Damn, I'm late again. Oh well. *chucks two pennies*
I think it's pretty hard to deny that gamecube is a pretty weak system. It honestly does seem to have very few notable games... Although those are VERY notable.
As for game consoles being "specialized PCs," sorry, you're just talking nintendo now. You might note the pointless nongaming features sony and MS keep adding to their consoles. Hell, the president of Sony himself admitted that the PS3 "is not a gaming machine" (probably slight paraphrase).
Also, I don't know about you, but my comp still can't detect the movement of my mouse in 3d space. Even if it could, for some reason, do you really think I'd have any games to utilize this?
Finally, Jax, in case you're not planning on watching this thread closely in the near future... don't. I should have highly importantantacular imformation for you soon, fit for nowhere but this thread, really. So yeah... keep your eyes open.