It's funny seeing how folks who dislike the Wii will even rally behind the Gamecube if it means a chance to go on an anti-Wii tirade.

The Wii's library absolutely DESTROYS the Gamecube library by any metric - be it first party games, 3rd party games, exclusives, etc. - and it hasn't even been out as long, so it will only improve even more.

Uh, they're lists of Capcom's games for both.  Pretty obviously I thought?  Aren't you supposed to be some huge Capcom fan or something?  You really couldn't spot the connection, even after we'd just been talking about Capcom support?

And didn't mention "3rd party" in your response afterward.  I thought we were talking about Capcom at that point?

wii all the way. i loved both.

Wii's got 2 Metal Gears... on Virtual Console.  In Japan. :P

Real answer is though, because Nintendo hasn't decided to make/pay for one yet.  That's quite literally the only reason GC got TTS.

The best selling game Snake's ever appeared in (and likely the best selling he ever will) is on Wii though.

its funny how much support Ninty gets now, I bet half these "fans" didnt even own a Gamecube. Looking at the sales between the 2 consoles, I would probably be right.

Its GC hands down, and ill tell you exactly why. Nintendo is Nintendo, there going to bring quality games no matter the platform, its indisputable. So for me it comes down to 3rd party support. Yes the WII has more, but 75% suck. Activision's deer hunter, bowling, carnival games??? I wouldnt wipe my ass with those things. GC had better 3rd party support REremake, MGS TTS, Eternal Darkness, a bunch of DC ports, and when you talk multiplat??? you guys are insane, the GC wins already, in its generation it was more powerful than PS2 so whatever multiplat games came out were definitely better than the leading console, Sonic Heroes, Soul Calibur 2, Spider-man, just to name a few. Wii hardware is weaker than the HDs so there multiplat games are ususally not as good. The GC was my 1st Ninty console so my expectations were low, im happy to say that it surpassed my expectations by far, there were times when I even put down the PS2 controller for weeks on end. that has not happened with the Wii, ive yet to find a game on that system to make to turn off my PS3 or hell my PSP.

I played Pikmin 2 last night so I would beg to differ.

I'd say Wii is better than Gamecube, but it is missing a few things.
One, is Star Fox, but only the Star Fox Adventures game was good. Several teams want to make a Wii Star Fox but Nintendo isn't doing anything with the IP.

Two, is Timesplitters LOL but every console is missing that this gen.

And third, which is my personal opinion, is WWE Wrestling games. Every year from 2002 to 2005, I bought a wrestling game, and things related to it. I had Wrestlemania X8, X9, Day of Reckoning 1 & 2, Def Jam Vendetta and Fight for NY. The Smackdown games from 2007-2010 are terrible PS2 ports and the gameplay stinks on all consoles. How a Wii game can look worse than a 5 year old GC game is beyond me. It is like they fired everyone who worked on the GC games.

Other than that, Wii is much better than the Gamecube. Without those wrestling/fighting games, I would've been in a serious ass drought.

Well, it depends on how you judge the games. Metroid Prime and Resident Evil 4 are my two favorite games from either console's libraries. However my favorite Wii game is Twilight Princess simply because to me that is a Wii game every bit as much as a Gamecube game as they launched simultaneously, and I consider MP and RE4 Gamecube games that came out later on Wii.
So if you're just comparing all the games from both consoles to someone who has never played them before, then yeah I could see the Wii coming out on top. It has Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime Trilogy, RE4, and better games of Smash Bros, Mario Kart, and a far better Mario with Galaxy.  Not to mention access to the entire VC library.

However to me, Prime and RE4 on the Cube are legendary; more-so than any Wii game so far. I just don't hold the ported remakes of the Wii versions in as high regard. I'd consider the best Wii games to be Twilight Princess, Galaxy, SSBB, Prime 3, MK Wii, Zack and Wiki, etc. So looking at it that way I think that, SO FAR, the Gamecube still probably has the better of the great games, for its time anyway:

Metroid Prime, RE4, Wind Waker, Eternal Darkness, Resident Evil remake (Far, far better than the PS1 original), Viewtiful Joe, F Zero GX, Rogue Leader, etc.

Gamecube was more or less PS2 Junior. It landed somewhere between irrelevant and a joke last generation.

The Wii, on the otherhand, not only has superior iterations to Gamecube's top titles; but also has NES, SNES, N64, Genesis, TG16, ports for download, as well as some very interesting original titles for download. Not to mention a large number of very unique titles that were very fresh (Wii Fit, Wii Sports, Wario Ware Smooth Moves, etc..); it was the first major console to offer great motion and IR controls. It also dominates this generation, and is the first Nintendo system in 10 years to give me a reason not to really bother with any other systems.

Like the majority of Nintendo fans before the Wii, I played their handheld systems mostly, and played PSX and PS2 for home console.