>>11393942
>more polygons on screen
Big oof. That's not the best yard stick of performance at the time anyway. Good, yes, but

The Xbox hardware prevailed in many other areas anyway and was way more developer friendly. Nintendo hamstrung themselves trying to have a cute little package in multiple colors in an era where people started to care more about raw horsepower

Xbox ended up winning regardless. Yeah they said the console was a beast but nobody cared and even when they did you'd find the GC was taller and had to flip up the cover to put a disc in where the Xbox had a front loading tray making it more friendly on the entertainment console to boot.

Package all that up with the fact that the game catalog of Halo, Gotham Racing, Ninja Gaiden, Splinter Cell, etc. looked better to American teenagers (THE growing vidya demographic) than Wind Waker, Luigi's Mansion, Pikmin, Animal Crossing and Super Mario Sunshine

Nintendo's saving grace was they got some decent ports and Capcom exclusivity for a while. If I hadn't already had a GC I would have got one just for RE4

That was the other thing. Their tech demo of Zelda blew everyone out of the water with a badass sword fight between Ganon and Link and then we get... Wind Waker: kid link with cel-shaded graphics. OOT was huge and if they had continued with mature Link and those graphics I guarantee you they would have done way better in the US

>>11394067
All it comes down to is who made better looking games and it's Xbox, hands down. Metroid was good, RE4 was good, but they don't match up to Riddick or Ninja Gaiden in graphical prowess.

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Aside from Halo, why would someone buy this back in the day versus the Gamecube or PS2?Microsoft didn't make a ton a games at that point so…

Aside from Halo, why would someone buy this back in the day versus the Gamecube or PS2?
Microsoft didn't make a ton a games at that point so…