| ganoncrotch said:
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. |
The gap between the OG Xbox and Gamecube was not big. Although I will say that one thing that the OG xbox did was innovate in the online space driven by Halo and introduced high acclaimed western RPGS to the console space (Edlerscrolls Morrowind, Star Wars Knights of the old Republic 1/2, Jade Empire, Fable).
Genre wise the gamecube didn't excel in anyway the PS2 didn't; PS2 matched and surpassed it in every category. The Xbox on the otherhand actually carved its own niche as a PC for console gamers.
