Nintendo On Next-Gen: "It's Not About Power"

People seem to to focus too much on visuals than the games themselves. It's the reason why developers can get away with making a ton of sequels with each one being shinier than the last.

At this point, Nintendo is going to get **** no matter what they do to please people.

Visuals? They've already made these magical wonderland engines. Square Enix, Unreal ...etc so your telling me we have to halt this progress because Nintendo (and possibly other consoles) have to hold these developers back, make them shrink their product, progress, and texturing because nintendo doesn't think something? Fuck them, and because of this bullshit now xbox and sony could be rethinking their strategy. Fuck them hard.

umm wasnt the gamecube part of the ps2 and xbox generation? if so, wouldnt it be at the bottom of the "power" list?

It was stated a few times before that the Gamecube had more power than the PS2 and possibly the Xbox. GC still failed due to all 3rd parties flocking to the PS2, despite the PS2 being the weaker console.

gamecube/ps2/xbox were equal in power for all intents and purposes (ps2 slightly weaker i guess) given that ports were almost graphically identical on the three. gamecube sold poorly not as a result of being powerful (i can't believe he even moderately inferred that) but because they tried too hard to be kid friendly and made dumb decisions such as:
-proprietary discs with low storage capacity
-not a dvd player (this actually was a selling feature at the turn of the century)
-retarded controller layout making ports less playable on the cube (notches around the edge of the analogs and the size of the right analog... the awkward z button...wtf)
-marketed the purple version of the console
-had a handle
-wasting resources on gba/gamecube connectivity that nobody ask for but they insisted we wanted
-oblivious to online gaming (10 years late you would think they would have learned....)
-no GTA ports....this was easily the bigger series on the planet at the time (and arguably still is)

Marketed the purple version...haha +1

not one bit? So, all this beautiful work that they're doing on engines that you will never properly be able to run in the next 2 to 10 years what is that Nintendo? Nothing?

My younger brothers had a PS2 and Xbox respectively. I opted for the Gamecube (at the time) for one very simple reason: the GC had Luigi's Mansion, Smash Bros., and Paper Mario (later on). Not to mention the Resident Evil remake, Resident Evil 0, and Resident Evil 4 (before the PS2 port, even then the Gamecube version was better in my opinion); all three of which had some of the most orgasmic graphics in gaming at the time (I still wish they'd port REmake and 0 as they did with 4 and CV).

In fact, if I could find my Gamecube (lost it and all my games during a move) I'd probably still be playing some of those games today.

When I finally picked up a PS2, it was just to play GTA 3 and Vice City, Ratchet and Clank, and Shadow of the Colossus. When I eventually got an Xbox pretty much the only thing I played on it was Morrowind for about a million hours.