How did it surpass PS2 in popularity and cultural relevance? Every zoomer loves Gamecube meanwhile only people who grew up with PS2 think it's good

Is anyone else here old enough to remember the Nintendo hate train from the early 2000s? There were so many articles and forum discussions from those days, absolutely shitting on Nintendo, and confidently predicting that they would end up failing in the console AND handheld market, and Sony / Microsoft were the future.

Funny to think about looking back.

>the last Nintendo console with soul

How did it surpass PS2 in popularity?

Why are cubesnoys trying to gaslight people into thinking it was a good console?