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If you ever want to go down a crazy rabbit hole, look up the Gizmondo. Failed portable console who’s CEO turned out to have ties to the Swedish mafia and crashed a Ferrari. It’s banana sandwiches
@@randomnerd3402 The problem with Gizmondo is that beyond the crazy aspect of Tiger Telematics and the fact that the surviving units are slowly melting- it had maybe 14 released games. The Gizmondo just is more of a blip in Gaming History. Maybe a quickfire episode including the Commodore G64 and Amstrad GX4000 would be the better option with the NEC PC-FX as well.
When I was a teen I watched and rewatched AVGN time and time again and again and again. Now, in my mid-20s, this video felt like a very welcome trip to the past. Thank you
Same. Until I see a TH-cam video talking about it, I forget the stadia exists. The fact that a company as big as Google can make a game service that forgettable is laughable.
@@John-XI will be honest though. If I ever get my hands on a 3DO, first game I am getting is crash and burn. Racing games in general are fun, and this is a 3do exclusive.
well at lease they tried, the Ouya at lease was interesting, only issue is that tech can be replaced in short period of time, they should of treated more like console then PC
@Insert_text_here No, they don't. They spelled it wrong twice, and used "should of" and "then" instead of "than," with many words outright missing. They're a moron. Like most of the Internet.
Easier said than done as most places outside of the metro city areas may not have access to really fast internet or if they do, the connection would have bandwidth limits.
@@sbojan83 that’s... that’s the point of my comment? Stadia is aimed at people who can’t afford a high end pc to play games; but in places like Latin America where the “most public would be”, internet is REALLY slow (~5Mbps on average) really bad and really expensive, so if you can’t afford a high end internet Stadia loses its entire point which is to provide “affordable” high end pc gaming to people that aren’t able to pay for it.
I actually enjoyed the Ouya..... For 2 hours before it overheated and permanently broke. So much for that fan they claimed was so powerful since they didn't take in how you had to have proper ventilation.
I remember having a Wii U when I was younger, and I had a good experience with it despite the poor sales. Everyone I talked to would ask me "Hey, do you have any games?" and I would be like "Yeah, I have some". Then when asked what console I had, I told them I had a Wii U. They usually looked at me "wtf is that?".
@@paulovalente738 Smash bros 4 was also really good. Yoshis wooly world. It has an exclusive mario tennis game. Sonic lost world I am planning on trying out soon. Most games have been ported over to switch anyways. But alot of others still havent. Another game I gotta mention that is an eshop exclusive to the Wii U is the game fast racing neo. It is pretty cheap, it was like 14 bucks. And it looks and plays pretty well to. And is most likely going to be gone and forgotten when the eshop goes down in march. But it makes me strongly think of F-zero. The other cool thing is it has like a 5 dollar DLC option. I dunno, I love my racing games. So I figured I would mention that If you didn't know. I am sure there are others. But fast racing neo is pretty legit for 15 bucks.
Wii U was misunderstood. Something that I appreciate about it over the Switch is how much personality it had. The OS wasn’t bland and silent and it had some great games for it.
I'm from Russia and I still have 3DO tucked away at the country house. It introduced me to the Wing Commander series. Funny thing is, it feels like in the entirety of Russia, only 2 people know about the existence of 3DO: me and the guy who sold it to me, lol.
Russia is very diverse, yes Moscow is very white but Russia in the Siberian wastes is very colourful. These parts are autonomous regions but all are part of Russia
"Hey man, wanna compete in the console market with me?" "Yeah, wanna price our console so high that nobody who wants one can buy it?" "Definitely" -like 99% of failed consoles
Pretty much. Gizmondo was also to expensive. Like do they not know the current market that is available alredy? It would be like a new big ass console release now from a new company or some shit, and they were marketing it and it sounded better than xbox series S or playstation 5, and it did everything 10 times better and it had all these cool features. But oh yah, it costs 1300 dollars. Like im not gonna buy that shit when i can get a playstation 5 for 600 bucks. Like they have to know the market. If anything, really push the console and do all that shit and find some way to release it for cheaper. I mean, the switch isn't the greatest in terms of the tech and graphics and all that, but it only costs 300 bucks. And the games are really good to.
