10 OVERHYPED Game Consoles That FAILED

Some video game consoles and concepts didn't quite survive throughout the years. Here are some unfortunate examples.
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[@gameranxTV]

Plz note: we're not talking about THE original PS1, we're talking about the HDMI plastic box nostalgia product Sony released 2 years ago.

[@Mr1stcat]

Still looks pretty similar to the og PlayStation though, maybe change your thumbnail ?

[@ScotsmanGamer]

I am from Europe and 50hz with enormous borders was that bad we had to mod the psx to run NTSC format

[@Mr1stcat]

Thanx for fixin the thumbnail lol

[@mirumotsuyasuke8327]

I love the Sega Genesis one even though I don't have it. Steam has a lot of Sega Genesis games. I wish Stadia would do that to with Sega Genesis. They'd be in there! My name is SegaGenesisMegaMenaces on Steam. Hit me up.

[@MichaelM28]

That console is awesome when you softmod it though

[@ssjduelistDD]

The Dreamcast didn't fail, the world failed the Dramcast.

[@burstfireacademy4495]

True-er words like these have never been spoken before.

[@MoldMonkey93]

Exactly. Dreamcast was ready for the future. Sega always has the beat specs and technology. Reason why we have 3D models of human beings is because of Virtua Fighter. Lockheed Martin flight simulator and hospital technology from Japan made it possible.

[@slurmsmckenzie.]

Respect my brah so true

[@IAmAnEvilTaco]

The Dreamcast absolutely failed, but it wasn't because of the console itself. It was Sega. You could just burn the games to pirate them, there was no copy protection. Sega fucked up badly with the marketing and launch. In the end it was a console not a lot of people owned, but the people who did could just download and burn every game for free on limewire. Sega failed the Dreamcast.

[@Lordmactrill]

So true bro

[@harleymcnew2450]

RIP Dreamcast. You were too good for this world.

[@sonicmaiden2871]

Maybe one day Sega will hopefully make a dreamcast mini as well

[@eddapultstab2078]

I would love that, as long as it has a large library and if they can get some rare games in there as well then they could have a winner

[@akalalaimranrp]

Agree, I still have a dreamcast and it runs great still. Love the games on dreamcast. I wish sega makes a mini dreamcast.

[@eddapultstab2078]

@@humane143imperfection6 as I mentioned on another thread, the reason dream cast failed was a lack of ip and circulation of disc's. Sony and Nintendo outgunned them in titles 3 to 1 on average and they never seemed to have enough on shelves at stores. I remember playing this demo of a game called fur fighters, I liked it but we couldn't find disc's at any store even funcoland, now gamestop, only as a rental. Same for games like gundam where my older brother checked stores in town and nearby towns for it as a Christmas present but they were not there. And that's why it's on the list because no matter how amazing a console is if you can't provide the games it's going to fail because there are alternatives that can. If Sega spent a little less on marketing and made sure products are accessible to customers then they could have still been in the console wars today.

[@DavidWillisCO]

Dude. Yes. The gundam game blew my mind. There was nothing even close to that at the time.

[@SamCableguy]

The Sega Dreamcast was the most mind blowing leap in graphics I have ever experienced

[@paranormalskeptic3893]

It’s was a HUGE jump from PS1 to Dreamcast. I remember I was at work, watching a video about NFL2K before it came out. A coworker walked past and did a double take. On his first glance, he thought I was watching NFL highlights. Also I remember, there was this great privately owned video game store in Manhattan, the guy had an imported Japanese Dreamcast a few months before the US release. He had Soul Caliber running on it. There were lines almost out the door of guys wanting to play it. They were putting quarters up for the next game, like they were at the arcade. Dreamcast was a phenomenon for about 3 years. Just the amount of great games. Played Crazy Taxi for hours on end. Ready to Rumble was great. Great gameplay and great graphics. It was an awesome time to be a gamer.

[@Djsonley]

Same! There is no way that console was a failure either. SEGA failed themselves but the console was still an incredible product for gamers.

[@holagovito]

I remember being stoked looking at the 2K games like "HOLY SHIT YOU CAN SEE THE HOLES IN THEIR JERSEYS?!?!"

[@whyjnot420]

@@paranormalskeptic3893 Also in terms of Sega alone, most people I know went from Genesis to Dreamcast, not Genesis to Saturn to Dreamcast. And that is a giant leap. Even if it makes perfect sense why such a leap is to be expected. To go from seeing Sega games as visually comparable to the SNES, to all of a sudden looking better than anything else around, makes for a hell of an impression. I know this to be the case for a great many people who have been playing games since the 16 bit era or earlier.

[@paranormalskeptic3893]

@@whyjnot420 I LOVED the Genesis. The Genesis and the Dreamcast are 2 of my top 5 consoles ever. I literally bought the Genesis after seeing an advertisement about EA’s NHL Hockey (the 1st one they made). I was blown away by the ad, I couldn’t stop looking at it, couldn’t believe what I was seeing. So I sold my NES and it’s games at a flea market, and got enough for a Genesis, and then got NHL Hockey, I was shocked at how amazing it was. And while playing, one of my players smashed into the net, and knocked it off its moorings, I was shocked and in awe, watched the replay over and over. I was late to the game getting a Genesis, like 2 years later (in 1991), but I loved it. I can’t tell you how many Genesis games I had, pretty much all of the EA games. It had great graphics, but it was just damned fun as well.

