Depends what you mean by great. Technologically the GPU in the Gamecube was pretty cool and it served as a foundation for the Wii, but it's hard to tell if th

Depends what you mean by great. Technologically the GPU in the Gamecube was pretty cool and it served as a foundation for the Wii, but it's hard to tell if that's because it was just so good or as a cost saving measure, by 2006 things were moving to HD and programmable shaders and the Wii was stuck at SD with (admittedly rather powerful) fixed function hardware. Those PPC cores were showing their age by the time the WiiU rolled around too, a lot of games ran at sub-30 framerates. The choice of Mini DVDs was baffling. I modded my Gamecube back in the day with a chip and a custom top shell that expanded the physical space to allow the use of full sized DVDRs (they were cheaper). The optical drive mechanism was still only sized for Mini DVDs, but full sized discs worked fine as long as you didn't burn past the edge of where a Mini DVD would end. That mod highlighted that they totally could have allowed for full sized discs without compromising on size of the console, cost, or anything. Just like ignoring DVD movie playback at it's peak, it seemed utterly dumb. In the market it ran third after Xbox, which was released by a company that had never released a games console before. That's pretty embarrassing for Nintendo. Also Super Mario Sunshine is just terrible.