Why The GameCube Was Doomed To Fail | Mini Documentary

[@ChaosGenerator]

If Nintendo opted to have an option for the use of dual-layer Mini DVDs and doubled the average size to 3GB per disc while still keeping the small form factor for Gamecube discs, they could have prevented themselves from having a lot of problems. In reality, it was a perfect storm of circumstances outside of their own control that contributed greatly to outcomes that didn't favor them and their falling short during that generation wasn't due to a lack of effort.

[@lenk8374]

I hate how every retrospective of the GameCube makes it seem like the game cube was far behind "the big two" which isn't the case at all. For much of that generation the game cube was ahead of the Xbox and the Xbox just barely squeaked by. The correct framing of things is not the ps2 + Xbox paired together with the GameCube far behind, but the ps2 way ahead and the GameCube + Xbox paid together.

[@ChrisB-x1i]

Lol. I think you're missing the point. Nintendo had been in first and second place for multiple generations. In only one generation, the newcomer, Microsoft, was still able to knock Nintendo back to third place. Has nothing to do with "barely squeaking by."

[@777Eliyahu]

Yep, lots of people bought the ps2 for the DVD player which was a stroke of genius for Sony. Personally, I was into the Dreamcast 😢.

[@inphanta]

Yup. Another case of history being rewritten by people who weren’t even there.

[@alexojideagu]

@@ChrisB-x1i In Japan the Xbox sold nothing, so it's more complex than that. Also Sony went from nowhere to beating Nintendo in its first 2 generations until the Wii outsold the PS3 slightly.

[@Sly88Frye]

I was a teenager during that generation and became an adult in 2006, but even though my family was a GameCube family at the time and my brother who was frustrated with how so many games weren't reported to the GameCube but were available on PS2 and xbox, he got himself an xbox, but I actually for some reason thought that GameCube was never in front of Xbox that generation. I didn't realize that there was a time when they were ahead of the xbox. However that makes sense though because they only lost to the Xbox by just 3 million units which isn't that much. It's just that the PS2 completely dominated being the highest selling video game console of all time

[@sprterrifichappyhour8324]

The gamecube didn't fail. It just wasn't #1 that generation. It still had a decent run.

[@alexojideagu]

Also in Japan the Xbox is a ghost and was outsold by the Gamecube

[@virgogaming6488]

3rd place is still good also.

[@themetalgamer9864]

I remember being a kid and thinking Super Smash Bros. Melee had the best graphics in the world because of the denim texture on Mario's overalls.

[@vitamind.d.fishinsea8570]

@@themetalgamer9864 yeah! It kinda did though along with the fur on the bosses on donkey konga, the explosion effects on windwaker, the flickering candles in the resident evil remake and the detail if the environments in pikmin. Gamecube had some great colourful graphics at the side of the drab xbox and muted ps2

[@logTopic]

Shoutout to my dad. Genesis, Dreamcast, Xbox (modded), Gamecube, Wii, PS2, PS3 he got us all of them. We were lucky kids.

[@justafanofnerdculture7602]

@@logTopic You were very, very lucky kids!! That's absolutely awesome!!

[@darkwingedangel7216]

I took that console for granted. It had charm. If I had a time machine, I would stop myself from selling my retro game collection. Nostalgia is eternal.

[@zhale47]

I traded in my GameCube, 4 controllers, GBA adapter, and probably like 10 games…remember getting like $30 from GameStop for it 🤦🏻

[@darkwingedangel7216]

​@@zhale47 We've all been there. I was bullied into doing it.

[@300kyuubi]

@@darkwingedangel7216 sorry man

[@buckroger6456]

Love the GameCube. I bought all three systems back then, but I still go back to play games on the GameCube way more often than I do the PS2 or Xbox . So right! The GameCube was never a failure in our hearts.

[@franciscoferreiravlogs]

I only had the PlayStation 2 among these when I was little. But I always wanted a GameCube! It was always a great system.

[@garywillig5143]

You left out arguably the most significant launch title - Rogue Leader, the game that showed what the Gamecube could really do and blew everyone away, with many people saying it looked better than the Star Wars movies did on VHS. It was at the very least many times more significant than the port of Crazy Taxi.

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

Everyone too young to remember the early 2000s gives themselves away by taking Star Wars for granted.

