Quote Originally Posted by retroguy View Post
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.
The Gamecube came out in 2001, at that time DVD players were at least $200. That's not exactly inexpensive. Back then I knew several people who had the PS2 and regularly used them to watch DVDs, I'm pretty sure that feature was important to a lot of people at the time.