What happened? It came out, we played it, we loved it. What's the problem?
It underperformed heavily and hit Nintendo financially hard. If the Wii wasn't a success we probably wouldn't have seen Nintendo try to do another console again.
With poor sales figures and the associated financial harm to Nintendo, a Time International article called the GameCube an "unmitigated disaster"
Define "console" here. The GameCube was underperforming, but Nintendo was dominating the handheld market with both the Game Boy Advance and the DS. I'm not sure a similarly underperforming Wii would have doomed the company, but I suspect it may have led Nintendo to try a crossover style handheld/set-top hybrid like the Switch a generation early.
I remember hesitating hard between the PS2 and GC. But the GC didn't have FFX so yeah.
Still, the best memories I have with these console is playing DoubleDash, Melee and Mario Party all day long at my friend's house with the crew. Good days.
