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the nintendo gamecube is the best console in the world! because:

best graphics
best multiplayer games (who doesn't play mario party 5, super smash bros melee or mario kart double dash with his friends or family)
the only downsize is that you can't play dvd's on it:S but there's a new gamecube coming!

The gamecube's graphics aren't that great, and I would argue that Halo and Halo II have pretty strong multiplayers as well. The Nintendo Revolution will do well, and is not called a "gamecube."

Someone's never played Metroid Prime

The graphics in that game are beautiful, even down to the rain in some areas bouncing lightly from your extended gun arm. Its amazing the attention to detail that was put into that game.

And since when have graphics been important anyways?

The graphics for Nintendo's systems are not as good as their sony and microsoft counterparts. The point is they were never MEANT to be as good. While the PS3 and X-Box 360 just plan to blow you away with high-def graphics, Nintendo keeps doing what it does best... awesome gameplay.

That being said, don't kid you self people; Play Stations and Xboxs have better graphics over all that Nintendo's systems do.

The graphics are generally pretty good, but saying it's the best is very much arguable (on all levels).

The Mario Party games are also arguable (they got extremely repetitive and lame after a while). SSBM was great (probably the best game on GC) and Double Dash was okay, probably the worst of the Mario Kart games. It's unfortunate that the GC has such a lack of great games that it almost doesn't matter how great the ones that they actually do have are (or even how many extremely popular franchises they have up their sleeves).

As for Metroid Prime, it had great graphics, but if you look into the core of the game, that's what it mostly was, graphics. Story was almost non-existant and there wasn't much action to keep a person interested in the game. Never could finish it because of that.

The Gamecube as a system had a ton of potential, but if you're going into how well it ended up performing on all levels (game selection, amount of decent games, etc.), I do think the GC fails in that regard. There just aren't enough good games, most are repetitive and boring and well, unless it's Zelda or some other popular franchise game, the selection is one of the worst I have ever seen with a console.

The console itself fails to deliver, so I highly disagree that it's the "best console ever", in fact, I could put 6 or 7 consoles above it. I think anyone who has played a system from the NES/SNES/SEGA Genesis generation would probably find something to put over the GC.

If the Revolution doesn't come through (though I do expect it to do so), Nintendo will be slowly "dying".

If I were to rate the console itself, I would probably give it a 7.5 or 8 out of 10. Pretty much the only thing the GC can do better than other systems is multi-player games. Graphics, gameplay, and game selection are sprawled out elsewhere.

Nintendo has always been my favourite company when it comes to games but unfortunately like kuge said, they are slow in getting their games out. Personally I tihnk the graphicsin GC are sufficiently good but the to most people PS and Xbox are the best consoles. GC just has no good games except a select few..

When I went to the store once to buy games, my brother randomly chose this megaman game and it was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO bad, that I disliked PS2... anyways, the favourite RPG game I've played is Zelda, so, so far, in my heart nintendo is the best, but in reality it is actually really bad...hopefully they'll make that new Zelda game really good and playable for GC so I can buy and play the game wihtout spending a few hundred on a new console. IMO the DVD function on PS2 isn't that useful, DVd players are easier and better for watching DVDs.

1st poster = fanboy
Everyone else = mostly wrong.

On graphics: Xbox > GC >>> PS2. And if you don't believe me, play RE4, Metroid Prime, etc. on GC. Absolutely beautiful. The PS2 is without question the most limited graphics-wise of the three consoles.

On games:

First party: Gc >>>> Xbox > Ps2

Sony barely puts any first party games out there (God of War I believe is an exception). Microsoft does make a few, but GC's first party games compromise the bulk of the system. (It doesn't hurt that most of them are AAA games, either.)

Third party: Ps2 >> Xbox >>>>> GC

Ps2 has a huge library of games due to massive third party support. Xbox has almost as many. GC has almost none at all.

If you asked me to pick one of the systems I would go with PS2. Though its graphics are technically inferior to the other two systems it more than makes up with it with a huge library of games (most of them good).

In direct response to the first poster: Xbox is better than GC in graphics. GC does have the best multiplayer with friends (4 player SSBM alone almost guarantee that fact) but falls flat on its face when you consider that the other two systems have online play. And the Revolution is most certainly not a "new gamecube" <_<

Gamecube was pretty good, but I laugh at the thought of it being the best console in the world. It has a good amount of great games, but it's not without weaknesses. Like the fact that many of those great games are simpily remade versions of games on other systems, or games on all three systems on that generation. There's also it's weak RPG selection. And very weird controller.

And what's the deal with graphics? They are a good thing yes, but the way some people talk about them you'd think that graphics are the game, and that bad graphics always equals a bad game. Same thing with many FFVII fanatics and plot.

Remade: Not really... "sequel" does not equal "remake." All three systems: Again, Nintendo's first party titles make up the bulk of the AAA games for GC, and those are not on any other system. The only example I can think of that you would be referring to here is RE4 and that came to GC first...

Weak RPGs: Yes, but Xbox is weaker GC has Tales of Symphonia, Paper Mario, Skies of Arcadia (which is also on dreamcast but that doesn't really count ), Baten Kaitos... there are more. Ps2 is the only real RPG system out of the three.

Controller didn't seem very weird to me. o.0

Gameplay > graphics. Anyone who tells you otherwise is an idiot. Graphics can hinder or help gameplay (such as when enemies "teleport" instead of walking, like in the PS2 Ghost Recon, it takes away from the gameplay experience) but graphics NEVER make a game. EVER.

An interesting note is that Sony fanboys will tell you that Ps2 is the best system because of its wide range of games, and that the graphics don't matter, yet PSP > DS because it has better graphics. Heh.

I know that remake does not equal sequal, but I still used the wrong word, though some popular Gamecube games are remakes, like Both Sonic adventures, PSO 1 and 2, and Crash Bandacoot, the Wrath of Cortex (though unless my memory is betraying me again that last one is a bit different than the original) there's the collection games, like both of the Sonic ones (and yes, I know Mega Collection is on more than gamecube, but not originally) and megaman ones, which the latter probally won't count because it is on multiple systems. And ask me when I'm not tired like right I am now and I can probally think of some more.

True, but that's just one of the reasons I don't own an x-box. And yes, that's the main reason why I like the PS2. That and DDR for PS2 is better than for GC.

The a button is big while the b button is small, and it took me quite a bit of playing Smash Bros. to get used to that darn z button of evil. Someone I know once said (though I don't think it's that bad) that they decided what the GC controller would look like by having a contest for creating a controller... and combining the five best entries into one.

Agreed.

Funny ain't it? I've seen the same thing once with an FFVII fanboy, loving the game mainly for it's plot, yet trying to tell people for another game (can't remember it) that plot doesn't matter in games. Irony is funny!

unless it's a... never mind.