Talk:GameCube

Interesting image

I was browsing and stunbled onto this[1] image, a close up of the gpu, with a dolphin logo. Think it fits the article?--Henke37 (talk) 10:13, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

The copyright holder have cooperated with wikipedia before, see Image:ChipWorksLandShark.jpg, so fixing the licensing should be no issue.--Henke37 (talk) 10:40, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Nintendo GameCube Memory Card

Nintendo GameCube Memory Card redirects here, but no information about GameCube Memory Cards is provided.--Hhielscher (talk) 12:44, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Some details: official sizes, block counts, etc; are now provided. Kolano (talk) 04:54, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

original price?

I don't see it anywhere. Also the $99 dollar price drop Nintendo link is dead. 96.226.112.38 (talk) 05:35, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Abbreviation

Does anyone know why the Nintendo GameCube is abbreviated GCN?209.90.141.186 (talk) 22:12, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

I think it was a legal issue of some sort, so it has since become the standard abbreviation. I'm not entirely sure, but it's best to keep to official abbreviations instead of other ones. Haipa Doragon (talk • contributions) 22:25, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

It's also the way Nintendo abbreviates things. Nintendo 64 (N64), and they might just be going with the same pattern. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.224.46.127 (talk) 01:38, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

I'd just like to point out that N64 is meant to be like that, because it's Nintendo 64. I think the OP meant that if it was a normal abbreviation, it'd be NGC, for Nintendo GameCube, not GCN. I found it weird too. However, after some looking into the matter, I think it's due to the Neo-Geo Colour, and the fact that it had already taken the name NGC, so it had to be GCN. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.120.126.219 (talk) 05:01, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

That's funny though. If you look up NGC here on Wikipedia, it does suggest the Nintendo Gamecube, but not the Neo Geo Color. 82.73.195.228 (talk) 21:28, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

That's probably because there is no "Neo Geo Colour", and therefore the disambiguation page does not cover it. Haipa Doragon (talk • contributions) 22:05, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Handle

Surely the handle on the back of the console (to enable easy transport to a friends house) is unique enough to warrant a mention in this article? JaffaCakeLover (talk) 14:22, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes, except for "to enable easy transport to a friends house", which isn't really verifiable. Haipa Doragon (talk • contributions) 17:51, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Cause and effects

In April 2008, Nintendo released a white controller exclusively in Japan, possibly as a result of owners of the Wii game Super Smash Bros. Brawl preferring the controller as the primary method of control.

How could it be Nintendo know that Brawl players prefered the GC controller when the white controler is for Japan only AND was beginning to be sold AT THE SAME TIME as the game(and to boot as photos showed there was a huge load of them at the time)? Aren't we getting cause and effects mixed here? I say it was more Nintendo anticipating that Brawl players would prefer playing with the gc controller more than Nintendo REACTING to that fact. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.80.239.162 (talk) 10:07, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Backward compatible with Gameboy & Gameboy Color games?

I seem to remember hearing that the Nintendo GameCube is backward compatible with Gameboy & Gameboy Color games. Is this correct? If so this would be a technical feature to add and would have been a marketting point. 203.219.161.145 (talk) 05:08, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

It's not "backward compatible" but there is an adapter, called the GameBoy Player, which can plug into the bottom of a GC and allow you to play GB, GBC, and GBA games on your TV.99.155.223.30 (talk) 04:36, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Details need to be added

The following things should be added:

• In the intro and in the main text as well as the infobox, when was the console discontinued by Nintendo? I believe they stopped production around January 2007, but I could be wrong.
• In the hardware section: When did Nintendo stop manufacturing the Gamecube with the Component Video port? Also, what models did this change affect? I know it was towards the end of the lifespan of the console. This is pertinent info that should be included. Nintendo's website says it was cut out because they felt no-one used it.

--65.31.110.13 (talk) 18:58, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Best system ever--Pikmin fan 101 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.111.155.206 (talk) 02:50, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Curved Surface Generation ?

I recall an article about the Flipper having Curved Surface Generation... Would this be HOS, Tessellation or something else? Has this been confirmed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.127.128.2 (talk) 17:46, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

What? This is really confusing

"In addition, the GameCube also introduced a variety of connectivity options to Nintendo consoles, and was the third Nintendo console, after the Nintendo 64DD, to officially support online play."

If GC is the third console to support online, is 64DD the first or second? And regardless of which, what is the other one that predates the GC?99.155.223.30 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 04:39, 31 July 2009 (UTC).

This is the first. -sesuPRIME 04:42, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

The Satellaview was a satellite reciever. That's a one way data transfer, it's not online. The Famicom however, did have a modem. That was the first. eyeball226 (talk) 02:02, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Backwards/Forwards Compatability

Can you play Wii Games on a Gamecube? 209.255.28.227 (talk) 21:25, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Uh... Wii discs won't even fit in a Gamecube... BAPACop (converse) 21:26, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Wow, that's the stupidest question ever. Of course not! ResMar 14:44, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Official Abbreviation

The top of the article says: The official abreviation is GCN, which kind of doesn't make any sense. So, what's the source? NGC makes sense since it's called the Nintendo Gamecube. Robin.lemstra (talk) 19:07, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

"Discontinued" being removed...

