Failed Game Consoles - The Act Man

nintendo sony microsoft these are the three gods of our kingdom older than time itself to these gods we, the players, pay tribute to them because they control everything known to humanity, well, I suppose there are also Valve Epic and Blizzard, but no We are talking about the false messiahs that we have. We're talking about good old fashioned

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, who knows where I would be in life today if I had never owned a Nintendo 64. I'm tired of reading books, what friendships would never have blossomed if I hadn't played Halo 3 on the Xbox. 360. Each one of these bad boys is like a time capsule, a piece of video

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history that I can always plug in and play to relive the good times.

I may have thrown away my old computers, toys, sold my hat collection, but I've always saved a place on my shelves for these

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. It's hard to imagine a time when

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stores sold anything but Three Titans products. Welcome to Blockbuster. How can I help you? Hello, I would like to rent Gex for 3. What is that? In the '80s and even the '90s, the competition was much more diverse, back then consumers didn't have enough experience with this type of product to know what was amazing and what was shit, amazing. The vast majority of home consoles were released during the same era.

First generation of gaming, a lot of it was the same shit, it was an oversaturated nightmare that would end with the video game crash in 1982 and everyone learned a valuable lesson about quality control, or that's what we all think if you want to destroy your En The road to the gaming industry, it's a matter of life and death, you either find gold or you get stuck with coal. Let me throw you some numbers. It is reported that 10 percent of published games generated ninety percent of the revenue, around three percent of PC games and fifteen percent of console games. games reach over a hundred thousand sales per year, only twenty percent of all games make a profit.

That's how cutthroat this business is now. I don't own most of these consoles, so I can't give you first-hand experience with them. That's the right point, I mean it wouldn't be a

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console if it had it. Did I mention that I'm the acting guy and I'm also not going to spend 500 to experience the magic of playing the gamelon wand in its original form it wasn't until the early 2000's when the entire world came together at the united nations and agreed that these three would be our new gods and all other religions would be forgotten, but why is it like this now?

Why is it so difficult to do? a successful home console, these are tough questions, but I wouldn't be the right man if I couldn't answer them, so hop on my magic school bus and let me take you on a history lesson. It's time to take a look back at what's most important. The console fails in the story and finds out where and why they went wrong, but first, what is that? It's a bird, it's a plane, no, it's the advertiser and he's playing Pascal's Wager, What a Hero, Pascal's Wager is a premium action-adventure game with tense combat and an invigorating boss. battles that take place in a dark fantasy land, you will encounter tons of different monsters, bring back your demons, originally created for mobile devices, Pascal's Wager has been updated and ported to Steam, I must say friends, as a mobile game this is A great achievement, but even better on PC because the definitive edition comes with all the additional content and expansions, not to mention 4k resolution and unlimited frame rates.

There is an attractive progression of the talent tree that makes you feel stronger. It has some similarities to Dark Souls. It's actually really unique because you can swap. between different characters and playstyles, you want to be a guy that swings a coffin, you can do that and there are a ton of really unique mechanics, attacking bosses will make this crazy debuff go up and if you don't use items to get rid of them. If the boss will transform, he will gain new moves and become stronger. That is incredible. It's like an optional second phase. link in the description and comment of the pin and thanks to Pascal's commitment to sponsor this video virtual boy a 3D game for a 3D world I want to play, it's definitely not for me, although if you had a time machine, what would you do?

Maybe you would go back and stop Hitler. to come to power prevent the assassination of jfk if it were me, I would go back to 1995 and destroy all the prototypes of the virtual boy in 1995 the game boy was kicking ass nintendo had barely emerged victorious from the 16-bit wars against sega and project The reality, also known as n64, was on the way, but like DJ Khaled, Nintendo was having success and therefore came up with a brilliant idea. Virtual reality was a mind-blowing concept at the time, one could even say it was practically unheard of. The virtual boy is so advanced. it cannot be seen on conventional televisions or LCD screens yes, it cannot be seen on conventional televisions because it causes visual fatigue my eyes my beautiful eyes nintendo paid 10 million dollars for the technology to develop the virtual child the problem was that they released it Unfinished Now, this would be totally acceptable today, but back then games and game consoles had to be complete.