[@GameDjeenie]

Gamecube had 4 HUGE libraries of games... GC, GB, GBC and GBA... The GC library alone was worth it, imagine with 3 others...

[@jefffan171]

The Ps2 was the worlds most popular DVD player that happened to play ps1 and ps2 games. Thats what made it a runaway success, not the games and certainly not on line games. As someone who was already in their 20's when the consoles came out, i didnt know anyone who played on line until the XBOX 360 came out and that was only one person. It might be straightforward today, but circa 2001 on line game play was nothing but a add on bonus that most ignored as we all grew up going out to see friends and physically playing games alongside one another.

[@lenk8374]

Yes, I think the person making this vid was either not around in that generation or too young. Only the Xbox had any traction with online back then and it still was seen as more of an experimental feature. This take is definitely someone looking back at that generation with today's perspective and priorities.

[@dtape]

Yeah these were my college years and I don't think online play made any real dent in the 6th Gen console war. Anyone who cared about online play was playing on PC, games like Counter-Strike, StarCraft, and World of Warcraft.

[@greenmachine5487]

Yes, cheap DVD players were junk at that time. I had two of them stop working on me, so I got a PS2 and the DVD remote and it was the last DVD player I ever had to buy.

[@KnifeSotelo]

When it came to online play PC was king, who remembers playing Counter Strike 1.6 lol

[@777Eliyahu]

@@lenk8374 Dreamcast had a pretty big online community, but it also shipped with a modem and online capability right out of the box, which both the GameCube and the Ps2 lacked. Xbox turned it from a novelty to a game changer thanks to broadband and a better ecosystem.

[@ThomasDrish]

I played a game called Geist for GameCube. I don’t remember much, but I do remember I liked it. You get to play a ghost, and you can do things to scare people.

[@justafanofnerdculture7602]

I have much, much love for the GameCube! Some of my favorite games on that system are Mario Kart Double Dash, Wave Race: Blue Storm, 1080° Avalanche, TMNT, WWE Wrestlemania 19, WWE Day Of Reckoning (1&2), Godzilla Destroy All Monsters, Batman Begins, SW Rogue Leader and SW Rebel Strike. There are many more, too.

[@CristhianBenitez-f8g]

I forgot about wave race!! That ‘‘twas the first game me and my bro got on launch day.

[@justafanofnerdculture7602]

@CristhianBenitez-f8g That’s an awesome first game to have!

[@70smebbin]

Imaginr having somebody who was 2 yrs old in 2001 try to tell u about what video games were like at the time

[@PCgamerChannel]

XD, it's funny because I had a gamecube in 2001 I was like 9 years old, I didn't even know you could hook it up to the internet XD, i just remember playing pikman and luigi mansion.

[@Venom3254]

Big Twitter users and Discord users be like that

[@JaycRam]

Source: Wikipedia.

[@rubbe5892]

True

[@CristhianBenitez-f8g]

You forgot to mention that Resident Evil 4 was originally was exclusive and first released on the GameCube, and also another classic Gem that stuck only on GameCube is Eternal Darkness. That game had me tripping back in the day hahaha

[@777Eliyahu]

GameCube was Nintendo’s first attempt to focus on unique experiences rather than better tech. They don’t quite get it right, but its successor the Wii was massive.

[@kiddkrush]

Back in 2002 first game I seen on GameCube was MK Deadly Alliance my uncle had bought it the day after thanksgiving as a surprise since the family was coming to visit him and NBA street. Then waking up Christmas morning to “Scorpion king rise of the Akkadian” and “Mario sunshine” memories man even though GameCube didn’t have many good games.

[@no1up]

SOCOM on the PS2 was amazing… wish Sony would bring it back.

[@NomicFin]

It bugs me that Nintendo and the Gamecube is often referred as having failed in the 5th generation of consoles when the Xbox only sold 3 million more units, which isn't much of a lead in the grand scheme of things, and generally seems to get the pass (if you want to talk about a real failure, look no further than Sega and the Dreamcast, which flopped so badly most people don't even remember it being in the same generation as PS2, Xbox, and Gamecube). In truth every other 5th generation console got completely dominated by the PS2, which sold more than all of them combined (almost twice as much as all of them combined, in fact), mostly thanks to being the cheapest DVD player on the market that could also play videogames.

