Despite appearing as a little purple lunch box, the Gamecube was indeed pretty damn powerful. This just goes to show that looks can be deceiving. As most have already said, the GC was the second most powerful machine of the last generation, behind the Xbox and ahead of the PS2. Although the PS2 received the majority of third party exclusives, it didn't have any games that the Gamecube wouldn't have been able to handle.....graphic wise. Now if we could only do something about that gimpy conrtroller.