It's essentially a primitive VR headset of what we have now, except the design is atrocious. The first question you probably have is how the hell do I play this? Is there a head strap? Is the stand adjustable in any way? Is there anything that makes playing like this even slightly comfortable? No, you'd have to hunch over like a pixie just to have line of sight. The first thing you can ruin with a console is its design, but in the second there weren't many titles that could take advantage of this 3D technology and the ones that tried could easily be replicated on an older system.

If you compare Red Alarm to Star Fox on the Super Nintendo, there's no competition. The virtual guy had a mediocre, tiny Line of games and did anyone really want to watch this for more than 30 minutes? If you like monochrome and red, buy a virtual boy. That's what the ads should have said now that it was promoted as a portable console. What did people expect? to take this to the damn park the advertising showed a kid lying on the grass who the hell wants to play games like that and if you wanted a handheld console that featured the Game Boy that's what a lot of these consoles

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to do simply because there was a better alternative, Why risk your money by investing in an experimental piece of technology when you can go with what is established and works today?

Virtual Boy is nothing more than a curious piece of gaming history, while it was a major stain on Nintendo's reputation for a time. The good came out of this. Wario Land would spawn a couple of sequels and eventually get its own franchise. He is not content to waste potentially great ideas. The 3D effect was reinvented with the failed 3D game consoles. They have a lot to teach us and I find the virtual boy like that. interesting because 26 years later virtual reality is still a niche market, it makes you wonder if it will ever be popular, but you want to see something more recent and relatable, right?

Well, I got you Stadia is just the newest and most logically defined. Mine has been the absurd gaming platform in the world, the lie detector determined it was a lie with all the profits that can be made from gaming, of course one of the largest technology companies would try to dive into how difficult it it could be. I remember going to Pax West in 2019 and Google had a booth where you could play Doom Eternal, the guy there told me all about the console, how it worked and why it was so cool and revolutionary, and after about five minutes of him talking, I sat there and thought no I have no idea what you're talking about.

Complete a clue. I didn't understand the concept then and I still don't understand it now. All I can say is that gaming and mothering on Stadia was like gaming on a 10-year-old computer. From what I understand, it's like a cloud gaming thing. Google has all of its servers around the world, and instead of needing a high-end PC to play at maximum settings, you simply buy a Stadia and the server streams it to your computer - of course, if it claims your system can run all games at 4k and your system can't run all games at 4k well there's a little problem there boy you might even take a loss in a class action lawsuit and the boom is going to blow up the stadium performance was completely According to their Internet connection, when it was released, most people realized that it was not everything that Google said it was.

Many called it a beta product and said it should have been labeled as such. Users also found that their complaints fell on deaf ears, as Google I'm not very interested in this thing called communication, which is strike three if you can't be honest and direct with what the game plan is, how you're going to address the complaints. important and solve this problem. I don't want anything to do with this. I'm not going to sit around waiting for you to find out, nor does it help to sell a mandatory subscription service along with strike four, which is when the creative director tweets some interesting opinions about how streamers should buy a license to play and stream. games and I know it's your opinion but your opinion is wrong this just shows how out of touch Stadia developers really are I guess it doesn't matter since Google completely pulled the plug on game development what a shame the Stadia platform doesn't have a search option and is made by Google Tom.

If irony were made of strawberries, we'd all be drinking a lot of smoothies right now. This is another factor in the console's failure to launch a product in a market where that need is already satisfied. Epic Games at Blizzard was able to make its own clients and platforms quite successful because the name and brand behind them, as well as the quality of the games, Steam of course, has been well established for 15 years. Stadia doesn't have any real exclusives, but what's really scary is how massive a company is. like google can't get into the video game industry the stadium sales pitch was too confusing i still don't understand what the appeal is and i don't think i need the cd rom funny you should mention the cd wrong oh cdi here's everything what you would get on a CD-ROM, except the problems, are you sure that in this humble male actor's opinion, there may be no bigger shit than the phillips cdi?

