Should Mario Party 8 Have Stayed a GameCube Game?

[SuperZambezi]

It's really obvious that Mario Party 8 was originally a GameCube game. The delays, the lack of widescreen, and the tacked on Wii remote controls help consolidate this fact.

But do you think Mario Party 8 should have stayed a GameCube title? Would there have been any benefits to this?

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

And that's like saying if Super Paper Mario should have stayed as a GameCube game, too. But eh, it probably should have, since it's like a GameCube game with motion controls, that weren't really used properly, like you said. The the only benefit to making it to Wii instead was the impressive sales. It would have benefited for GCN only for the controls and the way it was played. The negative to this would be the sales, as it would have been the last Mario Party game for GCN, making Mario Party 9 the only Mario Party for Wii.

 

[MQJinx]

It should have because the controls would be a lot smoother.

 

[IggyKoopaStar]

It's hard to say. Even though it was mostly shown to be a Gamecube game, I think the motion controls are good for a game like this and this adds some sort of fun on it. Yeah, I do prefer it on Wii though (just the lack of widescreen graphics but this didn't really bother me much for a game supposed to be on the Gamecube...) but I don't think I would have been against the Gamecube either because it would be good and the controls would have been too but this said console was most likely at the end of it's cycle when this Wii game was out and it would have more benefit to put it on the Wii with these motion controls that I do like anyways... Probably why it was probably made for the Wii at this point.

 

[AegisReflector]

And that's like saying if Super Paper Mario should have stayed as a GameCube game, too. But eh, it probably should have, since it's like a GameCube game with motion controls, that weren't really used properly, like you said. The the only benefit to making it to Wii instead was the impressive sales. It would have benefited for GCN only for the controls and the way it was played. The negative to this would be the sales, as it would have been the last Mario Party game for GCN, making Mario Party 9 the only Mario Party for Wii.

You just contradicted yourself in every point you tried to make.

Please refrain from posting.

 

[SirYoshi211]

I don't much would've changed aside from controls. It kind of feels like a gamecube game to me. It could've been better.

 

[Mario Sports Mix]

Maybe, if number 4 wasn't on GameCube.

 

[Yoshiman222]

Nah, motion control in this game is one of the main things I liked about this game.
Even if some of the those minigames sucked, this game wouldn't seem as good as it does without those motion controlled ones.

 

[Jimmy T.]

The GameCube wasn't selling very well during 2004 so after Mario Party 7 was released in November 2005, Hudson knew that they were going to develop Mario Party 8 but they moved the project to the upcoming Wii console as they will take their time to work on it. The GameCube was discontinued in 2007-08. Mario Party 8 was released on the new console instead of the old one because Nintendo is done with the Mario series for the GCN.