Top 10 FAILED Video Game Consoles

It's time to dig through the video game console graveyard and showcase the 10 biggest failures. For this list, we’ll be looking at home and handheld consoles that were financial disasters for their companies. We’re not saying these consoles are bad, though in some cases they are, just that they failed to sell enough units. Our countdown includes the Sega Saturn, the Nintendo Virtual Boy, the Atari Jaguar, and more! Did you own any of these consoles? Which do you wish had succeeded? Let us know in the comments below.
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[@WatchMojo]

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[@kenterminateddq5311]

Surprisingly, Watchmojo, no mention of the Google Stadia.

[@THANATOS-PRIME]

@@kenterminateddq5311 totally forgot about that. I’m probably not the only one. 😂

[@waynesworld1655]

I unfortunately paid $700 when the 3DO was launched. It was a good concept but the software trickled out. Also honourable mention goes to neo Geo cd.

[@DereckMc360]

I owned a Wii in 2015 and I owned a Xbox in 2016 But they’re all broken RIP.

[@kirbygamer9291]

They call the Wii U a "fail", we call it criminally underrated. I still play it, along with the games that have been ported to switch. New Super Mario Bros U, Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, even Rayman Legends and I'm grateful. Try them out.

[@waynesworld1655]

Without the wii u, the switch would never have been made. Sometimes failure also helps success?

[@jpowers55]

still a failure

[@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT]

The Wii U walked so the Nintendo Switch can run

[@CryptorPrime]

Exactly, with failure, you can actually learn alot more from that, but it’s crazy thing, what if the Switch came out after the Wii?

[@Swaggybro77]

I Agree

[@MrJmanrey]

Fixing a mistake still means you made a mistake.

[@flexivefowl8186]

The Wii U lacked games. But most of the first party games it had were amazing.

[@MrJGomezF]

I still own my original Wii U, and I still play it from time to time.

[@nolanwhipple1890]

Yeah I do sometimes also

[@hccodveteran]

I didn't own a wii u cuz it don't not appeal to me and I had a feeling before it was released that it was going to fail.thankfully nintendo did right on their part with the switch.though nintendo still needs to clearly up their game when it comes to the online infrastructure cuz it is still severely lacking behind Microsoft and sony.

[@stratuvarious8547]

It had one of the strongest 1st party libraries ever, such a shame that they marketed it so poorly. It was such a good system, the only complaint I ever had with it is that the Pad can't get further away from the console, something they fixed in the Switch.

[@evilmejosh]

Well Nintendo has always had great first party games. Even on their systems that they feel were not a success (like the GameCube).

[@G4System]

0:43 Wii U 1:48 Sega Saturn 3:00 Nokia N-Gage 4:10 3DO Interactive Multiplayer 5:26 Virtual Boy 6:34 Philips CDI 7:49 Ouya 8:54 Atari Jaguar & Jaguar CD 10:09 Apple Pippin 11:41 Gizmondo

[@bluebubbadog2080]

What about the dreamcast? That failed too

[@Persona1996]

I loved the Wii U It had a great library. It’s Eshop was way better then the Switch. Not to mention the Wii U was basically just a larger version of the Switch

[@christiansmarbleraces]

Agreed

[@kenterminateddq5311]

It's very disappointing that the Eshop will close next year. :(

[@nsasupporter7557]

I thought for sure the GameCube would’ve been a failure but it wasn’t, not compared to the Wii U

[@DavidHutchinson0713]

@@nsasupporter7557 Then again, 22 million units sold is honestly a pretty decent showing, if a bit weaker than expected (the GCN's outsold by even its predecessor, the N64). That being said, almost any console would look like a failure when faced with the titan that was the PlayStation 2 (that thing sold 155 million units, after all).

[@KRS2000]

@@DavidHutchinson0713 That was the one factor that helped Sony. They had a year head start. I knew more people that had ps2s than Xbox's or Gamecubes. Plus with Sonys popularity during and after the original Playstation, they had the sales down pat. No way Nintendo or Microsoft could touch them.

[@miltonmejia4242]

I love my Wii U, and I don't regret buying it for a second. It has the best retro Nintendo games and some of the best Wii U exclusives which were later ported to the Switch

[@weston407]

i think it's a perfectly fine system, it just had the worst marketing ever and the crappy/confusing name didn't help at all

[@evilmejosh]

I actually bought one in 2019 and I don't regret it. I really like the games for it even though third party support is not really there, what's there is still pretty good

[@nicktalksbond]

PS Vita breaks my heart. Such an amazing device.

