| oniyide said: To this day i still dont get how GC got beat that badly. I can understand why they couldnt topple PS2, but XBox??? How the hell did that sell more?? and why did it sell more??? Gamecube was actully outselling it in hte very beggining, but things went downhill fast. Was it the lack of DVD drive??? its not like DVD players were expensive. Was it the lack of a proper Mario launch game??? I would have thought the Ninty first party offering would have been enough to trounce the Xbox, it not like Xbox had exclusives comparable to Ninty's IMO. Most of the games worth a damn were avalaible on PS2. Maybe someone could shed some light, because there was no way that an upstart Xbox division should have toppled GC. It was cheaper had the Ninty characters and the controller was more comftable (not for fighters). Was Halo that good (ok, it was but still). When its all said and done, to me the Gamecube signified the end of an era. The day of dedicated home consoles died. Now we have web browsers, Espn, HuluPlus, Netflix, Facebook, weather updates, Blurays, photoshops and all kinds of other crap that has little to do with games. Im not mad at it, but IMHO the GC was the last true gaming console. No DVD/Bluray crap, on online, no motion gimmicks. Just 100% gaming. Oh well I liked it. |
1. It sold like 2 million more units worldwide. 3 million at most.
2. It had Halo: Combat Evolved. Which ushered in dual analog FPS games. Kind of a big deal.
3. DVD players were very expensive in 2001. Not to mention, in order to play DVDs, you need the licensing rights from something called DVD Forum. And Nintendo didn't feel like spending the money. Besides, Nintendo put that money into a kickass processor and a powerful graphics card.
4. No. The GameCube's launch window had plenty of high profile games. Chief among them: Pikmin, Super Smash Bros. Melee, and Star Wars Rogue Squadron II.
5. Yes, Halo was that good. But only for the previously mentioned reason. Not everyone had 500 dollars to spend on an Xbox and a GameCube.