[@vizualdestroyer7491]

I love the Dreamcast and still own one. I'm surprised the 3DO and CD-i aren't on this list.

[@INFERNO95]

Probably because nobody really care about those systems.

[@bos72222]

great video man you right thought virtue boy was going to make a deep impact like in future they should less down the redness and make more games i remember i was at k mart or zellers electonic dempartment test at it out for demo it was so bad lol like ps4 vr but that little better not enough games for thAT FORMARGEEEE it echoes thew ages lol be safe

[@poncho828]

@@INFERNO95 that's the point of the video "overhyped consoles"

[@skister82]

I loved my CDi

[@estebanod]

@@poncho828 How was it overhyped if no one ever cared about them...

[@rk13567]

I'm glad you guys clarified that the Dreamcast wasn't a bad console in and of itself. I loooved the Dreamcast and several of the games on it

[@bos72222]

great video man you right thought virtue boy was going to make a deep impact like in future they should less down the redness and make more games i remember i was at k mart or zellers electonic dempartment test at it out for demo it was so bad lol like ps4 vr but that little better not enough games for thAT FORMARGEEEE it echoes thew ages lol be safe

[@antiquefuturistic]

Everyone knows that Dreamcast is not a bad console infact it is legend

[@redscorpion9325]

It had so many Games such as Ready To Rumble Boxing,NBA 2K,Sonic Games,JetSet Radio,Crazy Taxi,Marvel Vs Capcom 2 and Shenmue

[@britishwordplay4335]

Get a super console x. You can add more DC games to it. Many classics.

[@britishwordplay4335]

@@redscorpion9325 I saw a Shenmue anime last night. First episode was good.

[@AmHotGarbage]

The Wii U was an excellent console. Just everyone thought it was an extension to the wii

[@silentgamer4556]

Wii u wasn't bad, it just had a terrible name

[@ianeons9278]

Exactly

[@Handsome_Black]

Most underrated console of all time.

[@Chicken96809]

It should have been called Wii 2

[@robopat2000]

"Splinter cell was big back then, because they were still making them." That makes me laugh and depressed at the same time.

[@remasteredretropcgames3312]

Splinter cell the first iteration was the geforce 3/4 hybrid leveraged crysis of its day. Honestly its a shame the steam version ships completely unadulterated to properly render all shadow layers. I fix that and more. Its overkill honestly.

[@bos72222]

great video man you right thought virtue boy was going to make a deep impact like in future they should less down the redness and make more games i remember i was at k mart or zellers electonic dempartment test at it out for demo it was so bad lol like ps4 vr but that little better not enough games for thAT FORMARGEEEE it echoes thew ages lol be safe

[@verlorenish]

Gameranx feels like that group of friends from school where you have Jake being the easy going, attention-seeker. You have Andrew and the camera guy in the background barely interacting and then you have falcon, the outspoken guy who doesn't really care about showing his face.

[@verlorenish]

@@VictoryReviews Hey my bad bro

[@wowwhataworld.9590]

Oh yeah, THAT group...

[@jamesraw6938]

What are you on about? Falcon literally appears multiple times per video. He's normally in his tree, playing. Or his face is superimposed onto another person's body.

[@I_was_a_Bullfrog]

Falcon: the guy that always wears a falcon mask and doesn't reveal his real name.

[@wowwhataworld.9590]

Jake was more the Falcon, Andrew blah blah STFU.

[@AntiR2525]

His laugh after the Swedish thing gave me a hearty chuckle

[@cashwhite5060]

Ze sMoRgAsBoRD

[@yolof6275]

Me to cuz i am from Sweden

[@handsomeguy8492]

@@yolof6275 same

[@yolof6275]

@@handsomeguy8492 det var roligt

[@shows4learning]

No TurboGrafx-16? It was anticipated to outsell the Genesis due to its large game library in Japan. Loved mine, but lack of great games in the US hurt it.

[@AP101083]

Turbo Grafx whas a BIG succes in Japan and didn't really fail at all.

[@williamlowe8734]

Now days if your original TurboGrafx 16 is in good condition and you have a few good games cib you can sell it to a collector and buy a new car.

[@savaget2058]

The games it did have were slappers though

[@sistockbridge8764]

I'll never forget in 1999, standing in an HMV store playing Ready 2 Rumble for over an hour on the Dreamcast cabinet they had, Ahhh good times...

[@abdoole]

Bro I remember waiting for the Xbox 720 😭

[@mayanksaxena6273]

I think we're from the same era.

[@jocking0]

And it turned out to be one 😂

[@diiii_mond]

Dude FR😂😂😂😂

[@KewlCrayon]

Why do they call it the xbox 720? Because when you see it you turn 720 degrees and walk away.

[@swagmund_freud9952]

@@KewlCrayon but but... turning 720 degrees is just spinning twice and then moving to the same direction...

[@abw1317]

This man laughing at his own jokes, Falcon must be somebody's dad.

[@lfreece2]

He's probably yours

[@theArchive1O]

@@lfreece2 I’m ur mum

[@teleziagreyleaf2846]

He's everyone's dad

[@kriscynical]

To be fair the Swedish Chef impression made me laugh, too, so I don't blame him.

