PS2 beat out the Gamecube for a couple of reasons. PS2 came out earlier than the GC. The PS2 played all of the PS1 games so that increased the library of games by 100 fold. The PS2 was a DVD based system and not some little disk with less capacity. PS2 ushered in the DVD age in my opinion. So once again, a system with more power, (the gamecube) was hammered by a system that appealed more to the masses (PS2). Kind of like with the PSP and the DS, and the PS3 and the Wii.







