Lost, Cancelled & Unreleased Nintendo Consoles

In today's video, we look at multiple mysterious lost Nintendo consoles.
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[@ShanetheFreestyler]

So, even at the beginning, Microsoft tried to buy their way into the market by acquiring giant gaming publishers? Why am I not surprised? Also, nice choice on the SmackDown 2 menu music!

[@nick6var]

In the end, Microsoft did buy a number of game developers, like Bungee and Rare, to ensure that they had enough quality games to supply their hardware with the games needed to keep it alive.

[@ShanetheFreestyler]

@@nick6var That just made me think of something. What about some of Microsoft's existing franchises at the time? Where was the Xbox version of Monster Truck Madness? The only console versions were on the N64 and GBA respectively. I'd also ask were was Motocross Madness, but I think at this time Rainbow Studios were already working on ATV Offroad Fury for PS2, so that probably wouldn't have happened unless they had a different developer like they did for Midtown Madness 3 while original devs, Angel Studios went on to develop Midnight Club. (And in both cases, I consider ATV:OF and Midnight Club to be the true sequels to MXM2 and MTM2 due to same devs.)

[@Pegfoxx]

OMG The Super Visor sounds bloody awesome. I loved my SNES and still do! All my friends at the time had Mega Drives I was the only girl on the block with a SNES at was the best days of my life lol!

[@StreetsofATL_19]

The only thing Nintendo did wrong was that they made the Nintendo 64 a cartridge based system instead of a CD-ROM system.

[@maroon9273]

Even a Magnetic Optical Discs Or zip disk.

[@StreetsofATL_19]

@@maroon9273 Capcom, Square, Enix and every other third party that worked with them during the NES and SNES era, begged Nintendo to go to the CD-Rom format. Konami at the time was the only company that weren’t worried about what Nintendo did.

[@Maikeru722]

They should have released the 64DD sooner. I've read that the system was ready, but Nintendo wanted to sell more n64s first.

[@StreetsofATL_19]

@@Maikeru722 The 64 DD! I have one of those. It probably would have helped a little but the CD-Rom format was the way to go! It had the storage capacity to fully optimize the full potential of the N64’s 64 bit abilities. N64 games should look better than they do!

[@SuperSaiyanMusashi]

​@@StreetsofATL_19 And while not worried per se, Konami certainly favored the CD format. Metal Gear Solid, Castlevania Symphony, Dance^2 Revolution, Suikoden, and many others all skipped the N64 in favor of the PS.

[@sdb7092]

Great video LD. I would love to get my hands on one of those Nintendo tv's.

[@Yoshizuyuner]

Amazing how switch still selling stuff compared to its rivals consoles, it’s almost like power isn’t everything

[@ericp631]

Who could have guessed ... except it happens every console generation in both home and handheld arenas

[@davidhershberger7899]

I actually got a chance to play on the Nintendo PlayStation prototype at a video game convention in the Midwest.

[@jasonleveck8546]

That's really cool!

[@loudclapper]

A demo or an already released SNES game?

[@nick6var]

And...? 🤨 Details, please!

[@RyanRumbles434]

Great as always Lady D! I want that Gamecube Panasonic CD Player. lol

[@nick6var]

Just as Microsoft tried to partner with Nintendo, Nintendo tried the same thing nearly 20 years earlier with Atari! Nintendo wanted to release the Famicom in the US and tried to partner with Atari, Inc to brand it as an Atari system. The shifting fortunes of the 1983 game market, the in-development 7800 system, the firing of Atari president Ray Kassar, the lateness of the successor, Atari's false outrage at the Coleco Adam computer seemingly violating an agreement with Nintendo over Donkey Kong's computer rights... ALL OF THIS happened to leave the deal to fall apart.

[@ravensmadhouse75]

Well Done, Milady. You put so much effort into this.

[@hawk10101982]

You say Nintendo hasn't embraced VR yet but that's not 100% true. They did Labo VR for the Switch and even updated some of their AAA games with VR support. It's not a full on VR system but it's not like they are ignoring VR entirely.

[@teddyinjapan]

If you wanna see how it really went down between Sony and Nintendo then you’ll have to go watch Kutaragi’s Way. True story

[@jcauto31]

Thank you for this history! Its like my childhood retold.

[@nastbaster]

100k! Congratulations!

[@DreamMarko]

Well, Dreamcast was there to compete with PS2, Xbox, and GameCube.

[@greenkoopa]

Yeah but was it though? I own one, have had it since 2001. Here's an apt analogy of the situation in 2002: 4 countries sent their armies to fight each other, Sega got there first but immediately failed as a nation before the army was fully supplied even. Then Sony rolled in like the ww2 red army. The DC competed in the 6th Gen just as much as the Jaguar (jag-wahr) did in the 4th (or 5th?)

[@ericp631]

This always confuses me, it's counted as a six gen console but it died before the other six gen consoles came out

[@paulwinter5609]

Lady decade needs to her own tv show.