[@HavocAGn]

I had a giggle or 2, but i still found it funny 😭

[@skte2die]

I remember everyone really liking the Dreamcast.

[@shaymorcormick8743]

Same along with the n64 problem was only one kid usually had one per neighborhood. Always the friend of friends cousin to or something. I remember only ever seeing them very rarely growing up. It was always either the playstation 1,later 2, and the old classic nes

[@eddieinman2412]

@@shaymorcormick8743 we had the N64 my cousins friend had the Dreamcast. We’d go to his house to play sonic all the time lol. My cousin had the play station and a trampoline so life was good at that age 5/6

[@CODmontages110]

We still do

[@leafblower3288]

@@shaymorcormick8743 everyone had a N64 when I grew up

[@whosaidthat84]

@@shaymorcormick8743 well, thr N64 sold about 30 million units while Dreamcast only did about 10 million.

[@stinkyviking4519]

"Didn't they say this was the future?.. Man, the future sucks." Had me dyin

[@unsafestfiend6919]

"you have to fall while walking to run really good" so inspirational 12:11

[@SpikeTheWolf]

I dont get it

[@djprojugs6606]

@@SpikeTheWolf Basically think about when you trip while walking. Sometimes to stop yourself from hitting the ground you might end up running to stand back up and regain your balance. He's essentially saying sometimes you gotta fall while walking (fail at what your trying to do) in order to run really good. (recovering from your failure and being in a much better situation than when you started before the failure).

[@akramgimmini8165]

Yes

[@VongolaXZax]

@@djprojugs6606 interesting

[@dannyv6655]

@SpikeTheWolf learn from your mistakes to do better in the future

[@INTPWill]

It hurt when he said that Splinter Cell isn't relevant anymore.

[@KitsGravity]

@Daniel Dean seriously? That's the purest stealth game ever made.

[@megapro125]

I think putting sam fisher in a fucking cartoon/fortnite graphics and mtx infested mobile game was the last straw for splinter cell to die.

[@remasteredretropcgames3312]

@@KitsGravity Trust me bro. I gotchu. Testers I need, yes.

[@shausen1179]

Thats like me with Halo. Its just not relevant anymore and what remains is a bastardised version of itself. Man i wasted alot of time on Halo....

[@KitsGravity]

@@shausen1179 Halo will always be remembered fondly. It was left its mark on shooter genre as a whole, just like Splinter Cell did with stealth. Splinter Cell took out all the goofiness of MGS and made it much more technical and obviously, in turn, harder. This is coming from a lifelong PS guy

[@cronquist09]

Gotta say I miss my Dreamcast. Soul Calibur 2, RE Code Veronica, Crazy Taxi, and THPS 2 were amazing. It wasn't overhyped, it was poorly managed.

[@CODmontages110]

Dreamcast has so many gems and stellar titles, which is a shame because now they’re so expensive. Playing games like Skies of Arcadia, Elemental Gimmick Gear, Marvel vs Capcom 2, Dino Crisis and Sonic Adventure. But, yeah, rest in peace Dreamcast. If only things turned out differently.

[@mariokart8715]

Tony Hawk games came out on so many other console platforms.

[@SnarkyRC]

​@@CODmontages110 They may be expensive but, good thing the Dreamcast can easily play burned games.

[@XboxxxGuy]

Sega always was mismanaged. Dreamcast was just the last straw.

[@unbearifiedbear1885]

*Falcon:* _"sometimes; you need to fall while walking to run good"_ *My twisted ankle:* d o u b t

[@LouSassoleSledgecock]

To run WELL

[@unbearifiedbear1885]

@@LouSassoleSledgecock its in quotations for a reason dipsht 😂👍

[@dalongshot9940]

"Sometimes you gotta fall while walking in order to run really good." Falcon 2021

[@requiem2026]

I red that as soon as falcon said it😳🙃

[@yan3066]

12:10 👍😉

[@goatf1sh87]

Truly inspirational

[@REDEEMERWOLF]

It's true though. Sometimes when you trip while walking, you can stumble into a run instead of eating the ground.

[@myrtilusgames]

Made me laugh I loved that :)

[@tylerbuchanantb]

Sega Dreamcast was soooooooo fire. Those memory cards were sick

[@bos72222]

great video man you right thought virtue boy was going to make a deep impact like in future they should less down the redness and make more games i remember i was at k mart or zellers electonic dempartment test at it out for demo it was so bad lol like ps4 vr but that little better not enough games for thAT FORMARGEEEE it echoes thew ages lol be safe

[@wendellgreenidge3362]

People hate on the Dreamcast for no reason but I bet everyone that hate on it owned it when it was out

[@shifty2755]

Fire? Sick?

[@dwirtz0116]

Sega Dreamcast was one of my first systems as a kid. I still have it and love it! It's been too long since I've booted her up... 🤔😁😜

[@Gladdjo214]

The Xperia Play did actually come to the US through Verizon. I personally owned one when it came out. It was a awesome portable emulation machine at the time.

[@LuisSoto-fw3if]

"Sometimes you gotta fall while walking...In order to run, really good." What a poet.

