Panasonic Q: The Ultimate Nintendo GameCube 

Yeah, toasters look timeless.

except for the unreliable belt. no fix for this.

Yeah, anything with chrome on it just looks premium to me.

@GreedKills Not going to be something 99% of customers would ever even think about

@@markplott4820 I'm sure there might be a way to use some rubber band for this ^^

SilentS Ghost ride the cube

Starring X(box)zibit.

SilentS lol

Yo Dawg...

You nailed it! No other comments needed.

I'm sorry to inform you, but Josh was killed on January 3rd, 2017. Police believe his hamster, George the Second, killed him.

cool story bro

nuketowncity copy cat

I think your 13 subs tells a different story :)

Thats one of the reason I actually dig the playstation 4's light bar, the colors pop out in the dark and give the room a really good look :)

I have a modded og Xbox and an Android TV box. I can barely study :/

Only...price. Even at the time this thing was quite expensive, especially at import costs.

Or just buy a DVD player. Even in the 2000s they were barely $100

@@MrWolfSnack why buy a $100 DVD player and $200 gamecube when you can buy a $300 DVD cube?

@@slarbiter ​ A $300 cube that's region locked for both of the things you want to use it for? I don't know maybe they actually wanted to be able to use it?

Gaming Historian Heya GH! I would LOOOOOVE to see a video about the SaGa series. It's a series by Squaresoft with almost as many titles as the Final Fantasy Series. Yet very few people have even heard of SaGa!! Or maybe you could do an ep about how Squaresoft almost went out of business in the 80s after Rad Racer and Final Fantasy was their last-ditch effort to stay open. Anyway, good content on this channel. I LOVE your work. If you wanna know more about SaGa, check out my channel cuz I'm LPing SaGa Frontier right now.

Gaming Historian I think there were some aftermarket housings that could accommodate for dvds. Then you could use homebrew software to play the dvds. Nice video by the way. :)

It was a pretty powerful standalone DVD player. I used to own one and it was professionally modded to allow DVD regions unlocked. It always reminded me of a mirrored toaster.

Gaming Historian Another great video! I might have missed it but have you done vids of your personal collection?

Were you able to buy one? Or do you just borrow someone else's for research and video purposes?

A friend and I wanted them since they came out. It's been hell watching the prices soar over the years, but we each finally own one now.

@@FuzedBox was it worth it?

Truuuuue

@@Alfonso162008 it’s worth every penny

DigitalBamboo most of TVs had it

Sony had a Nighttime feature. I’d like to see it come back.

Your TV should have this built-in. It might be called something like 'news mode'.

Well it requires additional hardware and software which means it's going to cost more.

who?

MazingerDestroXtreme MetalJesusRock is a semi-popular youtuber who found a prototype American N64DD (which was only released in Japan)

No Normal Dog he also found a 1 of a kind original Xbox

And in nacho orange

And the prototype for Earthbound 64 and True Fantasy Online.

i think i might get this but then again that would be 5 ways to play dvds

It is

Nintendo had little to do with the CDI games, AFAIK they just gave Philips permission to use the licenses and they fucked it up.

let's not remember the CDI.

+sonicsnake44 Hmmm, wtf; the Philoips CD-I and Panasonic 3DO were uber/elite level home consoles; along with the Neo-Geo, Nuon, Panasonic Q and the N64 DD (an extremely rare , import only model) -- why would so many human beings detest such nosralgic gems !? I find these comments to be frivalous and trivial at best. *-*

let's just pretend the infamous CDi games never happened

When you have something Nintdon't and Nintendo needs it, you suddenly have more bargaining power with them. It is almost as if Nintendo is a business of some sort. I know right! Who would have thought that Nintendo is a business!

InvaderShadow42 when I saw the thumbnail I thought "is that a toaster?"

Supa' Mario Toasta'

You know what they say all toasters toast toast! YEAH TOAST! Sorry I couldn't resist.

if only it could fly like a toaster too.

+GioEx YEAH TOAST!

My exact thought

I don't know about "tons," but the few greats it had were truly great.

EBsessed It was tons

No, it really wasn't though. Gamecube is infamous for having a very small library of truly quality titles, but those few are very high quality.

For example me some years ago. I simply wanted to buy a dvd player for my old Tv and then I remembered the Ps 2. I never had one so I combined both wishes at once. Pretty neat. It felt like a Full Entertainment System.

Well, for me the ability to play DVD had exactly 0 influence when it came to buying a console. I never used my consoles to do anything other than play games. If I wanted to watch a DVD, I had DVD players at home. Even today, if I want to watch Netflix, I have SmartTVs. I never had a Sony or Microsoft console. I own every Nintendo console ever made, except for the Virtual Boy. I'm a huge Nintendo fan, but even I wouldn't buy that piece of junk.

Really? If the GameCube had N64 graphics, people wouldn't have bought it. It was the Wii where people (sadly) stopped giving a shit.

GameCube was more powerful than PS2.

and the original X-Box was not much more powerful then the GameCube itself. sadly the small disc format held it back, but I still love the GameCube as well, it was my choice of system back in the day when all my friends had PS2 consoles.

I loved the GameCube and all the games, the wii I hated when it came out, but it was sold out everywhere at Christmas and people were waiting whole weekends to buy Wii’s, luckily a lady that my mom knew worked at Walmart and won a wii in a raffle and my mom bought it off her(bless her heart lol). The thing that pissed me off is when I waited for smash bros brawl to come out and they kept delaying the launch day of the game, and then when it finally came out it wouldn’t play on any “original wii” so I had to send my wii to Nintendo for three weeks before I could play it. Lol never waited so long for a game

@@jake_of_the_jungle9840 safe to say you weren't waiting for Kingdom hearts 3

Same.

