What are your Top 3 favorite Commercially Failed Game Systems?

[Frickinfrik]

Mine is:
PS Vita
GameCube
Wii U

 

[Yousef's iconYousef]

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”.

 

[RageBurner]

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.

 

[Frickinfrik]

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.

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

1. Sega Saturn
2. Neo Geo Pocket Color
3. Dreamcast
Honorables: Vita, Wii U and Atari Jaguar

 

[UnDubious]

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.

 

[Egg (McMuffin) Man]

• 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.

 

[TotzOnGaming]

Never had any of them but judging on their games, I'd say Gamecube, Dreamcast, Vita and WiiU.