Dismal Console Failures

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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Re:Sorry to troll, but..

[psychogentoo]

troll? guess this post may be one too (mod me down if you must)

anywho, about the only good game that was released in the US for the Saturn was VirtuaFighter.

Of course, there were tons of games that weren't released here in the states was only available in Japan or if you had a mod chip and had a source for import games.

I could careless how much processing power a console has, if there is no good software to back it up (or lack distribution or translation) then the console is doomed to die.

This is the reason why I'm still contemplating buying an X-box.

Can't use Financial as metric

[bstadil]

fact most of the systems considered "failures" here really weren't, in most ways other than the financial

If you use this as yardstick you will end up with Xbox topping the list.