History
In the late 1990s, when Nintendo began development on the console that would become the GameCube, the once seemingly invincible company had proven vulnerable after all. As we saw in Chapter 3.3, its previous console, the Nintendo 64, was innovative in some ways and oldfashioned in others. It hadn’t been a total failure, but it did allow Sony to rip into Nintendo’s share of the console market and steal a great deal of its thunder. Even though Nintendo was still the undisputed king of handheld gaming (see Chapter 2.4), their mostly G-rated games library, which reassured so many parents and sold many Nintendo Entertainment Systems in the past, was a liability now that the majority of gamers were in their ...
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