parents only let me have 1 console at the time. Felt sad at the time. Then the Wii came out, and I got that, and many months later, I found out it was backwards compatible. I was happy to finally play GameCube games... Then I realized I had ruined my childhood with Sony crap. x_x Still thankful for it though.
Sony isn't crap WTF?
ps2 and gamecube both had a lot of great games. imo the first party games on gamecube were far superior than any nintendo since. metroid prime was my favorite, wish i still had it.
Hey, at least it wasn't Xbox that you chose. You'll barely find anything good on that.
@@FragLaser Back in the 360 and 6th gen days.
There actually was worthwhile stuff.
Those days are long gone now.
While this reasons did not helped the Gamecube the real reason the Gamecube sold like shit was not because the PS2 was a DVD player, or any weird reasoning. It's quite simple really, it's games sucked. Yes, they did suck, from a commercial standpoint. There was simply not enough games for a mass market audience to invest in it. It also had a huge stigma from the N64 era and had the dreaded kiddie mark of doom. It was seen by many gamers as the kiddie console for losers. I letting you know this because that's what many friends think of the Gamecube. It was not a really popular console at all. Granted me personally I loved the Gamecube and enjoyed many of it's games. But the mass market hated the Gamecube. They hated the perception of it being a kid's console with kiddie games like Legend of Zelda Windwaker and Super Mario Sunshine. People were more into more adult looking games like Halo and GTA.
The Wii was even more lacking in terms of features to it's competitors being simply two Gamecubes strap together with motion sensor added and wifi capabilities. It was a generation behind in terms of graphics but, it outsold the competition because it had games the mass market wanted and it became a sensation. Nintendo learned from their mistakes with the Gamecube and marketed the Wii as a console for everybody, not for kids or teens. It had a more mature look and marketing behind it and it had games people never seen before. We gamers can laugh at Wii Sports but it's undeniable that a ton of people loved those kinds of games and the Wii sold a truckload because of it.
Woah, I'm new to the channel, but the dislikes are ridiculous. I watched the video and in all honestly it was perfectly fine.
GramBam36 maybe they thought it wss false facts.
Weeb
Paper mario the thousand year door.
nothing more said
The controller feels like a toy
Am I the only one who thinks Nintendo is at its best when they weren't trying to follow the mainstream?
Nintendo died with the ultra64. R.i.p
Nintendo should’ve updated the game cube to make it better
I wish they put a regular and a mini disk trays inside the nintendo gamecube
If nintendo didn’t fuck up
Nintendo would be the best dam game company … goddamit
"plethora of add-ons" Didn't it only have one add-on, the gameboy add-on?
The GameCube wasn’t a fail it was ! I think if the DVD was there it would sell 50 million Units
*subscribed*
I still wonder up to this day how the GameCube was outsold by the Xbox with shitty games and with a shitty controller, compared to the GameCube's fun and colorful games.
It was more accessible to develop for.
The discs were normal sized and Xbox Live was a HUGE system seller.
Yeah the Xbox sucks and all the games are bad.
@@soupcannon6789 Ehh, I don't agree with this comment anymore. I was kind of a fanbrat back then. I started to appreciate the Xbox more now that I played some amazing gems for it.
But anyway, the GameCube really was overlooked. With all those games it had, it deserved to be more successful than how it turned out to be.
Cool
nintendo failed out of touch with consumers with the gamecube but is back on top with the wii and switch out selling both sony and microsoft . sony and microsoft makes simulators , nintendo still makes innovative hardware and actual video games .
It didn't fail me personally.
I don't get the dislikes
The problem with Nintendo to this day is that it used to and still treat players like children. The owners of the company were still stuck in the 1980s when no one but children was playing video games. See their publications on Wii or even Switch as for successful consoles, 90% of the games are for children. Imagine that among the 3 parts released on PS2 from GTA, not one of them is on the gamecube. In fact, if Sega hadn't intervened in the 1990s to create the rating system and allow the bloody games that Nintendo fought so hard like Mortal Kombat, we'd be stuck up until now in Nintendo's kids games 😑😑😑😑😑
I love gamecube
The GameCube didn’t fail, the ps2 existed
Same can be said about the Xbox and the Dreamcast to be honest.