[@johnnydavenport7]

ikr could’ve been as big as the switch is now but sony didn’t support it but least it had a better life span in japan

[@JP_Crimson]

@@johnnydavenport7 Not a lot of third-party developers want to make game for it, just like the Wii-U

[@thecunninlynguist]

@@JP_Crimson what? Third parties were the only ones keeping it alive.

[@jrchmgn2774]

Yes long live vita the hacking community still makes it relevant for releasing android port on it.

[@johnnydavenport7]

@@thecunninlynguist yep i remember playing black ops declassified alot on my switch 😭

[@diegopansini3152]

The Wii U was so much fun! Especially to play with friends, so underrated

[@nsasupporter7557]

“Underrated” is thrown around too much. Getting annoying honestly

[@diegopansini3152]

@@nsasupporter7557 In this case however, it's accurate. Wii U is a often forgotten console

[@nsasupporter7557]

@@diegopansini3152 well… maybe there’s a reason for that. Maybe it is actually a “weak” console and only to you it was good 🤷‍♂️

[@diegopansini3152]

@@nsasupporter7557 The reason for that, the most popular consoles are about the quality of story-based single player games or online gameplay. Consoles like Wii U were made for playing with friends and family, which tend to be overlooked by most gamers who are typically known for sitting alone in their room playing videogames all day. Which is a shame, because rounding up a couple friends and family for a game together will always be more fun, no matter how much of a storytelling masterpiece God of War or The Last of Us is at the end of the day. And that’s coming from someone from someone who finished The Witcher 3 DLCs included. I have fonder memories of playing Just Dance with my buddies lol

[@chillvibed]

Too bad nobody else played it.

[@prisonmike4971]

For the record...Dreamcast was absolutely amazing. I loved it and basically wore out my copy of rippin' riders.

[@RomnysGonzalez]

The Sega consoles were so damn good man. I loved every single one

[@waynesworld1655]

Agreed, just a shame the Dreamcast was the demise of sega ever making another console

[@thecunninlynguist]

They were too ahead of the curve.

[@anton1990]

Couldn’t agree more! I still use the same Genesis that I had as a kid.

[@hccodveteran]

Sega screwed themselves when they said Saturn was their future but then a short time later into the Saturn's life span they changed their tune and said oh our future is not really with the Saturn but with our next console the dreamcast which sealed the fate as a hardware manufacturer in the gaming market.

[@sheemalmighty]

I loved Dreamcast. Shenmue was the coolest thing ever to me at the time lml

[@sugreev2001]

I bought PSOne over the Saturn, which my friends insisted on instead. I remember when we first played the MGS on my PSOne and their jaws dropping just with the intro, that they switched over to Sony too. I was so young back then and always thought that the Sega/Nintendo rivalry would continue forever, never thought my Playstation would dethrone them both. I held off asking my parents for a Nintendo 64 until 1998 or so, because I was so happy with my playstation. The late 90’s and early 00’s were an interesting time for gaming.

[@MKF30]

Can't compare more advanced tech to older. Nintendo do already killed and beat Sega and while Sony may have the most individual sales record with ps2, Switch is close and as far as portables and individual game sales of all time Nintendo is king with DS consoles and Pokémon games. Pokémon series in general have sold over a billion which is insane....

[@thegamerprofessor8416]

The Dreamcast in my opinion was my favorite console. Marvel vs. Capcom, Resident Evil Code Veronica, and my all time favorite. Skies of Arcadia. And i could get a modem and play online with other people?!? Gave me only good memories.

[@jamesdayton2598]

Dreamcast is my favorite console too!!

[@rickyrosay33977]

The two sonic adventures, MVC 2, shemue, power stone, I can go on and on

[@jamesdayton2598]

@@rickyrosay33977 Sonic Adventure 2 is my 3rd favorite game of all time and I love shenmue and power stone!

[@Markimark151]

The Nokia N-Gage was a far bigger failure than most consoles on this list, because it hurt Nokia’s mobile phone business in the long run. Nintendo’s Virtual Boy was just a failed experiment. I remember going to T Mobile store and the N Gage was so awkward and the UI was so terrible!

