Interesting Quote About the GameCube's Design

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Farsala said:

The other factor vvith that is it simply vvasn't a dvd player. If it had cheap, dvd player, and strongest console vvith 3rd party support, then I think Gamecube vvould be better off.

But other things come into play like marketing, and big money deals.

The original Xbox wasn't a dvd player out of the box either, you needed to buy a dvd adapter thing for it that cost about €50 here in Ireland, still cheaper than most dvd players at the time but I guess the original Xbox didn't really stand much competition to the monster PS2 at the time either.