xbox did better because MS had the marketing power to sell itself as a brand new brand and product. Ironically it was closer, in terms of style of users, to the PS2 than the game cube was.
The gamecube was badly design IMO. It was not appealing to me when i went to go and buy it. I bought a dvd player instead.
Nintendo knew this, why else do you think the Wii is an ipod / dvd player hybrid.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
