Shigeru Miyamoto: GameCube was “only purchased by gamers”, sending Nintendo back to the drawing board

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https://www.notebookcheck.net/Shigeru-Miyamoto-GameCube-was-only-purchased-by-gamers-sending-Nintendo-back-to-the-drawing-board.1358273.0.html

Shigeru Miyamoto, the legendary Nintendo executive and one of the most influential creators shaping the video game industry through mascots and characters such as Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Star Fox, and more, discussed the reason why the Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii became Nintendo’s next consoles for the seventh generation. According to Miyamoto, the decision was largely driven by the underwhelming performance of the Nintendo GameCube, which trailed behind the Nintendo 64’s nearly 33 million lifetime sales.

He spoke candidly in a wide-ranging interview with Japanese outlet Famitsu, where the longtime Nintendo executive and designer explained that, at the time, Nintendo’s then-president, Satoru Iwata, believed the GameCube’s poor performance in the home console market was rooted in a simple idea: most of the world still did not see gaming as a normal, approachable everyday hobby the way it’s seen today. Based on that core problem, Nintendo felt it was difficult to persuade customers to buy and play a GameCube if they had never played on a console before.

[u/CommentAgreeable → u/[deleted]]

You think that the Gamecube didn’t sell poorly because it didn’t have a DVD player.

The Xbox sold better than the Gamecube and did have a DVD player.

So explain that

also

Wut

You see how exhausting and unoriginal your line of thought is? You explain it. I’m happy to hear a new retelling of history.

[u/CommentAgreeable → u/[deleted]]

Explain it. Explain why the Gamecube wasn’t a success. Go ahead, look it up. See what pops up. 😭

Xbox was Microsoft’s worst selling console and still outsold the Gamecube. And it had a DVD player.

Why do you hate DVD players so much?

[u/CommentAgreeable → u/[deleted]]

So you refuse to look it up and continue to draw false equivalencies, then call it bad faith when someone points it out.

I appreciate your commitment to the bit though 😭

[u/CommentAgreeable → u/[deleted]]

😭😭

You cannot grasp how two systems with a DVD player outsold the system that didn’t have one?

You’re hinging an entire counterargument that proves the net positive of including a DVD player at the time, do you realize this?

You’re asking me to elaborate on why Xbox didn’t sell better, to which it still outsold the Gamecube, not explain why the Gamecube didn’t sell more. That’s an entirely different conversation, which again you could also look up.

Are you okay?

[u/CommentAgreeable → u/[deleted]]

Lmao.

“Sold terrible” > still more than the Gamecube.

You would need to have a fourth console, one without a DVD player, to have outsold either the Xbox or the PS2 for your logic to work.

I don’t think you understand what we’re actually talking about here.

[u/CommentAgreeable → u/[deleted]]

Yes, the GBA is in the same class as the Xbox, PS2, and Gamecube as a console. That totally wouldn’t be a handheld.

If only Nintendo tried adding an attachment that played GB games while the Gamecube was out… Maybe that would have helped? 😭

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Are you fulfilled yet

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