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Here's a video by GT counting down the worst Consoles ever to be put on the market:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5Z2NOsqdXro

I kind of disgree with some of their choices.

Do add-ons really count though?
I've never heard of there #1 choice. The order isnt the best. But its a good list.

I laughed and then laughed some more as the numbers got lower. Talk about history repeating itself.

wow I am so happy virtual boy is on there. ugh... that thing kreeps me out, making people go blind. it should have been 1 i mean 2 the ataria jaguar made me laugh, jaguar jaguar jaguar ! lol

The Atari Jaguar and others were just ahead of their time and thus too expensive... kinda reminds me of the PS3

The N-Gage and similar were just too easy to copy the games, no-one buys the games, then no-one supports the console... Kinda were PC gaming has gone come on Viva Pinyata would have no problem running on a PC

Yep, was still a good machine. If "worst" is judged by success then fair enough, but as a machine then I totally don't agree. Saying that I have one under my bed, so take that how you want....

Cheers

I laughed, but I have a love/hate relationship with 3DO myself. I have it hooked up at work with all the games--- but 99% of them are just shite.

Can't believe at one time I wanted a CDi.

And how can Phantom be on the list when it was never released? Surley the NUON or whatever it's called should be on there, as they were supposed to compete with the PlayStation 2 and included in most DVD players.

Wii needed to be number 1

Uh, no. You can't even compare the Wii to these consoles, even if you do hate it.

I havent heard of any of those.
except for atari, which is rotting in the basement as I type...

venge alot of those were very old. go on answers and look up the 8 generations of game consoles. It was funny to see jaguar and it was ahead of it's time. I remember two years ago or longer when I was researching and found out about phantom, I thought it was gonna be great! But it was never realeased.... sadly..

go read the history of video games if you haven't, it's a very interesting read.

There are some things I have to disagree with too about that video.

The 3DO was actually a great machine (if you can ignore the price tag). The concept of just licensing the chip so that anyone can manufacture their own versions of the console was a good one and should have led to competitive pricing but it was poorly implemented. I know in the UK (and I think the rest of the world too) Panasonic had an exclusive deal for about 12 months to be the only supplier. 12 months was longer than its life span due to the cost. Its most awesome game in my oppinion was Road Rash. Pure excellence. The funniest game was a fighting one with a very odd Scottish guy in a kilt ('Way of the Warrior'?).

The 32X addon for the Sega Megadrive (Genesis) was technically great. Again, its high price, high failure rate (I used to have to test faulty ones) and lack of games let it down but Virtua Racing was brilliant. Get a group of people together to shave hundredths of a second off lap times and its incredible fun with arcade quality graphics.

The Jaguar was brilliant. Tempest 2000 was voted the best game of all time back then IIRC and Alien vs Predator was very atmospheric. The only things that let it down for me was the controllers (like telephones only with more buttons) and the fact it was touted as a 64bit machine when it actually had 2x32bit processors. A bit cheeky on Atari's part but still a great machine and definately ahead of its time.

I absolutely disagree with number 1 being the Gizmondo. Okay, the company was run into the ground and all of the investors money spent on fast cars and 'consultancy fees' to spouses (*allegedly) and the name sucks, but the machine itself is still a fantastic bit of technology. I have one . I mostly use it for sat nav but its still great. Its got GPS, GPRS, email and txting capabilities, a 400Mhz ARM9 CPU, 128bit nVidia graphics card, a built in camera and a Windows operating system (CE so its not that bad) which includes the mobile DirectX libraries. It can be used for MP3 and video playback, great quality games (although some weren't so great) with bluetooth link up and GPRS networking capability, satellite navigation which it is very good at and only cost me about £160 brand new including the sat nav software. This was supposed to have the advertising system where you got sent adverts and digital coupons to view to subsidise the price of the hardware but that scheme never got started so I never received any during the 6 months before its collapse! A fantastic piece of gadgetry which could have competed with the PSP and the DS if the company had been legit, focused and had any kind of marketting strategy. Having spoken to some of the staff who weren't trying to grab as much cash as they could, they really wanted it to succeed but were stabbed in the back. A real shame.
Oh, and it won a design award having been designed by Rick Dickinson who also designed the ZX Spectrum. Classy

haha, better dead than red.

I had an r-zone!

I thought it was partially 64bit. I remember a lot of arguments at the time. Can't remember well, but something like most of the graphics used 64bit and everything else was 32bit. Was a while ago though...

Cheers