I hope he made a lot of spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti, this. The monstrosity was enormous in size and sold for 800. In 1990, that is equivalent to thirteen hundred and eighty dollars today. Holy, what do you get for paying a blood sacrifice? Yes, quite good, yes, thank you. It was now marketed as a multimedia device that could play games. music, etc. Kind of like how the Xbox One was promoted. The problem is that no one wanted or needed this type of hardware. What's the first thing you notice about this CDI spaghetti? Well, it looks like a VCR, not a game console.

Who designed the look of this? Where is? Personality, he arguably has the worst controller I have ever seen. Who would want to use this with all the buttons cluttered? The only thing CDI had was the license to use Nintendo's IPs to develop its own games. Here is the problem. toasters, you know what all toasters say, toast, toast, should I say something else? I need to play more scenes until the message sinks in what a wasted opportunity? I don't think Nintendo has ever licensed their IPs to competitors since the CDI and for good reason the CDI failed due to its horrible unintuitive controls, absurd asking price and a selection of dog games, although the CDI is considered one of the worst consoles of all time, it did something right, it pushed the industry a bit towards CD based games and for that you can give it the slightest amount of credit, we wanted to make a great product, it seems there has been a change of plans for all the consoles on this list, none are as depressing as ouya, the cdi and virtual boy may have been giant chunks of feces, but at least at least they didn't start a crowdfunding campaign to get them.

Ouya, the companies thought less than a million dollars but ended up getting more than 8.5. It really struck a chord with people. Perhaps this could be a new challenge to rival the big three. The biggest draw was its affordable price of $99, but you would also get hundreds of free games to try, play a demo without committing any money. Wow, and the designers did it with the intention of allowing people to modify it. How great it was compatible with other controllers. wowie ouya was supposed to. collaborate with great developers and already had agreements with Sega and Square Enix, there were so manyfeatures to get excited about, ouya was a really cool sales pitch, almost too good to be true, because none of the kickstarters were new yet when they were around.

I promised there wasn't a great app, the game selection was a total joke, and by the way, stay tuned for my two hour review of Rain, just like Julie Ehrman said, there's nothing special about this board, nothing, there was no nothing special about this once people did it. got their long awaited ouya, they immediately realized how terrible the controller was, with sticky buttons, a stiff d-pad, horrible latency, they even priced the controller at $50, half the cost of the console , in a matter of months, everything fell apart, the staff increased sales. They were poor and every exciting promise they made soon turned ash.

Games were no longer free to try like all the marketing promoted and developers were not willing to make such huge sacrifices for the glory of having their game appear on damn ouya the free. the background of the games the company setup was riddled with scammers everything that could go wrong did go wrong while ouya could be praised for having promising ideals it just wasn't realistic the people behind the project were inexperienced, couldn't deliver and managed everything so bad that This day has still left a bitter taste in everyone's mouth. Uyu was then sold to Razer because they had no way to pay investors and the whole thing was abandoned just like that.

Another curious one. A reminder of how oppressive the video game industry can be for those who are not prepared. Introducing 3do, the most advanced home gaming system in the universe. In the video game industry alone you could sell 2 million consoles and still be considered a failure, but that's because 3do had goals that were unattainable. Founded by Tripp Hawkins, former CEO of EA, the company 3do wanted to create a console that would dominate the market and set a new standard, they even had the balls to directly throw shade at Nintendo and Sega. This is a real men's console, bro, trying to be cool.