Joe!!!!

@@waltersobchak7275 Mama!!!

One of the ports literally spell out "subwoofer" in Japanese.

The PS2 doesn't use Dolby Digital. Sony didn't want to pay royalties to Dolby which were pretty high at the time. Microsoft therefore dodged those royalties by including it in a optional accessory.

DVD mode only outputs via composite or s-video, so no progressive scan. I've got a custom scart cable so I can get RGB in Game mode :)

You just need a stepdown converter, then you it works pretty easily?

ShadyKnight9 The inner ring of CD/DVD players was for mini-discs like that one.

Tiny little cutsie voice: "I'm the product of bad business decision!"

Now U know how your gf feels

Gabriele Riva Change the word "bad" to "cautious", and you'd be right.

But once someone takes it out the box and touches it, it will have so many fingerprints and smudges🥲

Randomark3087 well, Nintendo finally learned after this one.

Learned from what?

Void of Space and Time I'm talking about Panasonic. Their system 3DO failed BADLY. That's why I'm surprised they could make another.

Randomark3087 Well, this was just a modified system. Maybe they thought it'd be different.

The 3DO wasn't a Panasonic console; it was an attempt by a group called The 3DO Company to create an industry standard for video game consoles, and they licensed out their firmware to multiple consumer electronics companies to give it a push. Panasonic was just the first and arguably the best known manufacturer; there are other models by Goldstar and Sanyo.

that was one of xbox's primary features.

XD

FUCKING GENIUS

They should’ve just called it that

I saw it in EGM too and was excited to see this come out...only to find out that it's Japan-only...

Lugmillord Got mine in July 2005. One of my best investments..

Lugmillord but nintendo is now all about gimmicks. Just look at switch

Lugmillord Well, I think Sony uses their media business to subsidize the cost.

I know. And that's why I love the Gamecube and not the Wii.

I don't see how an optional dvd player or online functionality is a gimmick.

"Mark AirWind, we really are The Gaming Historian."

Some third party games also couldn't be fit on one PS2 disc either. Games like Devil May Cry 2, Xenosaga 2, and Star Ocean were all 2 disc games. I don't see the point why GameCube games needing two discs is a problem when PS2 games also had them too.

Team Spirits those games pushed the limits even for regular PS2 discs, the GameCube wouldn't been possible to play those games.

Matt R so divide the game in more disk =3= the reason why people didn't port to the GameCube was because it just didn't sold well and it didn't have as many games on release as the ps2 which had backwards compatibility.

The GameCube is more powerful than the ps2 despite its appearance it could have handled .. pun intended those games..

Most could fit actually.

All-And Nothing yeah

No.. its because of the way you insert the cartridge, its similar to a toaster.

Codex Necro k baby

Codex Necro That's my Playstation!

*roo voice* uncommon quote

Oil up and beat the dead horse with me.

Oil up and lets Fck

bcdesjardin Nice dachshund..

lol thanks

what's his/her name and may I pet him

Unlikely, the PS2 was already cheaper than a standard DVD player and had already a bigger library.

Demeech no way

I doubt it. It might have outsold the Xbox but the xbox had a hard drive and that was a big deal. It would have helped them though, but no way would it have outsold the PS2

Maybe the XBox, but not the PS2

Not against sony imo. Xbox was just as bad though where you had to pay a pretty penny to have the ability to watch movies. Hell its still just as shitty. I think those DVD cords or whatever the fuck on how they did it is 80 bucks

Axioanarchist You don't like the dankest of the PS2? You got to admit that the PS2 has the most unique games of that generation like Silent Hill 2 & 3 and ico.

Axioanarchist i luv my GCN, and i can understand, but thers is alot of cool games like DMC and MGS2 & 3.

Not a fan of DMC or MGS, or really any other first or third person shooter, hack-n-slash, or stealth game. I'm primarily a JRPG and platformers player. Which there's nearly zero of in Xbox's lineage and a quickly dwindling amount of in PS's following the early years of the PS2 when Final Fantasy X and XII came out. (And let's just not talk about XIII and beyond.) Nintendo still makes games I enjoy, as does Steam for PC (or at least Steam is the one selling them). Sony and Microsoft don't. I never got a Wii or WiiU (due to financial reasons rather than lack of interest; I certainly _wanted_ them) but I got tons of gaming time out of the DS and 3DS libraries. While the PS3 and 4 were shiny and nice to look at, I just never saw any games that made me want to bother with the pricetag, and Xbox was just never worth even looking at unless you like shooters or sports games, neither of which I care for.

Axioanarchist Ps2 has alot of JRPGs. Persona 3 & 4, and xenosaga and Dragon Quest 8 are the highly known handful from the plethora if those games.

Yeah I've heard good things about the Persona series, never gotten to check it out though. It's been on my to-do list for years. Xenosaga sadly felt like a massive letdown after the amazingness that was Xenogears, so I never played past the first game. Thankfully they made up for it with Xenoblade later. For some reason Dragon Quest has never been my cup of tea. Never quite sure why. But yeah. The fact that those _are_ there is why I didn't write off the PS2 completely, and I did own a couple (though neither works anymore). PS3 and 4 though, nada.

Kyle Desrochers yeah the switch has RU-vid and Hulu on it now and with Netflix canceling or losing most their shows it hardly feels like anything is missing

Thanks, I didnt know that one.