Why was the GBA Successful but the Gamecube wasn't

[HyrulianScrolls]

There was a weird cultural shift at the time with millennials who were becoming adolescents where everything colorful and whimsical was deemed “kiddy” and “stupid.” We just wanted gritty and gory at the time. Believe me, I lived through it and it was an incredibly stupid and judgmental time in pop culture. The GBA avoided the GC’s fate by being the system of the two that appealed more to kids/was more affordable for parents to buy kids. And even some of said adolescent millennials were ok getting a GBA as a secondary system to Ps2 or Xbox  because handhelds weren’t viewed as “legit” gaming anyways (again, stupid time in the culture).