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bigtakilla on 05 April 2016
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zorg1000 said:
bigtakilla said:

But Gamecube had Resident Evil 4 (exclusive for a time), Tales Of Symphonia, Metal Gear Solid The Twin Snakes, Star Wars Rogue Leader, Star Wars Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebel Strike, 007 Nightfire, Goldeneye Rogue Agent, Turok Evolution, several Splinter Cells, several Call Of Duties, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, Baten Kaitos.... Let's face it, if we are talking about big third party titles Gamecube had a TON of them compared to the original Xbox (and this is NOTHING when including the plethora of first party titles, of which there were multiple of every series). It was also the most powerful system of the three and games were graphically better. 

You also mention Windwaker, but fail to mention Twilight Princess. You mention the Star Fox's but not the fact that Metroid Prime was HUGE. You mention Mario Sunshine and not Paper Mario. What about Smash Bros Melee, or Luigi's Mansion, or Mario Kart Double Dash? Face it, it had the quality and the quantity.

It WAS the fact that Microsoft made a console. The brand recognition was MASSIVE in the US, and was a huge reason it took off. Xbox as a brand name may have meant nothing, but the company behind it sure did.

again you are wrong, Xbox had more 3rd party support than Gamecube, its not an opinion, its a fact. Gamecube had 600+ games while Xbox had 900+ games.

you honestly have no clue what you are talking about, Gamecube was not more powerful than Xbox, that is another fact.

i didnt bring up Twilight Princess because it released 5 whole years after launch when the console was already dead and had been replaced and the Wii version came out first.

You are right that Gamecube had some great games and did some things right but thats not the point of what were talking about, were talking about why Xbox outsold Gamecube and that is due to the things Microsoft did right and the things Nintendo did wrong.

Like I said before, Nintendo pretty much gave up the shooter crowd by not having a killer app shooter at or around launch casuing alot of the GoldenEye/Perfect Dark crowd to switch to Halo. Microsoft embraced multimedia functions & online features while Nintendo didnt.

And how many of those were huge mainstream games comparitively? It had Halo (which is exactly what I said) at launch and the Microsoft name behind it. 

And you bring up online, but the PS2 didn't have online for most of its gen life and it demolished Xbox.... I can't even think of a major online game for PS2 (bar FF XI). Obviously it was not that important of a function. Heck, Dreamcast had online funtionality. Didn't really help it.