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The OG XBox was de rigeur in every dorm room in the country. Mostly for Halo, but football games and racing games and such also made a showing. The Gamecube's
by yamtaddle 4y ago
The OG XBox was de rigeur in every dorm room in the country. Mostly for Halo, but football games and racing games and such also made a showing.
The Gamecube's considered a flop because it sold worse than all their other game consoles except the (later) WiiU, which is their other major flop. At the time, it was sitting at the bottom of a not-promising trend line for Nintendo consoles (before the Wii blew that up). It also sold significantly worse than its contemporaries (XBox, PS2... better than the Dreamcast, but that hardly counts). I agree that it's a great system, in fact—the controller is, uniquely, brilliant for introducing young kids to controllers with more than a couple buttons on them, and feels great once you're used to it even for an adult, and it may be lacking in games but it's got a fair number of excellent entries in its library. It's easily my personal favorite of that generation (followed closely by the Dreamcast, actually).
- highwaylights 4y ago> except the WiiU Shed a tear for Virtual Boy which, many may not know, was a thing that existed once.
- yamtaddle 4y agoI got to use it in a Wal-Mart or Toys-r-Us or something, once. I distinctly remember that the demo was tucked away on some toy aisle, not even with the other video games & consoles. They must already have realized it was a flop by the time I even saw one in the wild. I never really regarded that as a proper console, though, since it was very solo-play focused like a handheld, but it's also obviously not a portable gaming device, either. It was its own thing.