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niceguygameplayer on 26 February 2017
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mysteryman said:
niceguygameplayer said:

2. No powerful hardware for their home consoles. Only gimmicks to excuse making cheap hardware for large cost. They struck it rich with Wii and have been doing it since. Even the GameCube had no DVDCD player, unlike PS2 and Xbox. Well, I'm not sure about Xbox with DVD's, but it could play CD's, I think. Plus Xbox was the most powerful of it's generation and had a hard drive.

It's ironic that you use the gamecube as an example, as it was more powerful (and cheaper) than the PS2 - and the DVD player was the gimmick.

The DVD player was no gimmick. It was useful to casuals and core alike. I don't remember the pricing exactly. I thought they were both priced around the same when GameCube came out. Both about $299, unless I'm mistaken. Correct me if I'm wrong. Oh, and you could play no music CD's either. The Sega CD and PC EngineTurbografx CD could do that. They were from two generations before.