Talking about things people enjoy is a pretty terrible idea if you can't back up the trash talk. The 3do company approached Sony and Sega to license the console. They both rejected a smart move. You have chosen wisely. This damn thing was overrated. to the extreme with massive marketing campaigns, infomercials, it was Time magazine's 1993 product of the year, the 3do had cutting-edge technology and claimed to be the most advanced console in the universe, it owned this title for a year and then the playstation, you had to cough up seven hundred dollars, that would be twelve hundred and seventy-four dollars today, oh, but guess how many games the 3rd released with, guess one, guess one, it launched with one game, imagine paying $1,300 to play Crash and Burn unlike most others.

The consoles on this list, the 3rd one, had a chance at real success later on, they got some decent games like Gex and Wing Commander. The console was not the problem. The business model was that most consoles are sold at a loss, but they make up for it. With hardware sales 3do was trying to cash in on console sales, as far as I know the only other product that tried that was the 360 ​​and that's why there were so many red death circles. It's not a good business model. 3do was not an established company. and the price didn't drop fast enough for many to consider purchasing it, there was no time for gamers not to be willing to upgrade from the Sega Saturn and PS1.

It's actually impressive that 3DOS sold so well considering it became dated. In a year, the 3rd serves as a lesson in business practices, you can have third-party support, great games, a powerful piece of hardware, and an incredible marketing campaign, but without the right timing and broader appeal, it's nearly impossible to gain a foothold. six times more. powerful than 3do 40 times more than super nes by far the company that tragically holds the record for most failed consoles is none other than sega at one point they faced nintendo as equals they had tons of reputable ips at their disposal to put it clearly Genesis It was just great, but after Sega made so many mistakes, the first was confusion over what their next-gen console would be in a few years.

Sega announced the Sega 32x the Saturn CD and had planned a third add-on for the Genesis called Neptune. What are people supposed to be excited about or excited about the Sega CD? It didn't work very well for an add-on, but its biggest problem was a lack of concentration, not only were the consoles poorly managed but their games were too loud. Xtreme was promoted. so much and it could have been the mere image of Super Mario 64, but it was destroyed in the rush and for many years the Sonic franchise would suffer setback after setback while Sega failed to achieve its goals in a row.

Nintendo and Sony were thriving in the void of their previous success the nail in the coffin came at e3 1995 where they announced the price of the sega saturn here you hear it's only 3.99 and then sony comes out and says 299. you destroyed that one type without even touching it, the dreamcast was sega's last chance but by now it was too late the sega brand had been tarnished in the last five years while sony became nintendo's new rival and with microsoft ready to jump to the fight with the xbox there was little room for sega to do things a little differently, they may still be selling their own brand of consoles to this day and if they hadn't realized they were digging themselves into a hole Financially, Sega could have gone the way of Atari.

Fortunately, the company is still alive and well, developing tons of great products. sonic games has more or less reclaimed its throne after years of terrible video games this is one of the few stories where redemption bought itself time to upgrade to wii u how about new? I maybe started my wii u 60 times before putting it in the box. I put it away on my shelf and never touched it again. Well, could you look at that? Since Gamecube, PS2 and Ogx Box, Nintendo has always been behind the competition in terms of technology, this is called online gaming, but they have been able to succeed because their games worked.

So much ass and the culture they have created have turned millions of people into unconditional fans, but their greatest weaknesses would be impossible to ignore with the Wii U, after the scandalous success of the Wii. Nintendo must have thought: let's make a sequel we would like. to play again, are you sure the novelty of the wii hasn't worn off in the six years since it came out? no, it's all good, not everything was good and the console sold terribly, no amount of promotion or incredible titles could save it the mediocre performance the console was the problem, not the games, the gamepad, while interesting, wasn't even half as awesome as the wii's motion controls and nintendo didn't have enough creative ways to use it, the worst example being the color of paper mario and how tedious it was. to perform an attack in a turn based game, xbone and ps4 simply outperformed wii u, third party companies would have to drastically scale back their titles to work on wii u, so most of them didn't bother, wii u no was a portable console nor did it push the boundaries of technology, only established Nintendo fans would buy one.

