To those who think the Gamecube is bad: I beg you to play Resident Evil 4. Sure it's on the PS2 and Wii as well, and with extra content, but it had been a Gamecube exclusive. Also, despite the lack of extra content, the Gamecube version has better graphics and runs far more smoothly than its PS2 counterpart. Load times are virtually non-existant in the Gamecube version. The Gamecube had great potential, few developers chose to do anything with it, (and those who did found their games under the radar simply because people assume Nintendo is only for Mario and don't even buy the console, and they have no choice but to port their games to the PS2) and that is the reason it didn't succeed.

Haha, there is one good one whose PS3 port never made it to America. Tales of Vesperia.

Edit: Also I'd like to say Clock-La: I agree with your logic. If a console has games that I like, I will prefer that console.

For me:

Handheld consoles: Always Nintendo. PSP no has pokemanz
early generation: PS1. Crash Bandicoot & Spyro ftw
previous gen: Gamecube. RE4 and Zelda (edit again: Tales of Symphonia)
current gen: Xbox 360 (Mass Effect series and Vesperia) and Wii (most good current platformers)

It seems everyone disagrees with me on this, and that's fine.  (Why everyone hate me?)

I think one reason why Gamecube is getting such a good vote here on Spyrofourm is the age difference.  I am 24, which is probably older than the mean age here.  Most people in this argument are between 15 and 20.  Now Gamecube and PS2 are in the same generation, but my video gaming "career" began when I was 4 or 5.

The very first game I played was Burger Time for Atari, and my love for video games sped up with a revolutionary console, the NES.  Most of you guys' video gaming era started 5-10 years later, about the time the SNES had its better years behind it and right before the 'disc' era began.

Back in my childhood days, IMO, Nintendo was awesome.  There were several different types of games that you could play, even some with good depth and replayability.  When the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis (Megadrive) released, the first console war began.  I voted for the SNES.  It had way better games for it, the controls were easy to use, and most of the great games were continuations of franchises from the NES.  However, the Megadrive was revolutionary as well, it was just more overlooked because of the SNES.  I didn't realize this until the Playstation came out, and the reason being--I was so invested in what Nintendo was doing, I figured anything else was crap.

Now, I'm not saying that you guys are doing the same thing, my main point here is that my behavior against the "off-brand" Sega Megadrive during the SNES years could be similar to you guys' Nintendo following during the 64 and GC years.

Maybe I'm looking too far into it.

Another reason could be that on this site, about 99.9% of the users have played a Spyro the Dragon game.  And if you've played Spyro, there's a good chance that you've played other platformers.  Now, I'm not going to say that all of the games for Gamecube are platformers, but Sony's consoles did (and still do) have a larger array of genres than the Gamecube and, unfortunately, have since deemed platformers unpopular games to play.  Gamecube has countless games that have that platformer charm, but it's hard to find a good first person shooter for it.  I enjoyed sports games during this era too, and the Gamecube controller was so incovenient for most of those games.  Basically, the Gamecube controller was ideal for games with two attack buttons.  They made it in such a way that made sense for games where the same one and half buttons are continuously being pressed.

There is no doubt that the Sony consoles, especially PS2 and PS3, are for the hardcore gamer, which I guess best describes me.  The Nintendo consoles, in this case N64 and Gamecube, cater more towards the younger platformer addict, making anyone of these people who do not like the Wii a very unhappy individual because they aren't sure where to turn to.  Many of them probably stopped playing games altogether.  This theory could also explain why the later generation of Spyro games has an unfortunate decline in popularity--We blame it on Activision, lol.

So to summarize what I said in two statements:

1.  A younger generation could be the reason why Gamecube gets more praise.

2.  Sony and Microsoft have fewer Spyro-like games than Nintendo.

I know its GAY I NEED VESPERIA D:!!!!!!!!  Stil were getting grace F but its not fair i was despret for Vesperia T_T

I go for PS3 myself mostly cus i can play for more than 4 hours and it won't overheat leading to the inevtible RROD the 360 has.The online is also free which is nice.And it has much better hardware i hear the slim fixs the hardware but looking at it it probably didn't.

And with the Gamecube their is only 3 games i like on it

Killer 7

Pokemon Collsuiem

Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness

Anyone remember the Dreamcast? That had some potential had it not been for the terrible time it was released. Anyways I love my Playstation products...they keep me very entertained. I might have to invest in a Wii though....

