Gamecube Vs Xbox

Well, lets not kid ourselves here. A lot of the biggest Anti-Xbox people out there are 100% pro GameCube, for whatever reasons we want to put in on it. I had the major argument the other day with a friend of mine, who is a total GameCube junkie and a total X-Box basher, when he insisted that X-Box had no games aside from Halo, but when you look at sales of games, especially third party games, X-Box is creaming Game Cube, albeit not as much as PS2 is creaming both of them.

I don't know whether it is the whole 'US vs Japan' thing or the 'We don't want to see Bill Gates suceed' thing, I guess everyone has their reasons. Untill I hear this GameCube Junkies/X-box bashers start to go after PS2, though, it is pretty transparent where they are coming from.

 

Thanks for all the helpful responses!

I'm still kind of torn between the two though.
KotOR and Jedi Academy are the two biggest selling points for the Xbox for me, but on the other hand, I'm hoping to get a new PC sometime soonish- but that depends on circumstances beyond my control, and I'm not very patient when it comes to this kind of thing...


jp-30
>>>But, until such time as it just becomes another in a long line of CONSOLE WARS threads, I'll leave it running. Hopefully you'll have enough info to assist in your decision by then.

Thanks- much appreciated.


>>>But why don't you just hire / borrow the 2 consoles, try them out and just buy the one that suits your gaming preferences the best?

Because I don't know anyone with an Xbox, and I don't know where you can hire consoles in the UK (Blockbuster stopped doing that not long after the PS2 came out.



>>>would it make a difference if i told you that you can fit a gcn disc in your mouth?

SOLD!

 

But if the person feels the PS2 doesn't lack in quality games, as they claim for the X-Box, why would they "go after it"?

I just don't think the argument stands up. Without trying to be judgemental or race grouping here, most of my friends are asian and are very anti-xbox, in my opinion, because it is an american system. And I am sure there are always those who hate the success achieved by Bill Gates and don't want to see this become another part of it.

I just think overall, that the GameCube is an inferior system to the X-Box technologically and as far as the games go.

 

X-Box is a great system, no doubt about it. However, I would definitely choose Gamecube over it.

Great X-Box exclusives(not including PC): Halo, KOTOR

Great Gamecube exclusives: Zelda, Mario, Eternal Darkness, Metroid Prime, Rogue Leader(though I know many people disagree), Super Smash Bros. Melee

Advantages of owning X-Box: Many online titles to choose from, hard drive to store game saves/downloaded content/etc.

Advantages of owning Gamecube: Easy to store/carry, Wavebird, Nintendo exclusives

 

X-Box blows GameCube out of the water in Third Party support. Robotech, Dragons Lair, Panzer Dragoon Orta, John Madden, and more blow Nintendo away. And while you listed some games there, Zelda was the only real blow you away game in that bunch, and is not as good as Halo.

 

Xbox has better hardware, no doubt.

But, the GC and XBOX are both prime machines and you know what, the graphical capabilities of both machines are so close, you can't really tell.

But there are a few things in the graphics department that GC can do better than Xbox.

I have both systems by the way.

I've seen games on GC that blow any game on XBOX in visuals.

Both are great systems. Can't go wrong, no matter the choice.

 

yeah, i havn't seen anything that would convince me that the xbox had graphics that were substantially better than the GCN........now if we are talking ps2 then yes, xbox and gcn are substantially better graphics wise IMO..........

most of my asian buddies hate the japanese more than they do americans (if at all), the reason they buy ps2 over the other two is pirated games....

 

Robotech, Dragons Lair
These were both for Gamecube also.

 

"X-Box blows GameCube out of the water in Third Party support. Robotech, Dragons Lair, Panzer Dragoon Orta, John Madden, and more blow Nintendo away. And while you listed some games there, Zelda was the only real blow you away game in that bunch, and is not as good as Halo."

"Robotech, Dragons Lair
These were both for Gamecube also."

So is "John Madden" (Madden 02-04).

 

The thing to watch out for is that some developer's aren't doing Gamecube versions of their games anymore. The ESPN 2K titles into the future will only be available on the Xbox and PS2. I'm not sure how many other developer's might follow suit, but it would worry me as a Cube owner.

 

Zelda was the only real blow you away game in that bunch, and is not as good as Halo.

You can't compare those two games because you can't compare Shooter vs. RPG.

 

would it make a difference if i told you that you can fit a gcn disc in your mouth? Have you tried doing that? I want too but I don't want break the game. Anyway I have a GC, If you just want a console for the joy of playing some of the best games out there, then get a GC. If you want a console for all the extras like playing DVDs and all the other bonus things that an Xbox can do, then get a Xbox. I like GC best, but thats just that have one. Alot of people who own GC's do just bash the Xbox, and they are just stupid, my friend owns a Xbox and I play Halo on it all the time and I love playing it, if Halo did one day came to GC don't think twice and get a GC. I love the days of the NES, there wasn't any console bashers, everyone had the same thing, then Sega got involved.

 

I have a gamecube and I might soon get an xbox. Gamecube is great, mainly because of Metroid Prime, Rogue Leader, and soon, Rebel Strike. The only reason why I might hesitate to get an xbox is I will only want 5-7 games for it and some of them are multiplatform.

 

Console war has realy begun since ! Since from what i hear Xbox 2 is not going to be released in 2007 and Ps2 in 2006 !! But Gamecube 2 is not till 2004 and it needs that date since Gamcube [i say cube] has year left and nower days shows to be alot

 

Utterly incomprehensible.

 

Xbox has KotOR and Jedi Academy, neither of which show any sign of coming to the cube or PS2 (as far as I know...)


But both of those are coming out for computer...basicaly the best combo is Gamecube + Computer since you can get practicaly all of the good games for xbox and ps2 on the comp

 

If you like SW games then go for GC, it has one of the best SW games, Rouge Leader and soon it will have the best ever SW game Rebel Strike.

But what console has the Best SWs Library??

Xbox.



BTW, Xbox out beats both GC and PS2... Hardware wise. Think about it.

 

"Hey Forcebewitya
wat you mean Cube doesn't support LAN? Mario Kart Double Dash is up to 8 players and I'm pretty sure it comes with the adaptor "

ah how could I forget! sorry it alluded my mind when I was posting that. However it still isn't out yet, and X-Box does support MORE games with LAN. Hopefully in the future Gamecube will follow the same path. Melee LAN *dreams of the possibilities*.

Anyway I agree with the " you cant compare Halo and Zelda" statement. They are both Fantastic games however completely opposite genres. I like Zelda more, but thats just a personal preference.

Forcebewitya!

 

Well, this has pertty much turned into another Console wars...

 

Not really. No sytems or their owners are being flamed / slagged (yet).

 

I got a Gamecube as soon as it came out and I've never regretted it. There are just too many GC exclusives that I absolutly LOVE (Zelda, Mario, etc.) and basically nothing that is XB exclusive that would even make me consider wanting one. I have a PC and everything that's even remotly decent comes out for XB also comes out on PC nowadays.

 

The gamecube has decent games when it does release them and the xbox also has decent games, but releases new games more often.

Gamecube seems to be a failing system with publishers and developers pulling their support so it would be safer to buy an xbox and wait for nintendo's next console to come out. It should be backwards compatible, so you can play the gamecube games on it that you always wanted to play. Until then, get an xbox.