It’s not a secret that gamers are pining for new hardware. Whether that’s next-gen consoles or new handhelds, it doesn’t really matter, they just want something new to play games on. That seems to be where the fervor directed at Ouya comes into play.
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.
Gamers all remember the successful game consoles that have come and gone, but these massive failures slipped through the cracks.
No western 3rd party dev support + PS2 hype killed the Dreamcast, not SEGA
@Minute Man 721 Sega did kill the DC with the Saturn and it had a big impact on 3rd party games. For me the PlayStation lost its spark with the ps2 and onwards. I don't think any were bad consoles but for me the psx seems something special and I perfered what Microsoft and Nintendo had to offer the gens after the psx.
For me though the ps2, gc, DC and xboz gen I felt more impressed and spent more time gaming on my DC than the others.
Sega failed it before it could fail itself. I believe they should have weathered the storm, they could have come out the other side.
Lots of factors. Lots and lots. Cost of the hardware was steep for Sega so they lost a lot on it, and didn't recoup enough on software sales.
This could partly be attributed to the fact you could run copied games incredibly easily once pirates had learned how to defeat the simple software measure that had been put in place. Other machines needed a mod chip, the Dreamcast would just run the correctly packed titles off cheap CD ROMs.
If you were really determined to pirate early on say a PS2, you would rip the machine apart and mod chip it. That put off casual users, having risky surgery on their new $300 machine. But any pirated disc would just run on Dreamcast only a year after launch lol.
Then you have the whole wind of change at that time. Gamers were waiting for the PS2. Most people at that time had a PS1, and so they were not jumping on a machine until they had seen PS2. PS2 hype really killed Dreamcast in the West.
Then other smaller things like how Sega were associated with arcade style games when the trend was towards deeper RPG elements (even in racing games like Gran Turismo) and plot driven games. The lack of a DVD player, when that was something Sony marketed hard for PS2.
The Sega Saturn should be lower on that list then the Dreamcast. It sold more units then the dreamcast at twice the price. It probably sold more games in total over the Dreamcast. The Saturn was popular in Japan and had years of support and new games after they gave up in the USA. A lot of Saturn games were not released in the USA.
The saturn was even easier to pirate games then the dreamcast. All you had to do was swap a burned game with the real game after the Saturn title screen
Sonic Adventure 2 was the first game i admittedly downloaded after getting 128k or 256k broadband in 2002/2003.. I did have quite a few legitimate games at the time, i was surprised it ran without a boot disc/ mod chip after burning it to CD.
Needless to say it was a buggy version, I'm assuming some troll messed with the pirated copy because i could only get so far at the end, passed Final Rush and one of the stages starts with you falling through the floor, repeatedly until game over. I only finished it once i got it on Steam.. I still have that buggy burnt to CD version by (i think) Echelon or whatever the groups name was.
SEGA had plenty of money, they still do, they were just really bad at marketing in those days.....actually, they aren't much better at it now. It's taken years for the Yakuza games to gain attention, and even then, I think those games could be doing much better than they are. Nobody has a bad word to say about the Yakuza series, but it's still not selling like many other AAA games. If SEGA marketed them better, then they would be even bigger than they already are.
" don't get why the Dreamcast was a fail."
an interesting mystery. the console had plenty of exclusives and new IPs.
my thoughts gathered, too many consoles on the market became a factor.
eventually there would be 4 consoles by the time DC would be 2 years.
DC appeared dated to late adopters.
There were a ton of reasons why it failed. The main reason was the simple fact that the PS2 played DVD players. Many videogame stores in Japan at the time actually shifted heavily towards DVD sales and were advertising the PS2 as simply a DVD player, With the PS2 being sold as the cheapest DVD player on the market that also happened to play games it really put a damper on the Dreamcast (after it broke sales records at launch). Then there was the fact that the GD-Roms could be ripped easily and copied. That was the final nail in what was an incredible console. Sega was at it's peak during that time and to this day the Dreamcast still has some of the best, most innovative games ever created.
PSVR is still selling monthly, is compatible with next gen and will get a new version for PS5.
Nice try.
Dreamcast was the console that marked Sega’s exit from the industry
It was a failure
it´s a mistery really....it was a great console,bad timing i guess,with the brutal rise of the Playstation and xbox at the time.
Well what product isnt?
I personally won't buy it as it uses Android and Google is a part of the problem that ouya is trying to address. If it used a community driven os like linux or ubuntu I would be much more interested.