The PS3 is easily the worst device Sony every built, both from a marketing perspective and quality-wise, but is it still beats the Gamecube for me. It's mostly down to the sheer amount of quality games. And while 1st party were mostly what salvaged the PS3 mess for me, the Gamecube had, in my opinion, the weakest iterations of almost every main series/evergreen on Nintendo home consoles. It certainly had nothing on the PS2 as far as breadth and depth of games go. It had a terrible controller, terrible design, silly proprietary format to avoid royalties and it had really poor marketing where I lived. The thing was more or less invisible to consumers, and it shows in the sales charts as well.
This all says more about my dislike for the GC and its poor library of games than any positive sentiment towards the PS3 though. They started moving games towards the online and multiplayer spheres and many beloved old PS franchises had poor showing with little substance. In addition, there was the laughable pricing and the terrible hardware setup that created more problems than actual, finished games for developers. It was a monolith of decadence and its greatest value when all was said and done would be to have taught Sony a lesson on humility, markets and demographics. If not for the uninteresting/poor competition, I might never have gotten a PS3 at all.
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