The GameCube was the best third place console ever IMO.

Yes, it looks like it was designed by NeXT in the late 80's, and it does have a handle for God knows why, but it rocked big time. It should have sold at least some 40 million consoles. 80 million, in a perfect world.

Besides, the GC made lots of money overall even though it sold for like $99 like the second half of it's lifetime (bad move though - it probably backfired due to negative perception of value). Try to beat that with your PS3!

And Marvel Vs Capcom 2 is also ultra expensive (I you find it).  Games that are no longer produced, that are also great; cost a lot because they are hard to find.

I played Twilight Princess and wind waker and they were horrible.  So I guess It is just a matter of opinion.

Not confusing the two, I've seen countless topics where the question which is better crops up and it's always about sales and nothing else.

The PS3 has brought a lot of new things to the table due to its peculiar situation. In the past, it was just about sales because the one with the most sales was the one that made the most money and often had the best games (I loved the 'Cube more than the PS2 but the PS2 had a better library.  I voted with my wallet).  In the PS3's particular case, it has great sales but not the best sales.  It sold more in a year but makes the least amount of money.  It has arguably the best games but it sells less software than its competitors.  The PS3 is a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in bacon.

So did the Gamecube's awesome first party (and actually pretty good third party) outdo Sony's awesome library?  Does the Gamecube's profit margin make up for its lackluster sales?  Like I posted before, it's in the eye of the beholder.  Personally, as a consumer I'd buy a PS3 over a Gamecube (though I prefer the Zelda games to anything on the PS3).  If I were a company, I'd rather have produced the money making/poorer selling Gamecube over a money devouring, popular PS3.  And strangely enough, I own probably three times as many Gamecube games as I do PS3 games (due largely in part to the fact that I bought most 3rd Party games for the Xbox 360).

Too many variables.

Who would want a GCN in 2012? Get a bc wii, so you can enjoy more games. Why limit yourself to just GCN games. As for ps3, it has more enjoyable games on a superior platform imo.

PS3 is much better than GC IMO, but I'm glad that guy got owned because I hate that kind of attitude.

Anyway, for the price of a PS3 you can get a GC and many awesome games, so although I think PS3's library is better, in the quality-price ratio a GC is a very attractive option.

When we are going to look back 10 years from now, I doubt the PS3 will have many classics associated to it. The gamecube however, had lots of unique classics that are fantastic games today, and 10 years from now:

A small list:
Metroid Prime - a game so incredibly well designed, Retro will probably never make anything better.
Resident Evil (RE:make)
Resident Evil 4
Wind Waker - some flaws in design with too many fetch-quests, but by far the most beautiful Zelda game, and the graphics will never get dated
Pikmin
Viewtiful Joe - Henshin-a-go-go, baby!
F-Zero GX (a forgotten gem imo)
Eternal Darkness
Soul Calibur 2 (wipes the floor with the sequels)
Super Smash Bros Melee

I really dont see a lot of PS3 exclusive games that people will play 10 years from now, LBP maybe, people keep bringing up uncharted, but uncharted uses a game design that will make it hopelessly outdated 10 years from now (all games that try to be like movies get into this problem, they become dated incredibly quickly).

Just because a game is great right now, doesnt mean it will hold up in the future. Killzone? Please, nobody will play that in the future when there will be 9 million new FPSes that surpass it.

everyone is going to have a preference for one thing over another and from my interpretation of the op you seem to have been offended by the guy's preference for the ps3 over the gamecube...

just like you're entitled to having your own preference for the gamecube he is entitled to his also

well, as you and i know then, sales dont belong in that sort of discussion

well that depends on what we are talking about

games id go with gamecube because it had more of a variety

graphics ps3 obviously

online-ps3

profit -gamecube so far
sales -ps3

all in all i believe their good platforms just depends on the person playing
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