Do You think the Nintendo GameCube was a Bad Console?

The Games on the Nintendo GameCube are Outstandingly Amazing. Though, Granted I'm Not so Good at Platformer Games. So, I Have this Book called the Game Console, and it says "The Nintendo GameCube Failed to Compete against Sony and Microsoft." Now, I know the GCN Failed at the Time. But Despite being a Comercial Failer, Is the GCN A Great System?

Really is.

I personally think the Nintendo GameCube is the Best Game Console.

That’s a large overstatement. The game library on the GameCube is good, but there’s not a lot of games. PS5/Xbox/PS4s on the other hand…

GCN is both good & bad.

1: Some fine games like Metroid Prime, Luigi Mansion, Double Dash, Melee, Sunshine, PIKMIN

2: Released the most Toxic fanbases in Nintendo history(TTYD, Melee)

3: Sold like shit & killed off a bunch of old stuff like F-ZERO in the process.

I'd say it was primarily bad, because you can play basically ALL GCN games on your Wii, which was a much better console, & didn't have as many toxic fans tied to it. It was completely invalidated when Wii launched, which doesn't really happen in Nintendo's consoles often, not to this extent atleast.

Bad Gamecube, good 1/2 Wii

Yeah the selling was addressed in the original topic though  and saying Luigi’s Mansion is a fine game is a understatement. Other than that I agree

I used fine to describe all the games, not individually.

The back-compat to Wii kinda killed it, although it was already dead anyway. And even though playing GBA games was a plus, you needed to own a GBA. You can't really count that as a Gamecube thing.


It's also interesting to note that EVERY direct sequel console undersells the prior one, so the lower sales isn't entirely a Gamecube/WiiU issue. Not one console has escaped this, & I doubt Switch 2 will be any different.

For me its not a bad console, in my opinion there are enough good games, even if there was not a lot of sales compared to some console

Honestly, extremely unpopular opinion alert, but I HATE Mario Sunshine. Given, I've only played it on Switch with Mario 3D All-Stars, but in that version I find the controls unintuitive (except the camera), the level design terrible and oh my god the DIFFICULTY! You could say "skill issue" but I've 100%'d Kirby forgor the land, Mario Odyssey, Galaxy, MK8D and Splatoon 3, which speaking of Splatoon is a very similar game to SMS. Literally Splat 3 has a boss fight from Sunshine. Yet I struggle way, WAY more over in Sunshine than I ever did in Splatoon 3 OR 2.

Anyway that took forever to type lol, what do you guys think about this?

The GameCube is a super console.
There are many cool games like Metroid Prime, Luigi’s Mansion, Mario Kart : Double Dash !! and Super Smash Bros. Melee who saved this console.
Nintendo known that this console was not that good, so for Super Mario Sunshine, they don’t work that much for levels like Corona Mountain.
And… WHY IS MARIO IS A PRISONER ?!?
Super Smash Bros. Melee is the most popular GameCube game.

This console is one of my favorite…

I've got a resident evil 4 gamecube and a boxed indigo and clear controller. My favourite game on the cube (that I have) is super monkey ball.

Overall, it's been a great console. Donkey konga is the best thing ever created.

its a good console but the mario games arent that good

I don't think Sunshine is a bad game, & most Gamecube games were very rushed. Melee was made in 18 months. I like the difficulty, although it's got some ugly bosses, which is what stops me everytime I try to play a PIKMIN game.

But if You combine the Gameboy Player with the Nintendo GameCube, You will get a Gigantic Library of Games.

The PS5 and Xbox have more games than that. Heck, even the 3DS had more games! (although some of it is shovelware) And both of those consoles have good graphics along with most of it being good gameplay.

Mario Kart Double Dash!! is the Goat.

For a Video Game.

For me its Mario Sunshine 😅

For me it’s arguably one of the worst games due to the slippery controls. And Sherbet Land doesn’t make them any better.