[@lenk8374]

Yes I made a similar comment and totally agree

[@WaterKirby1994]

Agreed GameCube & Xbox sold nearly evenly it makes no sense to say 1 of them failed while the other succeeded. PS2 was an anomaly & I question the legitimacy of its sales numbers which mysteriously rose by 5 Million in response to Switch being on track to break PS2's previous record by the end of 2025.

[@John-Jenin]

Lol.. your fanboy logic is flawed. At that point, Nintendo was already a household name when it comes to gaming. For a newcomer.to outsell a nintendo is definitely a success. GameCube is considered a failure because the sales number are way below Nintendo's previous gen consoles.

[@Goji2428]

For a newcomer at the time to come in and overtake/innovate with their first attempt more than the company that spent 10+ years being a household name is a pretty bad look for Nintendo, no matter what the sales numbers are.

[@NomicFin]

@@Goji2428 Sony did the same thing in the previous generation, so I expect Microsoft was hoping to repeat it. In fact, I feel the reason Microsoft got into the console market when it did was because in the previous console generation both of the companies that used to be the undisputed biggest names in the field (Nintendo and Sega) had done worse than expected and been outsold by a newcomer, so it must have looked like a good time to make their entrance in the console market.

[@jdenoe69]

Not having a DVD as its media is why it failed. That and the fact Nintendo didn't have many third-party developers jump on to develop software for the console.

[@Bronxguyanese]

Nintendo has always had bad relationships with 3rd parties since the advant of the Nes. N64 made it worse.

[@smartphonefan5226]

For a Nintendo console, it had pretty good third party support.

[@donovanperrington418]

This isn’t a GameCube exclusive thing. Nintendo consoles always miss out on certain 3rd party games but they’re the only place to play Mario or Zelda.

[@TheGunmanChannel]

You don't deserve to Dawwwnnkey Kawwnng!!!

[@777Eliyahu]

NES and SNES had massive third party support because Nintendo held it in lock step with their oppressive policies, they lost it with the N64 when Sony came out with much more favorable terms that gave developers more freedom and better profit margins.

[@HarryJCLK]

And metroid

[@mortenpotzdidler2790]

Nintendo used to win by having, generally, the widest and best selection of third-party games. This was during the NES and SNES days; for instance, Street Fighter II was arguably the biggest game of the year on SNES in 1992, rather than a Nintendo-developed game. Nintendo lost its way with the N64, arguably because they not only had oppressive policies compared to Sony, but also because they stuck with carts (which, I concede, could be seen as an oppressive policy). The N64 did manage to carve out its own niche by being the place for party games and first-person shooters. This was a time when Nintendo of America was largely independent, and were allowed to make deals with Western publishers such as Acclaim and Williams for exclusive games; the GameCube became a machine that was dominated Iwata and crew out of Japan, which led to Nintendo's western support and identity from prior gens to largely disappear. The N64 was a decent success in the United States. The GameCube was a relative failure, losing in sales worldwide to Microsoft's first Xbox.

[@777Eliyahu]

@ the carts were an oppressive policy because Nintendo exclusively controlled their manufacture and charged a premium for third parties to get their games published. I’m not exactly sure how Sony approached it, but CDs are much cheaper to make, thus creating a wider profit margin that third parties benefited from. It was a perfect storm that Sony exploited because third parties were already starting to show signs of rebellion during the 16bit era (EA manufacturing go their own carts on the Genesis, for example)

[@KnifeSotelo]

I'll never forget when Nintendo managed to fit RE2 on a single cartridge

[@justafanofnerdculture7602]

RIGHT!! That was absolutely amazing!

[@777Eliyahu]

Modern Vintage Gamer has a great video on how they did it, great achievement.

[@justafanofnerdculture7602]

@777Eliyahu I'm going to check that out. Thanks!

[@NintendoPsycho]

Nintendo didn't. It was Angel Studios. Also, back then people were just happy to play the thing.

[@miljororforsprakpartiet290]

what t he hell is re2

[@susanfit47]

The Nintendo GameCube did not fail, it lasted 6 years, 2001-2007.

