Is NINTENDO responsible for dumbing down the gaming industry???

[Days of Future Piff]

The Wii was full of shovelware, but the GameCube was slept on.

Metroid Prime
Melee
Paper Mario
Pikmin 1 and 2
Resident Evil 4
Wind Waker
Mario Kart Double Dash
Soul Calibur 2 (with Link)
Luigi's Mansion
F-Zero GX
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle
Viewtiful Joe
Mario Sunshine
Tales of Symphonia

I know a few of these joints dropped on the PS2 eventually, but it was still nice to see the GameCube get SOMETHING third-party wise.

 

[Yaboysix]

Nah...nyggas that play Nintendo are separate from yall "Real" Gamers...

I'm a Nintendo dude.i dgaf about graphics, FPS or ray tracing.i don't even know what that is.

 

[Big Blue]

Their lack of quality control for the Nintendo Store is embarrassing. That's about it

 

[RhodyRum]

PS2 actually won over casuals, at the time it was the cheapest DVD player on the market.

So audio/visual/tech nerds or just people that wanted a nice little set up for their TV, got a PS2 out of necessity. That acted as a gateway into gaming.

Fred.

Ayo I Mandela Effected myself because if you asked me the bolded as a true / false question I would have confidently answered "False."

But now that I'm really thinking back, you're totally right. It debuted before the price of a DVD player seemingly plummeted overnight.