What's your favorite system that failed commercially?

[crazy monkey]

If any..? Might seem a strange question, I know. But there were some systems that died due to inflated costs, poor management or improper timing, not just because they sucked.

OK, my best example of this is the Neo Geo Pocket Color. Easily a better-designed handheld than GB Color ever was, with a sharper, lighter screen, a perfect eight-way thumbstick (PSP, eat your heart out), and -- my favorite innovation -- a seperate battery for the speakers, thereby hugely reducing the drain on the AA's that powered the CPU and screen.

And the games were sweet. I mean, any 8-bit handheld that can have such a kick-ass version of KOF is aaaaal-right. Unfortunately, the GBC was cheaper, had Pokemon, and was a household name. Bye-bye, NGPC.

But there were others that died before their time: Neo Geo's home system, Atari's Lynx, Sega Dreamcast.

Any dead (as in ultimately unsuccessful) systems that you shed a tear for?

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[Roughneck]

I actually Liked the 3D0 thing...thir Alien Vs Predator Game Rocked.

Also I had a buddy who had a Jaguar way back when

 

[Havok83]

The Dreamcast. Its the only console I did own that failed. I had so many games for it and really loved it. I think its problem was that it came out too early. I think had it waited a year, it could have implemented more into the system and had it compete with the PS2 better. It had great first party support and I really enjoyed the games Sega produced for it. It had potential and was a good system. I still own mine. I dont use it but every so often I will.

Would the Gamegear be considered a failure? I cant even remember how well it did bc I was young when I had mine, but I loved it and thought it was better than a Gameboy, mainly bc of color of course. I beleive it was also had a backlight. I loved its horizontal layout as opposed to the vertical one. My main gripe with it though that it was a battery hog. It used alot and went throguh them quickly

 

[jaydawg]

If Dreamcast counts, I'll go with that one. It was arguably the best console of the last generation. Almost everything Sega put out was quality and a couple great new IPs came out at that time. Seaman? Shenume? Man, that stuff was brilliant. Not to mention the beautiful fighters behind it. Power Stone, Soul Calibur, Marvel vs. Capcom, Virtua Fighter. Great stuff.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

I'm gonna re-utter seemingly everyone's choice. The Dreamcast.

 

[crazy monkey]

Dreamcast was surely a more perfect version of what Neo Geo tried with their console: an arcade cabinet in your living room. Jaydawg, you are so correct. Not only was it the ultimate fighting machine, but it had surprising little gems here and there (Record of Lodoss War, anyone? Best licensed anime game -- ever.)

But, no love for Saturn? C'mon, I know some of you remember it. Everyone's going crazy over the remake of NiGHTS, and who can forget Clockwork Knight, Pandemonium, Radiant Silvergun, Virtua Fighter in your house!

Havok83, I don't think Game Gear qualifies. Although never eclipsing the Game Boy in sales, it was a bonafide success. Definetly ahead of its time technically, or perhaps beyond its reach would be a better term. Six AA's that got less than six hours of playtime? Yikes. But, it was far from a failure.

Roughneck, 3DO and Jaguar? Really? OK, dude...

Any old fogeys in here that had a Turbo Graphx? Or perhaps -- gasp -- the import-only Turbo Duo?

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[machinelover]

Dreamcast was surely a more perfect version of what Neo Geo tried with their console: an arcade cabinet in your living room. Jaydawg, you are so correct. Not only was it the ultimate fighting machine, but it had surprising little gems here and there (Record of Lodoss War, anyone? Best licensed anime game -- ever.)

But, no love for Saturn? C'mon, I know some of you remember it. Everyone's going crazy over the remake of NiGHTS, and who can forget Clockwork Knight, Pandemonium, Radiant Silvergun, Virtua Fighter in your house!

Havok83, I don't think Game Gear qualifies. Although never eclipsing the Game Boy in sales, it was a bonafide success. Definetly ahead of its time technically, or perhaps beyond its reach would be a better term. Six AA's that got less than six hours of playtime? Yikes. But, it was far from a failure.

Roughneck, 3DO and Jaguar? Really? OK, dude...

Any old fogeys in here that had a Turbo Graphx? Or perhaps -- gasp -- the import-only Turbo Duo?

