The reason to own a gamecube

[Ryujin]

Also i don't think Sony bought any of square. Squre went to Sony because it was cheaper to manufature and then they agree to sign a contract with Sony for final fantasy games. thats why you see other games from square on other platforums.. More like the Gba and there Sword of Mana etc..

Actually your wrong, Sony wanted to make sure that no Square games, especially the ultra popular Final Fantasy series could appear on any other console. So Sony bought 20% of Square. Which was translated into some amount of Square-Enix stock. Who is buying up big name developers to keep exclusives? As for the GBA. At the time Sony was not competing with it, so they had no problem with anything that couyld make them money, because when Square made money, Sony got 20% of it.

As for Rare, well I have never liked them and thougth they were very over-rated. But I find it odd that most Nintendo fans suddenly hated Rare the day after Microsoft bought them

As for not having exclusives, your wrong (again), because they did make (at least 1) exclusive game. They simply finished projects they were working on before they were bought, which is why StarFox Adventures was released on the GC. But Rare suck and always have sucked, so who cares?

evilomar, as for the EA deal, that came BEFORE Sony bought 20% of them, and that deal ended ages ago.

You were right about the Sony and Nintendo deal, they were going to make a new Cd rom expansion, and decided to show Battle Arena Toshinden as its game.... so Nintendo passed up on it, who would have known years later, the same crappy engine would be running games like FF7, MG Solid, and Resident Evil.

Actually the original CD drive for the Snes and what was eventually released as the PSX are 2 totally different things that went through years of extra development and had tonnes of money pumped in. So where you got the Toshinden info I have no idea, but I think its wrong because even witha CD add-on there is no way in hell the Snes could have EVER
have done anything like what the PS1 is capable of. Besided, if they could have made graphics that looked as good as Toshinden on the Snes back then, Nintendo would have lapped it up in seconds.

So sorry to say but Sony didn't "steal" all of Nintendo's gaming knowlege and then make their own thing, they simply got the idea to make a console and were sucessful because of working with Nintendo. I'm not saying that you are saying that evilomar, I'm just saying to every/anyone who thinks that.