I got a Gamecube on Thursday, forsaking my broken X-Box, which will be cashed in for Gamecube games. I got the one that came with Metroid Prime, but I didn't realize it was some platinum edition so I got a black controller to match the other boxes I'd seen (which had Pokemon Stadium or something in them). So I have a platinum and black controller duo now.
Anyways, I also got the Sonic Mega Collection, Madden 2005, and Mario Kart Double Dash. I love this system so far. Everything is just deep enough to be cool, but not cumbersome, and I'm loving the controller the more I use it, as well as the look of it. It really feels like a more innovative or visionary system than the X-Box or PS2, which are overbearingly in your face with technology, at the expense of looking far ahead and tailoring everything to the player instead of putting on a gee-whiz show.
It also feels good to be back in the Nintendo fold after the X-Box interlude, which never felt natural. I almost missed out on this generation and it'd be the first, but I'm glad I didn't.
Games I plan on getting next:
Animal Crossing
Star Wars Rogue Leader
Super Mario Sunshine
NCAA 2005/6 (the former if I can't wait)
DBZ Budokai
Yeah, I'm lame.