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It might be imagined that with the success and popularity
Nintendo has achieved throughout the years that they would be
content sitting on their laurels, releasing rehashes of previous
systems and taking few risks--and that would be dead wrong.
Nintendo continues to push itself (and its designers and
developers) to come up with fun, innovative products. This
kind of thinking lead Nintendo to come up with the GameCube.
Nintendo had lost some market share after Sony released the
PlayStation in the '90s, so there was a certain amount of
pressure for its next system. While both Sony and Microsoft
announced for their next-generation machines that they would be
making their consoles a multimedia center with DVD and CD
playback, Nintendo took the opposite route. Nintendo decided to
make the GameCube a gaming device, and that's it.
Some felt that part of what helped Sony overtake Nintendo was
that the PlayStation utilized CD-ROM discs rather than the more
traditional cartridges. Likewise, some also feel that Nintendo
made a mistake by releasing its games on three-inch discs rather
than the DVD-sized discs of the PlayStation 2 or Xbox. While
this point is debatable, what cannot be argued is that the
GameCube is a first-rating gaming console.
The GameCube features better graphics and sound than any
previous Nintendo system. Nintendo also has carved a niche
market for games aimed at everyone, with such proprietary titles
as Super Mario Brothers and Legend of Zelda. Due
to its size, the GameCube is also eminently portable, so a gamer
can take it on the road without any hassle.
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