Who or what could ever be so cruel to make our beloved and every cheerful Shigeru Miyamoto sad?! Apparently: the Gamecube. In a recent interview with Famitsu’s Katsuaki Kato, Miyamoto confessed his feelings of sadness and frustration during the Gamecube years.

According to good ol’ Shiggy, during the NGC days Nintendo tried hard to play catch-up to Sony’s PS2 and the Microsoft newcomer, the Xbox. "The more we competed with new companies entering the market, the more we started acting similar to them” says Miyamoto. A troubling comment seeing as if they had tried to copy Sony and Microsoft… the Gamecube would have had a more diverse library. Then Miyamoto drops the tearjerker quote by saying:

"This is a job where you have a plan and you polish it endlessly while getting help from others. If Nintendo’s games fail to stand out as games that aren’t made that way proliferate, then it shows that the creation process is for nothing, which made me very sad. That was especially obvious during the GameCube era; Nintendo titles were hardly even discussed by the [non-gaming] general public back then."

Yeah Shiggy, you were not the only one sad and frustrated with the little purple box, we all were… we all were.

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