How did it surpass PS2 in popularity and cultural relevance?

Easy Answer: It Didn't.

>>714290250 (OP)
Games that weren't replaced entirely by sequels.
There's no reason to play Red Dead Revolver or GTA 3 when Redemption and 5 exist.
Why touch PS2 GoW when you have Ragnarok?

>>714290250 (OP)
melee

>>714290250 (OP)
It didn't and you're delusional

FFX mogs every single cube game

Zoomers vastly prefer N64 and Gamecube to PS1 and PS2

>>714290250 (OP)
Tendies grew up and used social media to their advantage.

>>714290528
exquisite bait

>>714290250 (OP)
It was a pure gaming system.
The PS2 was a DVD player.

>>714290250 (OP)
Nintendo made unique gaming experiences while Sony made run of the mill goyslop and bad copies of Nintendo games

>>714291176
Thanks, I tried, but no one's biting today.

>>714290250 (OP)
PS2 has no games

PS2 had quantity but GC had quality. The exclusives like Sunshine look better than anything on PS2, and most Xbox games even. Sunshine was one of those games that looked so good the modern HD remasters don’t do it justice, you kind of need the old setups, a good preamp and surround sound and shit

>>714290250 (OP)
Only nintendo fanboys think that

>>714290250 (OP)
I'm a Nintendo fag and saying the GC surpassed the PS2 in terms of popularity is surely bait.

>>714290250 (OP)
why is that controller so long?

>>714293918
quite the opposite

>>714290250 (OP)
Unironically Melee and a handful of other games that propped it up that gamers back then couldn't pass up like Animal Crossing and the original RE4.
>>714296343
Needs room for batteries

>>714290250 (OP)
by not doing that in any shape or form

PS2 users have jobs, families, friends and a social life

Gamecube users are highly autistic loners that are glued to their computers so you hear a loud minority more often

>>714298476
Back then, it wasn't either-or. Every family had a PS2 at least as a DVD player. You got a Gamecube if you were really interested in the exclusives it had.

>>714298476
>>714299047
You’re both retarded as fuck

>>714290250 (OP)
>How did it surpass PS2 in popularity and cultural relevance?
The PS3 was so bad that it retroactively tanked the PS2's cultural relevance. I'm being serious here.
The PS3 released in 2006, however it did not receive its first videogame until 2009 (Demon Souls). During this three year period, the console wars escalated rapidly. Sensing weakness, the Nintendo and Xbox fanbases relentlessly mocked the PS3. The PS3 has nogaems. And there was no defense, for the PS3 indeed had zero videogames during this three year period.
Anyone who spent 599 US dollars on the PS3 felt like a retard, and that includes myself. We all regretted our purchase, and many people lost their fanboyism altogether. That is to say; the number of Playstation fanboys decreased overall as a result of the PS3's nogaems. Less fanboys, less cultural relevance.

>>714299047
>>714298476
I had both a PS2 and a Gamecube as a kid and was surprised to learn that most people did not.

>>714290250 (OP)
>making shit up and makes a thread on /v/ about it.
(you)
Rope! Now!

>>714301269
Yeah, the PS2 was the cheapest DVD player on the market in 2001, and the Gamecube got marked down to $99 a few years later with most of the best games selling for $20. Even my dirt poor family had both.

>>714294220
>PS2 had quantity but GC had quality.
Absolutely and beyond delusional, and the fact that you bring up the graphics of a fucking Mario game just further proves that. The PS2 has some of the most important and influential games in it's library. It beats the Gamecube in terms of both quantity and quality no competition.
>but my graphics