Why did the Gamecube fail?

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shikamaru317 said:

StuOhQ said:
Because Sony's marketing team absolutely killed it to the point that there are people who still believe the PS2 was the most powerful console of that generation. And the GCN did not play DVDs... and the general public are morons ;)

It's mind blowing to me that some people still think that. The specs clearly show it to be weaker than both Gamecube and Xbox, and the graphics on most of the 3rd party multiplat games that released on all 3 show a disadvantage for PS2 as well. Not to mention that most of gen 6's best looking games were either Xbox exclusives/console exclusives, or multiplat games running on Xbox.

	PS2	Gamecube	Xbox
CPU	294/299 mhz	485 mhz	733 mhz
GPU	147 mhz/6.2 gflops	162 mhz/9.4 gflops	233 mhz/20 gflops
RAM	System- 32 MB DRAM Graphics- 4 MB Sound- 2 MB	System- 24 MB SRAM + 16 MB DRAM Graphics- 3 MB	64 MB unified RAM for both system and graphics

PS2 only beats gamecube in having larger disc space and 1 MB more video RAM, and the few games that look worse on Gamecube than PS2 were mostly due to the storage size limitation of gamecube's discs, which forced devs to use lower quality textures and other assets in some cases just to fit on the discs.

Yes and the RAM chips too, some of GCN third party games were planned to come then stealth cancelled/canceled because of limitation RAM capacity, like Max Payne which was highly demanding back then the devs couldn't port to GCN hardware.

I'm not suppose to share ancient post via forum, sigh whatever! xD

Source:
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33601943