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Master_Bass posted...

People were buying it since it was a cheaper DVD player back when they were still expensive.

Yeah this was probably one of the biggest things that hurt the GCN. My uncle never even played video games but he bought a PS2 simply because it was a DVD player. He was a former baseball pitcher that got as far as the minor leagues so he did end up buying an MLB game but that's all he had, it was mostly just a DVD player for him. If the Gamecube had DVD compatibility I think the sales would have been better, even if it would have required a higher price tag. The GCN was what, $50-$100 cheaper? DVD players were going for more than that back then so a GCN+DVD player purchased separately were more expensive combined than just buying a PS2.

Prismsblade posted...

Aside from MGS I either played and or beat everyone of these titles. Over the course of that console generation those weren't enough to keep a kid with near infinite free time occupied for long. Especially with no multiplayer to help pad it.

You mean online multiplayer? Because there were multiplayer games though yes it didn't really have much online support. The games I just listed were exclusives, or at least timed exclusives in the case of RE4 and maybe a couple others. There were still multi-plats you could get like the James Bond games or Tony Hawk games or sports games, and more that had local multiplayer.