Why did the Xbox outsell the GameCube?

[Bman54]

tokilamockingbrd said:

Conina said:

Oh, and again: please feel free to reduce the list of good reviewed Xbox titles above to the Xbox games which were good in your opinion. Then deliver a list of good GameCube titles which is 10x better. 

The 10x was hyperbole. As the quality of game is purely subjective based on a person's taste cant realistically quantify with a simple modifier.

The XBox's big selling point was Halo, and a Beach Volleyball game initially. Later on it got a few good games like Splinter Cell, and a few others.

 

The reason why its library is so weak is simple. The console had a 4 year life before the 360 launched, add onto that MS had shifted priorities a year ahead of that. So it essentially got 3 years of full support from the time it launch. The Gamecube has a 5 year cycle with major titles released in the 5th year. So its 5 years versus 3.

If you just line up the 1st 3 years of each with each other I am sure it is quite even but the gamecube was getting games like Paper Mario, MP2, Twighlight Princess and others after the XB360 was already released.

Don't know where you're getting that info, as Paper Mario and Metroid Prime 2 were both released a year before the 360 came out.