Acclaim to Drop GameCube Support

Bond · 06-23-2003, 10:47 AM

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Acclaim's CEO Rod Cousens claims they are not generating enough money on the GameCube.

In a recent article on MVC , a German computer and video game web site, Acclaim has decided to drop their support for the Nintendo GameCube.

Acclaim's CEO, Rod Cousens, commented on Acclaims recent decision by stating, "Why are we to develop games for platforms that do not supply appropriate yields? We still support PS2 and Xbox, but Nintendo? No, not in the foreseeable future."

Acclaim's current games in development for the GameCube will continue as planned, however no further projects will be planned in the future.

Source: Gamerfeed

And another one bites the dust...

I really don't think that Acclaim made that many outsanding games for the GameCube in anycase.

gekko · 06-23-2003, 10:57 AM

I don't think Acclaim has made any outstanding games for any system. Most of their games are multiplatform, and complete crap. For some reason, I don't think Acclaim will be missed.

Joeiss · 06-23-2003, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by gekko

I don't think Acclaim has made any outstanding games for any system. Most of their games are multiplatform, and complete crap. For some reason, I don't think Acclaim will be missed.

Agreed.

Professor S · 06-23-2003, 11:04 AM

They might not be missed by educated gamers, but they are a massive developer that makes games that people do buy. We might not miss Acclaim, but I think Nintendo will.

Jonbo298 · 06-23-2003, 11:14 AM

Hey at least in the future if Acclaim wants to try crawling back to Nintendo, Nintendo could say something like "Remember X years ago and what you said? What are you going to do to let us say yes, we'll let you develop games for X system?" (whatever the next gen system is)
*Sound familiar

*cough Square*
But I won't be missing Acclaim. All the games they've made for the 'Cube I never really liked or wanted.

Xantar · 06-23-2003, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by The Strangler

They might not be missed by educated gamers, but they are a massive developer that makes games that people do buy. We might not miss Acclaim, but I think Nintendo will.

I don't know about that. There's a reason Acclaim has been having financial troubles, you know. Their games haven't, in fact, been selling.

The damage from this development is more likely going to be the increased perception that GameCube is not the console for third party developers. That's not a trivial thing, but any developer dropping support would have the same effect.

Stonecutter · 06-23-2003, 12:02 PM

Outside of the Xtreme G series this doesn't bother me in the slightest, or wouldn't bother me in the slighest if the cube were the only system that I owned.