[@jojothecold9456]

The sega Saturn was actually a pretty good console it had a very solid line up

[@galloping-bison]

I still own and play my Wii U! Seriously underrated console. There are so many great games that I can see why many have been ported to the switch. I remember wanting a Sega Saturn as a kid. Sadly, no money to buy it.

[@ericketeer]

I still own a Sega Saturn. Bought it mostly because of the success of the Genesis. I haven't played it in a very long time though ...

[@JQJDaMan]

sega saturn is amazing, shame it didnt really pick up in regions outside of Japan

[@MrXon]

I know technically its an add-on, but 32X maybe should be here as it had its own games apart from Genesis. Begged my parents to buy it for me at $149.99, then less than year later Sega announced it was no longer supporting the system, going all-in on the Saturn. The 11 year old version of me vowed to never purchase a Sega console again, instead getting an N64 and Playstation.

[@waynesworld1655]

Yeah, but u have to give it to sega for pushing the envelope and experimenting. Unfortunately so many of us were on a budget as teens and kids we could only have one console. I’ve been there done that as well lol

[@JamesDavy2009]

@@waynesworld1655 Even if said experiments did fail. Anyone remember the games that required both the SEGA (Mega) CD and the SEGA (Mega) 32X?

[@hccodveteran]

Sony not alone as I bought a sega 32x as well but only after the price went down dramatically after release.i only owned 3 games for it.virtua fighter,virtua racing and wrestlemania the arcade game.all enjoyable games in my opinion.

[@MrXon]

@@JamesDavy2009 Yes I remember, I had Night Trap and Corpse Killer for the 32X CD... smh

[@waynesworld1655]

@@JamesDavy2009 I was lucky enough to get a sega cd recently. Some epic rpg’s. Final Fight!

[@blackenedheart9592]

The Commodore CDTV system if I remember correctly sold less than all of these systems since it barely even worked! I think they sold less than 9,000 units worldwide!

[@neliaironwood7573]

Out of all of the consoles, I'd say the Ouya is one you can tell was bound to fail anyway, as it was basically an Android TV that was inferior to flagship phones at the time and flagship phones at the time were starting to get more demanding games especially when these Korean mobile RPGs started to take over in 2014

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

Maybe people want dedicated systems more than phone-based ones

[@mattiasolsson1523]

I still have my Wii U and honestly i have a good time with that console.

[@TravisTheMaximus]

Yeah it wasnt even a failure it is better than the switch i wish i had one honestly

[@DeviantDragonFurry]

Heh, had the Saturn and Dreamcast from the start. Still love them. The Wii U, still have it. But got it a lot later, after the switch was announced. Also, you forgot the Nokia Ngage V2. Not much better, but you could swap games with removing the battery and talk in it like a normal phone.

[@disneyvillainsfan1666]

I enjoyed my Wii U and the games on it, Including The Virtual Console titles (R.I.P. Virtual Console) it just had Horrible Marketing. Maybe things would be different if it didn't have 'Wii' in the Title.

[@vtuberuriguri2547]

It's crazy how something as simple as a name can really matter. I bet you're right that it would of done better if they took the wii out

[@hccodveteran]

I agree with u they should of went with another name other then the wii u cuz causal gamers and the like thought oh a tablet like controller for the Nintendo wii this must be a add on for my existing console and not knowing it was an entirely new console from Nintendo.caae in point,God awful marketing from Nintendo hurt it badly.

[@brodaforlife]

I’m still convinced that Nintendo casted Chris “He’s so cool” Pratt as Mario as a revenge troll for the poor sales of the Wii U

[@Bluestar-bh3bf]

In Luigi’s Mansion 3 I loved how Nintendo made fun of themselves for the failure of the virtual boy in the game it’s called the Virtual Boo professor E. Gadd says it will be successful that it will “fly off the shelves”

[@memeteam2692]

the Wii U was an amazing console, I loved mine when I was a kid. It's a lesson in how important marketing is

[@TheThird1977]

I wouldn't consider the Saturn as a failure (a six-year run isn't to be sniffed at). Sure it didn't live up to expectations, but it had a ton of great games and a hardcore fanbase.

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

Segas commercials were TERRIBLE even the 14-year old version of me would be "That sucks!"