@@weeebie price does matter, that's why the 360 was cruising early 7th gen until the skin versions came out as at the time the PS3 was trying to sell for like twice the 360, which in pretty sure was priced to be more expensive than the the ps5 and series consoles
Scott the Woz actually mentioned that during E3 1995, Sega announced the Saturn was ALREADY available with a $399 price tag. Announcing that the Saturn was already available had actually pissed off many retailers cause they wouldn't be given the appropriate amount of time to market the game in their store. Thus, many retailers refused to sell the Saturn.
That and a handful of other problems. Sega Japan and Sega of America hated each other. The head of Sega America didn't want 2d games (something the Saturn excelled at) and only wanted polygon based 3d games. Both Sega of Japan and America did a bunch of stupid stuff.
@@Gatorade69 That's insane because I actually loved the 2D stuff back then. 3D was often meh because it wasn't something really mastered yet. Even now when people play games of that time period, the 2d holds up much better than a lot of the 3d stuff. And I was absolutely the target market. So I dunno.. Japan probably had it more right...
@@zhawkmoth3653 I don't necessarily think Japan had it more right, they did in some regards and not in others. It was Sega of Japan's idea to release the Saturn with no launch leaving a lot of pissed off retailers, some who dropped the console and did not sell it. It was also Sega of Japan that decided to not have a standard and or good dev kits and reference materials, which is why a lot of companies chose Sony and the PlayStation. Some sources claim that Sega wanted to keep it that way so their in house developers would have an edge. Both Segas made some really stupid choices, I wonder what could have been if they had both worked together.
Smash bros Wii U is still a killer smash bros. game. I can't really think of anything else though. I also liked the Wii U and 3DS eshops as well. A ton of games on the Wii U that still don't exist on switch yet. And switch just lacks the personality. All the menus are blank with no music playing.
Whenever i see a company fails miserably, i feel bad for the people who founded and established it. I know this is how world works and no one stays relevant forever, but it’s kinda heartbreaking when you see someone puts heart and energy into something then it fails.
The funny thing is that Sega of America had enough money to support the Dreamcast an extra 2 years we'll as Sega of Japan brought out the white flag and surrender.
Would you hate me if I told you Bloodborne was my least favorite Souls Game? To be fair, I only played through it once when it first came out. Might be time for a refresher
i would love it as well but what can he say about the game that doesn't already apply in his Dark Souls video? Also, i dont think he's a fan of cosmic horror(i don't think liking Dead Space counts)
As kids we got the sega pico system. It was a cartridge and small book that you plugged into a touch pad that you used through a pen. It would display on the TV and for our age was pretty cool. Just like these systems though it didn't last long and our broke never to be used again
Your description brought back memories I didn’t even know I had haha. Pretty sure my dads girlfriends son had one of those with a Winnie The Pooh game.
People who bought a Stadia got exactly what they deserved. When I first heard about it I knew it was going to be a steaming pile of garbage because the idea of streaming anything is solely dependent on someone's internet speeds which seems like something everyone else suddenly forgot.
@@Andy-uq4hq almost like streaming a 6-8gb movie that buffers every 20-30 seconds. Then a 40 Gb game where your using another machine to run the game then routing it through the internet to you.
So if Sega was able to make money making consoles again with quality and properly working well, then they should team up with Dell or Samsung to make the Sega Monolith: with a whole lot of features of the next generation of gaming and includes stuff fans want: Third Party and Indie Developer support.
same, since I had one It had some nice titles (Soul Calibur, Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi and few more) It was released bit too late, playstation 2 eat it :/
My childhood was very lucky and unlucky. My parents opened a Video Store in 1982- 2002. We rented video game consoles and of course many games from all the consoles released during them years. When they decided to close the Video Store, I was able to keep everything gaming. So I became a console collector, I own every US home & Handheld gaming unit ever made with the exception of the NintendoStation. I even went back and got the Magnavox Odyssey from 1972. What sad is, that I do own every console you showed off. Except the Japan consoles and I agree with you in every way.