[@johncarpenter987]

Not subscribed but always enjoy your videos when I want to hear about different systems. Best wishes.

[@HeresMo]

Fun fact, I designed the Panasonic Q as the successor to the N64, (Named it the super duper nintendo) and got an official nintendo magazine as a thank you of an issue I already owned. If only I knew more about copyright laws when I was in my early to mid teens.

[@williamdavid3933]

I'm not 💯 about this, but I have a distinctive memory of a hotel tv that had a Nintendo console built into the tv that allowed you to put your game into the tv. It was in the states somewhere. I don't have a passport. It might have been a N64 even but it definitely had the ability to read your cartridges from home.

[@ninteenth]

That would be the sharp super famicom tv 2:08

[@fernandod4046]

11:55 this was unexpected and had me bursting out laughing at work. Thank you!

[@rayshaw7446]

Thanks for all your research you do. Best retro gaming channel on ytube

[@Okurka.]

LOL

[@silviocinti]

Thank you Lady for keeping the past alive!

[@toejamandearl8110]

Nintendo has never sold a system at a loss. Sega started that trend, soon Microsoft, most notably, then Sony. To this day, even the VirtualBoy was not sold or clearanced out below cost.

[@BlarmyArmy07]

How tf can she afford all this!?

[@greenkoopa]

Ok so a couple things: the collection behind her belongs to both her and her husband, the Tophat Gaming Man (check him out after the video!). A while back she and her husband got a visit from a big retro collector that brought a ton of stuff, like some of the extremely rare consoles so they could capture footage and make documentaries about them. I hope I cleared it up a bit and wish a good day

[@SuperSaiyanMusashi]

OG Xbox sold maybe 20% more consoles than the GameCube at the most. I think it's actually closer to 15%. That's hardly "obliterating" them. GameCube may have sold more software units; they certainly had more Million-Sellers.

[@ericp631]

Also having handheld consoles on the market at the time while MS only having the one home console always gets ignored. Multiple sku's v. only one gave Nintendo a huge unreported advantage in console races and where they made most of their money

[@soundspark]

The SuperFX wasn't actually a 3D accelerator, but a multipurpose coprocessor.

[@RetroPlayer4000]

Seeing the het weighs 19 pounds u got good arm strength nice off center balance too

[@krowland7584]

That bandai console... Woah

[@Streetpharmasist420]

This was a really great video. Very insightful

[@Rockysbeats]

Read the thumbnail as nineteen donuts 🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩 🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩

[@greenkoopa]

😂😂😂 pin this comment!

[@changos669]

While watching I was like " the spider!! take the picture!!!!"

[@Charles-qj9gc]

Why does the het look like the game in it has cell and ss2 Goku or Gohan on it

[@greenkoopa]

Because it does 😮 The "Bandai" HET. Bandai owns the licensing rights to Gundam and for a long time the dbz game rights as well, not sure if they still do. No now they belong to Atari, formerly Infogrames

[@tecnicopcs5284]

Nostalgia total

[@R12games.]

Boa noite minha Amiga tô chegando com Like 😘

[@rikardofernandez682]

Thank you lady for information nintendo nes

[@mjdf122]

Lady Decade Meets Man Decade I’ve Seen All Of Gaming From 1980-Now What A Life

[@edgardeitz5746]

Lord Decade and Lady Decade

[@alonsgab]

I hear Plok music but no references to it.

[@shuruff904]

2:16 is that a framed picture of reviewbruh???

[@Cruxics]

Lol the supervisor would hvae burried the VR industry. VIVE has more than just screens over tech from that era.

[@mekman4]

Great Stuff!

[@kchalu]

Is that the DS Lite next to Atlantis?

[@Todo-1996]

I love your channel! I had a nightmare that you deleted your channel. 😰💔

[@StreetsofATL_19]

I thought Argonaut created the demonstration game for GameBoy, not the NES. 😮

[@mohammedganai9636]

The Sega talks happened before the Sony-Nintendo reunion. Infact, it was the announcement of the latter that took place on the day Sega released the Sega CD, which of course happened without Sony when all was said and done. And Sony being painted as victims was hypocritical. Lets face it, they were parasites. They were basically Starro from the DC-verse. They owned the means of production, and the SuperCD, which was already being used as an e-book format, would have meant another media format to print money from had it succeeded. (This is why they tried so hard with Betamax, miniDisc, Memory Stick Pro, Blu-ray, etc.) Also, the XBox went way against Nintendo's, and Japan's for that matter, aesthetics. People may laugh at the "lunch pail" design of the Gamecube, and it didn't do many favors in the west aesthetically, but the XBox was basically MS burning money to get into the industry (they lost hundreds per unit, it was made of off the shelf parts that were incapable of die shrinks), and Nintendo wouldn't have fared as well as MS with it, much less better. They would have lost money and would have had to learn to develop around another company's hardware. Nintendo's been vertically oriented to the point their hardware teams work in symbiosis with their software teams. (If only Sega had that degree of unity.)