[@BasedDoomSlayer]

The Gamecube and N64 failed for the same reasons, and those reasons are the bad decisions made by Nintendo themselves.

[@phokeydhoo8940]

The real difference in the disc was not the physical format, but the data format. There were half sized burnable discs on the market at the time of the gamecubes release. The Gamecube used a proprietary data format which I think came to be know as DOL-006, while most burnt cds used ISO-9660. Standard optical drives would not be able to read the discs, and while a few could, there were hurdles. On top of that there was some kind of data protection, but I'm not familiar with that.

[@Sly88Frye]

4:54 I don't know why but for some reason when I was a teenager in the early 2000s some of my friends really hated the GameCube controller. I don't know maybe because we were so used to the N64 controller but I mean I never had a problem with the GameCube controller and even when I was explaining the controller to my mom and trying to talk about how bad it was, my mom very clearly understood why it's a great controller when I describe how the a button which is the button you push the most is bigger than the rest of the buttons. And she doesn't even play video games she just knew how obvious that was and then I remembered that and still know how obvious it is. I shouldn't have let my friends influence my opinion at the time. One of them isn't even my friend anymore. He was the one who was primarily complaining about the controller anyways. I don't know maybe he just much preferred PlayStation controllers even though we played a lot of Nintendo together whether it was n64, gamecube or in our adulthood the Wii. I have since seen the GameCube controller as the greatest controller ever made. The only flaw I see with the GameCube controller now is actually the d-pad itself. It's a small d-pad and sometimes it just kind of feels additional cumbersome to even press any buttons on the d-pad but I mean most of the time you're using the joystick and the C-stick anyways

[@Sly88Frye]

13:57 I remember back then my brother and I looked through some kind of gaming magazine and he felt so disappointed about how he saw so many games that were available on Xbox and Playstation 2 but so many of these games did not have GameCube ports. Back in the early 2000s I wanted to convince my mom to actually get an Xbox because it did seem like the cool system of the time but she was completely against it because she said Microsoft was an evil company and yeah of course they are but she said that Microsoft at least back then and I guess it was more well-known that they did that back in the 90s and they do now, but they wanted to literally just eliminate all competition and just be the only computers in existence and os and existence I guess basically, I don't remember because it was so long ago but something like that and she refused getting an Xbox because of that but I guess maybe because she knows how much we loved the N64 and the Super Nintendo before that even though we also did love the PS1 and the Sega genesis, at least for me it wasn't as much as the Nintendo consoles, she went ahead and got us the GameCube and I loved it, but it was frustrating when there were some games that just weren't available there. But the GameCube exclusives was definitely where it was at for sure. My brother who complained about the GameCube when we look through that magazine did get himself an Xbox after all though

[@platinumuschannel]

For me, according to my experience, the format and the upgrade in tech did bring 3rd parties back to Nintendo following the 3rd party debacle of the N64, but they weren't porting the big games on the Gamecube, those went to the PS2 and Xbox. Every year I watched as those two go blockbuster after blockbuster. 2005 and 2006 were very dry years for me with the Gamecube, thankfully, I had an Xbox and a Dreamcast as well. The problem for Nintendo was that they couldn't or maybe they refused to read the room. It got so bad for them during these years that I remember a major retail outlet was offering brand new Gamecubes for $69.99 for a while, they just weren't selling. Forget the rose colored glasses, this was not a great era for Nintendo's home console. The GBA and the DS had to carry the torch until the Wii came out. One thing I really appreciate about the Gamecube is that UNLIKE the PS2, it's graphics have aged decently for what they were. PS2 had very muddy visuals, and far as I recall, it was intentional from Sony because it was meant to be a security measure, I think.

[@SoulforSale]

Dude, you were awesome in No Country For Old Men. Such a convincing performance. Good for you for being anle to successfully transition to KZbin. Cool that youre into video games.

[@CSProduction12]

I loved my GameCube, but then again I worked and basically lived on a ship so... It was nice to have a tiny console I could just tie down to the shelf on my top Bunk next to my little 16 inch T.V. needless to say, online games didn't matter much.