Someone (unregistered IP) keeps removing the "Discontinued" section of the info bar. They have also claimed that it isn't true because Nintendo still has a support page for them. I thought I should probably bring this up here for a consensus to be met, so that we can either correct the information, prevent it from being removed if it is correct, or remove it if it can be show to be inaccurate. As I have no further info, for the time being I vote to keep it with citation needed tags. If any more info turns up, that is subject to change however. Alphathon^TM (talk) 17:38, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Never mind, I have found citation for it. It doesn't give an exact date, but they were at least discontinued by Feb 2007. If anyone has better info (more detailed, like exact date of discontinuation) it is welcome. Alphathon^TM (talk) 19:26, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Odd, X-Play says August 14, 2007. @1:06 « ₣M₣ » 23:27, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

That is odd. The article only says 2007 anyway (as we had no definite date) so I don't really think it matters at this point. Alphathon^TM (talk) 23:42, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Nintendo GameCube is NOT DISCONTINUED!

Nintendo GC is not discontinued. In NA, you can find it at GameStop, GamesPlus, more! Beamer103 20:28, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Those are pre-owned units, or possibly (unlikely at this point) old stock. The console is no longer produced, i.e. discontinued. Nintendo themselves have said that it was discontinued as per the ref that you removed. Your edit to the page has been reverted. If you can provide some kind of proof that they are still produced, I for one am all ears. Until then we have a reference from Nintendo themselves which says they are discontinued, so that is to be taken as the official opinion. Alphathon^TM (talk) 20:50, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Dreamcast

The claim that all competitors are notable strikes me as ludicrous. By that argument, the article for John Kerry should make a point of the fact that he came in ahead of the candidates for the Peace and Freedom Party and the Nazi Party in the 2004 election. By specifically pointing out the GameCube's outselling the Dreamcast, you are implying that there was doubt that it would do so. Taking care to mention the short time the Dreamcast was supported makes it even worse, as you're effectively suggesting that if Sega had supported the system for longer, it likely would have outsold the GameCube. This is analogous to adding to the article for Mortal Kombat 2: "Mortal Kombat 2 managed to outsell Ultra Vortek for the Jaguar. It should be noted however that only 250,000 units of Ultra Vortek's supporting console were ever produced, while over 10 million Playstations had already been sold at the time MK2 was released."

In short, making deliberate mention of the GameCube's performance against the Dreamcast is extremely misleading and dangerously akin to WP: Coatrack.--24.60.220.148 (talk) 17:13, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

First off, those comparisons are useless.

I am not from the US, but as far as I understand it the US Nazi Party and the Peace and Freedom Party are significantly less relevent in American politics than the Republicans or Democrats. By significantly I mean they receive at least a few orders of magnitude fewer votes and have almost zero chance of being elected at even the state level. US polotics is described as two-party system as it has 2 major parties. The 6th gen of consoles could, in the same way, be described as a 4-console generation. I am not aware of any minor consoles of the 6th gen, but there were a few in the 5th gen that I know of - for example the Apple Bandai Pippin, Amiga CD32, Atari Jaguar, PC-FX etc. None of these would be notable in, say, the PS1 article, but may be notable when compared to each other. Heck, in the PS1 article even the Saturn might not be relevant, depending on the context. It would however be relevant in the N64 article. The Dreamcast on the other hand sold about half the GameCube, so is a useful comparison.

As for the the MK2/Ultra Vortek one, well that's just stupid. In this article, the "generation" is a superset of both the Dreamcast and the GameCube. In your example the superset of Ultra Vortek is Atari Jaguar games, while MK2s is Arcade, Amiga, Game Boy, Game Gear, PC, PlayStation, PS3, Master System, Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega 32X, Saturn and SNES games. A rough equivalent of that example would be more along the lines of comparing the GameCube to the PS1 or the SNES, as you are juming up an extra level and comparing between sets (i.e. where the sets in the venn diagram do not intersect). You have to compare like with like.

Second, why is it ludicrous to compare all of a set? Without the Dreamcast, it is implied that the GameCube was the least successful console of the generation, which is at best unbalanced. If it were a "minor" console, like mentioned earlier, then I you might have a point, but by your logic we shouldn't include the PS2 either since it is still being sold. You also seem to have missed the point that the Dreamcasts lifespan was short because of its low sales, not the other way around.

Alphathon^TM (talk) 19:08, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Also the Dreamcast was supported for quite a long time with new arcade ports being released for the Dreamcast in Japan up to 2007, and let's be clear that Sega's last console, which is rated highly and remembered fondly, is a significant one and that the difference in sales numbers between the Gamecube and the Dreamcast pale in comparison to the difference in numbers between the Gamecube and PS2.Wikiposter0123 (talk) 21:11, 28 July 2010 (UTC)