The worst consoles in the history of the gaming industry.

Hello Stopgame! I thought for a long time and dreary, what can I write about. Yes, so write so that the readers are interesting and the minuses of a dozen or two in the process do not get a collapse. Well, not for a long time, I decided to make up so popular in our time TOP. And given the fact that most of the tops are usually positive (in the spirit of the “TOP-10 best games for PC” and T.D.), I decided to give my top a negative color ……… well, or not really. In any case, today I will present you the top 10 worst game consoles in the entire history of the game industry, including pocket consoles. The release of some of these consoles was simply a mistake in itself, some lacked high -quality games, and all of them certainly did not have absolutely no influence in the console war. I doubt that you have at least heard about most of them! So for someone this post can serve as a kind of “excursion in history”. Maybe not. But enough preface. So, I present you the top 10 most fail game consoles. Let’s go!

#10 Apple Pippin

The console firmly settled on 10th place, which you are unlikely to have heard about at all – Apple Pippin. And yes, you understood everything correctly, Apple in the early years of your activity really made a game console. Moreover, to develop a home console, they joined forces with Bandai Company, Limited. This “miracle” hit the shelves in 1995. However, this happened long before Apple became one of the most dominant companies in the field of electronics, therefore the prefix, to put it mildly, did not go.

Take a closer look at the controller. Do not notice anything strange? Everything seems to be as usual: both D-Pad is present, and 4 buttons, like most modern consoles. And everything would be fine if it were not for this ball in the middle (the so -called “TrackBall”)! Who generally uses something like that!? In general, as planned, this ball was supposed to fulfill the mouse’s function, like at a home PC, because Apple wanted to create a system that would be an alternative to home computer. But, obviously, the idea failed.
In addition, no significant games for the console went out. It is not surprising that Apple still has not tried to return to the game industry with the new console.

#9 Atari 5200 Supersystem

And now, let’s move for a short time to the “Stone Age” of the Game Industry. And specifically in the early 1980s. At that time, Nintendo was not even visible on the radar, and the game market of the company Atari. At that time, the Atari 2600 console was especially popular, which was almost every second lover of games, well, at least in the west. But our experimental console (Atari 5200) was to become a successor to 2600. However, instead, the new prefix with a bang failed. Why? Yes, because she was still a piece of gov …, Sorry, art!
Atari 5200 became a great failure and undermined the authority of its creators. Perhaps the main reason why the prefix sucked like a home vacuum cleaner was its controller, which simply could not work normally. Well, that is, look at some license plates, this is generally a console controller or a remote control from a TV?!

Probably, the idea of ​​the developers of such a joystick we will not recognize. In any case, it was precisely because of him that it was simply unrealistic to play! Imagine that you bought a console on which it is purely impossible to play. This one fact already puts a fat cross on this product!

#8 The N-Gage

But the Russian gamers managed to get acquainted with this apparatus. What is there, even in 2005 I had N-Gage. This little portable promised a lot. If specified, then games should have been developed for n-gage from a variety of developers. Well, isn’t it cool! But only when this console got to the release, all the games simply spids on other N-gage consoles, after which it was impossible to get rid of games that I did not want to play! Oh, these pirates. Such an idea was ruined. I don’t remember the details of this story, but if you are interested in can google.

#7 The Gizmondo

From one unsuccessful handheld to another. But if the N-Gage, although a fairly decent range of games had a fairly decent, then with Gizmondo everything turned out exactly the opposite! Here, let’s look at other game companies. Nintendo has Mario and thousands of other titles, Sony has Metal Gear Solid, Uncharted and thousands of other titles, Microsoft has Halo and you won’t believe it, thousands of other titles. And Gizmondo had them ………..8 ………… only 8! Add a bad advertisement to this fact, a bad battery that settled faster than the coffee brewing process and get, perhaps, the most commercially failed console in the history of the game industry. According to rumors, one of the sponsors of the console were members of the Swedish mafia (this, by the way, is not a joke!), but even the dark hand of the criminal world did not help the console hold out for the markets for more than a year!