[@matthewharris517]

The PS2, XBox and GameCube era was truly the peak of gaming's golden age The Switch (and soon Switch 2) is probably the only console trying to bring it back

[@chucky110]

PS2 did not have chain of memories

[@theonewhowrotethis5681]

It had the remake, Re:CoM. While the original was a GBA game, they made a remake for the PS2 a bit after the original release of KH2 that was included as part of some of the KH2 Final Mix releases in Japan. The Western release of Re:CoM had the game sold separately, but the PS2 did indeed get it. Re:CoM was later ported as part of the PS3 collection known as KH I.5, which was then re-released with II.5 on the PS4 and various other consoles as KH I.5+II.5.

[@TheGunmanChannel]

I still emulate it nearly every god damn day, it's always been a success in my eyes 😆 Batocera for the win baby

[@Par-Crom]

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[@feleezyt6620]

My friend has a GameCube every time I went to his house we would play it I had a ps2 growing up I love both consoles

[@TanookiMike]

Um... Resident Evil 4, nor any Resident Evil game, was not released for the Xbox. Looks like you fell for a fan-made image bro, ironically one made for a post about there being no RE games on Xbox. Check your sources

[@NintendoPsycho]

Gamecube was the best way to play the classic RE series.

[@Rlucas198823]

Agreed. Except RE Code Veronica on the Dreamcast. That was the best version.

[@jimhutchins4426]

I loved the GameCube when it worked. Had two. Both had a problem of crashing in any game at just the wrong moment.

[@KASmonkeys]

I had 6x Gamecubes just for local LAN mariokart. Amazing times 🎉

[@cesarraccon8540]

Me gustó mucho el video. Hay cosas que creo podrían mejorar pero por lo general me encanta que pongas metraje original en prácticamente todo el video. Lo hace ver muy profesional. Lo único que cambiaría son planos como estos: 4:49 Se ve tu rostro en el fondo lo cual puede distraer un poco de la atención al control, además hay un corte para mostrar el del 64. Recomiendo usar un plano mas cerrado donde tengas el control de gamecube en la mano izquierda y levantes la otra mano para que el control entre al plano. En los planos donde sales tu a cámara haría un poco de zoom al plano, hay algo de “aire” en la parte de arriba y aunque entiendo que se puede cortar algo de tu fondo, en esos momentos tu eres el centro de atención. Además, a partir de cierto punto del video hay mucho metraje de ti a camara y no esta mal, pero estaría bien agregar elementos, cambiar el fondo entre tomas o en general algo que pueda hacerlo mas dinámico. Repito, es muy buen video y en mi humilde opinión creo que esos son puntos que pueden mejorar

[@TheKeithvidz]

Played many times and near completed RE4. Its shortcomings, and lesser features put it out of the running. Only P2 and Xbox and I went for the latter. Its power stood adequate was all.

[@bjnt922]

It’s a shame because I really liked the GameCube. But unfortunately it couldn’t compete with the PS2’s ability to double as a DVD player.

[@STDriver92]

The Gamecube was a MASSIVE success. So many of us had them as kids. Nearly all my friends had one. It spawned tons of new game franchises that are cult classics to this day and some that are still releasing new titles. Calling the Gamecube a failure is like calling the Playstation Sony's worst achievement ever!

[@therealjaystone2344]

Can’t wait for the next documentary “Why The Wii U Was Doomed To Fail?”

[@franciscoferreiravlogs]

That one is definitely coming!

[@oOignignoktOo1]

Most people use the Serial Port 2 nowadays with an SD card reader adapter add-on for picoboot modded cubes to play backups.

[@will_it_work]

It didn't fail, it underperformed. It still outsold the Dreamcast 2:1.

[@konyption]

Morrowind on the Xbox was absolutely painful to play because of the frequent and LONG loading screens. Compared to PC it's just unbearable.

[@jimhutchins4426]

It actually had some of the most beautiful look of anything out at the time. Those tiny disks sucked though.

[@thegamingchef3304]

So the GameCube didn't sell as much as the PS2 so it's considered a failure? I don't see the Cube as a failure as it survived its entire life cycle. It had great games and was a fun console. Nintendo simply wanted to remain strictly for Gamers and not some multimedia device, which I always respected.