@@v.k.healthlongevity9807 Damn, I wish I were rich. I struggle to pay my bills every month. You have no clue how I am and yet you'll make assumptions about someone you don't even know. HOW PATHETIC of a person you are.
Actman: "I guess theirs also Valve, Epic and Blizzard but we're not talking about the false messiahs" Me: "Soon the Great Journey shall begin. But when it does, the weight of your heresy will stay your feet. And you shall be left behind."
@@snowtyler A game on expensive hardware that not everybody owns and is worked around a fad gimmick. And before that they hadn't released a non Dota based game since 2014. That's garbage.
It is the damn truth. Lol I feel like everyone I know now is a con artist. The internet has completely removed the barrier to entry. As long as you got the views and the shares, regardless of how hated the video is or disliked it is. Or how bad the quality is. If it has a billion views. That is money at the end of the day. Kind of sad really.
ATTENTION BROTHER!!! I have two very very sweet girlfriends who I show off (I smell like 100 not-alive orangutans oh nooo) in my perfectly great videos that most people consider to be the reason of life! Thank you for you attention, dear dude kid km
I was amazed that anyone cared about the Ouya. I remember being so unimpressed when I saw the Kickstarter but a bunch of friends and youtubers I watched back then thought it was gonna be an insane innovation. It looked like trash and the backlash after it released was hilarious
A good friend of mine kept bugging me to port one of my games to the Ouya... he said it was gonna be the most amazing console ever. I was reluctant because it was coming from a company with no track record, so I held off but kept it in the back of my mind. Then when it launched, it came to the surface that other developers were having a hell of a hard time with communication with the parent company... there were a lot of technical issues and the Ouya developer forums were apparently flooded with complaints and inquiries, all of which were either being ignored or just brushed off. I don't think I've ever breathed such a large sigh of relief for being cautious.
The only good thing about the Ouya was that it did spawn Towerfall that was later ported to PS4. One of the best arcade style local multiplayer games ever made.
I never even heard of the ouya but when I saw it in this video I knew it was doomed just from the size of it and the look of the hardware. It looks severely underpowered. If it had n64 level graphics I'd be surprised
I’m a huge fan of The Act Man, I even got my dad into the channel and I watch Avery new video with him. But I gotta say, this is just my favorite video from the channel. It’s just well put together and covers an interesting topic. I rewatch this video frequently.
this thing was dumpster fire, always remember it thanks to AVGN, his videos were the best, Peanut butter gamer has great videos as well on this shit console
I worked at a Gamestop during the 32-bit to 128-bit era and distinctly remember my GM coming back from the manager conference in Texas _(I think Darrel Hammond was the comedian that year...)_ followed by two boxloads of swag in the mail but the shiny new NGage had made it back with him on the plane.
It still baffles me how Sega was able to release one of the greatest console's in the history of gaming, the Sega Genesis, then go on to be completely irrelevant just 5 years after the end of that console's generation.
Saturn was very underrated. That system had great games and in some ways it was more powerfull than the Playstation. Saturn did 2D games much better than than PSX, but at the time 3D gaming was all the rage. Add to that it was difficult to program for, the disastrous marketing and half the major retailers boycotting the system... Plus the Saturn had an internal memory and memory sticks. So you could actually save your games with buying a stick.
I believe that most of the success of the Genesis was due to SEGA of America. SEGA of Japan was out of sync and didn't understand that the US was a much bigger market than Japan and VERY VERY different. The book Console Wars was a fantastic "read" ( I actually listened to the audio book). Sega of Japan seemed upset that SOA was doing better than them and put their foot down and continued to not read the room. Thus the downhill slope of Sega.
