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| What failed 90s console do you think had the most potential? |
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| sin2beta:
I would not count any of the big 3 as failures for a more interesting answer. For that, I would pick the 3DO. It was one of the first multimedia consoles. Kind of the forerunner to what the PS2 ushered. It would have been interesting to see this started more successfully by a multi-manufacturer system such as the 3DO. Would the new entrants of Sony and Microsoft opted to become 3DO manufacturers instead of new ones. Microsoft probably wouldn't. They were building up direct X. But Sony would be interesting. |
| stlgamer75:
Saturn & TG16 are the easy answers and both systems were overshadowed at the time by other consoles but today gamers see what could have been. 3DO had the hardware to be the PlayStation two years before the PlayStation was released. Just not the software and CD based games were still met with skepticism thanks to FMV. |
| abicion:
Game.com totally had it going on. |
| tripredacus:
I will say any CD based console that failed solely because they invested heavily into FMV and FPS games. |
| burningdoom:
This isn't technically a console, but it sounded really cool. Do you guys remember those Fingerhut catalogs in the 90s? The ones that had all the weird, cool shit you could order that you couldn't find at a normal store, like Hollywood masks, singing fish, and other novelty stuff? Well there was this one machine that promised "lucid dreaming". What this machine did, is that it would detect when your brain entered dream-sleep. Then it would inform you. Once you realized you were dreaming, the idea was that you would be able to control your dreams. Sounds awesome, right? Never got to try it out. |
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