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

>>714625772 (OP)
All the best PS2 games have ports on most later consoles meanwhile the best Nintendo games from that system are rarely ported to new systems. Scarcity means more valuable.

Don't zoomers hate the Gamecube because of all of the hipsters? Like zoomers love Smash Ultimate but hate Melee. Zoomers love Odyssey, but still shit on Sunshine. Only Wind Waker has really survived the test of time and even then you're getting more people now shitting on it.

>>714625912
Zoomers love Melee because of Twitch. Zoomers love Sunshine because of speedruns. Zoomers love Wind Waker because of randomizer.

>>714625893
Pretty much, the PS2's identity has been eroded quite a bit by the sheer number of ports and remakes. Nintendo, conversely, doesn't do remakes for a lot of their best games. I'm sure there's some logic behind it, but my headcanon is because they don't want people to see their games from an era that didn't largely suck fat cocks and compare them to their dogshit selection now.

>>714625772 (OP)
PS2 didn't age well in a world with PC ports
>Mg2
>RE4
>GTA:SA
>Kingdom hearts
>Katamari
>Tony hawk
All ported over, there's literally zero reason to go back.

By comparison, Nintendo built up a bonkers gc library, with either limited ports or ports with big asterisks like "its known to be worse" or "the alternate port has shoehorned motion controls.
>Melee
>wind waker
>kirby air ride
>mp4 to mp8
>ttyd
>double dash
>metroid prime1/2
>luigi's mansion
>pikmin1/2
>PoR
>twilight princess
The PS2 feels like "shittier lower res no multiplayer" versions of the current steam ports, which is terrible for going back to it.

>>714625772 (OP)
The thing that is confusing you is that you are looking at the sixth gen in terms of hardware sales and not software sales.
Gamecube fans purchased and played many copies of video games, while PS2 fans appear to have purchased the console and then placed it as a figurepiece on their coffee table.

Most of the PS2 players stopped playing video games altogether as they got out of their teens.

the gamecube was easier to emulate

>>714626957
this for me

kek reminder that there is a pathetic group of Nintendoshills who insist that the only reason the PS2 was so popular is because it was a DVD player

>>714627093
>thread is relatively reasonable
>comes in to stir shit
people like you are fucking gay.

>>714627093
Segoys were saying this all the time back in the 2000s on G4 Icons

>>714627093
It's true. Nintendo fans are extremely troubled lately and I can't make sense of why. They come across as damaged people.

>>714625772 (OP)
Its popularity is due to nintendo being assholes and locking away its library for nearly 20 years. Ps2 games have all been made available in some form in the last 2 decades so there isn't much nostalgia to it.

>>714627093
It was literally the cheapest DVD player on the market when it launched. That's how I convinced my family to get one.

>>714625772 (OP)
This purple lunchbox was used as a door stop at all the game stores in my area.

>>714626008
Zoomers are the biggest pushers of Smelee. Zoomers love hearing about speedruns, they still hate sunshine. Zoomers are more focused on OoT and Majora's Mask randomisers.

It’s a gay purple meme box and cartoon style is now endearing than jagged clunky pixels I’m a hardcore old flag tendie who owned both at launch and I’ll readily concede ps2 was the superior console thoughever

>>714626667
Are there confirmed numbers from Sony for the attach rate of the ps2 or how many games for the system were sold?

>>714626667
People used it as a cheap dvd player it was one of the most affordable ones on the market at the time and very novel for that reason

>>714625772 (OP)
What fucking zoomers have you been seeing?

>>714625772 (OP)
I'm a zoomer and I grew up with a GameCube. PS2 was the more successful console by a wide margin (GC was third, behind the OG Xbox) and had a far better library, but I didn't actually start playing any PS2 games until I was in high school with PCSX2

>>714627093
Not being able to play DVDs is a major design flaw.

>>714627093
It's the prime reason my family justified the purchase to begin with.

>>714625772 (OP)
Nintendo breaking from the natural progression path of "Gamecube but stronger" with the Wii unlike the other consoles that did follow "the same but stronger" mentality for the first half of the 7th gen, left an entire cohort of millennials to stew in their own abandoned interpretations of various properties which radicalized them into diehards that would not let the cube die via things like the melee community and Dolphin Emulator.

>>714625772 (OP)
PS2 didn't have a handle that let you wield it as a melee weapon.

>>714627093
not the only reason, but one of the biggest
it gave people who didn't even play video games a reason to have one
my child begging for video games, AND the parents wanted a DVD player, why not purchase one thing that does both

>>714625772 (OP)

Gamecube has more iconic games

>>714627093
>the only reason the PS2 was so popular is because it was a DVD player
it is true though?

>>714627093
I was a GC boy but all my friends had a PS2 (or several because many were broken but that's another issue) because their wanted a DVD player.

>>714630162
>their wanted a DVD player.
their parents wanted a DVD player.

>>714627093
>only
Wrong
>main
Absolutely

>>714625772 (OP)
>cultural relevance
lol like what, smashtrannies having to play on this faggy console because Nintendo won’t port their shit games? ps2 mogs this dogshit any day
>>714629949
no it doesnt
>>714628990
yeah there is, muh DVD player is another asshurt cubie nigger cope lmao. ps2 had better games, more games, and more attachment. all cubies did was by their shittiest 3D mario, shittiest 3d zelda, their shitty tech demo like tranimal crossing

>>714626254
shartcube’s “identity” is entirely smashgroomers and transsexuals trying to get a lower number in shovelware like mario shitshine

>>714625772 (OP)
The Gamecube was just better.

>>714630592
>trannies out of nowhere
Anyways

>>714630427
Cubexisters…

It had the best game ever made

>>714630427
>hurf durf trannies
Why should the opinion of someone who wasn't even born before the PS3 came out be relevant in any capacity or matter to anyone?
Seriously, kill yourself, retarded zoomer nigger

>>714628590
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>>714630248
This has been proven false so many times that it’s clear as fucking day that you faggots are braindead tendies just brainlessness parroting straight up made up shit because you retards live in an echo chamber of corporate dick sucking fanboys

>>714630970
>FUCKING BLACK SHADOW

>>714627190
>thread is relatively reasonable
The thread is unreasonable in its offset

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>>714630872
cope faggots having such a faggy coloured console and a 80%+ user base that’s in HRT I strictly links the muttcube to trannies
ps2 wins

GameCube has worse games, less games, and one of the shittiest controllers ever made . The average gamecube player in 2025 is an insecure obese basement dwelling sodomite speed running Paper Mario, meanwhile PS2chads accepted their win decades ago. If that’s the shartcube’s “identity” then I can’t help but laugh

Most of the good ps2 games were multiplats
Xbox and gamecube both had better exclusives, I'd rather play Crimson Skies or Chibi Robo than shit like SOCOM

>>714631221
I don’t think HRT was barely even a thing back then but okay spaz rave ya retard

>>714625772 (OP)
It didn't, it's just everyone had a PS2, so no one missed out on its goodness. The same can't be said about the GameCube.

Why are tendies trying to rewrite history just like they rewrote their gender?