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Nintendo Gaming / RE:How old are you and how long have you had gamecube?

« on: August 25, 2003, 01:30:45 AM »

I'm 27 years old, bought the GC last week, own three games so far, one of which came free with the system (Zelda) and two which cost me 20 CDN apiece at the used games rack (Eternal Darkness, Rebel Assault 2) and I'm planning to add a fourth when Soul Cailbur 2 hits the shelves.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:BIG question

« on: August 21, 2003, 08:11:10 PM »

I believe it is very likely the next GameCube will be backwards compatible with all current software, especially with Sony and Microsoft's next-gen offerings being expected to maintain this same game compatibility to keep their libraries large and attractive for the potential consumer.

Anyways Nintendo has already demonstrated that they know the worth of keeping their consoles compatible... just look at their GBA SP and how it works with GBA/GBC and even old GB cartridges as a selling point to keep sales of hardware up.

[BrianSLA]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Why is GCN considered to be a failure?

« on: August 18, 2003, 01:24:22 AM »

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Originally posted by: BrianSLA
>> 421 <<

I don't think that is ACTUAL RELEASED titles. That is probably PLANNED titles included.

You're quite correct, that's why I made mention of the upcoming titles within six months to a year since those are lumped in with the grand total. Fortunately you can sort the list by "All Non-Released" and the exact number it gives you is 163 for GameCube.

421 unique titles minus 163 non-released equals 258 GameCube current titles.

[dogman85]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Why is GCN considered to be a failure?

« on: August 17, 2003, 08:53:04 PM »

Hello guys, I'm new to this Forum so I'm a bit late arriving... but I still would like to make a few comments.

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Originally posted by: dogman85and The Doc, how do you know that Gamecube has over 350 games? do you have a link plz?

I can provide this information courtesy of www.gamerankings.com

http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/stats.asp

It indicates 421 unique GameCube titles to 291 N64 titles. There are some other interesting statistics on that page, as well. I believe there are roughly 90 announced GameCube titles coming out in the next six months to a year (check EBGames.com, their 'upcoming releases' section) with more being added. At this rate, assuming that it reaches the end of the same six year cycle that the N64 had (which is unlikely if Nintendo releases a next-gen console in 2005), it'll have close to 1000 titles in its library. It's more likely to finish with about 700 or so, though... in that respect, it'll ultimately be a far greater success than the N64 ever was. As game developers continue to improve their expertise with GameCube hardware, I believe that the best is yet to come.

Certainly a key to Nintendo's future home console success is to ensure the same software backwards compatibility for the GC and GC2 which Sony has for its PSX and PS2 library.