RolStoppable said:
The gamecube was a flop saleswise. A console with a good number of great exclusive games that only sells 21m units is a flop. Also Nintendo was expecting the GC to sell much better in its lifespan. Compared to the GC the Xbox is a success saleswise if you take a look at their respective game libraries. How many great games were available only on Xbox and not on any other console or PC? Microsoft was a newcomer to the videogame business and were able to beat Nintendo saleswise. That is success for Microsoft and failure for Nintendo. |
So the GC was a flop because it had some great exclusives but the XB was a success because it sold at similar levels with less exclusives?
I think what you are trying to say is that the GC was a 'relative' flop in comparison to previous N consoles wheras the XB performed 'reasonably' well for a 1st console.
I could easily argue that XB was a flop because a company with MS's power, that was able to buy in exclusives and buy-out Rare, Bizarre and so on should be able to crush a relatively small and strugling (at the time) company like Nintendo who had very little 3rd party support.
I could argue that other 1st time consoles have sold massively and that the XB is a flop when put next to the NES or PS1.
All of this is irrelevant, however, and the only fair way to judge the success of a console is on sales. In this regard they both performed at a very similar level and should be judged accordingly.
