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| Topic | The Gamecube was a top tier console and I'm tired of people pretending it wasn't |
| Count_Drachma 11/05/23 3:07:11 PM #115: | ConfusedTorchic posted...
yeah, no, sony absolutely lost that gen, No. Seriously, just no. adjl posted... As much as people kind of handwave this issue now because of how ubiquitous DVD players are, it was actually a pretty big deal in 2000. I know quite a few people that had a PS2 as their only DVD player for several years after it first came out, simply because a standalone player in 2000 cost almost as much as a PS2 did and didn't include a game system on top of it. By the end of the generation, DVD players were dirt cheap and it wasn't a big deal, which is why the Wii not playing DVD's wasn't a problem, but combined with the PS2's 1-year head start it definitely gave it a substantial competitive edge at the beginning. While the ps2 playing DVDs was a big deal WHEN IT CAME OUT, by the time the GC came out, that fact was moot. Even if the GC could've played DVDs, it was much too late to market for that to have the same impact as the ps2. --- Everybody's got a price / Everybody's got to pay / Because the Million Drachma Man / Always gets his way. AhahahahMMH ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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