Uh? Let me start out by saying I have a Game Cube. My parents got it about a week after it came out. They got it for $160.
Though that is because we go to military bases to shop. 
I love my little black box. It looks like Hal9000s kid. I hate sony I hate XBOX. Why, you ask. The XBOX over heats. The playstation is from sony.
Just to give a hint on how rugged this little thing is I will give you some examples. 1.I dropped it on the hard wood floor from 5 feet. 2.I forgot to turn it off on a 5 day vacation, when we got back it was still on to my horror. I went over to it and turned the t.v. on and the paused screen from rogue squadron was still playing.
Thats I got this system and I love it.
It's good that the GC is so rugged, since it's only real use is as a doorstop. Or maybe a paperweight. It may be a collectible too, as it's quite likely to be the last non-handheld gaming system that Nintendo releases.
Console arguments like this are rediculous. Each system has its strong points (though, as an adult gamer I don't see much of one with the GC.) and a couple of games that are system sellers. It's always been this way since the days of the Atari VCS and Intellivision.
The "my system is better than yours" crap mostly comes from poor kids who can't afford more than one or who hafta make do with whatever their mom bought them. Of course they wanna feel that they've got the good system, so they're gonna trash the others. Often by using unfounded rumors that they have no actual knowledge of ("Xbox's overheat" Where did that come from? I've
never heard a report of an X-box overheating in typical use.).
"I hate Playstation because it's from Sony"? What's the point of that? To dislike a game system from a company that's revolutionized the business and made it mainstream? One that constantly releases quality games and has made great consoles at a great price? Sounds pretty juvenile to me.
The comment in this thread about the PS2 being outdated is rediculous and shows a lack of knowledge about the PS1 development history. As programmers became more familiar with it, games on the PS1 continually pushed the boundaries and kept it in step with supposedly more advanced consoles such as the Dreamcast & the Nintendo 64.
Some of the games available now on PS2 are easily the equal of anything currently available on Xbox or GC. There's no reason to suspect any one of these consoles will suddenly make some great leap forward in graphics quality.
True gamers own all of the systems and realize that they all have some great games. Because that's what it's all about right? The games?
I've got a PS2 and an Xbox. I've given my Gamecube to a friend, as there hasn't been anything since Rogue Squadron that interested me. (She has a young son though, who finds more good games at his level than on the other two.) I've got a stack of great games for both the PS2 and the Xbox though, and there are more being released every day.
Anyone who thinks that Nintendo or Microsoft is going to "win" this round of the console sales wars is sorely mistaken. Sony "won" it when they released the PS2 long before the other consoles and when they included PS1 support. Per week, Sony sells over twice the number of consoles as the other two
combined. That's just simply not gonna change. Doesn't mean that Microsoft won't keep making the Xbox and that there won't keep being great titles, but they're not gonna "Stomp Sony into the ground" as so many Sony haters were crowing before the Xbox's release.
Were I to suggest just one console to some poor soul on a limited budget who couldn't afford 'em all, it'd be the Playstation 2. DVD right outta the box with no need to spend >$30 for an add-on. The
best console controller ever created, so no real need to buy another. (Unlike my Xbox, which has a controller even worse than the horrible N64 one.) A whole
ton of great super cheap PS1 games available at any used game store. And (IMO) currently more "must own" exclusive games than the Xbox.
Luckily I'm able to own more than one console, so I can relish all the gaming goodness that is to be had when you don't limit your options.
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