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1 year agoDefine “console” here. The GameCube was underperforming, but Nintendo was dominating the handheld market with both the Game Boy Advance and the DS. I’m not sure a similarly underperforming Wii would have doomed the company, but I suspect it may have led Nintendo to try a crossover style handheld/set-top hybrid like the Switch a generation early.
I don’t know if any of these things are going to doom the game outright, per se, but there’s been a lot of hype building around the game for a long time and I think that’s… potentially ominous. It’s being positioned as the Next Big Thing™, and it’s rare that any game can live up to that. Even if it’s not a complete Cyberpunk-esque disaster, failing to live up to the frankly impossible expectations that are being foisted upon it are very likely to result in backlash.