This console had great potential at the time of launch. Technologies promised a jaw dump immediately after inclusion, and the Game publishers Haipili console as they could, for example, Time Publishing House in 1994 called 3DO the “product of the year”. However, the console failed for two reasons. Firstly, the lack of really high-quality projects, and secondly, the price!

If we take into account today’s exchange rates and market prices, today 3DO would cost $ 1000 (45,000 rubles). And this is the price for a console on which there was not a single revolutionary project. The word “ripping off” quite clearly describes the whole essence of this product.

#5 The Sega Saturn

Far from the most failure console and knowledgeable people will immediately be outraged and ask a fairly fair question: “And from what fright Saturn is a failure console?”. Such disputes, of course, are clear, but only many believe that it was this console that deduced the SEGA company from the “console race”.
The release of the console was scheduled for September 2, 1995 (thanks to advertising, the release day was dubbed “Saturnday”) a week before the release of the first PlayStation. Sega Saturn was one of the most anticipated consoles of her generation. Almost everyone was sure that after everyone who loved so much, Sega Genesis, the new prefix would shoot even louder and will occupy the dominant place on the market for the next few years. And then something unexpected happened, in a bad sense! On the very first E3 in 1995, on May 11, the SEGA President Tom Kalinski dumbfounded absolutely everyone – he said that the so -called “Saturnday” was only a trick and the console was on sale on the same day, on May 11 only in certain retail stores. But only representatives of retail trade, who were not included in the list of “elected” (such as Walmart, for example), had no idea about such a turn of events. As a result, due to the presence of only a few stores, the console was a scarce.

From the point of view of marketing, it was the most stupid (you can’t pick up other words) a decision in the history of the game industry. Third -party developers also did not know anything about the early launch of Satrun, which led to the lack of games for the console from third -party developers, as well as to the high price of the console itself – $ 399. While PS1 cost $ 100 cheaper. Games that nevertheless went to the console received only average grades at best. Saturn had only two games that sold more than a million copies – Virtual Fighter 2 and Grandia. So it turns out that the SEGA has only a frankly stupid solution to her product to failure.

#4 The Virtual Boy

Well, this top could not be https://monopoly-casino.co.uk/ left without this console. It was because of this “piece of art” that mass dismissals occurred in Nintendo, and the development of the company itself sharply slowed down. This console had just disgusting producing, slag games, and her entire gaming library could fit in the hand of any person. But the main drawback was still the “ability” of this console to cause physical harm to everyone who used it. If the player looked at the black and red image for an hour, then he had a sharp headache, and some had seizures.

Unlike Oculus Rift, this console offered some unhealthy virtual reality in the literal sense of the word!

#3 The R-Zone

As if feeling that the industry is missing something more slag than Virtual Boy, Tiger Electronics has released R-Zone.

This thing, unlike Virtual Boy, did not even try to create the effect of virtual reality! And the games were even worse for her! And if the Virtual Boy took some time to cause a headache, then this console managed to do this instantly!
You think that it is impossible to find something worse than these two consoles? Well then read on!

#2 Atari Jaguar

In general, it is difficult to imagine that Atari could make a console worse than Atari 5200. And if the same Sega Saturn laid the foundation for the SEGA company on the console market, then Atari Jaguar was just the last rusty nail in the coffin of the company Atari.

In order to somehow wake the interest of players in front of their console, ATARI representatives in almost every interview stated that the console was 64-bit. However, turning on any game, the players realized that they simply hung their noodles on their ears! Almost every game was a huge number of blurry and floating training grounds. In addition to the really chic Alien Vs Predator, all other games for this console were second -rate garbage!

#1 The Philips CD-I

And finally we got to the “honorary” first place. This console had the most bending games, 3 terrible controllers, 3 disgusting Zelda games, a nightmare game on Mario, and did not have a single compensatory quality as a contrast. Ladies and gentlemen, I represent you Philips CD-I.
CD-I is no doubt the worst console of all times. There was not a single worthy game on it. And if Virtual Boy had Virtual Boy: Wario Land, and Atari Jaguar-Alien Vs Predator, then CD-I had nothing worthy at all!

