ITT flops that killed a company

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>>55702140

>>55702140
>ITT: gaymurs

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It's always gaymin related shit. Are the people in the gaymur industry as braindead as their consumers?

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>>55702150

>>55702193
Ignoring Carmack, failed hollywood screenwriters, failed developers, failed producers, failed engineers all go to games to die. It's basically a highly profitable industry for failures.

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>>55702140
The concept didn't sound bad, but the fucking prices did.

Steam / GoG etc. is mucho cheaper.

>>55702150
Youre assuming AMD hasnt been dead since 2011

>>55702150
>>55702297
>people on /g/ are to stupid to understand simple stock numbers

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It sank their involvement in the console business. SEGA US sabotaging it repeatedly and the $400 price tag certainly didn't help it. It doesn't help that its one of the most over-engineered console of all time, with something like 4 cpus and 2 gpus (one which used quadrilateral 3d) back in 1994. It had excellent games at least.

>>55702301
AKA /v/ spillage

>>55702181
Especially since they just made a brilliant marketing move in making future xbones games come with the PC copy for free if you run win10 and all DLCs, saves, etc work seamlessly between the two, basically making it unnecessary to own xbones at all until Scorpio, which is looking to be the perfect machine for Fallout 4 going VR.

inb4 >>>/v/

I'm not into gaymen, just VR for practical application and Scorpio is now on my radar

>>55702301
>OH NO IT WENT DOWN $20 IN ONE DAY? MUST BE THE END

>>55702193
Why is this webm a still image?

>>55702816
>>55702595
Here we go, amd autist fucking up one morr thread because they cant accept that the 480 sucks compared to the shit they spewed about it constantly

>>55702848
it's "optimized"

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Not that the company help any assets before this abomination.

>>55703280
*held

>>55702412
That, and Sega refused to let go of the Genesis with the 32X. By the time the Dreamcast rolled around, their fate had been sealed.

"Flop" is a word used by homosexuals.

>>55703471
welcome to /g/

>>55702193
Holy shit anon i didn't think about storing all my jaypegs and piengs in webum.Now i can optimize.

>>55703400

i like the dreamcast

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>>55703539

>>55703539
yeah, because Steam makes a living manufacturing controllers.
>(You)
>fucking idiot.

Not posting indel bendium 4 :ADDD::D:DD

>>55704027
nobody is talking about steam, anon

>>55703539
Why do you think it failed? It did, but any reason why? It looked like an amazing idea and still is, but I don't know why it failed.

Maybe it didn't have anything to be used on? I don't think most world use it on PC and by the time steam link was stable it was eh. Plus steam link failed too as it sounded great but you needed really fast Internet to play and even theneed the quality sucked.

>>55702193
>>55702172

what is backberry

>>55702181
How'd you make it past my filter?

>>55704415
Shit-tier build quality and controller. Not much more than mobile games stretched on your TV.

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>>55702181
you rancid cunt

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>>55702140

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>>55702140
The Itanium was truly Intel's greatest achievement in the HPC market. Not even baiting.

>>55702848
webm compresses images better than jpg (whether or not that's true, that's why people do it)

>>55704510
>thread theme
holy fuck is this guy actually from reddit?

>>55704609
There’s WebP for that.

>>55704670
4chan doesn't support webP though

>>55704574
KEK TIM CUKS XDDDDD

>>55704598
How many other tech products can kill off 2 superior CPU architectures (and another one in the HPC market), a famous tech company, lose billions of dollars for Intel (and likely HP as well), AND cause Intel to get forced by AMD into making 64 bit x86 CPUs?

It was hot, hard to program for (VLIW only took off in GPUs), and never actually took off. The only reason HP's are still made are for customers that still run HP-UX and OpenVMS, and the latter's getting a X86 port (Nonstop already got an X86 port)

>>55704670
>being this new

>>55704415
>Plus steam link failed too as it sounded great but you needed really fast Internet to play and even theneed the quality sucked.
Steam link is fantastic. What is your home network using, Cat4? lol

All you need is a wired Cat5e connection and it has no problem streaming 1080p 60fps in the "beautiful" setting. It specifically states that wireless is strongly discouraged.

>>55703539
lol I just bought one when they were on sale for $34 i love mine

>>55702854
winrar.

clearly the millennial trash have no idea how much damage this game did.