The Wii U was also considerably more expensive than previous Nintendo consoles, not to mention the absurdly low storage of eight gigabytes. Oh, that's a small thing. PS4 and Xbox One were also multimedia devices capable of doing more than just gaming, why couldn't you just compete? Hey? Luckily, Nintendo licked its wounds and pounced on the Switch, which is something the Wii U was building up to, but the Switch was great because it now fills the roles of handheld and home consoles, two markets where Nintendo has always was competing with itself instead of focusing on two separate platforms, the Wii U and the 3DS.

Nintendo is doing very well by focusing on one that does both, what the heck were there so many? The titans put on their gloves and jumped into the ring and Apple was one of them. They made two critical mistakes by giving Halo to Microsoft and let me introduce you to Apple Pippin. Now what's the name? Well, it was supposed to be multimedia. platform that could play games browse the web there was a power switch on the back that would remove the region lock damn that technology must have been revolutionary in 1996 the pippin was a piece of software that Apple would license to others companies and partnered with Bandai. which predicted to sell half a million a year with the goal of bringing this type of software to homes that had not yet purchased personal computers, that was the sales pitch, one of the arguments about the future of home computing is: will we add power computing? to our TVs or add TV capability to our personal computers Apple is betting that the TV will be the viewing device of choice with a new approach to home computing called pippin, but like every other Apple product, it was horribly overpriced: 600 grand.

It was triple the price of the n64 and double that of the playstation. Think about it in the 90s the internet was not as popular as it is today in December 1996 less than one percent of the world's population used the internet the pippin wanted to be a computer budget and a game console, but I wasn't good at either, so not many people understood the concept. In the end, Pippin only released 25 titles and sold between 42,000 and 100,000 units, there wasn't much room for a new contender. along with the ps1 n64 and saturn, especially one that didn't cater to hardcore gamers, apple is doing well and their gaming market is probably the largest on the planet, so don't feel bad when you point fingers and say you laugh at the pippin of the apple.

This is a bit of a depressing video, eh, going through people's aspirations and dreams and reliving their collapse. Well, there is no better transition to talk about Atari. Some of you believe that your system is the most advanced in the universe. Let's review the numbers. Sega Genesis is 16 bit. 3rd. is 32 bit, the atari jaguar is 64 bit which is more advanced. Clifford in the 80's was the king of the games and to this day he is still fondly remembered. The 2600 was one of the first big steps to bring games to the home, but the 2600 would be Atari's biggest success.

After this, they launched a series of consoles that were not commercially successful such as the Lynx, the 5200 and the 7800, But in 1993, Atari was pleased to announce that the console was better than the Super Nintendo and the Sega Genesis, it was 64-bit, the Atari Jaguar, holy tits, this became the most powerful console in the world, it was not the most powerful console in the world, it really was a case of misleading marketing as it ran two separate 32-bit processors which were like 32 plus 32 is 64. It doesn't work like that, gamers were shocked to discover that the quality was worse than their competitors and look at this monster of a controller, was it really necessary to add a keyboard?

This isn't the 80s anymore, this makes the Duke look like a micro penis. There were only 50 licensed titles. The console's small size technical problems and lack of quality games were the most important factors in its failure. Atari desperately tried to stay relevant by creating the Jaguar CD, but this only accelerated its rapid decline. The Jaguar sold around of 250 thousand units and its failure resulted in Atari leaving the console business forever, a sad end for a beloved company. Some of you may be familiar with Mattel electronics. If you're a hundred years old, then you know they created Intellivision, a console that predates even the legendary Atari. 2600.

For 27 years, Mattel didn't release a new console and they really shouldn't have tried the new Hyperscan video game system. He's here with the X-Men. It's where collectible card games need video games. This is the worst console design. Have you ever seen, you know most games were discs, cartridges, but cards they thought was a good idea, you can barely scan them to make them work. His design is so terrible that he can't even stand on a table properly. This atrocity competed. compared to the wii 360 and ps3, so it's no wonder it's never gained any kind of traction.

