Lack of piracy support killed the GC.

What?

Accessiblity, controls, white good, pick-up-and-play prioritized over immersive experiences, full back catalogue of games and the company generally following the disruption and blue ocean strategys. The Wii is a completely different story to the Gamecube.

Obviously, they are not the same, the Wii has extra advantages. 

But they are also stating, that the lack of 3rd party support, the lack of DVD support, and the "kiddieness"(lack of "hardcoreness"), are reasons for a console to fail, while in this generation, it is obvious that neithr DVD, nor Blu Ray playability doesn't mean any help at all, the Wii is successful without 3rd parties, so it causes only a minor disadvantage, and the kiddieness is probably even an advantage, not a disadvantage.

Well, I respectfully disagree. What about the purple console at launch, and the red, green, yellow, etc buttons on the controller? A lot of people mentioned it. I think that's one of the main reasons. People looked at it as if it was a toy. Now, the glossy white design of the Wii is much more attractive for everyone. It may seem as irrelevant for most of us, but in a mass market context, it makes all difference.

Yes, you're right. I forgot about the colored buttons on the original Xbox controller. But hey, maybe that's the reason why it failed too?

gamecube didnt actually fail.

as far as gamecube purchasers are concerned it provided great games thats what matters most.

its true GC didnt take off commercially as it could have done but thats the way it goes sometimes.

the lack of dvd drive was one factor as many key titles could not have been done on gamecube.

besides i loved my gamecube, phantasy star online episodes 1&2 was an amazing game

The lack of third party support. The PS2 had a year or so head start and was well established and Sony advertised PS2 a lot more than Nintendo advertised the Game Cube.

The Game Cube being a purple box and looking like a school lunch box did not help sell the Game Cube. The design and purple colour of the Game Cube was dreadful.

I was joking about the Xbox controller. Xbox was never considered to be a "kiddy console". And I know you're joking too. Well, maybe not. You see, I don't trust people with Kim Possible avatars.

That's not what they're saying. The game cube had little to no strengths that went beyond what the PS2/XBox could do. In that respect, the weaknesses(especially third party support, which translates directly to games) become relevant. Wii only overcomes these weaknesses because it's strengths are so much more important to customers than those particular weaknesses.

Games, Games, Games.