Gotcha. It's been awhile. I know I enjoyed Dead or Alive Ultimate, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Test Drive, Mechassault, KOTOR and many many more. The system was awesome. 

Yeah it's a fantastic console, the upgraded ports of GTA3/VC and San Andreas on it really shows off the power difference between it and the PS2 or just massive open world games like Morrowind really do show off its PC hardware in a console shell.

Off topic but - Was actually playing a game on my original Xbox earlier that I found in a 2nd hand shop.... was not one of the gems on the system tho "Shadow the Hedgehog" even the Xbox's extra mhz couldn't do anything to make that piece of shit playable, utterly wasted my time trying to find a playable sonic game in it.

I found Dead or Alive Ultimate very fun as well! Probably my favourite Xbox game.

Yea that and Crimson Skies along with all what else I mentioned. I still have Ultimate 

It didn't outsell the GameCube.

you have to understand how strongly Microsoft marketed the Xbox when coming into the game industry

obviously the Gamecube did not really sell that well for Nintendo anyway, but with Microsoft pushing their system so hard it's natural they would sell a lot in the USA especially. and as others have mentioned, Halo was huge and arguably the sole reason the Xbox sold as much as it did

that said, Microsoft invested a tonnnnnn into the system and surely lost a huge amount of money to force themselves into the gaming industry. Nintendo was very profitable in that generation with the Gamecube and GBA despite not selling as many units as their competition

Yes , it did:

"With more than 825 Xbox games available and more than 24 million Xbox consoles sold worldwide, the community of Xbox gamers continue to have superb videogame experiences."

http://web.archive.org/web/20080621155352/http://www.xbox.com/zh-SG/community/news/2006/20060510.htm

GC:

http://www.webcitation.org/60VrBE6Cp

http://www.ign.com/wikis/history-of-video-game-consoles/Nintendo_GameCube

It offered dumbed-down Master Race games that bloody peasants couldn't have played in the original version.

Alby_da_Wolf said: It offered dumbed-down Master Race games that bloody peasants couldn't have played in the original version.

Deary me, the Vista exclusive PC version of Halo 2 was indeed master Race'y :D

People keeps saying "Halo"... I'll say just way better marketing.... Halo was part of the marketing, but I'm not going to say that the good quality of the game is the main reason of its success, I say that a good 50% is thanks to that.