And, of course, the console had 3 sagging controller, which were inconvenient to hold and was easy to break. Well, the apogee of the failure is, of course, 3 terrible Games in Zelda and one in Mario. Когда Nintendo дала Philips права на создание игр по двум самым успешным франчайзам компании, вместо того чтобы использовать эту возможность себе и всем остальным во благо, Philips скатили все в го*но! If you look at any top of the worst games, I guarantee that you will see one of these games by 100%. Gather all this in one piece and get the worst console in the entire history of the game industry!

That’s all! Thank you for reading! Leave comments under the topic. You liked the top or not. Maybe you will advise something. Write which consoles in your opinion the most fail. Good luck to everyone!

The best comments

The second is just more. For every hit there are five or six terrible attempts. Another thing is that they do not go to the market, but in the industry they are.

There is something good and something bad in the gaming industry. Fortunately, the first is more than the second. Let’s hope that this will continue to be!

I do not agree with the top:
1. Pipin was presented not only as a console, but also as a kind of replacement of the PC. He was successful because he did not release him personally, but sold only licenses for its production.
2. Saturn was a great console, more powerful than competitors, but:
1. The authority of Segi was already undermined by previous incorrect decisions and buyers were simply afraid to get burned again
2. The console had a very complex architecture, and not every company could make games under it
3. Jaguar is also a very interesting console in terms of iron, but with a complex architecture under which at that time few people knew how to program. Therefore, the games came out like 16 -bit consoles.In addition to the AVP there were other wonderful games. Also, many did not like the console because of the form of the gamepad (it was extremely strange). And the console is not dead at the moment, fans are still riveting games under it
4. CD-I and 3DO consoles did not take off any more because of prices. But the most interesting thing is that they were bought not as a toy, but as a rather cheap home computer. CD-I was so after installing a module with codecs-an excellent laser player that cost cheaper than competitors.

With the fact that n-gage is the worst platform, I do not agree. The games there were awesome. There are no analogues of some games on other mobile platforms to this day, for example, Hooked on: Creatures of the Deep-just a wonderful game about fishing, I have never met any more after n-gage. Yes, there are also games about fishing on Android, but they are dull and slightly less than completely consist of donat. Asphalt: Urban GT and Urban GT2-to this day the best games of the series I think the last asphalts are pale shadows compared to these two games on N-Gage. Well, Asphalt 3 is also not bad. One is a good fighting!. Reset Generation, Ashen, Bounce Boing Voyage, Metal Gear Solid, Brothers in Arms, Civilization – and also a bunch of ports from other platforms, almost all games were wonderful and without donation. It is a pity that this platform has died (((

NGAGA is a good caliper, and the console too, only there the service was uncomfortable. From Gaga played the brothers in arms and resident Evil.

You just don’t see it. We have guys in NSIB (I do not want to make an advertisement for them) who throw five to seven games and a guano series on the Internet. The Chinese stamp the console curves hundreds (I’m talking about varieties). Now you can push about Margeting, but the fact of the release of a large heap will not cancel this, they just do not advertise it and they don’t know about it.

I will still put a plus. Great topic, chic selection of consoles, but the topic is not completely disclosed. The explanation of the failure from the category of “console G*VNO, and therefore failed” it is very in the AVGN style, but is not at all suitable for such a record. But, in order to get more or less reliable information, you can see at least “16 bits ago”

Apple Pippin failed due to weak technical characteristics. It was also aimed besides the Games to provide the possibility of accessing the Internet, but alas of capacity for full work was not enough. And this was one of the chips. Plus the high cost of the console killed her.

Atari 5200 also the problem with the technical component. In those days, ATARI 2600 walked around the world with a high head. And therefore, even rivals could use adapters to launch games from Atari. But 5200 I didn’t know how. Plus there were disputes about the power of the console. There is an opinion that it was similar to 2600. And the joysticks with the numbers then had intelligent and colpisse. This was time.