[@maroon9273]

Lack of unity sega had got them out of the hardware market. Plus, led to saturn failure and dreamcast short lifespand.

[@nick6var]

​@@maroon9273Sega essentially evolved into a two-headed dog in the mid-1990s, with Sega of Japan and Sega of America both fighting over which direction to take. SOJ went too far in exerting their power over the whole company, undermining SOA and also weakening the entire company to the gaming community. The Saturn was successful in Japan, but the failure in the US and the 32x failure globally killed Sega's momentum. Bridges were burned, and when the Dreamcast was doing it right, it was simply too late.

[@iampoch01]

IIRC, Nintendo do not sell their hardware at a loss. Sony started that trend, as it was the only way for them to make the, at that time, technologically superior Playstation. For third party publishers, it was still a big win because publishing their games on their platform is still cheaper overall because of the CD format.

[@greenkoopa]

Sega should've done so much more with the Sega CD!! Make a Saturn-looking console in 92 with the GeneDrive cart slot to play those, and also as a memory card slot. Update it in 93 with a double speed disc drive and make it cheaper...what ifs

[@ericp631]

That and Sony offered way better terms for third parties at the time, basing their model off how the music industry handled cd's while both Sega and Nintendo kept terms the same as they always had

[@mikesilva3868]

Great 😊

[@greenkoopa]

Miggity Mike!

[@mikesilva3868]

​@@greenkoopa😊hi

[@samcraig3924]

No worries all of this virtual stuff we have today is still a major flop

[@TheSegadroid]

I own a Nintendo CD32.

[@greenkoopa]

Oh yeah? I've played Mario 35 😏

[@jimstang2328]

why the fuck seeing you put a famicom in a sega made me belly laugh

[@simhthmss]

4 inch scr on het though is a bit lame.

[@greenkoopa]

When a Koopa left a comment 🐢

[@almendratlilkouatl]

I’m so heartbroken now that I found out that you are married to such a distinguished person, I never had a chance

[@greenkoopa]

😂😂😂

[@adamdarmstaedter1256]

LD = 🔥

[@DT-yz1nr]

One and i quote super top hat daddy sent me here

[@hosam7609]

Another very long video, not sure who told you this is a good idea...

[@greenkoopa]

Analytics and patreon supporters

[@hosam7609]

@greenkoopa highly doubt it as the trend is more and more toward shorts, could it be for more ad spots? Not sure but 1 hour is too long, very few exceed the 30 minutes length for this type of content

[@Dante_yo_son_of_sparda_yo77]

Mr top hat sent me

[@sesa2984]

Both Xbox and playstation are characterless and sterile without the history or nostalgia of nintendo (or Atari for that matter who should have done something (long ago) by now.) I will never want one of those systems.

[@RTPJu]

The best "Nintendo's" console ever is the Sony Playstation

[@StreetsofATL_19]

The Nintendo 64 is the successor to the Super NES but the Sony PlayStation is the spiritual successor to the Super Famicom. 😊

[@greenkoopa]

Hot take: the wii u is great if you have lots of virtual console games.

[@KappyWesker]

❤

[@c.s.8999]

Thurst trap Queen ❤😅

[@kluspiraat208]

By removing from the ps3 they shot them self in the foot with the aspiration of replacing the desktop pc watching porn on a ps5 sucks and not in a good way for soms reason i neef to buy shit in the psn store on my ps4 cause i cant pay for shit on my ps5 du to cookie setting in the hidden brouwser. Stil beter than xbox and nintendont

[@SAVAGE-GAMER-]

Please for the love of god its VIVE..VR headset ...not "veev" never call it that again 🙏🏻😂

[@flaviokauling1436]

Excellent video, but that awful, screaming heavy metal music got me to turn it off before the end. Too loud and aggressive to listen to.

[@almendratlilkouatl]

It was the highlight of the video fir me and most of my friends, even my grandma liked that bit

[@CikosDarkPassenger]

why do you narrate like that? talk in your normal voice not a dj.

[@lukasbiktjrn4822]

How hard was it to make this video?

[@greenkoopa]

Rock hard

[@LordSithFelix]

What is the name of the game at 7:15 ? not Cybernator but it look like it...

[@McAster99]

It's Front Mission: Gun Hazard for Super Famicom

[@akirausagi8275]

Daddy top hat sent me.

[@Rizky-Gumilar]

ps is killing Nintendo since ps1 era. Hope ms buy Nintendo soon

[@Nickelodeon7969]

Your not true Microsoft Can't Buy Japanese Companies

[@Rizky-Gumilar]

@@Nickelodeon7969 ms can easily acquire Nintendo

[@forcakong2396]

@@Rizky-Gumilar only if they ever wish to sell and they arent interested.

[@Nickelodeon7969]

@rizkygumilar550 they're not interested in buying Nintendo and also Nintendo is a Japanese company

[@chrisborges7344]

Dumbest thing I've read all day