Purple as your main color choice for a console was always insane frankly. Like if the NES was purple ... I don't think it would have done as well. Like I don't know it what era anyone would want a full on purple console lol. Yes the North American Super NES used purple but it was very subtle as an accent color.
The whole thing was a neat design, but also very stupid (lets just be honest).
If I was teleported back to 1999, I would tell Nintendo to ditch the Barney colored lunchbox design, that shit is not going to work, make a silver or black console, use full size discs, and move Perfect Dark and Zelda: Majora's Mask to the GameCube immediately. You have to launch in fall 2000, waiting until 2001 will give Sony too much time to basically lock the generation up and you'll be launching right into the XBox as well which will muddy the waters. You need that extra year to launch earlier, you do not have the time you think you have.
The GameCube hardware was done by summer/fall 2000, they basically sat on it for an entire year because their software division wasn't on the ball.
Obviously, I'd rather have a Bond game than Perfect Dark too but it was probably too late at that point to change that. They needed to get a large lead over the XBox to cement at least a stable no.2 position and not let Sony get that far ahead.
