I recently posted about the Gamecube controller and there was some talk about the console itself. This video came out shortly afterwards and goes over a lot of what was discussed in that thread.
Gotta love this statement from a Nintendo of America person fretting about the Cube's colour before release:
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I guess they were right since they were talking about American gamers in the year 2001
The GameCube was actually very powerful, but was held back massively by the minidiscs with third party games. Texture and effects quality was way worse than the PS2 and Xbox, and soundtracks would be cut. SSX even had less tricks because of that, and the controller. The controller was very cool, but desperately needed another bumper at minimum.
The fact that they got Need For Speed Most Wanted, with the full open world and campaign, running on that thing is unbelievable. Even if the textures were muddy as hell, the yellow filter and weather effects were removed, and the soundtrack neutered.
The GameCube, followed by the Wii, which was basically an overclocked GameCube that used full DVDs and motion controls, really killed Nintendo's reputation with third party developers in the 21st century. Still can't believe they got the COD Modern Warfare games to run on the Wii. Another miracle.