Five good points about Nintendo GC:
-The Nintendo GC has the highest texture resolution capabilities of any of the three systems. People say that the GC hardware sucks because it can only generate relatively low numbers of polygons, but the improved textures often more than make up for this and multi-platform games often look better on the GameCube that they do on the other theoretically more powerful systems.
-GC has the largest game library of all three major systems. Yes, it does. (Can anyone figure out why?)
-The GameCube is the only one of the three systems that has a handle. This is sort of a minor issue, but I like the handle.
-The GameCube is the only system that has connectivity to a handleheld system. I personally have never played a game that made good use of connectivity, but I hear that four-player Four Swords Adventures is extremely fun.
-The Gamecube is cheaper than the other systems.
You only asked for five, but here's a sixth:
-The GameCube console is the exclusive home of such masterpieces as Super Smash Brothers Melee, Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Super Mario Sunshine, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, and every other console game featuring Nintendo's vast library of characters and franchises. This is, by far, the most important reason to own a GameCube. I completely agree that online games are incredibly fun, and I greatly wish that Nintendo would publish some online games, but I also know that single player games can also be incredibly fun. Some of Nintendo's games may be "kiddie," but young children deserve to have fun just as much as older gamers do. And there was nothing "kiddie" about Metroid Prime, which is in my opinion the greatest single-player game ever created.
Edited by - Hirocon on 2/13/2005 6:52:37 PM