The GameCube was also late to the market in North America: it was the last console to release, a year after PS2 (which had a fully-functional DVD player to boot

The GameCube was also late to the market in North America: it was the last console to release, a year after PS2 (which had a fully-functional DVD player to boot, though it wasn't as dominant of a coup as the PS3's Blu-ray) and a few days after the Xbox, the latter of which had Halo as a launch title -- half of all Xboxes were bought concurrently with Halo for the first few months [1]. Meanwhile on the GameCube side, a toyish purple cube, with an bland array of launch titles, half of which were already out for other platforms [2]. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20081216142548/http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2002/01/49600 https://web.archive.org/web/20081216142548/http://www.wired.... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_console_launch_games#Nintendo_GameCube https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_console_lau...