[@bos72222]

great video man you right thought virtue boy was going to make a deep impact like in future they should less down the redness and make more games i remember i was at k mart or zellers electonic dempartment test at it out for demo it was so bad lol like ps4 vr but that little better not enough games for thAT FORMARGEEEE it echoes thew ages lol be safe

[@Sparkster911]

An epilepsy warning for the Virtual Boy segment would be nice. I'm not an epileptic, but damn that hurt my eyes like what the VB did.

[@Milliardo__Peacecraft]

Yeah those were some pretty big triggers for anyone with epilepsy. Watching on my phone I physically turned it away because the flashing just gave me a small headache.

[@JonatasAdoM]

@@Milliardo__Peacecraft Yea. I don't know what being coded into some of these but man the headaches and migranes are real!

[@danman6669]

Thankfully I never got any headaches. I could play mine for hours with no issues whatsoever.

[@dragonmaster3030]

The Dreamcast was never over hyped, hardly anyone cares to have one after the Saturn

[@Sinn0100]

Falcon, I don't think there has ever been a video you have made that I disliked. You my friend are absolutely amazing and so is this channel. Even the times I disagree with you I always enjoy the content.

[@joeldfisher]

I really thought Swedish Mafia was a form of house music, I didn't think it was a real thing

[@rashira9610]

Swedish House Mafia is the name of a group that makes EDM, yes. But the Swedish Mafia is also a real mafia.

[@joeldfisher]

@@rashira9610 ah yes that's what I was thinking of

[@commandoti8111]

I love Gameranx been watching these people for years now

[@LifeWithMe004]

Gameranx, pin this guy’s comment

[@ashthegeek7400]

Same I started watching in 2015 i think

[@KHASHandKOLTON]

Xperia Play was released in the United States. I got it from a Costco in CA but I had to keep returning it for a new one because each one would have some kind of QC issue like buttons being stuck or the hinge going loose.

[@axelcornejoaguilar6055]

Falcon was really having fun with the part about mobsters 😆

[@BorosTheGamer5021]

in my opinion the DreamCast was an amazing console and it saddens me that it died so fast

[@collin1240]

They also released the Saturn afterward and I believe that sold even worse, so it wasn't the Dreamcast alone that led to their problems. I loved my Dreamcast. I still have it and about half the games I bought for it back then.

[@Tank207]

@@collin1240 Saturn came before the Dreamcast. The Saturn also played a large role in Sega losing a lot of good will. Sega of Japan was also very stubborn and wouldn't listen when people from Sega of America were essentially telling them their ideas sucked and it would destroy their PR.

[@filipegomes5024]

It was for me the best console at that time. I had all of the recent models then it stood solo at the top

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Google Stadia died the moment it was announced, RIP

[@collt0916]

I swear to god you are everywhere

[@allysaurus1767]

Doa

[@famoussession7426]

You meant before right?

[@alizah2589]

Idk man the Stadia actually works pretty damn amazing. I got one for free and was pretty happy with it. It performed well,ran smoothly, and I myself never really had connectivity issues. The only thing keeping the Stadia from truly being a successful console IMO. Not enough games. But say Google partnered with Microsoft and got gamepass on Stadia. That would be amazing and that's something I would buy in a instant

[@cloudfan228]

Ah jellall i mean seigrain i mean mystagon or i mean prince jellal

[@cloud_9325]

I picked up the Xperia Play second hand years ago when my old Blackberry died - it was actually a really cool phone and worked as a really good emulation phone. The fact I could text or call for business and then just slide up the phone to use (semi-decent) controls was brilliant. What did suck though was the ribbon connector for it eventually failing. I honestly think if they released a modern version it would do a lot better now.

[@From_A_Diverging_Timeline]

Modern version is just a regular smart phone.

[@junkiexl86]

I know I loved the Dreamcast myself. I liked how it was 60 FPS in most games, which was revolutionary at the time. It also introduced me to the world of emulators, which dramatically expanded the game library for it. You could also just burn games on a DVD for free and play them without having to mod the console.

[@horusfanatic]

I actually liked the Dreamcast. It wasn't that bad of a console, and had a few titles I liked. I do know someone who still owns a Virtual Boy.

[@mariastevens6406]

The Virtual Boy was garbage but the Dreamcast seemed ok. I personally still preferred the Saturn myself, but that's more nostalgia and a handful of games.

[@RaysGamingChannel2003]

Nice

[@tylerdurden8270]

I used to work in the electronics department in one of the big retail stores when the ps4 , x box one and wii u came out. when the ps4 and x box one were released there was a long line to purchase one before the store even opened up. when the wii u came out there were only 6 people waiting outside in line and we had some left over at the end of the day...

[@Historicutuber]

That says a lot right there

[@kylecyr8999]

I remember the launch titles for the Wii U being so lackluster while PS4 and Xbox One had quite a few really good games like DR3, FM5 for the xbox one and killzone for the PS4.

[@joebang253]

Dreamcast was a great system with some really great games and was really ahead of its time. So sad that it failed.

[@marc4008]

The Xperia play definitely came out in the US, it was my first smartphone. I didn't import it either, I got it directly from AT&T. I Loved that phone, and I definitely feel a new one priced competitively would do well these days. The controller portion was amazing for playing emulators and now that games like cod mobile and such exist, it'd be even better

[@diiii_mond]

Bruh that Swedish impression has me WEAK😭😭😭

[@THEJustinOfAllTime]

Its has you as all 7 days? Damn bro. Crazy.

