Gamecube has every right to declare itself the most popular system ever because even if it weren't true (tho it is), it would win by default because Microsoft apparently did not have a television last Christmas. The demand for the PS2 was among the highest the world had ever seen for a console, Sony underestimated this, and lost HUGE when they knew that last year was when they were going to have to install their fanbase before the upcoming XBox and Gamecube were launched. They screwed up and didn't launch enough units. Now XBox has made the same mistake again, so there will be a lot of purple boxes under Christmas trees this year. What does that translate into? Well developers go for the easiest platform to create games on (already Gamecube), and now not only that, but they will have the second largest base users to sell to! Only a moronic company WOULDN'T develop for gamecube..why would you develop games for a system that only 300,000 people have versus a system that 700,000+ people have? Microsoft f'd up big this time, I fear...dare I say it...that we will soon be calling it Microsof xBOB....remember MICROSOFT BOB?!! Nintendo has learned from its mistakes and other's....it has learned very well.
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Gamecube has every right to declare itself the most popular system ever because even if it weren't true (tho it is), it would win by default because Microsoft apparently did not have a television last Christmas. The demand for the PS2 was among the highest the world had ever seen for a console, Sony underestimated this, and lost HUGE when they knew that last year was when they were going to have to install their fanbase before the upcoming XBox and Gamecube were launched. They screwed up and didn't launch enough units. Now XBox has made the same mistake again, so there will be a lot of purple boxes under Christmas trees this year. What does that translate into? Well developers go for the easiest platform to create games on (already Gamecube), and now not only that, but they will have the second largest base users to sell to! Only a moronic company WOULDN'T develop for gamecube..why would you develop games for a system that only 300,000 people have versus a system that 700,000+ people have? Microsoft f'd up big this time, I fear...dare I say it...that we will soon be calling it Microsof xBOB....remember MICROSOFT BOB?!! Nintendo has learned from its mistakes and other's....it has learned very well.