Super Mario Sunshine has a peculiar status for a mainline Mario game. The surest bet of all was the follow up to Super Mario 64. That left Nintendo, and the three UK #1 games on their purple playbox were all sequels to their own major series. Rare only made one game for the Gamecube ( Starfox Adventures) before being bought out by Microsoft. Rogue Squadron II was a launch title but Peak Star Wars was past, at least for now. The limited follow-up on two of those was among many things preventing the Gamecube from being even as big a success as the N64. The N64’s successes basically fell into three categories: Nintendo’s big names, Star Wars, and games by Rare. The Nintendo 64 was never able to rival the PlayStation, but coupled with the evolving versions of the Game Boy (and of Pokémon), it finally established Nintendo as at least one of the central players in the UK, and the console played host to some major successes. It may even have helped drag Nintendo up with it. The success of the PlayStation in the UK made console gaming central to video games here in a way which it had never been previously. Super Mario Sunshine (Nintendo, Gamecube, 2002)
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