[@elijah1494]

@@THEJustinOfAllTime ha

[@diiii_mond]

Ya Boi, Dutch Oof.

[@THEJustinOfAllTime]

@@diiii_mond at the very least, I'm glad that you fixed it.

[@mathewgallet8177]

Falcon: *makes fun of meatball mob* 2 days later... Jake: "we regret to inform everyone that falcon has indeed, been turned into meatballs" 🤣🤣🤣

[@bos72222]

great video man you right thought virtue boy was going to make a deep impact like in future they should less down the redness and make more games i remember i was at k mart or zellers electonic dempartment test at it out for demo it was so bad lol like ps4 vr but that little better not enough games for thAT FORMARGEEEE it echoes thew ages lol be safe

[@austiearachnid7038]

Honestly, you lost me when you added the Dreamcast. It was ahead of its time and I felt like it was underrated. I still play mine to this day.

[@DandaLion92]

The dreamcast was fucking awesome, still have mine from when I was a kid. Genuinely think it was just ahead of it's time and that's why it never did well

[@Goosenpai]

I legit always get the Gizmondo and Ngage confused. I always think the Ngage was also involved with the mob, and the Gizmondo was a cellphone. They're both trash, so at least I remember that.

[@xX_SushiRoll_Xx]

Estas goose

[@theguy9041]

Ayy what's good Goose Boose?

[@Goosenpai]

@@theguy9041 heyguys

[@KingDaveth]

HI GOOSE!

[@therealteal620]

me in 2003: I’m depressed and my life sucks everyone in 2003: cuz u bought an NGAGE

[@Beastlango]

I have played a PS1 in America and Germany and they seemed the same to me.

[@MyRegardsToTheDodo]

Due to European PS1 running in 50 hz the games are a bit slower. But they are converted to work with that, so if you don't do a direct comparison, you won't realize it. For their retro box Sony used some open source emulator (without telling anybody) and iso games (as far as I know they even downloaded those iso games from the internet), which led to some mayor compatibility issues.

[@bos72222]

great video man you right thought virtue boy was going to make a deep impact like in future they should less down the redness and make more games i remember i was at k mart or zellers electonic dempartment test at it out for demo it was so bad lol like ps4 vr but that little better not enough games for thAT FORMARGEEEE it echoes thew ages lol be safe

[@ChaosHusky]

Does Germany run at 60hz? Though you Americans always use a lower resolution for some reason.. You have 480p back then whilst we rock up to 576p lol just 50Hz instead of 60 so some things ran a little 'slower' but higher resolution...weird, i know! But that's what happens when developers are either lazy or the hardware is cheapened by using the mains cycle as the clock sync/source - make the timing dependent on that, less hardware and code but if you increase the external (or internal clock) like when i've overclocked a Megadrive and an N64, games can run too fast or sometimes crash and not run at all just due to loss of sync (they can't run asynchronously!) which is a similar reason why 'light guns' don't work on modern screens, the CRTs are synced to the same frequency/refresh rate as the video signal so the gun can 'see' where its looking relative to the scan position!

[@KingTakerYOU]

I had N-Gage when I was in Elementary school and everyone thought I was the coolest kid in school because I was the only one who had it. It took me some time to get used to it but after a while I got used to it. Also for the ps classic, when I got it for my birthday it felt laggy and I had the same question if it was that laggy with the original ps1 back then. I plugged my old ps1 console and it was running the games better than the ps classic without that lag. I still use sometimes the ps classic for a quick nostalgia run after i modded and my 6 year old son loves it. He is reminding me when I was in his age playing the ps1 with the same excitment and happiness.

[@khighabisi6605]

I had a Nokia 3300 growing up. Released just before the nGage. It was the perfect size, the controls were comfortable. I had so much fun gaming on it. Memory was limited though, but I miss that phone. Closest thing to a game phone that mostly worked.

[@AngelLopez74628]

On my way to get the Kfc console... Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

[@boredianz]

Fuck You Wendy’s I Just Want My KFC Console!

[@divinitymode9364]

Dreamcast wasn’t overhyped, guys. It was just under supported. Fantastic console.

[@dffagundo]

The PS2 was way overhyped in comparison, all those saying it was a supercomputer and such. All things considered, the DC could still do some things better than PS2, and developers only acknowledged that once they had to deal with PS2's exotic architecture.

[@dovic2293]

@dadbot a7m9 as a cheap DVD player and GTA LOL

[@SiegeRock]

@@dovic2293 exactly it was bought mostly for its DVD player

[@lynxraide]

The Dreamcast, and the Saturn for that matter, felt like Sega resting on their laurels, getting their fanbase to sell the consoles rather than themselves. They underestimated the marketing of Sony, then Microsoft

[@nobodyimportant2470]

Dreamcast flopped because Sega jerked around the customers with add-ons to extend the life of the Genesis and an all in 1 that just combined all that into 1 system released as a stop gap at the cost of a new system. Similarly the Wii U wasn't over hyped but failed because of bad marketing not creating any hype. If they had chosen a better name and marketed it then they would have sold more units.

