[TheGame]

Well, you guys seem too look at them both much worse than me... The way I see it, GCN is better than I expected in some areas, but much worse in other areas.

GCN isn't the hybrid N64/Psx mix I wanted it to be... it seemed to get much better in the third party department, while messing with everything that made N64 great IMO.

I mean, Celda replaces Zelda... not a biggie in my opinion. But now the WWE Games N64 had are gone (and I spent the most time last generation on these games), and Perfect Dark is gone(still my fav home console FPS). But that's only two games, which is made up for by a LOT of original content and the addition of many third party games (especially sports games). Gamecube is lightyears better then N64 for it's first 1.5 years, but this generation the bar has raised.

GCN's raw hardware value gets killed by ignorant mistakes on the part of Nintendo. I'll admit, nobody foresaw Xbox being this big of a hit, but jesus... there are little things Nintendo could have fixed from the gate. Like memory cards for example... or actually giving online play a try.

Xbox on the other hand has A+ hardware, but it's severely lacking in the software side of things. At launch Xbox was simply better... there is no way around it. Xbox also offered much more variety, which gives a system a shelf life. For every genre there is, Xbox offered exclusive decent content. You just can't say that about Cube. Where are the fighting games, racing games, and FPSs?

But, Xbox's variety gets hurt by it's lack of extremely quality titles. From the launch til now, I must say that I'd pick the top 10 games to come out for GCN over the top 10 that game out for Xbox. As for the future...?

It looks like there will be no power greater than X. Nintendo will always have a good line-up on paper because of familiar names, but once you get past the brand names what is there?

Nintendo is just a big ball of potential and they are not doing and good with it... that's why I'd have to say I'm more disappointed in Gamecube. Nobody could doubt that MS isn't living up to the promise that was Xbox... but Everybody could doubt that Nintendo is living up to the promise that was gamecube.