Microsoft har netop fejret Xbox-konsollens 20-års jubilæum, men det var ikke kun Microsoft, der lancerede en ny konsol tilbage i november 2001. Det samme gjorde Nintendo med deres GameCube, der for mange i dag mest huskes for sit firkantede, lilla design.
Men faktisk kunne den ikoniske farve, havde været en hel anden. Det afslører Perrin Kaplan, der i sin tid var chef for Nintendo of Americas marketingafdeling i et interview med VGC i forbindelse med konsollens jubilæum. Farven var nemlig på ingen måde lagt fast, da marketingafdelingen blev involveret i starten af 2001.
"We were called in to rate which colours we liked. There must have been 30 GameCube box samples in there and the colours ranged from 'poopy' brown to crazy and striking prime colours. I remember some were these dark yellow, almost skin-tone-like colours and we were like, 'you cannot launch that! It's so unattractive!'"
Nintendo of Japan endte med at foreslå den endelige lilla farve, men da var Nintendos nordamerikanske afdeling meget skeptiske, fortæller Kaplan videre:
"We actually suggested that the purple was not the best to start with and Japan said, 'no, we're going to use that.'" "Then we pushed for black and silver, because I think in the US nobody had ever really done the purple colour before."
Nintendo GameCube endte med at sælge omtrent 22 millioner eksemplarer, men om det var på grund af eller på trods af den skrigende lilla, finder vi nok aldrig ud af.