[@ComicBooksandVideoGameNerd96]

PS2 Kingdom Hearts Devil May Cry Metal Gear Solid Twisted Metal Black God of War Final Fantasy Ico Shadow of The Colossus Persona Naruto Ulitimate Ninja DBZ Original Xbox Halo Froza Motorsport Doom 3 Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic and Star Wars Battlefront 1 and 2 Star Wars Republic Commando Ninja Gaiden Black Dead Or Alive 3 Fable Elder Scrolls 3 Morrowind GameCube Super Smash Brothers Melee Luigi's Mansion Super Mario Sunshine Star Wars Rogue Squad Mario Party 4-7 Metriod Prime 1 and 2 Pikman 1 and 2 Animal Crossing Sonic Adventure DX and Adventure 2 Battle Note on some third party titles please note if I put a certain game for example Star Wars Battlefront Series in the Xbox section it's because the Xbox version usually had more content like for example Star Wars Battlefront II had DLC which you can no longer acquire the only way to access stuff like that is if you bought the DLC when the original Xbox was commercially relevant or you a modded Xbox this is why I hate DLC in video games but thats a completely different topic all together also if you play the Spider-Man movie game it has a exclusive Kraven the Hunter level that you can't play on the PS2 GameCube I don't know why this is also in games like GTA III Vice City and San Andreas those support custom soundtracks along with True Crime Streets of LA and New York City and to my knowledge Silent Hill 3 has some exclusive content to but anyway now on to some noteworthy 3rd party titles 3rd Party Soulcalibur 2 50 Cent Bulletproof Nicktoons Unite X-Men Legends 1 and 2 Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance Deception and Armageddon Need For Speed Midnight Club Marvel Nemesis Rise of the Imperfecters Ulitimate Spider-Man X2 Wolverines Revenge Read Dead Revolver Max Payne the list goes on

[@Phyramar]

Correction: The PS2 sold 155 million Units. Sony can’t just magically add 5 million more just because there GOAT console might finally be dethroned. Great Video Though.

[@frightfactoryYT]

Only half way through but already fantastic as usual.

[@franciscoferreiravlogs]

Thank you!

[@ReviewingWithAMask]

The OG Xbox never had a single Resident Evil game on it Resident Evil 4 was a GameCube exclusive for about a year before it was ported to PS2 But never xbox until the HD port on 360 and PS3

[@RubySixx13]

Dude what? The GameCube was a huge success.

[@Nintenboy01]

Probably why Nintendo repurposed the GCN hardware with a clock bump for Wii - they wanted to get more out of their initial R&D investment that didn't sell that great in its original form.

[@ChelsealikesSupermodels]

Nintendo used the propotatary mini disc format for the GameCube because of influx of gamers burning Dreamcast games to cd rom discs. Nintendo didn't want to fall victim to piracy.

[@riccccccardo]

I own a GC now for last 15 years only I own almost every accessory such as microphones, HDMI adapter, 4x bongos etc… and I own a ton of top GC games now after the GC was discontinued but not gonna lie I did buy a ps2 because it was the cheapest dvd player money could buy at the time lol

[@optimusj55]

The OG Xbox didn't have any Resident Evil games. The closest Capcom games to RE on the Xbox were Genma Onimusha and Dino Crisis 3.

[@LucaS-c1j]

Can you make a Mini Documentary on the Pokemon Anime?

[@phokeydhoo8940]

I have more hours playing Monkeyball on my gamecube then I do playing some other consoles. Also the GBA adapter was the best way to play Gameboy Advance games.

[@wemelkuan]

The Animal Crossing box art 💀

[@shoobydoo-xf3ub]

The GameCube is iconic.

[@cryptocsguy9282]

I don't really agree that the gamecube failed but it almost failed ALMOST , selling rare was stupid and not having any focus on online play was also stupid ,plus no DVD drive , simple as that. Gamecube is still amazing though.

[@HiNamesJames]

I don't think the small discs were more fragile. Thats the opposite of what I would have said. GameCubes could read scratched games waaaaaaaay better than a ps2 could. Not sure about xbox. And I thought the smaller discs were more rigid and held together.

[@sirducksworthythe3rd842]

Except it didn't, and was best nintedo system condole to date

[@sggdgtbgnhfffjjjhhhccvgff]

My friend asked me if can Wii play all Gamecube games? Yes background compatibility but all Gamecube?

[@cinnamondan4984]

Was the Animal Crossing case edit intentional?