[@qkelly6239]

I wouldn't say the WII U was "overhyped" they didn't market that like the frickin N64 or WII and say it was gonna change gaming

[@Vlish]

I honestly thought the Wii U was like an educational add on for the Wii. I didn't know it was a system until it died.

[@evog35viii]

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play was released in the US via Verizon Wireless. It was also my very first smartphone at the time. Still have it as a novelty.

[@smackdaddy3008]

The dreamcast was legit for simply dropping the best nba2k

[@fsfaith]

The funniest thing about the N-Gage is how you actually take calls on it. My friend had it and he returned it within a week because people wouldn’t stop taking the piss out of him.

[@malaez88]

The Xperia Play was released in the US. It was my first Android phone with Verizon and AT&T had a 4G model about a year later. It was nifty but I almost never used it for actual games after the honeymoon period was over.

[@NemesisPrime88]

I'm pretty sure the Experia Play was released in the USA, as I bought two here in Kansas at my local store, when they first came out.

[@ClockworkAvatar]

the Dreamcast was in no way "over hyped". it was the one time pearl clutchers were right about piracy killing a console.

[@brogliman]

"Sometimes you gotta fall while walking in order to run really good"

[@KBell119]

The Xperia play most definitely was released in the US. It was my first smartphone and it was great. It was an android smartphone that gave you a controller for android games.

[@wulfone5961]

This video is great cause it gives me a reason to make a long windy post about stuff I remember from when I was a kid. I saw a Virtual Boy in the wild (store) back in 1995 in a Sears. These days you can only find them on places like Ebay and the dusty collections of collectors. But I saw one in a honest to god retail store. I was in Sears with my mom and I used to go over to the video game counter/section they had set up and look at all the games and systems I would never get. The virtual boy was setup on the glass display case. I was the only one there so I decided I would try that weird looking thing on the counter. I had to kind of hunch over a bit to use it. I can't remember the game. Just that I was hit with the red coloring and I wasn't very pleased with it. I played it for a few minutes and moved on. I was not impressed and when I walked away I was like no thanks, I will stick to my SNES and Genesis. I also remember the Dreamcast and how everyone would say how stupid it was and how they wanted a PS2. I remember seeing them stacked up in stores like Best Buy for really cheap prices. I think I saw them for less than $100. The sales people would try and sell them to customers as alternatives for the PS2 which was hard to find the first few months of it's release. No one really wanted one obviously.

[@DarthSnugglePuss]

Wouldn’t be a Gameranx video without Falcon mispronouncing something.

[@I_was_a_Bullfrog]

Oh ya

[@DaveWraptastic]

as in Ou Ya that piece of shit existed

[@scottn7cy]

I learned something from this video. I had no idea there was a Swedish mafia.

[@Joze1090]

Swedish house mafia. Check em out.

[@primalconvoy]

@@Joze1090 Obviously, they are a dance group, but there IS a Swedish media, just like domestic organised crime in any country.

[@Boris_V]

@@primalconvoy "A dance group" LMFAO!!!

[@ARWINGx1]

11:48 Yup. You just described exactly what I thought the Wii U was. ...That I assumed that it was only a Wii accessory, instead of like, a "Wii 2"

[@emdeejay7432]

I loved the dream cast it was awesome, I will never understand why it didn't catch on. It was really ahead of its time graphics wise.

[@abdoole]

“Sometimes you gotta fall while walking to run really good” -Gameranx 2021

[@bound2thefloor1]

Man, I loved the Dreamcast! Got it day one, and still to this day is one of my favorites. I also,enjoyed getting a good buzz and playing the Virtual Boy. Galactic Pinball, and Red Alarm were the ones I enjoyed the most.

[@MrB1ah]

The Virtual Boy always reminds me of that Saw parody that G4TV did years ago lol

[@Li1t]

One of the things about the Ouya was that it didn't have the Google Play store on there. You thus couldn't play other Android games that you owned on it. Some of the same games might have been on there, but you'd need to buy them again, which felt like they were trying to milk you for more money.

[@brandondorsey4787]

Stadia Founders member, dig it a lot, been gaming since '85

[@panakinskywalker9199]

what? You actually like the stadia?

[@averybobo6113]

@@panakinskywalker9199 Yes, Stadia founder as well. Mostly Destiny2 (PVP), Doom Eternal, and Madden 21!

[@averybobo6113]

Absolutely wild how Cyberpunk 2077 arguably ran the best on Stadia (or highest end PC) all the way back at launch, and you still have da game reporters saying US internet isn't ready for it.

[@andrewgardner7605]

Stadia is great. Needs more games, but it is far from failed !

[@philithegamer8265]

How old are you?

[@twanunit7662]

I still have my DREAMCAST....loved mine

[@bobrudolph5161]

Same, still love swirl! The free bejeweled like game that came with it

[@sirclifforddrakemalcolmjac5870]

Could someone please let me know the flick/game they show starting @ 0:10 please? Thanks!

[@Cha0sC0re]

Could you guys do a video on ranking video on which giving console took the fastest on getting hacked, I think the sega saturn takes the cake with their regular CDs burning or PSP with their eBOOT, etc...