>>55706182

What is amusing is they denied the fact they buried all those cartridges for years (which made it even more delicious when the concrete was cracked open and excavated a few years back).

>>55704415
>Plus steam link failed too as it sounded great but you needed really fast Internet to play and even theneed the quality sucked.
You don't need internet at all for Steam Link (well maybe you do for login and shit), the streaming goes from your PC to the Link through your own home network, your internet speed is literally irrelevant. You need a decent home network though.

>>55703471
Lots of words are used by homosexuals. Your point?

>>55704598
>Itanium was truly Intel's greatest achievement
No, not really. At least, not as delivered.

If Merced had been on time, then maybe. But it was years late, and underwhelmed. By the time it finally started to be "where it should" HPC was running on commodity x86_64 stuff.

That said, the Xeon PHI looks to be Intel's best bet into HPC now.

>>55705429
>>55706350
>lose billions of dollars for Intel (and likely HP as well)
But think about it. In the end, did it really?

The Itanium hype train killed all of Intel's competition in that pure-profit market one way or another, whether through the total half-assing that killed SGI or the stagnation of Compaq/DEC as they eagerly and excitedly told all of their customers that the hardware they were paying millions to own and maintain was deprecated off the assembly line.

Intel may have lost time and money on Itanium development, but they've surely made up for it ten times over with their now almost complete dominance of the lucrative HPC and enterprise computing sectors.

It may have been a piece of shit outside of big databases and supercomputers, but ultimately it really did nothing but good for Intel's bottom line.

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>>55702193
>>55702848
>>55703254
>>55704609
jpg wins again

>>55706935

Flop? Yes

Will it kill nintendo? Not a chance.

Though I will give you a fun (sorta) fact: in the qual timespan that both the wii u and dreamcast were available (i.e from launch until the DC was killed by sega) the DC sold more units than the wii u did. The wii u has now overtaken the DC simply by being on sale for longer.

>>55706373
That's what Intel was intending with Itanium, just not in the way they intended. They wanted it to be a powerful HPC chip so companies wouldn't have to blow money on R&D designing their own chips when they could just grab HPC chips from Intel themselves, and that was HP's motivation for working with Intel. Eventually it was hoped it would trickle down into consumer PCs (Just like what every RISC/UNIX vendor dreamed of in the 90s). That's what they do now, just with X86-64 (or AMD64) instead of IA-64.

Instead everyone took losses because of Intel's bad choices, and the only one who really ended up using the chip was HP, who had intended it to be a successor to the PA-RISC (along with the Alpha and NonStop lines)

Remember, this was P4 era Intel too, and the P4 was a pretty awful CPU.

Had Intel gone with a less experimental design either going with RISC or simply extending X86 to 64 bits like AMD did, had HP decided to stick with PA-RISC, or SGI been making less fuckups at the same time maybe the tech landscape would be different. Instead, Intel was scared when AMD came out with a 64 bit design that could not only run 32 bit code natively, but also was based on X86 and easier to code for.

Looking back at that time, everyone made fuckups. It's why nearly everything is X86 and ARM based, while SPARC and POWER still hang around as high end server CPUs and MIPS is found in embedded equipment.

>>55707098

I do wonder what sort of cpus we would be seeing if POWER was developed further rather than being used for whatever the fuck IBM feels the need to throw money at. Some of those chips guzzle electricity like an 18-wheeler drinks diesel.

>>55707214
>was developed further
What the hell does that even mean? Cheap consumer systems based on the POWER-derived PowerPC architecture were a thing for a little over a decade, modern POWER chips are no under-developed slouches either.

>>55707286

They are no slouches sure, but you can't have monster chips in desktop class hardware if you want to sell to plebs. If the architecture could be scaled down to low power draw environments (so that would be basically anything under 100w down to the 20w and under range) while providing good performance the world would be a different place. POWER is quite far ahead of x86 in many areas and (for better or worse) we might not have seen the rise of ARM.

>>55707362
>but you can't have monster chips in desktop class hardware if you want to sell to plebs.
POWER isn't made for plebs, and it never will be. Plebs are a shitty, unprofitable market. There's a reason IBM doesn't make x86 hardware anymore.

