What is the most disappointing video game console of all time?
Good hardware with no games, bad hardware with a decent idea, and one that arrived before anyone thought to tell the retailers. Failure comes in more varieties than you would expect.
1Nintendo Wii UNintendo's 2012 console, sold on a second screen nobody understood, stopped at 13.6 million units.
2PlayStation VitaSony's 2011 handheld: excellent hardware, proprietary memory cards, and almost no first-party support.
3Xbox OneMicrosoft's 2013 console, whose always-online reveal cost it the generation before it shipped.
4Nintendo Virtual BoyThe 1995 red-on-black headset that sold 770,000 units and was gone within a year.
5Sega SaturnSega's 1994 machine, hard to program for and launched early without warning retailers.
6Sega DreamcastA genuinely good 1999 console abandoned by its own maker within two years.
7Atari JaguarThe 1993 machine marketed as 64-bit, with a controller shaped like a telephone.
83DO Interactive MultiplayerThe 1993 console that launched at $699 and asked buyers to fund a licensing standard.
9OuyaThe 2013 crowdfunded Android micro-console that raised millions and shipped almost nothing worth playing.
10Nokia N-GageThe 2003 phone-console hybrid that made you hold it sideways to take a call.
11PlayStation 3 (launch)Sony's 2006 debut at $599, with a hostile architecture and a slow first two years.
12Google StadiaThe 2019 cloud console that shut down in 2023 and refunded every purchase.
13Philips CD-iThe 1991 multimedia player Nintendo licensed characters to, remembered only for its Zelda games.
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