Nokia N-Gage was rather a set of stupid developers. The idea is excellent, but the implementation was joking. In this connection, the console itself was poorly sold, and therefore it was not interesting to develop games. Of the shortcomings there was: an inconvenient location of the speaker from the end (which is why the user speaking on the smartphone was like a cheburashka), the replacement of the cartridges was possible with the removal of the rear cover (in my opinion even the battery, I don’t remember exactly). And it seems that the Finns corrected these problems in the N-Gage QD, but they immediately removed the FM receiver (and in those days it was very relevant), MP3 player (although it was possible to put the custom, but why was it in principle to do this), stereodynamics and yusb. These jambs were the reason for the failure. But not pirate games in any way. The family was also broken. We all know the dandy.

Here in 3DO It’s even difficult to add something. That’s right! =) Although worthy games were there. And the beginning of some episodes also had there. In general, the console was interesting. But too high cost and really ruined everything.

Sega Saturn. To understand what caused the failure to understand the situation in the market of that time. At that moment, only 3DO came out. Sega laughed at the console. On their side there was a reputation and a more possible console in the development. Nintendo had something in the development (Nintendo 64), but it was far from the exit. But then Sonya announced the breakdown of relations with Nintedo and the release of SD add -ons for Super Nintendo in the form of a separate prefix – Sony PlayStation. But this console was more powerful than Saturn. And the Sega did not come up with anything better how to fasten the second processor, immediately complicating the development of games for the prefix. Of course, this complicated the life of developers who were not ready for such. And the prefix in the end is not so much failure as finally turned away from themselves both players and developers. Sorry. Killed the excellent DreamCast before the exit.

Atari Jaguar. Say that she was not 64 bit not quite right. In those days, it was fashionable to boast of this very bit of the science, and what it meant and what exactly did no one knew. It was just such a cool rating. So, the problems of Jaguar became not a bit, but an architecture that was more illogical than a difficult. According to the design of the creators of the console, the processing of the game’s logic was to be considered a video and an audio processor, and the video was supposed to be displayed through an additional 64 (!) Bit graphic processors. While the central processor (it was, by the way, similar to the Sega Mega Drive processor) was responsible for the processing of pressing buttons. And some developers did it. So Alins Versus has appeared traitor, thoughts, vulf, etc.D. But most developers spat on such logic, because it was really strange. And wrote according to the old fashioned way, processing logic in the central processor, which was similar to 16 bit prefixes. And in the age of Sonya is play -shust, Sega Saturn and 3D. It was the last century. As a result, the difficulty of developing repelled the desire to develop games for the jaguar, and the reputation of Atari could not help. And the players also did not see the point in such a console.

Phillips also have nothing to add. But here is rather an exception to the rules. A good piece of iron did not receive a response from the developers. Again, some believe that the reason is that the console has overtaken its time. May be.

In general, in the end, the rating turned out to be excellent and fair, but there are jambs with information that personally upset me. It was possible to turn around.

Uninformatively, just a list of some (and not very) game consoles, with comments like-“Look what the crap!”.

The content of the article is the name.

By the way, by the way I have seen the n-gage repeatedly in our city. I don’t think she’s so “unsuccessful”, I wanted to)

Thank you!) I honestly did not even think that the blog would gain so many positive reviews, but the mower would also bring! I just wanted to dig a little and share my findings! Seriously, I did not think that many would be so interesting. I will continue) I am already bearing ideas for the next top)

God, she was invented by masochists for masochits, it is to shoot themselves at the tip of the nose, brr ..
And thanks for the blog, it was interesting to read and look at these animals of outlandish.

There was no complex architecture, dude, believe me. Just a controller of the inner tire notes the entire port for the beat, but since it is convenient for architectural developers.

I had n-gage, it was shocked at it especially if you recall the year, and it was very convenient to play, I would buy for example now Vitu if it were a phone in it