[@TheThird1977]

@@worsethanhitlerpt.2539 OK

[@isaiahach]

I remember being bummed out that my parents bought me a Playstation instead of a Sega Saturn. The PS1 came with Tekken and a 15 game demo disc. About an hour later I was no longer bummed. Bloody Roar 1 and 2 were a couple of my favourite games on the PS1. I'd like to see those games remade with todays hardware. They'd look amazing if Arc System Works were to develop them

[@JetBlack2024]

I only still have my Wii U to play Mario maker or try and finish xenoblade chronicles X.

[@hassanmccraw5905]

The Wii U was great

[@michaelbullock8011]

Great video and I enjoyed it and have a blessed day

[@WatchMojo]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@michaelbullock8011]

Yes I did

[@ChazWalser]

Surprised Segata Sanshiro did not appear in regards to the Sega Saturn, as he beats up anyone who does not have one

[@K8aMiura]

I remember they had the 3DO demo on display at Circuit City. RIP to both.

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

The Sega Dreamcast was a Surprising Good Console the problem was Sega had bad timing having to compete against The PS1, N64, & Xbox...& The $60 games didn't make it worthwhile.

[@BenjaminoBest]

I loved my sega saturn and still have my original one from 1994, I spent endless hours playing Virtua Cop and Galatic Attack. Too bad the light gun games for it no longer work on modern tv's because they don't support the guns for whatever reason:(

[@GhettoGothic1134]

Some such as the dreamcast wasn't a bad system in any sense, alot on these lists they are great systems great games especially the dreamcast, it was ahead of its time it was the closest thing to a home arcade, Saturn was great with a great library but sega fought against themselves by putting sega cd, sega 32x, sega Saturn all together in short time to all fight against each other first off than the competition was ahead of them too so, ya . But the Nokia engage and 3do, are names best to be forgotten 3do had a cpl good games but was a total crash n burn...very happy turbografx 16 wasn't on the list great library of games

[@Lynxan]

The Wii U never came close to killing Nintendo. With the 3DS off the side, they may not have been killing it like they do now, there was little harm to the company overall.

[@Nikademus1969]

I had a 3DO, it was a fun system. While common place today, it was the first time it was really possible to play PC-quality games on a home console. It was on my 3DO where I first played games like Myst and Syndicate.

[@FastTquick]

You’re forgetting the utter dumpster fire that is the Commodore 64GS. The system was literally a Commodore 64 with the keyboard and floppy drive taken out released in 1990 when 16-bit consoles and computers were already out to market. Unsurprisingly, it sold exactly 2000 lifetime units. Honorable mention goes to the Commodore CDTV, which was a competitor to the Phillips CD-i that sold only 30,000 units.

[@danielferrieri7434]

Top Ten Amazing Games on Bad Gaming Consoles

[@TBoneTony]

Wii U, Gamecube, Saturn, Dreamcast, PS Vita, PSP are few of the consoles and handhelds that had some amazing games but they sold poorly on the market compared to their competitors. Most other systems that fail on the market just had poor design and poor games that didn't run well on the system. However there are a few honorable mentions, the Neo Geo was amazing in games and hardware, but was too friggin expensive while the PC Engine was called the Turbo Graphix in the Western countries and it too had amazing games but suffered due to poor marketing as well as Nintendo and SEGA as their competition in important markets outside of their native Japan.

[@lebowskithor]

The Wii U was my child hood. I would play super Mario 3d world with my little brother every day.

[@Sly88Frye]

A little surprising not to see GameCom on here. And if there were honorable or dishonorable mentions the PS Vita would be a great choice for that as well as maybe the GameCube just for the fact that Nintendo was in quite a bad position with how poorly that system sold being behind even the original XBOX, but then again the GameCube honestly is a massive success compared to these other consoles on the list. By the way in my hometown of Santa Rosa I was the first person to buy a Wii U at Target, but honestly it was pretty clear even then hardly anyone was interested considering how much harder it was to get a Wii at launch in comparison. I enjoyed my Wii U but yeah it was very flawed. Most games didn't even utilize the Gamepad

[@DryBones271]

The Wii U failed, cuz Nintendo refused to have any third party support. They also released games on the 3ds that could have been better suited for Wii U.

[@giuseppeianniello1998]

It also doesn’t help that the marketing of the Wii U is terrible and confusing.

