What was wrong with the Gamecube? Absolutely nothing. So it didn't have a dvd player in it. Big deal. By the time the Cube came out, you could get a relatively inexpensive dvd player and Nintendo knew that would be the case so rather than include that and potentially jack up the price of the system, they cut all the extraneous stuff and put out a reasonably affordable game player. In this case, less really is more. And the games themselves are nothing to scoff at either. How long does it take to finish Halo? A couple of days? I played Mario Sunshine for weeks! And I played Wind Waker for a couple of months before I got anywhere near finishing it. And if you're a Sonic fan (which I am), the Gamecube is the best system ever because you could get just about every Sonic game ever made at that point for it, all on one platform. I did get a PS2 eventually, but I don't play it anywhere near as much as my Gamecube. I'll take quality over quantity every time and Nintendo consistently makes the highest quality games. I admit I was disappointed with Twilight Princess, but even so, it's still better than, say, Kingdom Hearts, which I got bored with after the first world. And with all the trash that Sony talked about Nintendo during the PS2 days, the Wii is the number one system in the world and the PS3 is dead last. Who's laughing now?