Why did the Gamecube fail?

[Rustuv]

Ka-pi96 said:
It was purple and ugly?

More seriously though, when you ask "What did you or other people see in the Gamecube?" the answer is more along the lines of "What didn't I see?" and that was the Gamecube itself. It had basically no market presence. Everybody I knew had a PS2, Gamecube was barely even known about. Granted I'm from Europe where the NES, SNES and N64 didn't sell all that well either. So very little existing brand awareness, plus very little marketing or shelf space in stores and of course it isn't going to sell well.

Plus if, like me, you don't rate Nintendo games that highly then the Gamecube had a serious dearth of good games. I can't think of a single good exclusive for it, and for multiplats why would you get a weird system that nobody else owns for them, when you can get the same system all your mates have and borrow their games?

Fun fact: Europe received roughly 600 fewer Game Cube titles than the USA.