Topic: a thing N should do?

[theaveng]

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Originally posted by: Mingesium
Top 10 PSX Games Dec 2002
The number 11 game is interesting:
MK TRILOGY   83,117
A 6 year old game out sold these games in the month of Dec.
ETERNAL DARKNESS   11,568

Well!  Color me surprised.  That doesn't make any sense.  I'd rather purchase Eternal Darkness than Mortal Kombat.  Maybe backwards-compatiblity does NOT help console sales, but it does help older titles.  Perhaps if the GameCube was N64-friendly, we'd still see Zelda, Paper Mario, and Perfect Dark on the charts?

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Originally posted by: Hemmorrhoid
Yes I agree fully. Why would you want to play N64 games now or even when the next GCN is released?

Several reasons:
(1) A fun game is a fun game.  It doesn't matter that it's aged.  I still play Super Mario, Yoshi's Island, and Link to the Past via emulation.  
(2) Mario Sunshine sucked.  So I spend a lot of time enjoying Mario64 instead.
(3) Playing old games is cheaper than buying new ones.

See?  Even though making the GC backwards-compatible doesn't make good business sense (too costly to manufacture), I'm sure a lot of players would love to continue playing their "old" N64 games.

[MH-001]

Nintendo is second in installed userbase and first in $$$.