GAMER LOUNGE 20XX (NO CASUALS!!)

[Kriven]

I can't speak for anybody else, but I've always viewed the GameCube as transitional not in terms of graphics (I mean, they were stepped up, for sure, but still SD) but in a lot of other ways for Nintendo specifically. It was their first disc-based console, it was the first time Nintendo really went at it with having voiceworked cutscenes for their games, and it was about the time that plot became a more pivotal element in their titles. I'm not saying these things didn't exist prior to the GameCube, but the GameCube was when Nintendo really began to embrace the concepts.

GameCube was Nintendo hitting puberty, I guess?
Now they're graduating from college.