[@victhom19]

It’s not that Nintendo didn’t want third party support, it’s just that third parties realised there was not much point in making ports for it due to the Wiiu low install base and it’s bad console sales.

[@MrXon]

It wasnt that they refused 3rd party support, the companies didnt know how to use the Wii U Pad, and graphically it was still inferior to the other systems. But imo, Arkham City is excellent on Wii U, best version of the game because of the use of the Wii Pad. Breath of the Wild was made for Wii U, also making use of the Wii Pad, something that cant be done on Switch

[@hccodveteran]

I always felt the tablet like controller was just a gimmick and really did not appeal to me.not to mention a heavy lack of third part support.

[@enriquepadilla7256]

This is like the 4th time WatchMojo has made a "worst consoles" list.

[@att2075]

Yeah, I remember seeing a video about a failed consoles list like, years ago in primary school. I'm now almost done with HS.

[@winniebae4alwayyz963]

*Makes sense, considering new consoles are always coming out that could be a hit-or miss.*

[@KRS2000]

I wouldn't say that the Wii U almost killed Nintendo. They were in business since before any of us were even born. I just don't remember how long, but they definitely have deep pockets. I liked the Wii U. I played the absolute hell out of Mario Kart 8, Mario Maker, Super Luigi U, Star Fox Zero, Nintendo Land, Super Smash Bros, and whatever games I could get on the virtual console. Up until my ex roommate/ex friend who busted my gamepad. I tend to think the Wii U was just a preview of what was to eventually become the Switch.

[@JamesDavy2009]

They had their start way back when with the manufacture of playing cards.

[@kariwhitt8928]

I remember the time in December of 2012, my parents told my brother and I that they did try out the Wii U while my brother and I were sleeping. When they try setting it up, it wasn't working. My brother and I were disappointed because the Wii U was really good. Years later before I heard about the Nintendo Switch, my dad and I were thinking about buying a Wii U, but my brother told us that he heard that it is shutting down and the Wii U turned out to be a fail. We were all like that we weren't the only ones who had problems with the Wii U, and we all thought that Nintendo released it a little bit too soon.

[@JazzyChef]

I still own my virtual boy and dreamcast

[@kish45]

I really hope during one of the remaining Nintendo directs for this year they announce that Wind Waker and Twilight Princess are getting ported onto the Switch.

[@brodaforlife]

YES PLEASE

[@mattiasolsson1523]

I need it.

[@JamesDavy2009]

Definitely. I do not mind if they ported the HD versions, especially WW.

[@TheThird1977]

I had a CD-i when I was a teen because my stepdad worked at Philips. Not many good games, but one great title it had was Burn:Cycle (which also had a brilliant soundtrack).

[@randomdude1645]

I still love the Philips CD-I. It had a big Roller Controller. A big box with a big red rolling ball in the middle and 2 big blue buttons on the sides. it was awesome. Good games also, like Asterix Ceasars Challenge. Ive played on the CD-I for years since 92 or so.

[@giannis8568]

The biggest irony about Virtual Boy is that today it's commonly treated as an oddity and it's been on demand by many collectors who buy it for hundreds of dollars/euros!

[@johnjohnson4346]

Definitely enjoyed the Wii U. The eshop was loaded with games

[@Dangic23]

I am proud to be a smart buyer. Have owned dozens of consoles since 1981, and I can say that I never even attempted to buy any of the systems shown on this video

[@Highretrogamelord]

I own a SEGA Saturn and my tip for anyone who owns one: Look into the Japanese library, you will find some nice gems there.

[@MzBillyBee]

The only ones I've heard of was the Wii U and the virtual boy. But the same goes for me too, me and others had some REALLY fun times playing the Wii U, and at times we still do, but after the switch came out, that's basically all I play.

[@jabarithegoldenlucario8841]

The Wii U was bad. The games tho. The games were GREAT. Mario Maker, Splatoon, Smash Bros, Mario 3D World, MK8, Yoshi’s Woolly World… I had a lot of fun with it!

[@horseyluver14]

U just unlocked a memory for me when you said about the sega Saturn

[@HIMSteveO]

The only problem with the Wii U was the name - with a better name, that thing does a lot better. The Dreamcast was fucking amazing, and I'll hear no other talk to the contrary. It had so many incredible games! That one was sad :(

[@jayrowe7298]

I still have my Sega Saturn and trying to track down the Dreamcast. Those consoles were ahead of the time. The Dreamcast had some top notch graphics and the Saturn have some cult classics.

