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
I was a tiny baby idiot during the GameCube life (the only times I ever used it were at other kid's houses) but I think the main things that hindered the GameCube were
Stiff competition, mainly the PS2 which had a monstrous catalogue of games
tiny disks hampered graphics/performance and were irritating to develop for
The main thing to point to regarding these weaknesses is probably the Capcom Five