[@EzTnT]

Going into this list knowing stadia JUST had more people quit

[@monkeyboy9896]

You do realize that people leave corporations every single day people leave Sony on a weekly basis people leave Microsoft corporation on a weekly basis your point is moot. Do you realize that every division under the Sony brand is bleeding money and none of them make money are profits except for PlayStation division do you also realize that Sony sold their two corporate buildings Sony building one in Sony building two last year they don't even own their own properties anymore do you realize how poor for cash they actually are other than the fact that they're overinflated stock is holding them up do you also realize that Google makes more money in a single week vs Sony does in a year , do you also realize that they are currently selling all the PlayStation 5s at a loss .. stadia is not going anywhere anytime soon they're just getting started sure maybe they realize that trying to build their own studio before building a audience was maybe a mistake maybe they took a lesson from Amazon spending billions of dollars trying to create their own games and both of them were a huge flop doesn't mean that they're done playing the game I know one things for certain this fall when the stock market crashes Sony's going to run out of cash so fast it's not going to even be funny then we'll see how well they do distributing their units at a loss hold on to your hat The whole industry's going to get turned upside down over the next five years we'll see who comes out smiling in the end.. 🍻

[@DR.K14]

@@monkeyboy9896 holy shit that was one the longest run-on sentences I've ever attempted to read. I couldn't even make it halfway through your jibberish.

[@fjorgyn7438]

@@monkeyboy9896 do you have any idea what punctuation, grammar and paragraph breaks are? TL;DR

[@brazytg1700]

@@monkeyboy9896 Found the google employee 😭

[@martinmann1992]

10:12, This phone did release in the US, in fact I got one on Verizon after after I graduated high school. I had to beg the Verizon employee to let me buy it because she kept saying it wasn't that great of a phone. Mine did crash and restart a lot. But yeah, it definitely arrived in the USA.

[@GrabLifeByDaPoosy]

I've still got mine and everything works on it. It came loaded with Asphalt 9 if I remember correctly. I wonder why he believed it wasn't released here? I got mine from an at&t store inside a local shopping center.

[@benwinegarner4797]

So the Sony Ericsson Xperia play phone did release in the United States. (Or at least a version of it.) I actually had one.

[@BertLensch]

There for a while you could not watch any video on KZbin without getting a pre- & post-roll ad for Stadia. As for the N-Gage, the fact that you had to open the device and take out the battery to change out the game was awkward as hell.

[@crotchwolf1929]

That thumbnail with the OG PlayStation in the trash grinds my gears.

[@Ouncer86]

Really tho, it's like wtf?! Shit's a classic

[@callmeshady6234]

It's the ps1 classic

[@Zunree1869]

When he was trash talking the PS1 my blood was boiling. Like it was Sonys first attempt at a console. Look at them now with the ps5.

[@d.oconnor4047]

I think it was bait... And I fell for it... I'm out! 😂

[@Ouncer86]

@@callmeshady6234 🤣

[@frozedokkanbattle]

I miss sega Dreamcast ahhhh it was simpler time.

[@Taijifufu]

If only it could play DVDs out of the box, PS2 wouldn't have overtaken it so fast.

[@frozedokkanbattle]

@@Taijifufu I remember when ps2 did that because Xbox couldn’t so that help Sony’s sales as a DVD player/game console

[@SpikeTheWolf]

I thought the Wii u sold more than ps3 and xbox?

[@davebaker3256]

I still have an Xperia Play that I use for emulators. That's what I mainly used it for. I used to play super metroid at work and Dr. Mario on the go. With only 400MB of storage and no successor they messed up a good opportunity.

[@AlucardWolverine]

The xperia play was my first smartphone. It was badass, til the motherboard issue. The screen would mess up from the sliding function and turn my screen to static. It was fun with an emulator for so long but then that happened within the first year

[@QuestForTacos]

"Sometimes you gotta fall while walk to run really good." - Falcon. That cracked me up.

[@QBistro155]

Ikr

[@phillipmitchell2254]

I feel like the Dreamcast was underhyped and that's literally why it failed.

[@aganbraganca4156]

PS2 and gamecube is the main reason

[@ahha6304]

The first time I ever heard of Stadia is the date they shutdowned

[@robertbrown1141]

I had and still have my Xperia Play. I turned it into a little low power portable emulation thing since it has the controls.

[@ChulioRCHulio]

"10 Overhyped Game consoles that failed" - shows the Playstation 1 in the thumbnail surprised Pikachu face

[@callmeshady6234]

It's the ps1 classic

[@ChulioRCHulio]

@@callmeshady6234 That makes much more sense! Thanks for that correction mate.

[@lumiereeclair]

I don't actually remember the Wii U being hyped all that much.

[@nekowatt2402]

That was basically the point. Nintendo was really excited and pushing for it but it never hit audiences right. Like Falcon said, a lot thought it was some kind of Wii upgrade. I myself was guilty of that and thought that it was just a tablet for your Wii.

[@lumiereeclair]

@@nekowatt2402 As someone that worked in gamestop during the console generation with the WiiU, XBone, and PS4 I had way more customer's that didn't know what a WiiU was than ones that did. Even after explaining what it was some customers would tell me, "but I don't have a wii". Even the demo stations the store received only showed the tablet controller prominently, and not the console itself. I'll never forget the day, a customer get into an argument with me when I told them that the tablet was just a controller for a console and that yes you can play some games on it, but you need the console. But no they said that I didn't know what I was talking about and that they were able to play games on the tablet and they weren't going to be upsold by shitty gamestop. I told them that unfortunately we were all sold out of the tablet, and to try bestbuy. Most hilarious negative survey I ever got.

