You can attribute many outside factors but what I posted also shows. Nintendo's old guard was just too stubborn and arrogant to allow Gamecube to succeed. NOA tried to make Gamecube edgier with those commercials. (look them up they are dark and edgy) but the edgy commercial with Mario doesn't work. Nintendo did secure the rights to Resident Evil and games like Killer 7 (K7 and RE4 were supposed to stay GC exclusive) but Nintendo still looked like the meme Hello fellow kids meme. I don't think the disc capacity was that big a deal in the case of Gamecube. This was not as extreme as N64. Multi disc games were nothing new. 360 had the same issue and did fine. Blue Dragon comes on 4 discs. The kiddie image can be overcome as shown by Wii by changing demographics and Switch changed demo's from Wii U. Nintendo's messenging with GCN was confusing. It's for adults now with edgy ads...then shows Wind Waker. We also have Reident Evil...on a Fisher Price controller. Just a very mixed and out of touch message. Tho yes not being able to play a DVD was a factor. Just not the main one.
Bite my shiny metal cockpit!
