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[Plies]

For me, the Turbografx-16:

In Japan the Famicom was the dominating system and no other system could compete with it except the PC engine.
When the PC-engine came out, it got popular quickly, when it came out in the US as the Turbografx-16, no one gave a F**k.
In Japan the PC engine got better games(Castlevania Rondo of blood), but we got a good amount of good games(Galaga '90,Neutopia,Dungeon Explorer etc) and when the Super Famicom and Megadrive was released, because of the Turboduo, Supergrafx, it lasted a good amount of time before dying out, in the US it died as soon as the SNES and Genesis hit the market.


so what's your's?

 

[Clintizzle]

PS5

 

[analog_future]

Dreamcast

 

[Plague Doctor]

Dreamcast

 

[Plies]

Dreamcast

Dreamcast

Added to poll

 

[Dynomite]

Neo Geo Pocket Color

 

[MISTER INVEIGLER]

PS5

You beat me to it.

 

[MrJangles]

Saturn. Just think, if it succeeded we might not have had to endure the Playstation or its fanbase.

 

[ViperZombie]

Sega Dreamcast

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Dreamcast

The rest deserved to fail

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

Series X

 

[crazyriddler]

what is xbox one doing in that list? it sold 58 million, which is more than snes (49 m), genesis (30 m), nintendo 64 (32 m) or gamecube (21 m).

 

[Putonahappyface]

Definitely the Sega Dreamcast.

 

[Plies]

what is xbox one doing in that list? it sold 58 million, which is more than snes (49 m), genesis (30 m), nintendo 64 (32 m) or gamecube (21 m).

 

[Syphon Filter]

PS3

 

[Azelover]

The one that comes to mind is the Dreamcast.

I really wanted it to succeed because I felt it was genuinely good. The hardware was good at the time, the games were good. The online was as good as it could be at that point..

I was really sad that January morning when we got the news it was to be discontinued. I genuinely felt it had the goods to keep going.. but Sega ran out of money. What can you do...

 

[FoxMcChief]

PS5

I wanted exclusive first party sequels to all my favorite PlayStation games. Instead, we got Concord and Marathon.

 

[nial]

PS Vita, no other option.

 

[PeteBull]

Definitely Dreamcast, it only failed coz had crazy strong competition from sony(og xbox and gcn failed that gen too but ms and ninny simply had enough of a warchest to not give up unlike sega), for what it was(mostly making ur room feel like u owning half or arcade saloon) it really did its job extremly well.
Jump from psx/saturn to dreamcast was humongous and it was 1995 to 1999 so 4 freaking years only(talking europe here), just once it launched we already got the hype of ps2 coming soon so many ppl fellt like waiting.

 

[Aion002]

Xbox Series S.

Cheaper, small and quiet.

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

Dreamcast had GOAT potential.

It had SNES aura written all over it.

 

[ReBurn]

All of them because I like to root for underdogs.

 

[SpiceRacz]

I don't think Dreamcast, Wii U, and Xbox One belong on that list with stuff like M2, Jaguar, and 3DO.

A more appropriate comparison to those would be Virtual Boy and Atari 7800 and Lynx.

 

[Lokaum D+]

GameCube, since It failed Nintendo just droped the race for powerfull hardware and started racing on overpriced gimmick consoles, we are never getting other GameCube like system from Nintendo ever again.

 

[hinch7]

Dreamcast. It was an amazing machine with excellent games from the get go. And was well ahead of its time when it came to peripherals with their VMU and online play (on console).

If only SEGA didn't f themselves over, they could've stuck around at least a few more years in the console space and possible more. Leaving less room for other players like Microsoft to pick up the slack.

 

[majestix1988]

first xbox...failed to push its jrpg category that plague whole system as non-jrpg consoles that only play "famous" jrpgs that push jrpg gaming such as Final Fantasies,Tales and Persona

yup the jrpg is getting good in series x generation but still no one jrpg companies doesnt want to release their games on it such trails series by falcom and other jrpgs series

 

[FinalBossWithTheMostPower]

I hardly knew thee.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

the only worthy contender to the king of consoles

 

[T8SC]

And

 

[kevboard]

the Xbox One wasn't even remotely a failed console... the fuck? neither was the NeoGeo... the NeoGeo was never supposed to be a mass market product, and it was supported from 1990 well into the 2000s.
calling the NeoGeo a failed console is like calling the Lamborghini Gallardo a failed car because it didn't sell as many units as the Toyota Corolla.

and if the Xbox One was a failure then the GameCube, og Xbox, N64, Saturn, the PSP and both the PS3 and 360 would also be failed systems given how outclassed they were sales wise by one or more their competitors

 

[hououinkyouma00]

PS5

You beat me to it.

what is xbox one doing in that list? it sold 58 million, which is more than snes (49 m), genesis (30 m), nintendo 64 (32 m) or gamecube (21 m).

Yeah, while aspects of Xbox One really are failures it really doesn't belong in the list the way some of the others do.

PS Vita, no other option.

This is my pick. The Vita really is a failed console. Great potential brought down by stupid decisions and abandoned by Sony.

My follow ups would be the WiiU and Dreamcast. I think the Dreamcast is the easy answer as I think it easily had the most potential combined with the biggest impact of the failure but I didn't own one when it was out.

I owned both a Vita and a WiiU while they were relevant.

GameCube, since It failed Nintendo just droped the race for powerfull hardware and started racing on overpriced gimmick consoles, we are never getting other GameCube like system from Nintendo ever again.

The GameCube will always be so funny to me. I'll preface this with saying that I think it's a great console with great games but it's overrated as hell. People talk non stop about how it's so great of a console and about how everybody loved it but obviously people didn't feel the same way at the time and if it wasn't for the Dreamcast failing the same year the GameCube came out the console would have have dead last in its generation.

