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Dismal Console Failures

Posted by michael on from the flameout dept.

Anonymous Howard writes "Shacknews' jason bergman has written an article that looks at some of the biggest failures in console gaming. It's a great read, and spotlights stuff like the Halcyon, a $2500 (!) laserdisc system with only two games and Nintendo's Virtual Boy, a stereoptic system that had red-on-black simulated 3D graphics."

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  1. Anyone remember Matsushita's M2 console? by Blaede · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Lotsa money got wasted for research, and for buying the technology.

  2. Sega 32X by superspoon · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I actualy know somebody that has the sega 32x. I've played with it before, and I think it's quite good, I really don't see why it failed.

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    YarrRrr
  3. Re:Stupid business model by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think the problem is that those consoles, and all consoles so far, are limited use devices. all they do is play games. A PC will do, well, pretty much anything. I play games on mine but it's also a full featured digital audio workstaion, midi controller and synthesizer, does great for both surfing the web and webdesign, let's me write papers and do spreadsheets, and so on. Pretty much, it does everything I need. Even to this day there is no console with even 10% of the flexability.

    That changes what people are willing to pay.