ĪrtX was acquired by ATI in April 2000, whereupon the Flipper graphics processor design had already been mostly completed by ArtX and was not overtly influenced by ATI. Nintendo also formed a strategic partnership with IBM, who created the Dolphin's CPU, named 'Gekko'. Subsequently, Nintendo began providing development kits to game developers such as Rare and Retro Studios. At Nintendo's press conference in May 1999, the console was first publicly announced as 'Project Dolphin', the successor to the Nintendo 64. The console project had a succession of codenames: N2000, Star Cube, and Nintendo Advance. Partnering with Nintendo in 1998, ArtX began the complete design of the system logic and of the graphics processor ( codenamed ' Flipper') of Nintendo's sixth-generation video game console. Wei Yen, who had been SGI's head of Nintendo Operations, the department responsible for the Nintendo 64's fundamental architectural design. In 1997, a graphics hardware design company called ArtX was launched, staffed by twenty engineers who had previously worked at SGI on the design of the Nintendo 64's graphics hardware. Its successor, the Wii, was launched in November 2006.

Nintendo sold 21.74 million GameCube units worldwide, much less than anticipated, before the console was discontinued in 2007. The console was praised for its controller, extensive software library and high-quality games, but was criticized for its exterior design and lack of features. This allowed players to access features like the Tingle Tuner in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, among others. The console supports limited online gaming for a small number of games via a GameCube broadband or modem adapter and can connect to a Game Boy Advance with a link cable, which allows players to access exclusive in-game features using the handheld as a second screen and controller like a Wii U. The discs are in a miniDVD- based format, but the system was not designed to play full-sized DVDs or audio CDs unlike its competitors, and mainly focused on gaming instead. The GameCube is the first Nintendo console to use optical discs as its primary storage medium. The GameCube competed with Sony's PlayStation 2 and Microsoft's original Xbox. The GameCube was Nintendo's entry in the sixth generation of video game consoles and is the successor to the Nintendo 64.

The Nintendo GameCube is a home video game console released by Nintendo in Japan on September 14, 2001, in North America on November 18, 2001, and in PAL territories in 2002. Select Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance games via Game Boy Player

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