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Console Launches Good And Bad
Another interesting feature from 1up: rundowns and scores for console launches from the last twenty years. From the article: "The DS, on the other hand, is hardly the system one would have expected from its launch. The system's U.S. debut was a dull thud, with the one truly notable title being a port of Super Mario 64 with compromised control and jaggier graphics. (It also popularized the lamentable concept of "launch windows.") Chalk this up to the fact the developers only learned about the system's existence half a year before its debut. Fortunately for early adopters, the system has gone on to accumulate a killer lineup."
They are discussing the launch lineup of games on the linked page. Nothing more.
Atari Jaguar - (2 Stars)
I too will give 1 more star than Lynx. But fuck, this thing had an aliens game and that was it.
Not quite, it also had Jeff Minter's Tempest 2000.
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I can say without out any hesitation that the 360 launch is the Worst Console Launch
Really? Consider the following:
Atari Jaguar - Launched with 4 games (one of which was originally coded as a tech demo), the 5th game came out SIX MONTHS LATER.
3DO - With the Jag launch so badly blown, how could 3DO not take the world by storm? By pricing the damn thing over 3x higher than it's most expensive competitor. Doh!
Sega 32X - Launched with NO games (OK, I'll admit some arrived later that week). Who could forget this classic usenet post?
Atari Lynx - Launched a vastly superior handheld shortly after the orginal Gameboy. How did Atari screw the pooch? By pricing it WAY too high, and launching only in two cities! (NY and LA)
Atari 7800 & Sega Master System - Either of these systems could have launched into the empty North American marketplace before the NES and won by default, but both manufacturers were too wimpy to even try.
NEC TurboGrafx-16 - Anybody remember the launch hype for this platform? No? That's because NEC couldn't market their way out of a paper bag. (Well, at least not in North America.)
Atari XEGS - But hey, at least NEC did a better job than this one!
(Damn, you'd never guess I'm an Atari fan by looking at this list.)
Must... think up... something... clever!
I think the parent comments explain the 'Zonk-hate' pretty clearly. He doesn't seem to read or understand most of the submissions he accepts. And he fishes for 'news' in contentless advertising channels like 1UP and IGN.
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