#Stupid game cube game movie#
I’ve always hated their color schemes with a passion lol.The Polar Express]]Look another bad game based on a good movie wow, really this game for me was a bad Christmas Present, because i've played it during Christmas since it's a Christmas game based on a Christmas Movie, the game looks Terrible the Textures and the character models look like they are low poly, the objectives are repetetive, the gameplay is pretty boring, and the game is not worth you're time, really i hated the way how i've managed to play this game, but it's not the worst there is worse to come.ģ. Now, personally I think the colors that were an absolute terrible idea for the gamecube are the yellow and orange ones. Purple fits the gamecube’s concept of standing out and being something entirely different than the rest. The Wii set itself apart with the white color & blue lights theme fitting the concept of something new and innovative for a new generation. If you ask me, a black and silver design choice would’ve made the gamecube look like every other console with no real personality.
I don’t know anyone who thinks gamecube and first thing that comes to mind is “should’ve been silver”. The gamecube is the only console that’s purple, it’s a cube, it stands out and is iconic. The purple aesthetic looks damn good and stands out as unique. Look at Japanese streetwear, car culture, tokyo design aesthetics, etc. First off, purple/indigo is in no way a “feminine” looking color. Yeah, gonna have to disagree on this one. Nintendo was never a technology story, but we were always combating what our competitors at Sony and Microsoft were doing from a PR perspective and having this purple box didn’t quite help there.” Nintendo of America’s former director of corporate communications, Beth Llewelyn But back then all the game systems were black… even white hadn’t really been done widely. Picking your color these days is like making a statement. I remember us being very nervous at E3 that we were going to get bad press purely based on the color.” Perrin Kaplan, Nintendo’s former VP of marketing and corporate affairs It wasn’t that you couldn’t bring out hardware that was a different color, it was just a very… ‘female’ looking color.
“We actually suggested that the purple was not the best to start with and (Japan) said, ‘no, we’re going to use that.’ Then we pushed for black and silver, because I think in the US nobody had ever really done the purple color before. Nintendo of America wanted to have a Black GameCube and a Silver GameCube at launch, as they thought that the purple GameCube looked to feminine at the time and they were nervous that it would be slated at E3 based on the system’s colour. However, as the Japanese branch has the final say on what goes, Nintendo of America were basically told, ‘nope, the company is going with this’.
To celebrate the GameCube’s 20th anniversary, VGC has spoken to Perrin Kaplan, who was VP of marketing at Nintendo of America at the time, who told them that the PR and marketing teams at Nintendo of America were not happy with the default purple colour choice and they informed Nintendo Japan of this. The system which launched in 2001 had some excellent Nintendo content such as Luigi’s Mansion, Super Smash Bros Melee, Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader, The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, and more, but some gamers at the time were put off with the vibrant purple colour choice and almost child-like design. It is hard to believe but the classic GameCube is now twenty years old.
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