Why did they cut support for it so early? Xbox original which only sold about 2 million more units had continued support up to 2010 (when Xbox Live ended on the OG xbox).

If you look at Gamecube game sales from around the time, they were still selling millions of copies of games from 2006-2007.

PS2 lasted until 2013 and there are several classic games on it that came out after 2006.

I played a lot of Gamecube in 2006-2008. A lot of people still did as the Wii didn't have too many games on it yet. Plenty of people still played the PS1 when the PS2 came out, you can check the sales and find games that came out in 2001/2002 sold millions of copies. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is one of the system's best sellers and it came out in LATE 2001.

I know the thing underperformed but they could have been a little more gracious to people who bought the thing. They even cancelled Gamecube versions of games like Super Paper Mario among other titles. They were nice enough to not do that to Twilight Princess, at least.

>>11833494 (OP)
The SNES sold less than the NES, the N64 sold less than the SNES and the GC sold less than the N64. Meanwhile the Wii was a big hit and selling like crazy. Why waste time and effort supporting it?

>>11833501
Because the Wii is basically a GameCube

A Wii game could easily be ported to the GameCube

>>11833494 (OP)
Gameboy advance and nds were more important to nintendo than ngc

There are 130 Game Boy Advance games released in the year 2006.
There are 46 GameCube games released in the year 2006.
There are 116 Xbox games released in the year 2006.
There are 458 PlayStation 2 games released in the year 2006.
There are 190 Nintendo DS games released in the year 2006.
There are 204 PSP games released in the year 2006.

>>11833504
This. Wii was selling like hot cakes

>>11833494 (OP)
If the Wii wasn't such a mega hit they probably would have had extended support for the GC. Wii also had Nintendo's first online store connected to the console so there is incentive to push all the tendies to the Wii and start raking in that easy cash.

>>11833494 (OP)
Huh 3years wuz lost intime and the mighty gamecube is an xbox all along somethings wrong her

>>11833551
Many are saying this!

>>11833551
pretty much my take away from it all too

>>11833494 (OP)
it was a bad console, they moved on to a good console

>>11833494 (OP)
>Why did they cut support for it so early?

because it fucking flopped?
you could buy a new gamecube for $50 in 2006

>>11834343
>bought a gamecube for $30 from gamestop in 2007
>also got the gameboy player for $10
all the games were dirt cheap too. nobody gave a fuck once the wii was out

>>11833504
>A Wii game could easily be ported to the GameCube
Then they should've had two discs in the wii cases, but they didn't.