Why do you think OG Xbox often viewed as successful and Gamecube as unsuccessful, when they sold almost the same

[HoloDust]

curl-6 said:

HoloDust said:

IIRC, original goal of XBOX at the time was to prevent Sony from making their devices dominating living room, since MS considered PS2 as threat to their business of personal computing. In that regard, XBOX was a success for MS.

In that regard, I would contend that Xbox actually failed as it did not prevent the PS2 from dominating the living room.

I'd say that OG XBOX stopped Sony from having monopoly in that market, gave alternative platform to devs (especially PC devs) and set the stage for both 360 and the way how consoles are designed in the future (as PCs in the box). So, from my POV, it did its job fairly well.