@@MidwayMaiTais Somewhat. Sega of America did do a great job marketing the Genesis (and really helped Sega in America) but the Mega Drive was also big in Europe and South America too. There was a lot of animosity between Sega of Japan and Sega of America but both of them did a lot of idiotic stuff.
This video unlocked childhood memories with the hyper scan. I haven’t thought about that system in years and the only game I played as a kid on it was the Ben ten one
@@sertiana2512 The Oculus Quest needs some real competition for the technology to become truly mainstream... So far, I ain't giving my money to the Zucc.
I owned a Panasonic 3DO when they were released. Great memories playing Need For Speed to death. That game was awesome. One of the few decent games for the system.
@@zaneheaston8254 PS2 was overrated. The only thing it had going for was DVD playback but even that wasn’t better than a standalone DVD player despite being cheaper.
@@mountaindew3201 At least the Dreamcast had built in four controller ports and was much easier to code for than the PS2’s complicated architecture. Add to that, if the install of the PS2 wasn’t high, then developers would’ve ditched the PS2 in favour of the Dreamcast, GameCube and Original Xbox since again it was a pain to code games for it. Oh, and the Dreamcast is now worth more than a bargain bin PS2 that you could find at a local thrift store because of how many PS2’s have sold overall lol.
@@crazedlunatic43 I don't know enough about the subject to agree or to disagree with your points. But damn why did they release a controller with just one analog stick? I was really put off by that after experiencing ps1 dual shock as a kid
Funny story, I believe it was, 10 years ago? Me and my brother were searching for game consoles named after animals (we didn't know shit about game consoles) and we came across the Jaguar in disbelief. We would've probably have spent hours searching for one if we didn't chose that single animal lmao. He's in the Navy now and I hope he doesn't forget that memory.
The Ouya was such a cool idea. Still have mine as a collectors item lol. I do remember turning it on, seeing the games, and thinking “this isn’t gonna last long”.
Dreamcast was an awesome console. I’d buy one now if I saw one in my local gadget shop. It still has amazing games like Shenmue, Shenmue 2, MSR, and the Sega arcade classics.
The reason streaming based consoles are failing now is that people don’t realize that streaming games like tv shows is too difficult. We don’t have the proper networking infrastructure in the majority of the world to actually accommodate consoles like ouya and stadia. Not just that but proximity from the server can mean anything from a seamless game experience in a state close to the servers, or a Google slideshow in an area far away…
"Who knows where I'd be if I never owned a Nintendo 64?" "I'M TIRED OF READING BOOKS!" 30 seconds into a half-hour-long video and I knew it was time to Like and Subscribe. Well done, sir.
Even though the Wii-U failed, it holds a special place in my heart. It was the first ever console I got for a birthday. The special part is that my mom gave it to me and I personally loved it. Just the memories it gave me were great.
If you still have it. I highly advise you to mod it. There are easy on-line guides on how to do it. And it turns the WiiU in a beast capable of playing retro and backup games from all the oldest until its generation. Plus Netflix and TH-cam.
@@AlexNightsyup. Softmodded mine. Would never get rid of it. Best console I've ever owned. I'm a bit sick of hearing its a failure just cause people thought it was an add on for the wii....
@@AlexNights tbf its better for us. We can get this thing so cheap cause everyone else thinks it's cool to hate on it. Plus the pro controllers battery lasts for WEEKS!
Amazing to think that today, with more advanced technology in our consoles, they only cost around 300 to 500 dollars, yet these old consoles cost so much more.
the 3DO: shit welp... we're doomed the sega saturn: dont worry we have sonic... RIGHT? *guys.... we have a new 3D sonic game right?* atari: anyone know where my Lynx went? the apple pippin: wait... I'm a console? NO.... I'm not a console I'm kinda a PC Sony: *loads light gun with malious intent*
Yah i agree. And there are a few exclusive games on it. Smash 4 for example is still an awesome game to be playing. There are others i am sure, but most of the popular ones got ported over to switch such as mario kart 8. But i have a fascination for the old stuff in the industry. Still worth holding onto in my op. Heck i even want a virtual boy some day. Someone needs to make a mod that ports all the virtual boy games in color. That would be pretty neat.
