What was wrong with the Gamecube?

[kupomogli]

Power-wise, I thought any difference between Gamecube and the other two consoles was negligible. There's no reason to turn away from the Gamecube by saying it had inferior graphics to the PS2 or anything like that.

Wasn't the Gamecube more powerful than the PS2?

Anyways. kedawa said it best. The only thing wrong with the Gamecube is that it wasn't the PS2. The PSX was the best 32/64 bit system and then the PS2 came out almost a year before the Gamecube.

The PS2 had a great launch list. I'm a fan of From Software but only picked up Armored Core 2 at launch, along with Dead or Alive 2 as I've played it on my friends Dreamcast previously. Dynasty Warriors 2, the first Musou title, was actually a really fun game back then, and if Koei hadn't milked the series all to hell, I'm sure everyone would still think it's a great game. It wasn't too much longer before a ton of great games started pouring in.

While I won't make a long list of games, Final Fantasy 10 was released right after the Gamecube. The thing is is that you saw advertisements everywhere. At the time I was still a wrestling fan and you'd see it advertised atleast two or three times during WWF. It wasn't the best of the FF games, but this is before Final Fantasy went down hill. What are you going to do. Get a PS2 for Final Fantasy or get a Gamecube for whatever it's offering?

Most people I know had a PS2 even if they had a Gamecube, mainly because it could read DVDs. I didn't purchase a Gamecube until I got it bundled with the Gameboy Player and a Nintendo game of choice(I chose Wave Race.) Nintendo kind of screwed themselves when trying to save money(and reduce piracy) with the smaller discs because they pushed away the non gamers that may have wanted a DVD player as well as something to play games here and there. The Dentist go to actually uses a fat PS2 for a DVD player in the lobby.

Almost all the third party software went to Sony unless it was multiconsole. Because of that, Nintendo didn't have too many good exclusives that didn't already come out on other systems. While Viewtiful Joe and Resident Evil 4 were released on the Gamecube, they were later released on the PS2. Other than Tales of Symphonia and a Gundam game(import,) I own first party Nintendo games, Resident Evil games, and a few Sega games that were ports/sequels of Dreamcast games. I would own more first party Nintendo games than I do right now, but with Nintendo never dropping prices on Gamecube games, I never put the money down on them and was never interested in looking them up after Nintendo abandoned the console. I like the console, but unfortunately the support just wasn't there.