20 years ago, Nintendo came out the Gamecube

This September 14, 2021, the pretty little cube of Nintendo celebrates 20 years of his exit. Already ? Yes, but with a small nuance since it is this era when the concept of global release was utopian for a game console. If the Gamecube is therefore exit until September 14, 2001, it had been necessary to wait for 3 May 2002 for the common European to be able to offer itself.

This shift had finally turned to the advantage of the players of the old continent and not only because of a more supplied launch catalog than in the other regions. Quite unique case in the history of the consoles, Nintendo had indeed lowered the price of the machine from 250 to 200 euros a few days before its official release. A happy surprise for consumers, especially when it had to leave 480 euros from his pocket only two months earlier to afford the Xbox, but also a reflection of the level of hard competition in which Nintendo set foot.

Despite this tariff advantage, the Gamecube will not better than equal game with the sales of the Microsoft's small news. With a total of 21.74 million consoles and 208.57 million games elapsed around the world, the charming little cube with handle will be the most modest Nintendo success in the console market, at least until Flop of the Wii U a few years later (less than 14 million sales).

At its discharge, in addition to the Xbox and the Dreamcast, the Gamecube was competing with a phenomenon named PlayStation 2, machine that at that time raked without forcing the membership of the majority of the licenses that counted. Nintendo will have its strong moments with third party publishers, as with the announcement of FINAL FANTASY: Crystal Chronicles (a spin off that will not finally be as important as hoped) and the famous Capcom Five conference, of which It is mostly retained the exit being exclusive of the event game Resident Evil 4 , which will emerge any less than a year later on PlayStation 2, less pretty but with unpublished content.

After a Nintendo 64 already isolated, Nintendo knew in any case that it is his own licenses that will carry his machine. At E3 2021, the builder unveils the excellent Star Wars: Snape Squadron II: Snape Leader of Factor 5, Super Smash Bros. Melee , Wave Race: Blue Storm , Pikmin and Luigi's Mansion . The flow of Game Giants continues more beautiful at E3 2002 with the presentations of Super Mario Sunshine , The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker , Star Fox Adventures or Metroid premium .

Like its appearance, the Gamecube had played the simplicity map, which translated into a second passage of the infrastructures necessary for the online game, that only Microsoft had had the presence of spirit of Embrace fully from the beginning of the 2000s, in the wake of Sega. Once equipped with a modem sold separately, the Gamecube will offer only a derisory number of online games, essentially Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II , the glory of the Dreamcast. At the end of 2003, despite the ads of Mario Kart: Double Dash , Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes and Resident Evil 4 A few months earlier at the E3, the Gamecube descends at the price modest of 99 euros. But the gaming outings are scarce from year to year and the console is notably dispossessed from the exclusivity of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess that will eventually be released at the same time as its replacement, the amazing Wii.

As at the time of the Nintendo 64 which was also that of the Game Boy, Nintendo, however, avoids the economic crisis since the success of the Game Boy Advance (whose connectivity with the cube will remain anecdotal) compensates the shy results of Nintendo. In the field of salon consoles. After the alarming pitfall of the Wii U, it is also the merger of these two once separated markets that gave birth to the modern miracle named Switch. Inheritance side, the Gamecube has honored the starts of series like Luigi's Mansion , Pikmin , Super Monkey Ball and Metroid Prime , whose fans are feverishly waiting for the 4th episode at Retro Studios.

In addition to the biggest commercial success listed below and titles already mentioned above, games like Baten Kaitos , Tales of Symphonia , Viewtiful Joe , Resident Evil Rebirth Resident Evil Zero , Eternal Darkness , F-Zero GX or Sollabur 2 are among the most memorable hours of the console. The biggest success of the machine, Super Smash Bros. Melee , remains a big favorite fans and has long figured for the EVO program alongside newer opus.

The 10 biggest success of the Gamecube