Is this the biggest failure in /vr/ history?

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>>3753772
Nah, according to this board this was

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Nah.

>>3753772
/VR/ only cares if it had good games not if it was commercially successful

32X, Jaguar/CD, Phillips CD-i

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All 32bit consoles except the Playstation

>>3753772
One of them. There are quite a few that flopped

I'd guess that NEMO/Control-Vision is probably the biggest failure.

>sunk $10 million of 1985 money into development, equivalent of $22,305,483.27 in today's dollaridoos
>"let's run it on VHS cassettes!!!"
>"GREAT IDEA!!!"
>wasn't a great idea
>the "games" were interactive movies
>the "big name" games included sewer shark, night trap and "make my video" featuring the cars' song 'you might think'
>MSRP of $299.99 in 1986 ($653.96 in today's money) when average income was $17,321.82 (nearly $38k today); average income today is $73k
>was never sold and all units are said to be housed in a storage unit in pawtucket
This is what happens when tech geeks with no understanding of money try to do things.

>>3753827
>good post from someone who actually knows something about retro gaming
HURR HOW CAN IT BE A FAILURE IF I NEVER HERD OF IT

>>3753827
Not uh!

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>>3753827
>>"let's run it on VHS cassettes!!!"
Should have used Betamax.

>What is Neo-Geo

>>3753827
Stop rattling your tits over "today's money", that's not how it works and you fucking know it.

OBJECTIVELY

-Any Atari system after 2600
-Any Sega system after Mega Drive/Genesis

Going from strong relevance to barely any relevance is the worst possible thing. Sure, you can argue the systems had a few decent titles (in the case of the Saturn) - but there is no denying that they failed the hardest.

Overall winner is likely the Atari Jaguar. Although, I'm very tempted to say CD-I is also one of the biggest failures, since that was produced by a big electronics company and failed in every single aspect.

>>3753847
Why thank you, kind sir.

Even the relatively unknown today Sega Hologram wasn't as much of a failure. At least I don't think it was. Pretty sure Hologram broke even or was only a minor loss considering that it basically ran on a David Copperfield model of using magic lanterns (a type of projection device) and required no special or expensive parts. Just some mirrors, a regular ol' CRT and a laserdisc player.

>>3753894
I can't think of the word 'betamax' without picturing a block of coagulated pig's blood because reasons.

>>3753908
Only mentioned it to give people some semblance of an understanding of how much of a financial blunder the whole thing was.

>>3753907
The single most successful arcade platform to have ever existed, that's what. The original 1990 board remained in use until 2004, selling over a million units. This doesn't sound like much when compared to home console sales, but when you consider that the next best selling arcade system board, the Sega models 2 and 3 sold only 200,000 units.

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>>3753980
>I can't think of the word 'betamax' without picturing a block of coagulated pig's blood because reasons.

Those reasons being?

>>3753907
Oh silly boy

>>3753985
It's a slang nickname for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_tofu among Filipinos.

>>3753772
In /vr/ history yes. But it was outdone 12 years ago when your mom first spawned.
>tfw the underage is now having a meltdown because it's never seen a csgo match last that long.

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>>3754039
Lolwut?

I just read up about "adidas" and "walkman" too...

The Lynx was largely a victim of terrible business skills.

Developed by Epyx it would've been the first (and only?) major console from Europe and as Nintendo wasn't really popular there yet, they could've had a serious advantage over the Game Boy on that continent.

Atari (under new ownership) then bought the technology from Epyx, and decided to sit on it for almost a year as Nintendo was getting ready for the big launch of the Game Boy, only releasing it in the US 2 months before Nintendo blockbuster handheld....

Obviously it sold like shit because the console was cutting edge when it was developed but significantly less so after dicking around with the rights for 10 months. Not to mention the name "Atari" stood for failure in the US.

Of course they released it a year later in Europe and intentionally hid the fact that it was developed by Epyx, to no success.

A total fuckjob.

>>3753907
Dumbass

>>3753772

Best version of California Games, and for that alone it succeeded.

>>3753784
Probably this
too MANY consoles in the mid 90s trying to gain ground

Nope.

>>3753985
There's a cluster of uninhabited islands near Malaysia where one one species of indigenous primate will make a noise that sounds like "betamax" if you show them a skewer with a few pieces of blood tofu on it.
True story.

>>3753937

was the dreamcast a bigger failure than the saturn? i knew one kid who owned a saturn but no one had the cast.

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The 3DO.
>Hyped to all hell and back in the early 90s
>Boasted about high quality graphics and 3D gameplay
>700 fucking dollars in 1993
>Most of its games were fucking PC ports
>3d was shit
>Little to no good exclusives
>Interactive movies: The Machine
>No reason to buy it over the SNES/Genesis
>Had a ton of variant consoles and accessories that got no use
I remember the commercials for this thing and remember it fading out of public memory before Christmas hit.

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>>3753907

>>3753783
>>3753937
>CD-I
>gaming system

>>3754682
It was the opposite for me.

