Flaming_Tiki_God said:
I'll go with the Playstation 3 even though it'll cost a couple of thousand dollars.
It's not going to cost anything less that six hundred, it can't. Because if it does-no one will buy it. 400$ for the upgraded 360 is more than most people can afford. If the system costs 1000 or more, the games could easily cost 100$ a pop. In which case people will shrug it off. What's the use of an abundance of features and cool stuff if you can't afford to pay for it? They'd kill their market and their company.
No less than 800$. Nintendo is flopping, I'm sorry to say but they have to provide results, and to answer your question how GC was a disater.
Have you ever played online with GC? You were suppose to be able to. How many titles beyond REmake, RE0, some of the Mario titles and Zelda does Nintendo have an exclusive hold on? They couldn't hold on to the RE series, and they can't seem to pump out appealing games. They may have one or two, but not enough for anyone to have bought a gamecube.
And xbox has what it will have and will help it succeed unless someone does it better-online console gaming. Thanks to bungie, halo, and MS servers they have the most reliable, easy to use and exploitative onlining experience. They have decent multi console games with a few unique strong titles that are worth paying money for, and their graphics are to gander at.
Honestly, I think this whole generation (ps3, 360, Wii) is rushed, and they should have exploited their previous systems a bit longer. Xbox can still hold its own against the basic model 360 and has all the advantages of the upgraded one for 400$ just less graphical power.
Gamecube still has a lot of potential Nintendo could milk it for, and PS2 though again the underpowered one is still winning out for their quality games and their vast library of them at that. They rushed and their porducts will be expesnive and buggy. I wouldn't doubt that when the whole of this generation is finally released each company takes longer to fix the problems and pump out games to make revenue before rushing any next generation. It would be a diaster, especially how (at least) the american economy is doing.