It's the perfect example of nostalgia goggles.

 

[Black_Stride]

 

[PurePlatinum]

Not exactly the question, but I always felt the PS3's "failure" was the death of the most interesting version of Sony.

It would have been really interesting to see where they went in the future, if PS3 hadn't been such a disaster at launch.

 

[Deerock71]

Count me in on the Dreamcast. FUGGIN' PS2.

 

[digital_ghost]

Dreamcast.

I loved that system. Coming from genesis the graphics blew me away.

Shame it was so short lived. I'll never forget the memories of sonic adventure as a kid. And Shenmue. Loved those games.

 

[kevboard]

I am of the belief that the Dreamcast would have been more popular if they used the Pal blue variant of the logo worldwide.
it just looks so much nicer, looks more modern, looks inviting...
and the packaging was way more easy on the eye

 

[Bonfires Down]

Series X deserved a better fate. It could have had a pretty nice set of console exclusives by the end of the gen. Free cloud saves. Game Pass. Keys from third party sellers. Controller is kinda lame but the rest of it is good.

 

[hououinkyouma00]

Not exactly the question, but I always felt the PS3's "failure" was the death of the most interesting version of Sony.

It would have been really interesting to see where they went in the future, if PS3 hadn't been such a disaster at launch.

I've never considered the PS3 to be a failure. The launch was rough but I think that rough launch really taught them a lot and force them to turn it around to such a degree that they not only beat the Xbox 360 that generation, but they demolished the next generation, and then essentially killed their main competitor this generation.

 

[Deerock71]

I am of the belief that the Dreamcast would have been more popular if they used the Pal blue variant of the logo worldwide.
it just looks so much nicer, looks more modern, looks inviting...
and the packaging was way more easy on the eye

It would've still been destroyed by the PS2 hype machine.

 

[MiguelItUp]

The Dreamcast was so ahead of its time, especially when it was relevant. So, I'd have to say Dreamcast, for sure. Sega had/has some really cool IPs I would've loved to have seen more done with. Hell, I'd love to see Sega hardware still exist.

 

[Genesis Knight]

Neo Geo Pocket Color

Same. What a beautiful device. And what a vibe. Both the product itself and the time it came out in.

 

[Black_Stride]

I am of the belief that the Dreamcast would have been more popular if they used the Pal blue variant of the logo worldwide.
it just looks so much nicer, looks more modern, looks inviting...
and the packaging was way more easy on the eye

100% agree.
Lucky i was in the PAL region when this dropped.
So have blue startup which matches the blue dashboard, the disc cases were flimsy as shit though.

Ohhh and free PSO.

 

[kevboard]

I've never considered the PS3 to be a failure. The launch was rough but I think that rough launch really taught them a lot and force them to turn it around to such a degree that they not only beat the Xbox 360 that generation, but they demolished the next generation, and then essentially killed their main competitor this generation.

the only reason it beat the 360 was japan. if you remove Japan, the country in which Xbox simply can't compete no matter what, the end results would have been 77 million for PS3, and 82~83 million for the 360. as the PS3 sold more than 10 million units in japan, while the 360 sold less than 2.
even with Japan in the mix it only beat it by around 3 million sales.

so the PS3 was definitely, relatively to what Sony did in other generations, more of a failure than the Xbox One... which somehow made OP's list. it was a pretty big anomaly for Sony, going from being far ahead, to being almost last if it wasn't for their home turf bringing them in front of the 360.

 

[rm082e]

I only voted for the Ouya because I feel sorry for it. That thing was a punchline from the beginning.

 

[kevboard]

100% agree.
Lucky i was in the PAL region when this dropped.
So have blue startup which matches the blue dashboard, the disc cases were flimsy as shit though.

Ohhh and free PSO.

the cases did look nice... but yeah, if you even dared as much as looking at them the wrong way they'd break

 

[Timberwolf25]

DreamCast. It was the first console that we got better than arcade perfect ports due to the guts being basically a clone of arcade hardware and had such crazy potential with devs raging about ease of development. Innovative with the first to do online capable, VMU, rumble (add on).
My only gripe with it was the loud fan and disc drive. Controller was a little weird too, but SEGA made it work.

I loved it so much, I had both a Japanese and US version of the console. I'm considering doing one of those mods that add a replacable battery for the internal clock, add HDMI and replace the disc drive with a card reader. Need to learn how to solder first...lol

 

[RedPyramidHead]

Dreamcast, but I also really liked the Wii U and don't really understand why it failed, I like its concept more than Switch and Switch 2.

 

[Firestorm ZERO]

PS Vita

It just released at the wrong time.

A PSP successor should of came out way earlier. New hardware could of stop the stem of piracy since the PSP was fully hackable. A PSP2 could of launched with MGS Peacewalker and Birth by Sleep.
It was also released at a time when Sony had to go all in to prop up PS3 and had to prepare for the PS4.
Sony was at financial trouble at the time (PS3, 3D TVs didn't take off, etc)
Sony bet on OLED. The Galaxy S got huge praise for it's screen. Sony most likely thought prices would drop quickly.
Nintendo dropped the price for 3DS after only 6 months after its launch and took a huge loss on the hardware. Sony couldn't match it.

 

[Hugare]

Where's the Vita?

Beautiful piece of hardware. But asking developers to make games for both Vita and PS4 was a recipe for disaster.

 

[Deerock71]

Where's the Vita?

Beautiful piece of hardware. But asking developers to make games for both Vita and PS4 was a recipe for disaster.

The Vita is where it's supposed to be; Sony sent it out with lackluster support and forgot about it.