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bonzobanana said:
Xbox was hugely more powerful than Gamecube and was capable of games that neither the ps2 and Gamecube could do for various technical reasons.

Most multiformat games were superior on xbox to ps2 and gamecube. Sometimes a night and day difference. The gflops performance of the xbox gpu was something like 20-25 where as the gamecube was 8 gflops. Not only that but it had a more advanced feature set and had 32bit colour output for transparencies etc. It trounces the wii on almost every level let alone its own generation.

Great looking games on xbox are far cry, conker, Halo series of course. Ambitious games not possible on ps2 or gamecube would be games like Half Life 2.

Some games were 720p on original xbox like soul caliber 2 which were 480i/p on ps2 and gamecube.

Don't get me wrong though I was a huge fan of gamecube but the xbox delivered a technical performance level well beyond ps2 and gamecube for many games. The build in hard drive hugely supplemented the memory and optical storage to allow fast streaming of data, something not possible on ps2 or gamecube. The xbox had 64MB of shared memory but the ps2 only had 32MB with 4MB for video and the gamecube had 24MB of main memory and 3MB of video. The gamecube also had 16MB of slow memory which was used to cache the optical drive so meant the optical drive speed of gamecube was blisteringly fast but that memory wasn't available as main memory in the same way.

A typical gamecube game vs the xbox version would be cut down or removed video in the gamecube version due to lack of storage, missing graphic data and assets in game because of limited memory and simplified 2 channel sound due to not having the true 5.1 sound output of the original xbox.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDtKLmiGwj0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5suGMyqb-gY

The xbox was a hideous lump of a console but capable of some truly stunning games for its time but then it was really just a pc pretending to be a games console.

 

And PS2 was weaker than GC and Xbox and was sold 7x better. So power isn't really good reason why Xbox outsell GC.