Nah, the GC was actually in a tossup with the Xbox for most powerful console of the gen, while the Wii U is a gen behind. And for all the talk about Nintendo's lack of 3rd party support over the past few gens, the GC received a pretty good share of 3rd party games, many of which were superior to the PS2 versions in terms of visuals.
I'm just curious here, but can you give me like a dozen or so examples where this were the case between 2001-2004? Because to my understanding GC versions of multi-platform games were almost always deemed the worst of the pack. Even Sonic Adventure 2 took a performance hit on the Gamecube, a port of a freaking Dreamcast game.
Games like Resident Evil 4, for example:
The one where Leon is in the S.T.A.R.S. (that's what it's called, right?) is the PS2 version.
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