The main reason it failed was because of the stigma it Nintendo had at the time of being, "kiddie". The Purple lunch box (which is what i heard a lot of people call it) wasnt an attractive looking system. The controller was viewed as not being as comfortable as the Xbox or PS2 controller. And for a most part Nintendo's big games were infioror to their Nintendo 64 counterparts.
- Mario Kart Double Dash
- Super Mario Sunshine (this game did NOT help nintendo's kiddie image)
- Zelda: The Wind Waker (another, kiddie image game)
- Mario Party Games
- Wave Race: Blue Storm
- Star Fox Adventures
- 1080 Avalanche
- Donkey Konga Games
Of course some of these games people loved, but most of those games were viewed as not as good and ground breaking as their N64 counterparts. The whole Kiddie image stigma Nintendo had at the time really hurt them in the long run. THis might have been why they bought Resident Evil exclusives at the time. For me personally Gamecube is only just above the the WiiU as Nintendo's worst systems.
With that said, GCN brought us...
- Resident Evil 4
- Metroid Prime 1+2
- SSBM
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