[@Abee440]

Not a single resident evil game came to the original xbox, check those facts

[@Ubebread1]

I brought this console everywhere

[@mRahman92]

I don't get this video, like get to the point already, how did fail? Just because it sold like 10% less than the Nintendo 64 and didn't beat the Playstation 2 doesn't mean it "failed". The virtual boy, now THAT'S a failure, without a shadow of a doubt. Considering all of the competition at the time, I'd say it performed quite well.

[@bubbajames2157]

The GameCube is so much better than the PS2 because it has much better hardware and the Game Boy Player! I know it can't play DVDs and CDs, but DVD Players are cheap.

[@lol1234536978]

Wow so they stunted the discs to avoid copyright? Classic Nintendo

[@typerightseesight]

I thought it was just a dumb looking idea. Like I remember going it cant be that good its too small to be powerful.

[@damienhagedorn8990]

I hated the GameCube controller as soon as it came out I still hate it although not as much but yeah actually usually one is still terrible but then again I'm someone who likes the OG Xbox Duke big hands that GC controller built for tiny hands

[@JaimeReyes-d8d]

This channel is doomed to fail.

[@drewa4235]

The GameCube failed because it was underpowered trash. Third party developers didn’t want the extra headache of trying to get their games to run properly on cut corner hardware. Every cross platform game I ever saw on GameCube looked considerably worse and ran considerably worse. The mini disks were low capacity compared to regular sized disks. Not rocket science to see why it failed. First party games only gets you so far.

[@carlosenriquesierra9044]

Dude, your videos are awesome keep it up!

[@franciscoferreiravlogs]

Thanks a lot!

[@nantoman]

crazy taxi a driving simulator? its called an arcade game kid.

[@bsmoove69]

That controller was horrible

[@Par-Crom]

You is horrible

[@TheMapeha]

PS2 chipped :D XBOX chipped or HDDed :D and cube? the modchip came late, no one bought a cube for playing the games which came for all consoles because it could cost on cube and for near free on PS2, XBOX and PC. I buy only Nintendo stuff just for Nintendo games, not the too expensive other games, you can get all other games much cheaper for all of the other consoles legal or not :D Switch 2 will fail if it's unhacked -> 100% failrate

[@alexojideagu]

In Japan the Gamecube outsold the Xbox. So it's not black and white.

[@virgogaming6488]

Japan is a much smaller country than US though.

[@theenemy333]

Phantasy star 3rd party on Dreamcast???

[@patrickkelly4213]

I don't see how PS2 even survived, all the "best games" are shit i've never even heard of or had no interest in playing, bar Silent hill 2 and 3

[@masterofinfinity479]

this thing is/was awesome

[@Rubbe87]

I think GameCube was superior to Xbox and ps2.

[@michaeldemers2716]

Wii U ROCKS Nintendon't.

[@mushra50]

Is somebody please tell this ignorant people that the GameCube don't suck it had a couple problems but the machine don't suck

[@tails300]

GameCube was awesome, I loved its aesthetic and the games that were on it. It and the short lived Dreamcast were my favorites of the 6th generation consoles.

[@tuccikid]

Pokémon DX lmao

[@franciscoferreiravlogs]

XD* realized my mistake in post.

[@AndyKard84]

N64 was the first and last Nintendo Console I have ever owned. I remember Goldeneye and Perfect Dark being the only games I really enjoyed. Hence I saw the GC and thought it was too kid friendly, going into high school, the PS2 was the best decision.

[@Timic83tc]

doomed to fail yet biggest fighting game esport is exclusive to it? dumb title

[@lapay6156]

So one title is gonna save a console? Do you know the sales of the game cube versus the PlayStation 2? Maybe watch the entire video

[@bobfat3879]

Define fail please. PS2 sold at a loss and Xbox sold at a loss. Can you name the first Nintendo console sold at a loss please?

[@thegaminganimationstudio7976]

What do you mean by at a loss?.

[@bobfat3879]

The consoles cost more money to make than the company sold them for.

[@tonycutillo2512]

Look at that controller. What a disaster. A controller needs uniform size front buttons placed in a diamond. This makes finding buttons and play feel seamless and easy. I won’t even play GameCube because this controller is a product of a bad acid trip.