>If the architecture could be scaled down to low power draw environments while providing good performance the world would be a different place
It was and still is. PowerPC is a major player in embedded devices, it's not in desktops anymore because it's pointless. There were many competing RISC architectures that were effective with power draw and delivered very reasonable desktop performance, they all failed to make inroads to the desktop outside of niche workstations and Macs because they were shit for a use case that cares about compatibility and usability more than big numbers in a shitty synthetic benchmark.

>>55707883

IBM ragequit most of their fabs as they make their money on massive server deployments and bleeding edge research.

>shit for a use case that cares about compatibility and usability more than big numbers in a shitty synthetic benchmark.

That just tells us that the industry failed to tell Intel to fuck off and make way for what (potentially) could've been a better architecture simply because x86 had established itself by then.

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I was looking up drawing tablets and this seemed pretty cool all things considered, but I feel like I'd be cursed if I bought one. How does losing out on a 100 million burger bet even happen?

>>55703471
homosexuals also say "word"

>>55704226
the whole thread is about that how dumb are u

>>55703327
oh i didnt know that microsoft died

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>>55702816
>$20 in one day
that would literally be the end of AMD

>>55708576
They're dying. People will be asking "Microsoft? The fuck is that?" in 10 years.

>>55708441
OP CONFIRMED FOR FAGGOT

>>55703539
I like mine a lot.

>>55703539
>Edgy post

>>55702412
>sega US sabatogging
Othet way Shinji. You Nips were doing it because of your shitty jap business culture of hating lower ranks coming up with ideas and taking initiative.

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>>55702150

>>55704530
>shit tier build quality
https://youtu.be/TuZTnZLzb0Q

(You)

If you're talking about the plastic every normal console controller uses cheap plastic.

>>55702854
>flopped so hard it almost took down the game industry with it

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This one literally did put the company out of business

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>>55711248

>>55706935
>Pokemon Go
>dead

>>55711248
did they really go out of business?

>>55711303
yeah, if you look up Xi3, the company that made it, you won't find a website and just links mentioning they are out of business

>>55711319
yea those little things were kinda neat but after that release pic i never heard of them again huhu

>>55711248
So much for upgrade modules being made for it lel

>>55711266
>12 USB ports
WHY

>>55711378
2.0 ports for powering media center shit like a Chromecast or IR receiver

3.0 ports for input peripherals

>>55711424
(also forgot, connecting external storage media and drives)

>>55709262
I think this anon is actually retarded enough to be talking about market cap rather than share price. That's the only way it's at least a comprehensible thought rather than neanderthal babble

>>55708576
Then you are not paying attention.

>>55711596
wow, edgy. What's it like to be awake past your curfew?

If Microsoft is dead, then how can I kill my company quicker so that I can enjoy the same profit margins?

ITT:
>gaymour shit
>things that flopped but did nothing affect the company one bit

>>55708576
It's not about being edgy. Microsoft has given the finger to several of its enterprise user bases for a decade now. its not the 90s anymore, there are alternatives.

Microsoft as we knew it to be is dying/dead. It will be the next AOL.

>>55705908
Why would anyone use a steam link if not for its wireless capabilities?
If you can run a cable then why the hell wouldn't you just use a display cable instead and enjoy perfect image quality with no added latency and without hammering your LAN?

>>55711266
Being priced At 1000 I can see why. Although i did want one. Im not about to fork the cash.

>>55707086
So its literally the worst console of all time? It gets my vote

>>55707225
Sadly, anything BUT a flop as far as sales go.
In terms of what the consumer got? The 3.5 issue was a massive blow to tech enthusiasts, but Average Joe™ didn't know nor care.

>>55708043
>That just tells us that the industry failed to tell Intel to fuck off and make way for what (potentially) could've been a better architecture simply because x86 had established itself by then.
And? The "better" architecture isn't better when it's useless.

Remember how successful Windows NT was on Alpha, PowerPC and MIPS? No? Nobody else does either, because desktop users don't give a fuck if some dick-waver's fastest chip is 10% faster than the fastest x86 chip they weren't going to buy anyway, especially when it doesn't run their software well, or requires them to re-purchase it. You don't buy a desktop for sheer speed, you buy a high-end server, supercomputer or even a mainframe to do that.