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| curl-6 said: The Gamecube failed because there was little reason to own one. PS2 had more games and played DVDs, and Xbox had Halo. The only thing Gamecube had in its favour was Nintendo games, and Nintendo shot itself in the foot there by taking a lot of its games in an unappealing direction, like Mario Sunshine featuring Mario as a janitor at a monotonous resort setting, Zelda looking like a children's cartoon, Double Dash overcomplicating Mario Kart's simple appeal, Donkey Kong doing the lame bongo gimmick, Starfox becoming a mediocre Zelda clone, etc. GBA had the benefit of having hardly any competition and it was more in line with the tastes of its target audience. |
I never saw it in that way, but damn, yeah, Mario Sunshine, Wind Waker, Star Fox Adventures, whatever they did with DK, neither of those were well received at the time, and even today the only of those games that bounced back is WW. But I disagree with Double Dash, it was actually one of the good games in there, along with Melee, TTYD, Metroid Prime 1 and 2 and many others.
Anyway, my answer is simply that the GameCube had to go against the PS2, the GBA didn't. Xbox didn't fare much better than the GameCube, with Halo or not.
