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Originally posted by: PJ gamer10
I'm an Eb employee and it has gotten to the point that I have had verbal arguments with customers because they do not think
the Gamecube is a legitimate platform for games. They are perceived as a tiku tiku tiku! system. After RE4 launched me and my
co-worker who is a nother Big N fanatic put it on and let people play it. People couldn't believe the power of the game and the
system. We even sold a few Gamecubes because of it. Most people however are waiting for the PS2 port. Even with the DS,
people will examine the PSP and say this is better. Im beginning to think that people don't want quality games anymore but
they want an image.
I don't think people want an image. People are given "an image" or "image 'x'" through advertising, word of mouth, friends, sales clerks, and the emphasized games on any given system.
Bearing in mind that Microsoft has a virtually unlimited pool of cash with which to work, there is little to no logical reason why it should ever outsell the Gamecube...or, for that matter, the PS2 for a given week/month, which I believe it did sometime during December. Nearly every 3rd party game released on the Xbox can also be found on the PS2, which has a much more vast library of games (think backwards-compatability). Of the remaining "exclusives," many of the Xbox's best games (Halo, KOTOR, KOTOR II, Doom III, etc.) can be found on the PC. You're left with games like Halo 2 and Ninja Gaiden to warrant the purchase of the system...again, logically speaking. And while these are fine games themselves, surely they couldn't alone justify to the common consumer, glancing down the aisle at the massive PS2 display, a $150 purchase?
My point? Maybe some would, in this circumstance, thinking only in the terms above, buy that system (the Xbox). But I attest that most wouldn't without another variable, and in advertising and "an image" we have such a variable. Xbox doesn't have to be a good system; it doesn't have to have the exclusives that Nintendo has, or the broad genre coverage that Sony has. It only has to have a company behind it that will convince at least part of the general public that it
is the better system, bar none. That is what Microsoft has done.
I saw a San Andreas commercial extraordinarily late on Comedy Central the other night while "studying;" this was like 3 in the morning, mind you, and San Andreas was released in November. Why am I not seeing constant RE4 ads....all the time? Does anyone remember how cool Nintendo's commercials used to be, and how frequently you saw them on TV? Go, go right now on the web looking for the old Dr. Mario commercial.
I want, as many skeptical Nintendo fans want, to continue playing games well into the future on a console made by the big N. The real fear here is that Nintendo will either be 1) Sega-matized, which is of course no good, or 2)demoted to "cult" status, putting out pretty much Nintendo-only software on their system. Neither one of these should happen, but certainly could happen unless Revolution is really that Revolutionary, not just with respect to how we play games, but with respect to how many different companies (and genres) we get to play games from.
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