Why did Gamecube get served???

[Mr Khan]

LordTheNightKnight said:

ssj12 said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

ssj12 said:

In terms of profit it won the generation, in terms of sales it lost. Its a flip of a coin really.

Which I guess one could call a "successful failure", a term that's applied to other things that don't work, but aren't the train wrecks they could have been.

Unlike the original Xbox which might have been in second, but came with a massive lose. That is what you call a complete failure.

Well it did get their foot in the door, so it's also a successful failure. Or an expensive as hell success.

I would call it the latter. My guess is that Microsoft's intent was to do whatever it took to get their foot in the door, whatever blood or capital it had to expand, to put a stop to this menacing "Computer Entertainment System." Xbox was a success as far as non-winner consoles go, though few non-winning consoles could be called a success. The only others that had expectations less than what they achieved would be maybe the Master System (got Sega established in the market Nintendo created), and the Neo Geo (since it wasn't meant to be really mainstream at those prices)