What are your Top 3 favorite Commercially Failed Game Systems?

You need to search up the definition of commercially failed here. I doubt it includes “sold ten million copies and has a huge library of great selling games”.
 
You need to search up the definition of commercially failed. I doubt it includes “sold ten million copies and has a huge library of great selling games”.
True. Sales numbers never tell the whole story, unless you're talking something like the 32X or Virtual Boy, haha.
 
You need to search up the definition of commercially failed here. I doubt it includes “sold ten million copies and has a huge library of great selling games”.
Well, not a complete commercial failure. More so underrated and overshadowed by the competition in this case. And if I recall when I did research, the GameCube was considered a partial commercial failure mainly because of the competition at the time.
 
If we're going for real, thorough failures, I like to say that the 3DO was different from the rest of the non-contenders of that generation, ie the Jaguar, CD-i, Virtua Boy if you want to count that, etc. There's a relatively big and varied library, they touched on most genres, they started a couple big series (Need for Speed, Gex back in the day) they made a real effort at pushing it in Japan so there's a decent amount of Japanese games on it (including exclusives), it even has a pretty decent RPG in English (Lucienne's Quest). I just wish it had received a proper 3D fighter considering the time frame. But I think it deserves a little bit of underdog respect.
I love the Saturn but it was successful in Japan at least; the Dreamcast was doing ok in the West but they just weren't in the position to win anymore after too many setbacks. I guess the Dreamcast really did fail, but at least it was a contender.
 
  • Virtual Boy
  • Gamecube
  • Dreamcast
I loooooooooove the Virtual Boy. I bought one a few years back and I have most of the library (I'm missing 2-3 games) and I have had an absolute blast with it. This thing is great, it's like a suped up Game Boy and the 3D effect works so much better than the 3DS and doesn't give me headaches. I wish there were more games for it...

Gamecube is an easy pick. I had one as a kid and there's a lot of games I like on the console.

Dreamcast really doesn't need any explanation.
 

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