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

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HoloDust said:

curl-6 said:

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.

GameCube just would have sold more if there was no XBox. 

GameCube had a lot of good things going for it including significantly better hardware than the PS2, it just got drowned out by too many systems all trying to basically do the same thing and MS willing to lose like $120/system back then. 

No XBox and people would've come around to the GameCube having some really strong exclusives (Metroid Prime, Resident Evil 4, Wind Waker, etc.), better graphics than the PS2, and easier to program for to developers.