[@SansoHumar]

I’ve owned and still own all of them. Except for the wiiu and the Saturn and the ncage and the 3do and the virtual boy and the Phillips cdi and the ouya and the Atari jaguar and the apple pippin and the gizmondo.

[@TheRManProds]

The Wii U had a Great Selection of EShop Games and Retro Games.

[@benthecat4345]

The original R-Zone was way worse than the Virtual Boy, with that one you had to be cross eyed as well

[@christopherchasteen4990]

Yep. Just ask the Angry Video Game Nerd!

[@JamesDavy2009]

Wasn't it made by the same company that made the Gizmondo?

[@benthecat4345]

@@JamesDavy2009 Same name, different company. The company that made the R-Zone is Tiger Electronics while the company you're thinking of is Tiger Telematics.

[@JamesDavy2009]

@@benthecat4345 Gee, that's not confusing at all… 🙃

[@bigc1280]

Fun Fact, the design for the Jaguar 64 lives on as a Dental Camera by Imagin Systems!

[@maxwellkowal3065]

Never did I think Watchmojo would start doing the "Red Arrow" ploy.

[@donnythedreamer1508]

It's kinda insane to me that anything that has sold multiple millions is considered a failure

[@nicholas_scott]

The commodore CD32 of 1993 is the saddest failure. Like the later Xbox, it was a computer repackaged as a console. Very advanced, but commodore was hit with a patent lawsuit over the “blinking cursor”, and a judge ruled that all the consoles should be warehouses until the courts worked out the issue. Commodore went bankrupt fighting the frivolous lawsuit and the cd32 never made it to market in the US. (Some to Europe and Japan though)

[@2000sancho]

Dreamcast should have been in this list,it was an amazing system but it failed anyway because customers lost faith in the brand and the ps2 sinked it to the ground stores were practically giving them away

[@themastermind5638]

The system didn't fail the people, the people failed the system. Dreamcast was a great console for it's time. I remember it having some of the best graphics around at that specific time. I agree though that Segas reputation is what probably offput possible customers, along with The PS2s release about 1 in a half to 2 years later.

[@zachwalker522]

Wow, I was one of the few that owned the Phillips CD-I . It was mostly educational games.

[@CEVasquez421]

The Wii U. Nintendo could have taken advantage of it by having more games. Exclusives like Metroid Prime 4, Super Mario Galaxy 3, or a Wario 3D platform game like Warioworld on Gamecube.

[@ianeons9278]

The only consoles I actually really like on this list are the Saturn and especially the Wii U. They actually have great games.

[@CamFraser25]

Massively overstating the effect the Wii U had, it's like people forget the 3DS was absolutely killing it at the same time.

[@THANATOS-PRIME]

Stuff like the Sega consoles featured I could enjoy but systems like CDI and Gizmondo can be buried in a desert like E.T was.

[@nnaemekaokpareke8462]

I got s wii u. I played smash bros and mario kart 8. Loved it at first buy the charger failed and it had short battery life

[@mar754]

Never even heard of the ones that Sega or Nintendo didn't make. That's when you know they failed 😂 Panasonic, Nokia??

[@thecunninlynguist]

Damn you must be a youngster.

[@mar754]

@@thecunninlynguist I am Gen Z

[@Albert8044]

Did make the list, the Turbo Grafx 16/PC Engine (Japan). That console's lifespan had lots and lots of great games if you count Japan and North American. The TG-16/PC Engine had lots of potential to compete with the Genesis and Snes during the 16 bit console wars, in North America the TG-16 failed because of lack of 3rd party developers and its games plus the PC Engine in Japan had twice as many games that never saw any release in North America Another reason why the TG-16 failed in North America is because many household either had a Genesis or Snes so there was no place for the TG-16 and it was bad timing when it launched during the 16 bit era.

[@DPTigre]

surprising, I didn't have any of these consoles.

[@12thMandalorian]

The WiiU literally could have bankrupted Nintendo, and we would never have then had the Switch

[@thecunninlynguist]

Lol no it wouldn't have. It'll take more failures than the wii u to have nintendo go bankrupt

[@seeks252]

Nintendo have a notoriously large amount of cash to delve into if they ever need it. And besides that the 3DS line was still killing it at the time. WiiU came nowhere near to bankrupting the company.

