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« on: June 22, 2003, 04:37:10 AM »
I wouldn't know.
Releasing early, however, could also potentially have Dreamcast similarity. Nintendo has hardly been popular in recent years, so mainstream may not even give Nintendo a second look, and continue waiting for PS3 and XBox2.
BUT!
For us in Australia, Gamecube has been released just over a year, so if Nintendo could get the amount of games they have now in a year for GC2 (around about the time PS3 and Xbox2 are released), I don't think even Sony could keep up.
So releasing early for Nintendo has it's ups and downs. Hopefully not too many downs.
They need to get next gen games off 3rd party dev-cos before they can be ported to PS3/XB2 (in the case of sports games, before the next version is available - developers may even delay the current version of a GC2 sports title to make the new PS3/XB2 version, which EA seems to have done with AFL Live 2003 for GC), and 3rd parties are known to ditch the GC for PS2/XBox, so Nintendo have to watch out for that.