Imagine getting one of these for Christmas, Grandma, of the 10,000 that were sold, the vast majority of them were returned because the failure rate was so high even though they were only $70 and they still didn't help near the end of their life. useful life. Stores were selling this damn thing for 10 bucks. The only value anyone can get out of this now is to make a video about how terrible it was, but it also had the most time. loading times of any console, only five games were released and you want to guess what they look like. Yes you have seenflash games better than this.

Overall, Hyperscan is known for one thing and one thing only is being the biggest. The worst thing ever. It's surprising that Nintendo has three consoles on this list. It's not as ridiculous as Duke Nukem Forever, but the dd was still a serious case of vaporware. It was quite ambitious and was created as a complement to the n64 that it used. a drive with more storage to make games bigger and better could emulate nes games and would even have online multiplayer for simple games like wizards you could even watch other people on the 64 dd like the pippin was trying to bridge the gap between the Internet and gaming, which was really difficult at the time, however, the 64dd was marred by a publicly revealed development hell in November 1996.

Six long months later, Nintendo announces a delay without comment about a US launch on June 18 at the pre-E3 press conference. news about the dd no, not even a prototype, but good news for everyone. Nintendo is developing Donkey Kong 64 for the DD and is planning a sequel to Super Mario 64. Holy levels of hype at full capacity Six months later, December 1997, Miyamoto gives an interview and comments on how he is having trouble understanding what must be the 64 dd, that's not a good sign, another delay announced, don't worry guys, it's coming out in 1998, trust us, the dd doesn't show up at e3 and nintendo cancels its space world 1998 trade show April 3, 98 nintendo says it will be released within a year if it has a sequel to super mario 64 i'm on board a year later another delay but at least it will be out in june well delayed again like after a hundred years the nintendo 64 DD was finally released on 1 December 1999, but at that time no one cared, especially Nintendo, they already knew it was going to be a commercial failure and sold it only by mail order in Japan, maybe 10,000 units were sent to some unlucky person. people, it never had a chance to prosper and maybe didn't deserve it, most of the planned games were cancelled, released for the n64 with storage increases as seen with the dk64 or ported to other consoles, so at least nintendo was able to save the most important parts of his work, only 10 games were released, 64 dd was a case of ambition without direction.

If it had come out long before the Gamecube was announced, it might have been a moderate success, but Nintendo just couldn't pull it off. a direction or meet deadlines today mobile games are one of the most popular games, be it the 3ds or your phone, but one company tried to bridge the gap by making a portable phone that was also a game console and introduced the Nokia N connector of two jobs. Neither goal was to take some players away from the Game Boy Advance because, hey kids, it's a phone too. The problem is that the button layout that worked for cell phones in the early 2000s won't work for gaming.

Look at all this, it's worse than the Jaguar controller, not to mention it was $300, the Game Boy Advance sold for a hundred bucks two. years before, surprisingly two million were sold, but only 58 games came out today they have this crazy new product that can play video games and be a cell phone, it's called a cell phone, there are many more failed game consoles than successful ones and we could go down the rabbit hole to wonderland while you get on my magic school bus. I want to ask you what you learned. Hopefully you learned something about the games industry and how difficult the market can be.

Maybe you reflect on something. of these old consoles and maybe a little nostalgia hits you, so why did these consoles fail so many times? Was there a better alternative that was cheaper and well established or the hardware was poorly designed and prone to failure, perhaps the goal was unclear. for consumers and some of it was too expensive to be worth the risk a failed console could have made a bad first impression had a confusing identity or a mediocre line of games because great ideas don't always translate into great products, even giants like Apple and Google couldn't get in.

These are some of the reasons why game consoles fail. Many have tried and most have failed. Such is the hard life of the console gaming market, but what do you think which of these consoles was the worst? Do you have good memories? of any of them, let me know in the comments below, that's all I have for today, friends, this is the act, man signing the peace.