GBA. 90 bucks. Pokemon. Nintendo handhelds are undefeated. Its competition was Neo Geo Pocket Color. WonderSwan (in Japan only) Tapwave. N-Gage. GBA was seen as appealing to a younger audience without breaking the bank.
Gamecube. Cute looked console with Nintendo Nintendo-looking games in the era of the early 2000s everything needed to be edgy and "adult" which PS2 had in spades. It was cool. It had the "cool" games. Gamecube was not cool. Xbox had Halo and online. Sure Nintendo made some bonehead choices with Gamecube and did not do more to enhance third party relations. So it is partly on them for not adapting. It only played games and nothing cool like play DVDs. Then again we saw Nintendo trying to in that era with a GBA with tribal tattoos and Mario with Tribal tattoos. NOA trying to be edgy was the meme of Hello fellow children.
People like the Gamecube now but at the time it was embarrassing to the prime audience of PS2 and Xbox to be seen with one. The era of G4 and Spike TV. If it was cartoony or Japanese it was way uncool.
Bite my shiny metal cockpit!
