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Anyone else get tired of the endless praise the GameCube and it's roster gets? Like it wasn't deeply flawed? Every time I hear about it now, it makes me think of Sega fanboy's obsession with the Dreamcast. Why do people love lost causes so much?

@JasmineDragon Dude, I feel you. All the hype that led into my playing Chrono Trigger made it LITERALLY impossible to live up to. It's a fine game, but it wouldn't make my top 20, let alone top 10.

@GC-161 No one thought the Vita would kill the 3DS. A lot of people did think the original PSP was going to kill the original DS, though.

I really hope this doesn't hurt Fire Emblem if it doesn't sell. I won't touch another musou game, but I want REAL Fire Emblem.

@Spider-Kev EV-9D9, in case you're wondering.

It's actually HK-47, who they ripped off wholesale for K-2S0.

@Eel They have a higher profit margin because they don't have to spend any money actually porting the games. In other words: they're being cheap.

I'd prefer a proper FE game, thanks.

Cor blimey, guvna, it's a sticky wicket, innit?

As a Fire Emblem fan who HATES musou games... what a kick in the teeth.

Makes more sense to run Wordle on a smart fridge than Skyrim.

Curious... is this Microsoft saying they didn't trust Activision to not harm the video game industry, at least with KoDick at the helm?

Also, not mentioning EA there arguably could be a silent arrow to Microsoft's next target...

@imgrowinglegs Ughhh... no. The DS version ruined Zora swimming and the boss fights. Such a terrible remake.

Because bad games are some of the most hilarious GDQ videos.

Seriously, my favorite GDQ run of all time was the Virtual Hydlide run from a few years ago. It was like a comedy act.

Give us Super Crash Bros!

I'd prefer Mario Kart 9, personally.

Big shock. The Switch just sold 20 million copies in back to back years and still has BotW 2 and Metroid Prime 4 coming in it's lifespan. Nintendo has no reason to drop a new system for awhile.

@noobish_hat That's just nostalgia talking. I'm not going to defend what EA or Activision are doing right now, but I would certainly put both the 6th and 7th generations up there with the 4th and 5th, and Sega was barely part of the 6th as a platform and only part of the 7th as a developer.

@BulkSlash The Saturn was dead before Stolar got to Sega. All he did was bury the corpse.

The fact is, as long as Sega insisted on staying in the arcade industry, their console arm was always going to fail. Developing for arcades and developing a home console was fine in the '80s and early '90s, when cartridges could only hold so much data, but with the rise of the CD format, arcade ports just weren't going to be a selling point for a console gamer looking for a deeper experience. And when you're devoting half your dev teams to arcade games, you're essentially tying one arm behind your back in console game development, especially for a smaller company like Sega.

It is true that the botched Saturn run and the 32x hastened their departure, as well as rampant piracy on the Dreamcast, but for as great a system as the Dreamcast was, I think people forget how large a portion of it's library was arcade ports that were only ever going to be niche in homes, and how much that contributed to Sega being forced out of the console market. Stolar probably saw that and thought it would've been better for Sega to take money wherever it could get it.

Nope. The only Nintendo IP I have less interest in is Animal Crossing.

@mezoomozaa It would look better if they went with his sprite instead of an anime art style, I think.

@Nintendaholic Your Tetris issues are probably because there's no central pivot in the pro controller's d-pad. It is the only thing I can't stand about it. I went and got an 8bitdo SN30 Pro+ just because of how much I hated the pro controller's d-pad.

Thanks, I needed a laugh.

Now I know how valuable your opinion is.

Uhh, wasn't Lucas's first Smash appearance in Brawl from 2008?

@BigBluePanda We got one in 1997, but the person who gave it to us didn't know it didn't come with a game. I used my Christmas money to buy Shadows of the Empire, because I was a HUGE Star Wars nerd at the time (I say at the time, because the prequels combined with the Yuuzhan Vong invasion cured me).

@bimboliquido From the lead programmer of Sonic. He had little to do with the character creation. His contribution is WILDLY overstated, and the credit has gone to his head. He's a good programmer of 2d, but a terrible programmer of 3d, and a HORRIBLE designer.

@mariopartyfan68 You are everything wrong with fandom.

I probably account for maybe 2 of those views, by accident. Everyone fat-fingers once in awhile.

To each there own, but I never saw the appeal.

Did you listen when people asked for GB/GBC/GBA/GCN games?

Thought not.

@HeadPirate What your not understanding is that the Game Gear wasn't failing when Pokémon came out, it had already FAILED. Pokémon wouldn't have had a 100% attach rate because no game has that, and it very likely wouldn't have even sold 1 million copies on Game Gear in Japan. Sega had moved on. Fans had moved on. There is no way Pokémon could've saved the Game Gear in 1996, and by extension, become the juggernaut it is.

Now, if Pokémon had come out on Game Gear no later than 1993, you've got an argument. But '96 was too late. It would've been a lost gem.

@HeadPirate Sega was already winding down production of the Game Gear by that time. They were already hard to find. You think they would have put any marketing budget behind a game releasing on a dead system? And yes, the Game Gear was dead by then. It had been crushed by the Game Boy. Also, don't forget, by the time Pokémon came west in 1998, the Game Gear had completely ceased production.

@HeadPirate There is no way Pokémon would've been that valuable in 2002 if it had been published on Game Gear. 60 million Game Boys had been sold by the end of 1996. Only 10 million Game Gears had been sold by then, less than 2 million in Japan. Pokémon Red, Green, and Blue sold 10 million units lifetime in Japan. The Game Gear's install base would've crippled the series out of the gate.

Pokemon would've flopped on Game Gear, and probably be remembered today as a cult classic that barely anyone played. The Game Gear was discontinued a year after Pokemon first released, and had been outsold 6-to-1 by the Game Boy by that point worldwide. I guarantee it would've been too little, too late with Sega.

@NEStalgia Honest question: Which is worse, Sonic Forces or Balan Wonderworld?

@NEStalgia Did you play Balan Wonderworld?

@NEStalgia Yuji Naka is a programmer, not a designer. And honestly, he's stuck in the 1980's. He still thinks he can design games around a single button. Let him go into the sunset.

Honestly, this article comes off kind of bitter that Nintendo didn't have anything there. Nintendo would and have used the GAs when they have something major to promote. They just didn't this year. No big surprise.

At this point, I'll be more shocked if it isn't a complete faceplant.

@Adhik761 But an english dub for an anime that never officially comes west because the games bombed doesn't mean a franchise is successful in America.

@Adhik761 No one is talking about anime.

None. I have played two Pokémon games. Red and Diamond. They were the same game. I don't need to play anymore.

@NintendoByNature Because people treat victimhood as a social currency.

"Can you play as Ryu?"

"Sure, you can!"

What's the point in ranking the same game against itself?

@roy130390 I'm defending GTA and don't even like it much, but I respect what that trilogy did for gaming. The biggest issue I have with the article is the writer's firm belief in their own high-minded 'superior' opinion. This article is amongst the worst kind of fart-sniffing.

@NatiaAdamo What would you think of an article that compared GTAV to Animal Crossing on the GameCube? Wouldn't be very fair. Just like comparing New Horizons to 3 games that first released between 17-20 years ago. It's not a good point to make.

Isn't it amazing how people have different tastes? Animal Crossing is seriously Nintendo's worst and most boring IP IMHO.

Didn't the Yokai Watch series bomb hard in North America?