plus people like me who is not because of Halo but interested to see how the strongest console game can be during that time, chosen the XB and not GC...

many of those games were on the gamecube also.

many of those are late ports. Almost all of those are on the PC.

Many in the list you produced were shit games.

There is a reason the classic GC games sell for well more than they did when they released (on Ebay of course).

Xbox was nicknamed the Halobox for a reason. Most got one to play Halo. Some just thought it was cool because it had an X in the name.

Oh, and again: please feel free to reduce the list of good reviewed Xbox titles above to the Xbox games which were good in your opinion. Then deliver a list of good GameCube titles which is 10x better. 

let forget about Gran turismo.

GT3: 15m

GT4: 11.5m

yeap, marketing was the reason that pushed ps2.  sarcastic mode Off

Humm, so 155 million of user bought PS2 only for Gran Turismo. Seem legit... sarcastic mode off

Seriusly, i didn't say PS2 has not good exclusive (it has awesome games) but the TRULY reason of those sales, yes, is the marketing. Just accept this.

Because Microsoft banked up the brinks truck to multiple third party developers and went billions of dollars into the red, to out sell the Gamecube by a whole two million units.

you have to understand that ps and xbox owners aren't like nintendo fans.  ps and xbox owners buy those console for the whole library, obviously the sales are going to be more spread out.  most nintendo fans buy the console for nintendo games only, that's why ninteno games sales varies hugely depending of the install base, this is also the reason nintendo games has huge attach ratio unlike ps and xbox conole.

We don't talk about PS and XBOX VS Ninty

We talk about Ninty and XBOX VS PS

The point is: the PS2 sold so much BECAUSE the marketing, and the people can say that PS2 have the better of the better games ever, that's change nothing.

The DS has sold like a monster. why? because Pokémon... because Mario... yes... but the bigger reason is the marketing ( that many people call "casual" , this word is used only for the Nintendo marketing recently... )

The PS2 was also my first console. (i was a kid, and my dad buy this console because he, like me, didn't knew what was XBOX or GC)

Like all of my friends. All with a PS2, and they even knew what was one GameCube, or one XBOX...

Huh? Do you understand what marketing is? Its entire purpose is to inform people about a product. Are you suggesting the Xbox/GameCube marketing were so bad that gamers didn't know about those consoles or understand what they were? Or maybe that the ps2 marketing mislead/lied to people about what they were getting? Simply saying, "it's marketing, deal with it" is nonsense. Explain what you mean, because the only two scenarios I can think of both fly in the face of reality.

The reality is that the Ps2 had over 5 times as many total games as the gc and over 3 times as many as the Xbox. It also had a higher number of well received exclusives, a much more well rounded library that appealed more to a global audience, goodwill from the ps1, etc. The reasons the PS2 handily sold more hardware and software that generation are numerous, so reducing it to "lol marketing" is ridiculous at best.

Well, that depends on what you mean by "worked". Overall Xbox still hasn't made money for Microsoft, and they also spent a lot of resources there which they could've spent in other things that actually would've given a return. It was a long term bet, and it worked out....kinda. There is no reason for investors to be pissed about xbox currently, as it will be overall profitable this gen, but for investors then, they had every right to be pissed, as it still hasn't been beneficial for Microsoft in the long run. You could argue that the value of xbox (xbox brand+their IPs+their devs) is enough to make up for that, and that in that sense they have made money, and I'd agree to some extent, but Xbox was by no means a great business move from Microsoft. I'm really glad they did join the console fray though, as it either brought us, or at the very least shortened the wait for many great features to be brought to consoles.