What is the ugliest console you've ever seen?

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Don't care what anyone says, this looks awful
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Looks like it'd be hell to handle, too.

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

100% disagree on the design. I loved how it looked and you have to remember what TV's looked like at the time: we still had these big black box dvd players, your speakers may have had a box to control volume settings, and you probably had a dvd case. All of these things were usually long bricks like that and the design of the 360 re-release blended in perfectly with all the other boxes under your tv.

A design I don't like would be the Sega Genesis specifically when you put all the attachments on it!
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This thing is huge! It takes up a lot of space and none of the attachments really complement each other since they all want to be self contained circular looking designs. Each one on its own looks great, but all together it just doesn't flow well visually.

I’ve always known and felt that the CD attachment looks good only with its corresponding Mega Drive model. The model 1 CD looks good with the model 1 Mega Drive and the model 2 CD looks good with the model 2 Mega Drive. But mixing and matching is… rough. The Model 1 Mega Drive with a Model 2 CD looks… okay? But it’s clearly not the original intent, requires an extension to look right, and is, as you said, LONG AS HELL.


But the 32X and Power Base Converter just don’t look good. The Power Base Converter feels like some sort of unholy matrimony between the angular and boxy design of the Master System model 1 and the curved circles of the Mega Drive model 1. And the 32X feels like it was designed with the model 2 Mega Drive in mind but it still looks bulbous no matter what. It’s like a growth on top of the console.

 

[Archienine]

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

I’ve always felt the conflict of how much I love the base PS5 design, this giant piss off techno tower and space ship with vast flat plates, and the slim model. The slim has vents that break up and conflict with the original design, is smaller but still large (not fixing the issue of size, while also coming across as unsure of itself due to the size reduction), and has these ugly plastic stands that look like they’ll snap.

The slim feels like an attempt to fix the issues of the original model… but it’s still aesthetically similar to the original model. So it just comes across as an awkward and unsure of itself design. At least with the original model it was PROUD to be this giant beast of a thing. You may hate it, but at least it had confidence. While the slim is just unconfident.

 

[Cu-Neo]

That poor kid is being tortured with a one eye console that plays red and black color games.

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

I think it’s a common theme in this thread to pick on second generation systems. I don’t necessarily always condone that, since many had an unenviable task, but there is ONE that is perfect to pick on.

Feast thine eyes. It’s the Coleco Telestar.

How do you solve the problems that come with the many control schemes that arcade games have? Why, you simply build them all into the console of course!
There is no way to store this thing. When played, it is expected to be within arms reach of the player at all times. The steering wheel is uncomfortable cheap plastic that has become even more brittle with age. The gun is much of the same, if not worse. I have HELD ONE IN MY HANDS, so I can confirm the feel of the machine isn’t exactly pleasant. And, of course, it goes as far with the triangle theming as one can go.

I almost like this thing. It’s so out there, so bold, and so sure of itself that it nearly wins me over. And, as a lover of wood grain on any kind of electrical device, I think the colors and patterns of the machine are appealing. But it’s simply too much, even for my apologist self. This system is the exact reason why peripherals are sold separately: since otherwise you’d have to put up with a full steering wheel on the body of your game console. If this is supposed to replicate the arcade experience, it isn’t working, because no single arcade would ever have you hold a light and cheap triangle with two other control schemes on it in order to play.

 

[medisinn]

That poor kid is being tortured with a one eye console that plays red and black color games.
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I was going to post this! Apparently there is an even more obscure version of it called the DataZone:

It begs for apocalypse.

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

Looks like it'd be hell to handle, too.

I can actually vouch that it’s ALMOST comfortable. But the issue with the cheese wedge is the lack of support for the bottom of your hands. It’s shocking that Nintendo would later replicate this exact problem with the design of the joycons, which have a similar overall feel in the hands to a 2DS.

It’s not the worst of the 3DS line, but it’s not good either. It’s strictly a cheap way to play the system’s library, best suited for those who don’t want to invest too much in it. As a result, they sold very well.

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I was going to post this! Apparently there is an even more obscure version of it called the DataZone:

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It begs for apocalypse.

 

[suzunami]

Don't care what anyone says, this looks awful
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(I still remember the doorstop memes)

 

[strawberry29]

the first xbox, looks so stupid and the controller is dumber, but not worst than apple bandai pippin

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

I would likely to show you the Onlive-console but i forgot ... it doesnt really exist anymore .... for the better.

 

[Lokgamer]

Look, it’s become more of a popular opinion with time, but genuinely this thing.

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The benefit is that it’s still a 360. And it has some nice color variants, I will admit. But it’s just a brick. Like, it has all the components of the other 360’s, but they’re all warped and shrunk into the single most ugly version of themselves.

Look, even to this day, I love how you turn the 360 system on. It’s this big ominous light that senses your hand. It still TO THIS DAY feels futuristic to me. And they literally turned it into the smallest, most insignificant little button version of itself. Now, it’s all the insignificance of a button BUT WITH THE LACK OF TACTILE FEEDBACK OF THE ORIGINAL MECHANISM! So it’s just the worst of both worlds now.

Lol I do like this design.

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Love this console, but PS3 super slim is ugly as hell.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Love this console, but PS3 super slim is ugly as hell.

Me if I reincarnated as the PS3 SuperSlim

 

[Lokgamer]

Me if I reincarnated as the PS3 SuperSlim
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Same here

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

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Feast thine eyes. It’s the Coleco Telestar.

This is a console? It looks like the core to a nuclear bomb! "TACTICAL NUKE, INCOMING!" ahh design.

 

[cjl8336 cjl8336]

Super Nintendos when they turn yellow

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

Super Nintendos when they turn yellow
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Yup. Made a whole thread about it, that’s how much I hate how they look. I actually am very fond of the SNES design, but when it yellows it looks like its caught syphillis.

 

[stinkerdoo]

Personally I think the ugliest are the PS5 Pro, PS5, and PS Portal, in that order lol. There's certainly a lot of ugly designs from the super retro era (I never personally cared for any of the Atari console designs), but I honestly can't name a single thing I like about the current PlayStation designs.

The curves look dumb and make it unstable when laying flat, the contrast between the black console and white plates looks dumb, the fins on the Pro look dumb, it's physically massive, and that glossy black plastic is so hideous!! There is not a single place you can put a PS5 in a house without it sticking out like a sore thumb. It looks like a cannibalistic alien trying to be sexy.

I genuinely think the fake rumored PS5 looks better than the one that came out.

But I have to give Sony props... They somehow made a console more expensive than the PS3, with a design that makes it look as cheap as plug-and-play knockoffs.