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nomenclature

Shouldn't this article be named "Nintendo GameCube"?

I'm certain it was, for many many years.

That's always been the official nomenclature of this product and it was styled as such since the day it was announced, and I for the longest time understood it to be a quite concrete rule that articles covering specific products should reflect their official nomenclature.

In a setting such as this, naming this article "GameCube" because that's what its frequently colloquially called would be as incorrect as calling the controller for Nintendo's 5th home console "Wiimote" when that too is a popular colloquialism that was never used by Nintendo, or like naming the article for Microsoft's first console "X-Box" because the it's frequently rendered as such by members of the public typing out the name, or like naming the article covering Apple's high performance laptop computer line "Macintosh Notebook Professional" merely because that's what the product line's official name "MacBook Pro" is derived from.

Should anyone argue that articles for Nintendo's Wii and Wii U consoles are also titled "Wii" and "Wii U" and not "Nintendo Wii" and "Nintendo Wii U", let me point out that those consoles were never branded in that manner by Nintendo, and were always in all official literature (press releases, promotional copy, etc.) descriptions by company employees, and that official style guides distributed to press and retailers as ONLY "Wii" and "Wii U". 74.137.148.37 (talk) 12:32, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Talk:GameCube/Archive 4#Move to Nintendo GameCube for further info. Thanks. — Paper Luigi ^{T • C} 20:13, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Accuracy of the imagery of the Indigo GameCube

The quality of the imagery by User:Evan-Amos is amazing, however I'm dubious of the accuracy of the colour. While the GameCube was often graphically illustrated as a purple-Indigo, does the actual physical console look like this?

The colour in the earlier revision of File:Gamecube-controller-breakdown.jpg looks much closer to what I've seen first hand and what appears online. When photographs do posses this purple tint, it tends to be in warm lighting.

~ Rob984 (talk) 16:20, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Evan-Amos took both of those photos. On the controllers, I personally cannot really see a color difference. The console does seem less vibrant, but it's also flat rather than curved. -- ferret (talk) 16:32, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The purple of the GameCube and GBA does not photograph properly due to colorspace issues, showing up as blue-ish. I used Nintendo promo photos to adjust the colors to what should be "real" values, but it's a finnicky process. The Controller Breakdown photo is also really old and should have been retaken, but I just never got back to it. Evan-Amos (talk) 20:54, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Abbreviated Name

Why is the page simply titled "GameCube"? Shouldn't we put "Nintendo GameCube" on the title? Because that is what the logo says. 2603:6010:8B00:44FF:90B6:1DE7:B1D3:FB0B (talk) 21:59, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]