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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. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post!

  2. fuckety by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fuck fuck 5th post fuck fuck

  3. FIRST "APPLE IS DYING" POST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yonder lies the promise land, O dearly beloved, AMD, Intel, Windows XP! Uncle Steve has kept you captive long enough with his illusions and delusions!

    Read "the writing on the wall" and like "where is the beef"? Go to Motorola's web site you will find no beef! If it causes you worry just accept it! peruse the Apple web sites, no beef, just dreams and wishful thinking!

    Where is the proof of a G5, in reality it does not exit!

    In the world of Intel, AMD, WINDOWS progress is a fast pace fact of life you have what is called tangible, Apple you have dreams and wishful thinking, and there is also bitterness and pc envy! PC s ridiculed and scoffed at by the mac community, now becoming a source of envy!

    Beloved be no longer captive to delusions of the most modern, fastest supercomputers ever invented, but at least capitalize off of Apple's demise with some options trading! Turn those sour Apples into a hefty wad of cash! Do a little research. That hundred million bushels of sour rotting Apples can make you a fortune and real goose that lays the golden egg! Do some research on options trading, get your accounts open and rake in those bucks! Thank you AAPL for becoming a penny stock!!!

    1. Re:FIRST "APPLE IS DYING" POST by josh+crawley · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      This comes up under the category of NO SHIT.

      That's why Apple went with BSD's. If anything happens to their OS, they just make world on thier new system. And they can port to any system that can compile gcc code. Essentilaay, its a moot point if G5 is never completed.

  4. Sad news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

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

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

  6. 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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  7. 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.