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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vigilance" data-source="post: 3037064" data-attributes="member: 4275">This is a common misconception I think. Yes the Game Boy is a monster, especially the Pokemon franchise, which was the #2 selling game of 2005, second to Madden 2005. But the Gamecube was soldily profitable and is still being modestly supported with some good games.Again since it's not TEH SHINY it tends to get disregarded as the flashier systems do battle but the Gamecube has been successful enough on its own to merit the Wii.Nintendo is not a huge corporation on the scale of MS or Sony (and please don't tell me they're big, I know this, just not on the same scale as MS or Sony). They can't afford to lose money on consoles. I don't think they would be against abandoning consoles for hand-held gaming if they weren't achieving their goals in the console market.And again, I run into people, like you, all the time who miss what they're doing. I own a Gamecube, not for me, but for the kids. It's a cheap system, so if it were to get killed by Kool Aid I wouldn't need to lose my mind, it's durable as hell, so the 9yr old and her squaking brood can play party games and beat it like it stole something and it still works just fine.It's a nice, solid economical system that's affordable and reliable, in part because it DOES NOT rush to the edge of what's possible.I look for the Wii to step into that same niche as a nice upgrade to the GC, while still being affordable and durable.Not every TV needs to be a 60 inch plasma to be successful and not every game system needs to be a flashy 600 dollar PS3 to be worth my money. Right, but what you're missing is that this is a new port of the game. Madden has been on the Gamecube all along, with each year's game doing solid business there. It's my understanding that the Wii will still support the GC controller.This means EA could have done a straight port using the standard interface for the GC controller. The fact that they are intrigued enough by the Wii wand controller to change the interface to take advantage of it says a lot to me about that controller being a GOOD controller. Oh I'm aware of what it is, I call it a shooter above I think. But Square is still a solid company and the idea of the game, which sounds like it's a bit on the gritty side about a modern samurai who fights with gun and katana sounds very interesting to me.Also, I believe Square is serving mostly as a distributor for Red Steel. It looks like from what I'm reading that Ubisoft (a company basically built around FPS design) is actually doing the game, just with some support from Square.Chuck</blockquote>

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