Can nintendo pull of the gamecube2... with better 3rd party support?

Xbox was a huge financial failure and was sold at a massively subsidised price. Microsoft sank a huge amount of money in the original xbox. It may have sold marginally more than Gamecube but the Gamecube was a huge success in comparison from a business perspective as it was actually profitable although only barely. It was much cheaper to make and achieved its performance level with lower costed components. No question the xbox was a bigger commerical failure. For actual gameplay and satisfying consumers its more difficult. The original xbox was very cheap to develop for. I remember reading that Wolfenstein took something like 2 weeks to get running on Xbox but something like 9 months on ps2. I think a lot of publishers and developers made good money out of the xbox. I think the xbox was a fantastic success for consumers they got a very powerful console at a very subsidised price but it was a disaster financially for Microsoft.

I don't know about that, but it would make sense given that the Xbox was architecturally a low end PC.

Coming back to the orginal point of the thread,

my 2 cents is that the Wii U will not only be Nintendo pulling off a GCN2. It may well be like the glory days of the SNES. Powerful and an abundance of support.

Edited by Socalmuscle, 19 September 2012 - 09:25 AM.