Well others have stated the games just didn't have wide enough appeal to sell. Furthermore, Nintendo didn't present it right, as the marketing often came across as just another 6th gen system with little identity of its own other than the major first party games.

But this has already been discussed loads of other posts here. Let's have fun with the thread title. The Gamecube got served because it just didn't have the dance moves.

I loved my gamecube.

Star Fox running around was great. Except 90% of people hated it and want a frue flying ONLY star fox. I would lvoe to see a longer one with combination of the two.

Back on topic, multiplayer online plus Halo gave xbox an advantage.

Gamecube got beat for several key reasons:

- Odd kiddie appearance, console looked like Barney the Dinosaur's lunchbox

- Little support from third parties

- No 2D Mario, wich was the bread and butter franchise of Nintendo. The Mario game they DID release didn't come out until years after and had limited appeal. And Nintendo's first party lineup in general, which is generally the selling point for a Nintendo console, was pretty weak in terms of appealing to the mass market.

- Being crushed by the much more widely supported and popular PS2, which released a year earlier.

- Kiddie image.

- Nintendo was in decline coming off the lackluster performace of N64

- Odd controller

- No online

I agree though, it was very underrated, considering its low price and solid library. It's topped only by the Dreamcast in terms of underrated consoles. It certainly didn't deserve only 22 million sales. Many great games like Eterntal Darkness, Tales of Symphonia, Metroid Prime, Resident Evil, Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, DK Jungle Beat, Donkey Konga, Pikmin, Smash Bros Melee.

While I think the Wii is the far superior console, Gamecube still holds a special appeal to me. The second half of my username is named after it after all :P

Lack of third party games. A lot of the third party games only appeared on xbox and ps2. So it missed a lot of good games. I heard that Nintendo asked too much money (compared to Sony and Microsoft) if a third party wanted to release a game on their system.

IF you don't know... i will tell you why.

I been around for every gen.. ( yes that old ) and if you don't know i tell you.

It started back in the ps1 days... when the ps1 came out, there where only wipeout, and ridge racer... good games, but all the others where crap.. Then somephing happend... over night (i denmark) allmost all my friends got the first ps1 chip... and that we all could understand... freeking free games... incredible.. and never seen before on a home konsol.

Next gen ( the gamecube gen ) it was the same, you could copy ps2 games ( and x-box) but not the gamecube mini disk..  And on top of that ps2 won the biggest marked (the kinderroom) whit titles like eyetoy and singstar.. (later buzz)

Look at this gen.. wii and x-box can be pirated... ( and wii won the kinderromm this round )  I do not think ps3 can cath up, but look at the sales.. the moment the ps3 was hackt, the sales rice.

So there you have it.. gamecube lost momentum, becourse of the ps2 chip was realized...

Funny looking, and IMO ugly, machine for starters. PS2 was sexy, Xbox was grunty/manly. People shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but they do, so you have to be attractive as well as have a good personality. Actually if you're a whore you mostly only need to be attractive and have certain skills.

Xbox converted a lot of PC gamers into (at least part time) console gamers. Gamecube was never going to draw in that sort of crowd. Halo was a really big part of bringing some of the PC crowd over. And that PC connection is still there to a certain extent, which is why WRPG and FPS games do better on 360 than on PS3/Wii, I reckon.

Halo, Forza and Fable....

But it wasn't until Halo 2 with Xbox live that really got the Xbox to resonate with gamers.

i get so annoyed when people claim lacks of features is a great thing and they become so big headed and proud of it.

should'nt you be that proud if it DID have DVD rather than if it didnt?

psychology falls apart when dealing with nintendo fans the same way physics falls apart when dealing with black holes.

I think I might just hate you for saying that.

In perspective Gamecube tanked at least as hard as Dreamcast did. It only managed to double Dreamcast figures, a console that was dead just two years after its release and with terrible first party sales compared to Gamecube.

In my opinion, it sounds harsh but it is what a truly think, Gamecube failed miserably  due to its poor first party titles, for Nintendo standards of course, and let's not forget about their non-existent third party offerings though I will always remember that masterpiece called Resident Evil Remake, thanks to this title Gamecube wasn't born in vain.

 First party and third party games wise Wii destroys Gamecube.