Nintendo Gamecube By Vnascone By vnascone on Feb 17, 2008 - Updated Oct 15, 2011

The Gamecube is a nice little piece of hardware, though I can't really say it stands up to the PS2 in terms of quality. It isn't that there is a lack of good games on the Gamecube, it's just that a lot of the best games are in high demand, and so command high prices. The Gamecube has the capability for some excellent graphics, but only some of the games show this because it was seen as the child's system. Instead of focusing on making excellent games with nice graphics, a lot of third party developers (and Nintendo themselves with Mario Party) just made boring minigame compilations or terrible platformers in an attempt to appeal to a market that didn't exist: the idiot child that cannot tell a good game from bad. Those were the main issues that plagued the Gamecube, and the same could happen to the Wii if all that are developed are stupid platformers and monotonous minigames. In all, for the price one can get it for at Gamestop secondhand, it would be silly to not buy one along with some of the top quality games like Zelda, Metroid, and Super Smash Brothers.