Nintendo GameCube: Difference between revisions

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▲The [[Nintendo]] GameCube (officially abbreviated as GCN), Nintendo's entry into the sixth generation of the [[Console Wars]], was released in late 2001. It marked Nintendo's shift from cartridges to optical discs in response to third parties being driven away by the [[Nintendo 64]]'s continued use of cartridges, using miniature proprietary discs. The graphical capabilities were better than the [[Play Station 2]], and in some cases, on par with those of the [[X Box]]. ''[[Star Wars]]: [[Rogue Squadron]] III'' actually holds the sixth-gen record for polygon count, at 20 million polygons. The GameCube was the first Nintendo console to have fewer buttons on its controller than its predecessor; this was due to the introduction of a second analog stick, though this C-stick was smaller than the primary analog stick.

▲Nintendo offered many of its properties to other developers. [[Namco]] ran around with ''[[Donkey Kong]]'' and made the ''[[Donkey Konga]]'' series, [[Dolled-Up Installment|Dolled Up Installments]] of the ''Taiko no Tatsujin'' series of drumming games. Namco and Rare (under the company's last days with Nintendo before getting bought out by Microsoft) both had ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star Fox]]''-based games (although Rare's was too a Dolled Up Installment, this one born out of Nintendo [[Executive Meddling|meddling]] with the [[What Could Have Been|would-have-been]] [[Nintendo 64]] game ''Dinosaur Planet''.) Most famously, [[Retro Studios]] rose to fame with the smash hit ''[[Metroid Prime]]''. [[Capcom]] was working on ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' and liked the 'Cube so much they promised a few exclusive games for it, dubbed the "Capcom 5":