As you all know or should know, my gaming life is generally dedicated to
Battlefield games and Spyro games. So here are my top two systems I
play games on:

Xbox 360 - S
PC

Here are my reasons:

[PC vs. all others]
- Battlefield games are huge regarding map size, graphics, multiplayer's
number of players per server, game engine, etc. The PC is great for
these, mainly for higher-end computers.

[Xbox 360 vs. Playstation 3]
- I've read about 7 to 9 Internet articles talking about a comparison
between the Playstation 3 and the Xbox 360 [DirectX Box].

Though the Xbox was discriminated becuase the tipping of one can
damage a disk, I never tip or even move my console and therefore isn't a
problem. In all of the years of owning Xbox consoles, I have never had
any issues with them. In fact, the only reason I have had with them is that
they were stolen out of my house by stupid burglars. But even a PS3 can
get stolen.

The PS3, as you may know, has a Blue Ray drive. The Blue Ray drive gets
easily worn out by video game disks due to the stress and work that video
games require. An Xbox 360 drive is tough and can easily handle video
game disks, thus prolonging the life of the drive.

Yes, an Xbox 360 gets heated. That is absolutely no issue to me, as I like
to be warm while playing my games. I really don't like the cold.

There are absolutely no games on the PS3 that I like.

The Xbox 360 controller is, in my personal opinion, a lot easier to use than
a PS3 controller. An Xbox 360 controller also feels nicer in the hand
regarding grip, shape, and the finger's movements on the thumbsticks and
buttons.

Servers on Xbox LIVE get far less lag than the servers on the PS3. In fact,
I never get server lag. If you play Call of Duty and get server lag, it is
because Call of Duty is [without the nedd to explain why] a terrible game
with terrible developers [Treyarch and Infinity Ward]. I play Halo,
Battlefield, and a few other games online and rarely get lag. But every
time I hear someone talk [or type] about Playstation 3 servers, they tell
me about the lag they always get.

Xbox LIVE has a larger community, which means that online games will
always have many players on them regardless of the game's age.

[Xbox 360 vs. Wii]
[I will ignore my dislike towards the Japs and their culture on this one.]

- The Xbox 360 has the Kinect, which I find a lot more interesting than the
Wii's movemet system. The Kinect does not require a controller. The Wii
has controllers with annoying-to-handle nunchucks, and take batteries that
need to be changed every week.

- The avatars for the Wii [untastefully named Miis] look like weird anime
things with no arms or legs. They're like terrible versions of the awesome
Rayman. The Xbox 360 has highly editable avatars that look pleasing and
have special animations for different games and parts of the Dashboard.

Here's my avatar [I just made this video]:

Crap. I spent two hours setting up a video and lost my train of thought.
Well, I guess you can go off of what I already have typed above.

[Edit] I may come back to this post and add some more to it later today.
[It's now 2:50 AM and I need sleep]

I know but now the wii in a way is well...nothing...If you think about it the thing that made the Wii the Wii has been stolen

I think the Wii has better graphics than the PS2...

It's a proven fact that the PS3 is more powerfull than the xbox 360, if the games look the same it's the develapers fault.

The further we get into graphic engine technology, the less significant graphic quality will become.  64bit consoles have a significant appearance over 32bit, because 64 is twice the resolution as 32.  But now we're getting into an age where we are splitting hairs between the different in bits.  The difference between a 128bit console and 256bit console are not nearly as noticable, even though it's still twice as many bits.

The gaming industry is being forced to create more enjoyable storylines, better gameplay, and originality in the artwork of the game.  Usually a phrase like, "Woah! That game has amazing graphics," comes from someone who has lived under a rock for the past 10 years of his video gaming life.

And the movie industry has encountered a similar interesting situation.  Special effects have been so "effective" that when people actually see things shown on tv in real life, or they wittness a spectacular explosion or event, they are immediately reminded of the action movie they watched last summer and instead of comparing a movie as being like 'real life,' they suggest that the real life situation they experienced was 'just like a movie.'  It's funny how we got that mixed up.

PS3 wins the battle for 7th gen graphics, IMO.  It may also be the last graphics battle.  Or, we may find the answer to the question, "Can a video game have more resolution than real life?" very soon...

Agreed.

Also the PC has Games For Windows - LIVE which is linked to XBOX LIVE but the only difference is that GFWL is free. Plus GFWL is WAAAAAY better than Steam. Bloody Steam. >.<