[@thecunninlynguist]

@@seeks252 exactly. It's insane how many believe nintendoomed

[@jsmith3946]

@@thecunninlynguist ya the made a shit tone of money off the Wii and ds to help support them also the decent sale of the 3ds after the price drop help make up for the Wii U loss

[@davidknightx]

2:30 still remains the biggest mic drop in gaming history.

[@sasamichan]

If you want me to think the Wii U is a "Failed Console" I have to disagree. its pretty solid I used it a lot and still use it. My list would be 1. Virtual Bopy 2. Dreamcast 3. CDI 4. Jaguar 5. Lynx 6. Colecovision 7. atari 3600 8. the 3DS (which I did use a lot but it broke and no one really liked it) 9. Leapster 10. any thing that was not Nintendo, Sega, Play Station, Xbox, PC, Apple that I maybe never heard of also , oh, the 3DO WAS a thing I thought that was some thing my head made up

[@elliesaint1984]

I'm actually surprised that the consoles on this list sold as many units as they did, especially from companies that had to compete against Nintendo and Sony

[@evilmejosh]

One thing that led to the Sega Saturn's downfall in the United States at least, the consumer population lost faith in Sega because of that half step between the Genesis and the Saturn, the 32X. If they would have just skipped releasing that all together The Saturn probably would have done a little bit better. I get that the programming for it was extremely hard, But I also feel like they rushed it to market before third parties could get used to or figure out how to make games for it

[@henriquedearruda8902]

Can you do top top 10 up coming new consoles?

[@Ori_Kohav]

A bit surprised to not see the LaserActive on this list

[@BoondockGore]

Wii U had a really good retro library though. I remember being amazed them having classics on a modern console.

[@tfsvids9766]

Wii u: I fail :( Switch: *I WILL CONTINUE YOUR CAREER*

[@stephenchase5593]

I've owned the Atari #Jaguar, which didn't have 64-bit graphics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It only sold 100,000 copies worldwide!!!!!!!!!!!! I've also had the Sega #Saturn, which sold 9,260,000 copies worldwide!!!!!!!!!!!

[@zmbdog]

It did. The Blitter and Object proessor are both 64 bit. This "adding two 32-bit chips together" is an old wives tale that won't die thanks to youtubers constantly repeating it.

[@afizmicet]

I'm glad that PS Vita is not on this list. That console may not successful in market, but it still have strong fanbase till today. And I'm still playing games on PS VIta. I really hope that someday, some one will revived the PS Vita and bring back it's glory.

[@gustyko8668]

I would have put it in the same place as the Wii U

[@boredstudent]

I'm surprised that the Tiger Gamecom wasn't mentioned. Tiger Electronics came up with their own "full-fledged" handheld console to compete with the Game Boy. I remember that commercial too. "it plays more games than you idiots have brain cells" that's what the dude in the commercial said.

[@jamesjw3395]

What song is that in the background??

[@brandongill2577]

Thank U 4 not including SEGA CD!

[@NewGabeOrder]

I'm afraid the Sega Saturn doesn't deserve to be on this list. It may have performed poorly outside Japan, but over there, it outsold the Nintendo 64. Not to mention some companies like Eidos and Capcom studied the Sega Saturn's capabilities and used the hardware to the full adavantage, resulting in multi-platform games that had better versions on Sega Saturn than on PlayStation. Also, not everyone was ready for the 3D revolution, so many multi-platform 2D games had better versions on the Sega Saturn since the hardware was primarily designed around 2D graphics.

[@souleblade32790]

I never even heard of the Ouya until now. 🤣🤣

[@toobsokable]

It really shows how bad these consoles were when the only one I’ve even heard of is the Wii U.

[@Jungoguy]

I'm surprised the Stadia isn't on here.

[@demosneokleous4877]

I can't believe you included the Wii U but not the Hyperscan or Stadia

[@sigifredojimenez-varela8574]

I had a Wii U and returned it for a Xbox one

[@justinamood1744]

0:19 I heard the SEGA logo from a game (2005-2017)

[@bradleymcavoy3432]

Gizmondo was a HUGE failure but there are some other failed consoles that did worse than some others listed here such as the LaserActive, the NUON and the Atari 5200!