Julie Uhrman lays out what the console will need to succeed in its first year.
From systems that could keep your beer cool, to oddities trying to get in on the popularity of VHS and laserdisc, you’ve got some very, very weird video game consoles out there.
I had the LaserActive... it was a nice collectors piece but not very practical. Especially when it came to needing recapping. I think i paid all of about $50 for the floor model from an incredible Universe back in the day. I ended up selling it many years later for $300 at the time due to it needing a new laser and the aforementioned recapping.
An honorable mention not on the list would be the VM Labs Nuon. It basically looked like any regular DVD player but it had ports on it for controllers to play specific games. one of which is still exclusive to it with Tempest 3000. It also offered nuon enhanced DVD movies with extra content not accessible by regular players.
Virtual Boy, Sega Nomad, Ouya and the other troubled game systems that nobody bought.
How has this article missed out Sega's Dreamcast and Nintendo's Wii U, two consoles that were actually superb devices in their own right, but were seen as failed due to lacklustre sales at the time of release?
Wonder how long before Stadia appears on the list surprised the Ngage is not on that list
Talk about a blast to the past.......I remember trying the virtual boy at Toy R Us and it was cool but I did feel slightly disoriented afterwards......good article.
The Ouya, a failed Android gaming console from early in this generation, is getting a second lease on life thanks to Internet archivists and some new software.
That's pretty cool they were able to bring it back. It sucks when something online only gets killed.
I got mine when it first launched, however it wasn't good for anything other than retro emulation. I couldn't sell the thing fast enough. Managed to get almost all my money back selling it on eBay.
I guess the Stadia launch is bringing back memories of other failed consoles/services.
Every year new hardware, no way I am supporting that. I think ouya will be irrelevant in its own area with the steam box even though its already irrelevant.
Honestly i don't care for Ouya. I find 90% of games on smartphones crap... but i guess it's a good way to incentive casual players to get a home console (WiiU, PS4 or next Xbox) future on.
99$ is too much to play android low prod games when i can plug my phone to the TV and play those same games. In the beginning i thought it was a kind of a cloud gaming machine with PC streamed games like steambox but it's actually lower value than a snes or genesis!
i prefer to keep them and buy killzone: Shadow Fall and inFamous: 2nd son with them.
I think it will be more successful if was firstly as a cheap Android PC, secondly as a media player and lastly for gaming.
It's a question of what it can do well potentially and with what it can compete with.