• simple@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It underperformed heavily and hit Nintendo financially hard. If the Wii wasn’t a success we probably wouldn’t have seen Nintendo try to do another console again.

    With poor sales figures and the associated financial harm to Nintendo, a Time International article called the GameCube an “unmitigated disaster”

    • BigFig@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      We absolutely would have, Nintendo’s console side is not their main area of business. People don’t understand just how much money Nintendo makes off of pachinco machines.

    • Wildfire Darkstar@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Define “console” here. The GameCube was underperforming, but Nintendo was dominating the handheld market with both the Game Boy Advance and the DS. I’m not sure a similarly underperforming Wii would have doomed the company, but I suspect it may have led Nintendo to try a crossover style handheld/set-top hybrid like the Switch a generation early.

      • weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, GBA was a monopoly. They may have given up on the home console business but I don’t think their handhelds would’ve gone anywhere and we probably still would have ended up with the Switch regardless.