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Message: [QUOTE="WokiBakoki, post: 199103, member: 205793"] This is frankly the most desperate reach of an argument I think I've ever seen. Nah, the GC's disc weren't too small and held too little data, the other standardised discs used for Xbox, PS2, CD and DVD's were all too big. Used too much plastic? It's PAPER THIN! What on Earth are you talking about? Not to mention Gamecube game boxes were the same size as everyone elses so on a bookcase, they're all the same. Yeah DVD's aren't games. But in the early 2000s physical media wasn't just the dominant option, it was the only option for owning media. Near enough, as piracy and what not was still in its infancy on a young internet. Discs and going all-digital was the up and coming norm, and DVD players were fuck-off expensive, but everyone needed one. So if you got a PS2, you got movies, CD's AND the best video games all in one reasonably priced machine! Nowadays it's easy to brush the extras off but back then that was an absurd steal. Guarenteed victory, big dick swinging level shit. The PS2 sold tens of millions more than everyone else, and is still the highest selling system of all time because of that. It was a big enough W to be undeniable. In the face of that, along with Xbox pioneering online play outside of the PC market. And the GC looks pretty boring. A handful of good games could only get you so far in an era of high quality boundry pushing hardware. Besides, there big saviour games were stunted anyway. Mario Sunshine was 9 months late to the party, and Wind Waker was slammed for its cartoon art style. Which is pretty lame considering it looks brilliant, but caused a surprisingly big backlash from mainly western fans at the time. Enough to be unignorable, you can thank those haters for Twilight Princess. All and all, a mid console at the consoles markets fiercest era. No amount of games first purism is gonna outshine those PS2 numbers, especially when all your faith is in games that aren't even S tier by there own franchise standards. [/QUOTE]

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