All classic consoles except for the SNES (only because it has jRPGs /vr/ likes) and the NES are sucessful. All the others are horrible failures.

However, if you do want to enjoy trash like Sonic and Ocarina of Time that sank their systems, you must play them on authentic hardware with a great CRT monitor or else you shouldn't bother.

>>3754860
Plz explain how Ocarina of Time somehow ruined n64.

>>3754860
you sir, are a mong.

>>3754682
Dreamcast was a big success ,then the ps2 hype train came along and sega were already in financial ruin,considering it only lasted over 2 years it had a pretty big impact ,I was so gutted when they discontinued it because it was perfect.

>>3756128
Dreamcast getting discontinued and Sega abandoning the hardware market was one way I knew for sure the world had ended.

>>3753774
They are totally wrong tho.
N64 was great not a big comercial fucking success like ps1 but it sure left some cash to nintendo.

>>3754682
I think the dreamcast didn't kill sega. I think it was the saturn and the fucking jews behind the company.

>>3754706
I remember the mid 90's walking through a store with my parents and there was a 3DO unit demo set up. The price was like WTF I'm never gonna get them to buy this.

>>3754682
weird because for me it was the opposite, I knew a few kids with dreamcast and I had one too but only 1 kid that had a Saturn.

>>3754706
The failure of the system led 3DO to focus on game development instead, and we got Might and Magic and Meridian 59.

>>3756593
And Battletanx.

The story is dogshit, but multiplayer is fun.

>>3753772
No the n64 is

>>3753937
>Any Atari system after 2600
Would the 7800 have been more successful if Atari had ported more of their computer games to it?

>>3753907
Better than snes

>>3753827
>average income
Anon use median income next time. 49k real dollars back then and 56k these days. Average is for expected value, but it can say very little about the whole population when it's thrown off by outliers (Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Donald Trump, ...). Median is more useful because you know 50% of people are above and 50% below.

>>3753772
If this had the same rechargeable battery as modern mobile phones it would have been a massive success.

As it was the regular batteries would give you about 3 nanoseconds before dying.

Ahead of its time.

>>3753776
Typical Nintendo and their cheapness.

Choosing a single lens colour onstead of a triple lens was a cost cutting that fucking DOOMED this device.

And they never learned from it to this day.

>>3759863
Using RGB LEDs would have made the cost enormous.

LEDs are cheap today, but back then they were much more expensive, especially for colors other than red.
Red was cheap because it's the natural color LEDs make.
Like, decent blue LEDs were only invented about a year before the Virtual Boy was released.

>>3759854
If it shat jewel encrusted golden turds it would have also been a massive success.

>>3759854
I get about 5-6 hours on modern alkalines.

For perspective, a 3DS gets around half that on its fancy-dancy lithium pack...

>>3754113
It wasn't the first time Atari made a boneheaded move of this sort. The 7800 was originally gonna be released in 1984 but Atari instead chose to sit on it until 1986 after Nintendo started having massive success with the NES, a console that Nintendo tried to get Atari to release and market for them in the US . Atari really did everything they could to screw themselves over it seems .

>>3759863
>>3759908
I remember Nintendo Power wrote a piece saying if they used full color it would cost 3x as much. The thing was almost $200 as it was, any more would have killed it even faster. Poor thing was doomed from the start.

>>3761612
It was truly ahead of it's time.
Even now VR headsets are only just starting to become decent, and it takes a pretty beefy computer to render anything current gen in VR.

>>3761612
I remember when your mom pooped her pants and was like totally no im just on my period but it's poo colored and smells like poo because ive got this condition that makes it look and smell like poo and totally whatever oh my god.

Barcode Battler

For one summer we chased down barcodes in supermarkets...with scissors...without payment...total anarchy .

>>3759863
yeah their cheapness sure killed the gameboy

>>3753772
you are, op

>>3763542
That was hardly a failure though. Even Luddite me had one.

If you think it was big in the west, it was ginormous in Japan.

>>3754113
Epyx was American.

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>>3763724
Not anymore...

>>3763730
does it always look like the apocalypse in the UK?

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>>3763761
We have something called "weather" over here

>>3763817
Did you choose to show me a painting to demonstrate weather? We have something called 'good weather' in the US sometimes.

>>3763869
Your idea of "good weather" is pretty much "no weather" i.e baking hot

>>3763885
Hahaha, the entire US isn't Texas man. I live in New England, it's almost freezing here to-day.

>>3753937
did i just get dreamcast'd?
hey man, dc was great.

I loved the Lynx. Had one as a kid and still own one today. Have a model 1 and 2 new in the box. Lynx actually had a long life and has a very solid library. Very much ahead of its time. Scaling, rotation, and one game, Warbirds, even had 3D polygons. I was always blown away at what could be achieved on that handheld.

>>3763885
>britbongs think every state is just Texas
kek

>>3763885
retard

Is N-gage considered Retro yet?

>>3753937
>OBJECTIVELY
lol

>>3760516
What shit ass 3ds did you get that only gets 3 hours tops, lol