Talk:Nintendo GameCube
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Removed Phrase
I removed the phrase "AKA Lamecube, Dolphin, Gaycube." If anyone disagrees that this is a pretty biased paragraph, they can put it back in.
System Specs
Also, is it necessary to have the huge table on its specs? That information is easily avaialble on a Ninetendo website. I don't think most non-nerds care about the technical nitty-gritty. Couldn't we just include a link to the page with the specs? -Frecklefoot
- Perhaps it could be cut down into a smaller summary of the most salient specs, but I think just linking to an external source is dubious - after all, most of the content of Wikipedia could be found elsewhere, so why not just make it into one big link-farm, with each article saying "For a definition, see [1]; for history, see [2]..." And of course, if the external page then gets deleted, or even moved, the WP page becomes completely pointless! - IMSoP 05:45, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- Solution: create a "Nintendo Gamecube specifications" page on the Wiki. Sockatume 17:56, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Caps
(Nintendo prefer that NINTENDO GAMECUBE be written in all capitals, as described in http://www.nintendo.com.au/gamecube/faqs/index.php (F.A.Q. 10). This convention is followed by next to nobody.)
- ...including Nintendo themselves, on their American (http://www.nintendo.com/overviewgcn) and European (http://www.nintendo-europe.com/NOE/en/GB/system/gcn_topic1.jsp) websites. Is this an Australian peculiarity? --rbrwr
It doesn't matter, because it is on the Australian NINTENDO WEBSITE. It was made by Nintendo. I think it is a stupid idea to have it in capitals, but as the Nintendo Website says, it is NINTENDO GAMECUBE. I won't bother changing it, because you will probably change it back. (User:Rainer 07:00, 9 Jan 2004 (UTC))
- Definately never heard of that usage in the US or Europe, so it's hardly a "convention". Nintendo are rather particular about including trademark notices and descriptions in press coverage though; really it should be the Nintendo(R) Gamecube(TM) video game console. This eventually spawned a couple of forum in-jokes it happens, with people referring to, say, Metroid (R) Prime (TM) 2: Echoes (TM) First Hunt (TM) for the Nintendo (R) DS (TM) dual-screen touchscreen-and-voice activated handheld videogames system, every time they wanted to talk about the Metroid Hunters demo. Sockatume 17:56, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Kiddy Image
It seems that an anonymous editor has added a paragraph, only to have it removed by another anonymous editor as "puppy cock" (what it has to do with small dogs and male chickens, I'm not sure). The paragraph in question is:
- The Nintendo GameCube also has a black carrying handle on the back, which has led many to refer to it as a "lunchbox" (thus perpetuating Nintendo's seemingly eternal "kiddy" image).
I have no idea whether this is true or not - does anyone have an opinion of whether it should be in or out? - IMSoP 15:43, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I was the one who originally added that paragraph, before I made an account. I thought it was an interesting thing to note, and it is true - I have both heard and read many people refer to it as a lunchbox, including for reviews of the system. I even looked it up on Google to make sure it wasn't just me blowing it out of proportion. I think the person who removed it figured I was trolling, which I wasn't (though I suppose I could have worded that better). I own a GameCube and think it's great (despite its lunchboxy appearance, ha ha). If this were go back up, it should probably be worded like this:
The Nintendo GameCube also has a black carrying handle on the back, which, coupled with its small size, has led many to refer to it - usually disparagingly - as a "lunchbox" (thus indirectly perpetuating Nintendo's seemingly eternal "kiddy" image).
Or something like that. --DoubleCross 01:29, Apr 15, 2004 (UTC)
It's an accurate statement. In addition, the Indigo launch color contributed to the console's unfortunate kiddy image. However, I don't know that it really belongs in or is a necessary addition to the article. It would be like mentioning that the Xbox hardware is absolutely massive, completely bombed in Japan, and is sometimes called a "brick". It's just editorializing that's probably not needed.
--RickSlate March 8, 2005
Graphics Power
"Despite it's smaller size, it is more powerful than the PlayStation 2." I disagree. Compare, for example, Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes. MGS2's (for PS2/Xbox) graphics are superior to MGS:TTS's (for Cube). I think this passage should be removed altogether, it's pretty subjective. Yes, games designed specifically for the Cube will look better than most PS2 games - but games designed specifically for the PS2, and with the low-level programming skill seen in MGS2, will probably look better than most Cube games. --Golbez 22:52, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- I agree, it's endlessly debatable, and adds little - and after all, it's a long time since outward size could be considered an indicator of compuational power. - IMSoP 23:04, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
The GameCube is not lame! I have a GameCube in my house and other people say it's cool! I have a friend who owns one. WikiPediaAid
In addition to the removal of the digital video output, the second serial port has been eliminated. The door is no longer labeled as such and no connector exists in the compartment.
Warning: incoming game.
Is it true that the system was named after a plot element of the CG animated TV series ReBoot? --Damian Yerrick 03:34, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
- I highly doubt it. Probably because after they designed it someone said it looked like a Cube and they decided to work it in to the title. K1Bond007 05:32, May 3, 2005 (UTC)
Eternal Darkness as a Third Party Title
Silicon Knights was under a second-party license at the time, so it's inaccurate to call ED "third party"
- Fixed. I made the title 2nd and 3rd party then made a few other changes. K1Bond007 15:52, May 20, 2005 (UTC)
Star Fox as a third-party title.
From the article:
"The Nintendo GameCube software library contains such traditional Nintendo series as Super Mario, Star Fox, The Legend of Zelda, and Metroid."
Why is Star Fox listed as a third-party title then? --A.J. 15:30, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
- Star Fox is hardly as traditional a series as the others, and was made by a 2nd party company, so it probably should not be mentioned there. --Golbez 16:21, May 25, 2005 (UTC)
- Well I guess it's there because it was originally developed by Miyamoto, but it's no longer a flagship first-party series. Rare was still second party when Adventures came out though, no? --Tothebarricades.tk 16:52, May 25, 2005 (UTC)
I think it's not fair to present some of these titles (the two Starfox, Donkey Konga, F-Zero GX, Wario World and even perhaps Eternal Dakrness) as third-party or even second-party. Nintendo still fully own the rights to these games and they publish them, it's their intellectual property, they are just developed by others, plus, Nintendo often have a strong creative input in the process, with team members of the original game overseeing the development. I think the distinction should be made more clearly. Perhaps by spliting the first-party titles into two groups, the ones developed by Nintendo's own teams and the ones from outside teams. -- sanjuro