Gaming Forums => Nintendo Gaming => Topic started by: faiz_1 on July 23, 2004, 05:50:00 PM
Title: just wondering..
Post by: faiz_1 on July 23, 2004, 05:50:00 PM
hey i was just wondering why ESPN nfl 2k5 isn't available for gamecube? and is nba 2k5 gonna be available for gamecube?
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Post by: joshnickerson on July 23, 2004, 05:55:17 PM
Sega pulled all their sports support from the Cube some time ago.
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Post by: Aretak on July 23, 2004, 05:56:11 PM
Sega do not release their sports games on the GameCube anymore, due mainly to the fact that the 2K3 line-up sold absoloutely abysmally on the format.
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Post by: faiz_1 on July 23, 2004, 06:07:41 PM
damn that sucks. oh well...thanks for letting me know
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Post by: aqua-team on July 23, 2004, 08:02:24 PM
They dont release it for the cube because it never has online play. Cubes sports games are nothing like ps2 or xb. -Ethan
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Post by: mouse_clicker on July 23, 2004, 08:06:43 PM
Sega cancelled their Gamecube sports games because the series as a whole was bombing and they had to cut their losses somewhere. It just so happened that the Gamecube versions were bombing (much) more than the rest. Sports games don't do well on Nintendo consoles anymore because the Nintendo fanbase is reduced to mostly hardcore fans, who don't like sports games at all.
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Post by: joeamis on July 23, 2004, 08:09:28 PM
the memory card situation didn't help, big mistake by nintendo. now there's the 1015 but a little too late.
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Post by: TouchdownMcBabyEater on July 23, 2004, 08:10:54 PM
They bomb because they aren't anything like the real thing. Maybe if they were M-rated and had lots of cussing and tripping and pot smoking(only for NBA) they would do a lot better.
I play real football and I hate football games because they aren't real enough.
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Post by: mouse_clicker on July 23, 2004, 08:13:11 PM
Quote the memory card situation didn't help, big mistake by nintendo. now there's the 1015 but a little too late.
The memory card wasn't what drove anyone away, though, it's just a nice patsy. Yes, it was a small problem that contributed to a negative view of the Gamecube, but singling it out does no use because individually the small memory cards didn't stop anyone from doing anything/
And Touchdown's name is stretching the board tables- can a mod crop it?
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Post by: theRPGFreak on July 23, 2004, 08:16:37 PM
Id also would have to say that not that many people who are sport fans liked the GC's controller over the PS2 and the XBox.
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Post by: joeamis on July 23, 2004, 08:30:48 PM
Quote Originally posted by: mouse_clicker
Quote The memory card wasn't what drove anyone away, though, it's just a nice patsy. Yes, it was a small problem that contributed to a negative view of the Gamecube, but singling it out does no use because individually the small memory cards didn't stop anyone from doing anything/
It drove me away I wasn't willing to buy 3 memory cards for gamecube when I could spend that money on a new PS2 sports game instead. So that ended up in my single situation equating into no more sports game purchases for gamecube, and all of my future sports game purchases going to PS2. It's not a patsy when alot of people had the same problem, even Nintendo admits it was a real bad decision that cost them losses on sports titles selling for Cube...
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Post by: KDR_11k on July 23, 2004, 09:06:27 PM
I wonder if there's a breakdown somewhere just WHAT IN HELL Sega and EA store in all those blocks...
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Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on July 23, 2004, 09:48:21 PM
Cookies. Spyware.
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Post by: Ian Sane on July 23, 2004, 09:54:49 PM
"I play real football and I hate football games because they aren't real enough."
Never heard that before though it's a valid complaint. I remember playing EA's NHL game at a store and I got my ass creamed because there was no offside and I was playing as if there was. I couldn't change on the fly either. Maybe these were options that are customizable but it seemed weird that something that was supposed to be realistic was missing something so important.
"I wonder if there's a breakdown somewhere just WHAT IN HELL Sega and EA store in all those blocks..."
Well they do have to store a lot of stats. Go to the website of a major sports league and look at all the info they store on the player's for the current year. That's a lot of info for a lot of players.
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Post by: RABicle on July 24, 2004, 12:37:08 AM
Maybe us Nintendo owners are smart enough to play sport games outside.
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Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on July 24, 2004, 01:55:27 AM
Me and Daisy play tennis.
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Post by: Oldskool on July 25, 2004, 04:54:51 AM
Nope, I'd rather be indoors all day, playing Call of Duty and Diablo 2 online and eating inbetween.
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Post by: Jonnyboy117 on July 25, 2004, 05:59:18 AM
The new 2k5 game is absolutely brilliant, and it pains me that it's not on GameCube (and I've told Visual Concepts as much). I'm probably going to have an editorial about sports games pretty soon.
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Post by: mouse_clicker on July 25, 2004, 06:03:52 AM
Ugh, why is it alright for EA or Sega to release the same product tweaked every year yet when Nintendo releases games like Mario Party, with arguably the same amount of tweaking, it's horrible! Yes, the new sports games are brilliant because they have absolutely no excuse not to since the genre has existed forever. They have a template of what to do, making it harder to make the game bad. Sports games epitomize what is wrong with this industry, that the same product repackaged will still sell millions of copies.
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Post by: kennyb27 on July 25, 2004, 07:15:33 AM
MC, I see what you mean when you say that this is "what is wrong with this industry"; however, I disagree with you. I know many of my close friends bought a PS2 for each year's Madden incarnation. As I exposed them to other potential purchases for the PS2, their game library grew, as did their appreciation for different genres of games that were available on PS2.
