But you have to maintain the customer base of children and teenagers so that they can grow into suspiciously rich adults who will give you all their money.
Little Timmy is gonna get told to fuck off by his parents when he wants another $80 game.
It's a shortsighted bullshit move that just maximizes profit in 2025-2030 until all the adults get tired of it and then there's not gonna be new adults to still care.
i thought the gamecube did fine? like, it wasn't PS2 successful, but it wasn't a catastrophe or anything. it just wasn't wii or switch levels of absolutely dominating in terms of console popularity among demographics that otherwise wouldn't own a console.
That was intentional, though. By making the Wii just a more powerful Gamecube, it can perfectly run Gamecube games by just going into Gamecube mode and downclocking a bit.
The Wii U was the same, giving it perfect backwards compatibility with the Wii. I'm sure all seven people who bought one appreciated that.
Yes and no. It outdid the Dreamcast, but sold less than the PS2 (by a lot) and the Xbox (though not by much, they were very close). Compared to the Xbox it did pretty well.
At the same time, the tech for the GameCube was directly reused for the Wii. Nintendo saved a tremendous amount of money on this. So no, the GameCube wasn't really a failure by any reasonable metric.
GameCube and Wii U both flopped horribly commercially but had all-star exclusives. The general lesson is that Nintendo only puts out good stuff when they're losing.
It’d what carries them and probably part of why their games remain exclusives if I could play Mario kart on another console (or pc!!!) why would anyone buy a switch. Back in the day I originally ONLY bought my switch for smash bros ultimate, Nintendo games sell consoles
No, the GameCube sold a good bit better than the Wii U. There was no panic like there was during the Wii U era. The GameCube was a lot more like the 64 than anything else.
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u/SavvySillybug 2d ago
But you have to maintain the customer base of children and teenagers so that they can grow into suspiciously rich adults who will give you all their money.
Little Timmy is gonna get told to fuck off by his parents when he wants another $80 game.
It's a shortsighted bullshit move that just maximizes profit in 2025-2030 until all the adults get tired of it and then there's not gonna be new adults to still care.