[@nekowatt2402]

@@lumiereeclair damn that's shitty. It's one thing to be uninformed but it's a whole different world to be uninformed and ignorant. I guess the problem's a combination of a lot of things. During the Wii era Nintendo decided to shift their audience to the general public which worked really well for the Wii, but that also meant that part of the crowd are people who aren't familiar with the gaming industry (such as the fact that new consoles are made per generation) so when the WiiU came out a huge part of Nintendo's market are definitely confused. Then WiiU ain't really different from the Wii, like it's literally just the tablet and a couple new features so of course that will also cause confusion when it comes to advertising it. Another one would be the name itself, WiiU, that does not sound like a new and different console at all and just sounds confusing when it comes to selling it, kinda like the XBoxes. I remember my uncle being super confused with the XBox family bcos of their names. XBox, XBox 360, XBox One and now XBox Series X, like how can a non-tech savvy parent/guardian figure that out? Especially when all the kid says is "I want an XBox."

[@lumiereeclair]

@@nekowatt2402 Now imagine this, but with the gamestop staff just as uninformed and ignorant. That's the winning combination that has gamestop in it's current financial situation. There should be a textbook that describes all the strategies and practices that gamestop uses as a warning of how NOT to run a successful business. I'm soo glad I don't work at gamestop anymore, the store I used to work at closed down not long after I left.

[@fantom0369]

I think that is part of the problem, the other part of the problem is it got a stupid name that confused people and didn't get the hype it needed. they should have went with something corny like "Super Wii" or "Wii 2" or something else that would have left no confusion as to what that system actually was.

[@itzyaboybugz]

I still have Dreamcast in my bedroom with over dozen games and fish rod hooked up to an old plasma tv I found for $40 bucks at a thrift store that cost 7k new back in 04’

[@TeacherPauloPontes]

I used to have an N-gage QD and I loved it man... Don't think it was uncomfortable at all! The only downside in my opinion was that the only way to transfer things to it was via bluetooth (super slow) and it didn't have a camera. But I remember playing Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo games on it and it was great!

[@chrisdaniel1998]

I remember being soooo hyped for the OUYA for some reason

[@OfficialSeth]

Me and a decent amount of my friends were hyped or at least interested in it. Only one of us bought it though. That thing was pure garbage.

[@HylianGeekBoy]

I wasn't hyped but I was kinda interested in why Nintendo bought them or if they ever took advantage of it.

[@linuxpirate]

@@HylianGeekBoy Razer bought OUYA, not Nintendo.

[@JR-io6bi]

i was one of those people who thought the Wii U was an Add-on. also, i miss the Dreamcast and i honestly wish it did well. the games were amazinng. hell, i spent HOURS on that damn Demo Disc😂😂

[@Gravy1255]

Dream cast is an awesome console.

[@noshowjoe6596]

Yeah it was doing fine until the juggernaut known as the ps2 was released

[@philithegamer8265]

@@noshowjoe6596 Don't forget, the DC was so damn easy to pirate.

[@philithegamer8265]

You bought a Sega console? I thought you were a Nintendrone for a second.

[@JR-io6bi]

@@philithegamer8265 dont let my Paper Mario pfp fool you. love their games, but cant stand the company most of the time😂

[@r0beh280]

We had 60hz in Europe, it's not like we live I'm the dark ages. I can't wait for a Dreamcast classic, I hope they release one

[@xXSAIMANXx]

I think he believes that because we have 50Hz AC currents? 😳 Dont really get it how that correlates to a framerate of a console ;) we have 230V, so double the brightness? 🤣

[@tenfold03]

The Experia Play did release in the US, on 5-26-2011. Unfortunately it was only available thru Verizon

[@rk13567]

Honestly I still haven't found a tennis game as good as Virtua Tennis on the Dreamcast

[@Doubleohstevo]

Top Spin 3 or 4 (can't remember) is the best tennis game i've ever played. Xbox 360 exclusive.

[@ryanh6381]

What about the “VR Lense” we had in the late 90’s. The one that went over one eye and then burned the crap out of your retina. I just remember trying to play Wario and it was not a good time

[@CartoonHangout]

You mean the R-Zone?

[@ErocFluffy]

I was in the middle of writing about how my cousin had no.3, when Falcon said that it wasn't released in the states. Weird.

[@ArthurCallahan899]

"Sometimes you gotta fall while walking in order to run really good" - Falcon The Hero 2021

[@RileyBanksWho]

The thumbnail got me hot seeing the original PS in there 😤

[@satevo462]

I had so many burned games for the Dreamcast that my computer savvy friend made for me. We played the hell out of the Dreamcast. And I still have my, and a pile of burned games.

[@AttackMyClone]

Me laughing at the Ouya and the Stadia because I anticipated their failure but then getting to number 1 and remembering I own a Wii U.

[@mrpapagiorgio5404]

I got the ps1 classic and just got a bunch of games on a thumbdrive and installed some software that added SNES and NES games I had hundreds and hundreds of them