Why did the Gamecube fail?

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Leynos said:

FormerlyTeamSilent13 said:

I’ll just say PS2 is my favorite console of all time (games, games, games) and Xbox had Halo. I also disagree with many metacritic scores this generation particularly with many games being underrated PS2 exclusives. I can think of dozens of examples off the top of my head, but I don’t want to put a wall of text. This was the generation I played the most games, spent most time playing games, and the only generation I owned every console (along with both sony and nintendo handhelds). I feel strongly that gamecube is overrated, but I know this site has mostly a nintendo fanbase and many view gamecube high in their childhood so I’ll leave it that all three consoles this generation were good so it had the most competition.

I believe Gamecube purely from a library standpoint it is Nintendo's worst console and the worst console of the 6th generation. From a hardware standpoint, PS2 was the worst engineered. Gamecube the best followed by DC and Xbox. Not talking about raw power but in how balanced of a system they were.

The OG Xbox was a step up over Gamecube in regards to balance.

The Xbox's CPU was potent, but the awesome Soundstorm audio chip offloaded audio tasks, the GPU offloaded things like TnL from the CPU meaning the CPU could punch above it's weight... It came with a chunky amount of Ram for the time too which enabled games like Morrowind, Doom 3, Half Life 2 to be on the console which were traditionally PC experiences.

But relying on commodity PC hardware which had gone through decades worth of research and development already by that point, was a known quantity in regards to development nuances and balance, really hard to argue with that approach.

The Dreamcast was also fairly refined, but it was definitely memory limited, 26MB of total memory (16MB system, 8MB video, 2MB audio) was not well suited for the entire generation... But it did release in 1999 I guess.