>>55827590Wii, not the GameCube. The Wii killed their hype during the shooter genre. I remember being in 6th grade and playing Melee and Mario Kart with my older brothers and his highschooler friends on Gamecube. Everyone loved it and there wasn't a lot of console wars. Also note the internet was a bunch of sparsely populated forums at the time, so internet fights rarely spilled over into the real world in terms of culture and console wars weren't that big at the time. The gamecube always beat out the others in terms of party games because Playstation 2 sucked for multiplayer and Xbox only had Fusion Frenzy.
The later era of the Wii and Gen 5 were the point where Nintendo wasn't as cool because Xbox was taking over with shooters and the Wii was seen as a baby console because Nintendo was giving out licensing to anything so it could be a family console.
For reference, I was in 9th grade when HGSS came out and even some of the football team had pokewalkers because of how excited they were to have all their pokemon with them. It wasn't until around 2010 when I remember people dropping pokemon and nintendo hard because of things like M&M racers and other dumb Wii titles. Then, Gen 5 came out and people mocked them for Vannilite for obvious reasons. I remember Gamestop had a corner dedicated to Wii titles and they always looked like shit. Never any Mario games, or Twilight Princess, all the trash 3rd party stuff that no one wanted. Meanwhile you could grab MW2 for $20 or grab an actual nintendo gamecube game for $10-$15 like Luigi's mansion or Sunshine. Thinking on it now, thats probably why the Wii U failed, the general consensus was probably that you wouldn't get any good games on it.
Shit, I remember seeing Cubivore on sale for $10 back then and wish I could go back.
