Why was the GBA Successful but the Gamecube wasn't

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burninmylight said:

Salnax said:

1. The GBA was a great candidate for porting/remaking NES and SNES games, which were high quality games that weren't easily available. Examples include the Super Mario Advance quadrilogy, Link to the Past, Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land, Classic NES series, and various compilations.

#5 is an good point that seems to be underrated in this thread. The GBA was a JRPG factory at a time when JRPGs were at their peak popularity in the West, helped in large part by a deluge of NES/SNES ports and remakes, many of which were brand new to non-Japanese gamers. We got ports/remakes of things like Final Fantasy I-VI and Tales of Phantasia, and countless others.

Yeah, a lot of my GBA games were SNES ports/remakes.