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[Dacvak]

Definitely Turbo, Dreamcast, and Wii U in no particular order.

 

[Onironauta]

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.

PS3 was more popular than Xbox 360 in Europe and it sold at least 10 million units more

360 definitely won in the US, but America is not the whole world

 

[Paasei]

Vita and Dreamcast

 

[CliffBronger]

FM Towns
That think looked awesome back in the day but never got a release outside of Japan.

 

[REDRZA MWS]

Personally I don't feel or think Dreamcast, Tiurbogrfx16 , Xbox Ons, nor Dreamcast were failures. I personally enjoyed them all and have fond memories and long play time sessions. On all.

I voted Atari Jaguar, because at the time I was really rooting for Atari (my first console was the 2600), but that's the only time I felt real disappointment.

 

[hemo memo]

If the Xbox One's original DRM plan had succeeded, I think Microsoft and the industry as a whole would be in a very different but better place.

 

[Trunx81]

Although Dreamcast is the obvious answer (runner up: Vita), I voted for the 3DO.
The concept of a console that´s free to develop for, paying the third party publishers, was quite innovative, although it failed due to the high hardware prices (and would have been a shovelware nightmare).

 

[Jubenhimer]

I'd say that the Switch still fits the stereotype it just happened to work out in their favor. I remember people thinking that the Switch sounded dumb as hell when it was announced but look where we are now.

Switch 2 is 100% Nintendo saying well we can't afford to try something different this time.

The thing with the Switch was that it set out to fill a need and a market the other two consoles weren't catering to. It offered something substantially different from other gaming platforms, and that's what made it a success.

Compare that to the GameCube where at the end of the day, it didn't deliver anything the PS2 or Xbox couldn't already deliver just as well, or better. That ultimately was it's downfall.

 

[Lucifers Beard]

The Dreamcast died a bit too early in my experience. I'd have liked to have seen it go a few more years as the games that were coming out for it were awesome. It was the first console I had where I felt like I had a proper arcade machine at home.

 

[Sintoid]

Sorry Wrong thread

 

[nkarafo]

Dreamcast feels like the right answer but i voted for the Neo-Geo console.

My reasoning is that the Dreamcast is just a "standard" console that got replaced by others that did the same thing. Basically, the XBOX filled that spot and Sega did release their games in other consoles so we didn't really lose them.

But the Neo-Geo was unique in that it was a "specialized" system that pushed state of the art 2D sprite based games specifically. If the console was a success, like it was on the arcades, there would most likely be a successor and who knows how high budget 2D sprite games would evolve and how 2D games in general would be when 3D took over.

 

[RAIDEN1]

3DO and M2 it is a tie on that one, both had good enough technology to compete and even out-do the competition (ie the Jag/32x/CD32) but for the 3DO it never really stood a chance at the price point that it was at...and Panasonic's decision with the M2 has to be one of the BIGGEST missteps in gaming history...

 

[Scrawnton]

I picked Google Stadia.

I think there is definitely a world where Stadia could have been an amazing product if they had the right business structure and intentions in mind.

A world where Stadia had its own PC storefront where you were given native ownership over the games while also being able to connect to their servers to remote play your game on any device at anytime and the save files just worked is a world where gaming would've benefitted.

Microsoft is trying to make this a reality but they keep fucking up the product and the rollout of features is so incredibly slow. Valve could do this but they seem to not give a shit.