I love Nintendo consoles, although it is very difficult to argue that Gamecube wasn't primarily aimed at children. Even as huge and longtime Nintendo fan, to me it looks very much like the case.
It looked like a children's lunchbox, and the controller looked like a children's toy. The main games were a cartoon for toddlers looking game in Celda, and the other was Mario with a squirty gun. People will bring up games like Resident Evil 4, but I think most people were confused why a game like that would be on the Gamecube in the first place, it was ported to Wii and PS2 and both of those outsold the original. The only other times I can think of where ports outsold the original were games ported from the heavily pirated Dreamcast.
With SNES, Nintendo was supposed to be lame compared to Sega, but then Donkey Kong Country came out. Unfortunately, Nintendo didn't follow up the awesomeness of the final years of the SNES on N64, and N64 became somewhat the lame system. Although it had some really excellent games like Goldeneye, Lylat Wars, Banjo Kazooie, Mario Kart, and the Zeldas. I think Wii made Nintendo cool again, it was the first time I had ever seen consoles being used a lot during parties.
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