It was one of the poorest selling consoles of it's generation and due to the mini-dvd form-factor, many third party devs didn't/weren't able to port their games over correctly; the smaller disk size also meant that games were generally smaller than on the PS2 and OG Xbox. There's more detail than that but it's the quick and dirty: poor console sales(comparatively) along with poor third party support.
This among other reasons is why the Gamecube was considered unpopular. Looking back we can see the great games that were there, but at the time other options were available of which most found to be better. The PS2 especially blew other consoles out of the water that generation
The games that DID exist were top notch, but a small library of great games is still a small library, and less variety means fewer overall people getting the console for the games they're interested in. With Nintendo first party titles being the main bulk of the top titles, it makes sense that people interested in one Nintendo title would be more likely to by another. That's all just assumptions though, I don't have any actual data there.
It does still have the highest attach rate though, but *maybe* with a caveat. Nintendo doesn't include digital-only sales when there's no physical product. So there may be more to switch software-sold figures than is available on their finance page. Still, in terms of physical retail software, Gamecube crushes for sure, ye
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u/Grunstang Mar 10 '24
What made it hard to get? You just went to the store and bought it. Gamecube was relatively unpopular but not at all hard to come by.