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I lovvvvvvvvved the Sega Saturn. I think it had some of the most original properties of its' time. The Panzer Dragoon series was amazing. And NiGHTS is still one of the best games I've ever played. Hell even Shenmue started out on the Sega Saturn. I can only imagine what type of games we would've been playing had it been successful and if it had the opportunity to max out to its full potential.

 

[Abaddon]

Sega Saturn.

 

[Rukus]

The Dreamcast.

 

[Parker]

Sega Dreamcast, no question. From the nostalgically sentimental perspective, that will remain my favorite system, failed or otherwise, until someone comes out with free roaming Spider-Man video game on a three-dimensional virtual reality console. 'Til then, the DC is king.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

Sega Saturn, traded in both my SNES and Genesis for this, thought the system was great, had some truly great games, but sadly Sony bought up all big time properties of the time and kept them off Segas system, stealing all thier thunder.

 

[Kurosawa]

The Saturn and the Dreamcast. Both failed, neither deserved to. Sega is a shadow of it's former self since the Dreamcast's death.

 

[Joker]

Dreamcast, definitely

 

[Astrø]

ya i agree with the joker i liked the dream and i still do have my dream cast but it just failed..sigh....

 

[Astrø]

the n-gage failed too and that one looked like the beging of psp...sigh...

 

[The Leaguer]

The Dreamcast should have succeeded because of Brawl alone.

Anyway, the Nomad was the hot s***. How can you say no to a system that portable-ized Genesis games?

Bar none, though, the greatest failed system of all time is:

 

[Astrø]

hmmm the vurtual boy that did fail realy bad....

 

[Astrø]

posting all these coments of the stuff that failed makes me sad....sigh.... i liked most of this stuff...

 

[Astrø]

then the sega saturn failed....the first systm with 3d graphics...sigh....

 

[crazy monkey]

Anyway, the Nomad was the hot s***. How can you say no to a system that portable-ized Genesis games?

Bar none, though, the greatest failed system of all time is:

For real?? Virtua Boy just gave me a headache. Although, the concept alone does walk the line between genius and madness.

Nomad, however, gets a no-brainer . Genesis in your hands -- sa-weet. Although, Turbo Express was the first handheld to interchange games with its home console big brother. Of course, Genesis' library > Turbo Graphx.

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[DACrowe]

Game Gear was pretty awesome and honestly better than the original Gameboy. It just didn't get the suppport of gameboy. In fact it was more powerful than three generations of GAmeboys, but name brand won that generation (now nintendo is doing the same to PSP as what it did to Game Gear and Neo Geo Pocket).

I'd say the Dreamcast though. I bought it and loved it and every game I played on it was brilliant and great stuff. Nothing blew me away in the leap like that besides going from my Genesis to N64. Dreamcast was amazing but it either came out too late or too early. PS2 came out, wiped it off the map and I lamented....and sold it to buy a new system. A decision I still regret.

 

[imdaly]

Playstation 3




But yeah, loved the Saturn and Dreamcast

 

[Sandman138]

Game Gear was pretty awesome and honestly better than the original Gameboy. It just didn't get the suppport of gameboy. In fact it was more powerful than three generations of GAmeboys, but name brand won that generation (now nintendo is doing the same to PSP as what it did to Game Gear and Neo Geo Pocket).

It would have been, if it didn't eat batteries at the speed that bunnies copulate. Seriously, if you could get more than ten minutes of play time out of that thing without plugging it in, you sold your soul to Satan.

I'd say the Dreamcast though. I bought it and loved it and every game I played on it was brilliant and great stuff. Nothing blew me away in the leap like that besides going from my Genesis to N64. Dreamcast was amazing but it either came out too late or too early. PS2 came out, wiped it off the map and I lamented....and sold it to buy a new system. A decision I still regret.

Dreamcast was one of the greatest consoles ever.

 

[Union Jack]

ive still got my dreamcast...sonic games and quake 3 and phantasy star online alongside marvel versus capcom 2....all great stuff!!!

 

[Havok83]

It would have been, if it didn't eat batteries at the speed that bunnies copulate. Seriously, if you could get more than ten minutes of play time out of that thing without plugging it in, you sold your soul to Satan.

thats why I went and bought myself an AC adapter. One of the best decisions I ever did