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Hell, the 3rd party library was great - small, but virtually every console exclusive was gold. ToS was one of (still is) best JRPGs around. The Capcom 5 deal gave it Okami, RE4, Killer 7, and Viewtiful Joe 1 & 2 ( and it took years for any of these to come to the PS2). Baiten Kaitos 1 & 2, Star Wars Rougue Leader, and more I'm forgetting.

The GCN controller is still probably the best controller made, with it's unique button mapping making it super easy to recall button configurations. It was super powerful, too - only Halo 2 came close to matching how good Metroid Prime and RE4 looked.

It's biggest "failure" was not playing DVDs, which is the entire reason the PS2 got such a footing. But it had terrific games. This would basically continue foenthe Wii, which kept a strong library, got more game support, and ironically pulled a PS2 by gaining a lot of shovelware due to popularity.