Ps2 killed everyone it went up against...#1 selling console of all time for a reason !
I have the GameCube I’m lucky
Eh. I have a GameCube. I'm not the biggest fan of it. It just felt pretty bland compared to the PS2 I also had. I will say that Smash Bros Melee is still best of the series.
people had an n64 and thought that they didnt need another console, people went crazy for the n64 at the time because of 3d animation and the gamecube didnt do something as inovative as that and because the ps2 and xbox had dvd players
The lunchbox saw me playing and enjoyably so, alas preferred to purchase a OG XB. Ninty imagined itself center of a solar system when really a tiny blot in a galaxy.
What kind of bullshit message is that from Shigoro Miyamoto is that???? lol
The gamecube didn't fail man.. What the heck are you talking about. They simply decided to move on and create a better system and stopped making the gamecube. The system was very successful as so were the releases of games. Also what you need to understand is Nintendo wanted to stick to games that actually looked like games, while playstation wanted to focus more on realistic hi-def games. Til' this day, Nintendo does not want to go where other game companies are going and continues to release games that are actual games and are for the youth and focus mainly on stimulation. People who don't feel like killing and doing missions all the time can be sure to have serious relief when switching over to Nintendo
i loved my gamecube. there hasn't been a nintendo console since with that number of amazing first party games imo. metroid prime especially is my favorite. breath of the wild and mario maker are the only 2 first party nintendo games to tempt me into buying a nintendo since the gamecube.
saleswise it kinda did flop
Biggest mistake i could've ever made was ask my parents for a gamecube for xmas instead of a ps2 or xbox back in 2001
I was such a stupid droid back in the day.
I didn't want a kids console. The purple, the stupid carry handle, baby discs...
How wrong I was. I missed out on something special because I wanted a cool black box that played adult games.
(Lowers head in shame)
Was it PS2 or Xbox?
@@FragLaser xbox
WHY CAN'T PEOPLE UNDERSTAND GAMECUBE IS MORE POWERFUL THAN XBOX
i can believe it. metroid prime looked more impressive to me than any ps2 game i had at the time. resident evil 4 looked kinda crappy on ps2 compared to the gamecube original.
They never will because it wasn't, the cube was powerful indeed but not more than the xbox
Because it literally wasn't.
Lmfao it didnt fail it did very well it sold over 20 million units
Gamecube made nintendo niche at that time.
"Consumers dont want fun anymore,they just want to kill people"
Ähm, no. They wanted to play good fighting games ( Tekken, Street Fighter ) action-adventures ( God of War ,DmC, Onimusha), JRPGS ( Final Fantasy, Grandia 2, Dragon Quest )
and sport simulations ( PES, TopSpin, NBA2K... ) .
Nintendo ? You don´t have all of this. You mostly have games for children.
You transferred into a child´s toy console.
And your controller is pure chaos, it´s terrible !
#sonydidwhatnintendon´t
Final Fantasy started in a Nintendo system…
If the N64 used CDs, Final Fantasy would still be a Nintendo exclusive
@@Rodrigo-ks6oc It wouldn't have made a difference because Sony still had the financial and appealing marketing power that they would have woo'd Squaresoft and other 3rd parties away from Nintendo regardless; just like they did with Sega.
God this type of idiotic comments make lose faith in humanity
You are really childlish in they way you talk mature and then we can talk
One of the greatest consoles ever Hmmmmmmmmmmm .......not too sure about that one. But hey we all are entitled to an opinion.
Damn, just the first 35 sec and you're already spitting false information.
The GameCube was not a bad console it was just outclassed because lacked multiple features that people wanted back then like online and DVD players
The gamecube came out half baked, and just was hard to take seriously. Never was interested in it
GameCube sucked, just like every Nintendo console (except for the SNES). They fucked themselves with the small discs. They thought they could prevent piracy with their games with those small discs? Jokes on them since they then lacked a DVD player and decent third-party support (compared to PS2 and even the Original Xbox). The design of the GameCube looks stupid too, and there's no online multiplayer. The games were literally just copy and paste N64 games with better graphics. Then again, Nintendo makes the same damn games every year, so it's not really surprising.
Why do you keep commenting the same shit over and over?