The Nintendo GameCube was a great console it deserved more success than it got. But the PlayStation 2 was the better machine because it had the best games most of the third parties avoided the GameCube and robes because of mini DVDs it was a lot easier to make games on the PlayStation to an Xbox then it was to make it on GameCube.
While the WiiU was a Massive Market Failure, it was a Superior sucess for it's Leadership. Satoru Iwata as the console was failing took multiple massive payouts along with the Board of Directors taking big pay cuts as well, All while Iwata was Hospitalized and terminally Ill. Iwata was a Saint in an industry of sin. You can't name any other CEO who will take massive cuts to his pay and take the blame for the failures to shelter the developers and employees from being fired.
GameCube was also a Massive Market Failure, which led to Wii. GameCube was so bad, they stopped production on them in 2003! Look it up, production stopped on GameCube in 2003!
@@jackson5116 I love and still have my gamecube. And it blows my mind how expensive some of that shit is getting now to. You better be willing to pay like 140 something bucks for a gamecube edition of twilight princess if you really want it that badly. Kind if insane.
Nintendo is a hugely successful company today, despite having three of its products on the worst list. In other words, it survived the worst failures three times! You can see that Nintendo is a very powerful company.
@@Oturan20 Makes sense, the Nintendo 64 was a turd. The GameCube though was a good console but not including a DVD player with it hurt it. A lot of my friends and I both got the PS2 (or Xbox) after also telling our family "We can use it as a DVD player too !" It really did help sell more console because at the time it wasn't that much more than a good DVD player.
@@Gatorade69 let's not even mention N64s cancer causing controller and the GameCubes stubbornness with it's disc and Nintendo hate for piracy leading to disc with less memory than both PS2 and og Xbox as well as making it impossible to be a DVD player, not to mention it was still stuck at like 480p
I thought the same thing. This is very much a StW type of video, but with Act Man's chad energy instead of StW's signature nerdy style (which ofc I still love).
Fun Fact about the Virtual Boy: The prototype used 3 led screens, the classical RGB, to show nice non-irises melting graphics. But Nintendo decided to limit to one color due to production cost, it would almost quadruple its sales price if ir had the 3 colors. Also, they choose red cuz it was the cheaper of the three.
You think Bungie and Apple giving Halo to Microsoft was a mistake? I doubt halo would have existed without them. You'd just have this one meh 3rd person action game on Mac and that would be it
I remember when Philips would run hour long infomercials for the CDI right after Saturday morning cartoons. 9 year old me wanted one so bad. My parents thought I was nuts for asking for something that cost more than a used car at the time.
I have fond memories of my 2600. I think the lesson to be learned here honestly is that even though it was tried and failed there was much to be learned about what works and what does not. This translates now into the games we have today. Also I hate motion controls with a passion.
I bought my 3DO second hand, near the end of it's life cycle. I loved it. But then again, there were a bunch of games available for cheap at the time and I only paid $75 for it including a dozen or so games
When I was still on Famicom (I didn't stumble, I really meant Famicom. For some reason they sold better than the NES. We had access to both in the middle east), my father wanted to buy us a gift for summer vacation after doing well in school. How lucky were we that it ended up being the original PS. Imagine all the bad consoles my father could've ended up picking, yet he picked the right one. He wasn't even a gamer, he went by what the shop owner advised him to buy. That was a summer well-spent at home.
The Wii U is not a pro model of the Wii. The fact that this confuses so many people is part of the reason why the Wii U failed. To this day my sister still can't understand what a Wii U is
For someone who owned the N-Gage I absolutely loved it. It wasn't anywhere near as bad as people say... you just looked odd when you would talk on the phone lol
...huh??? they literally designed it and advertised that u can mod it. just imagine if it didn't fail all the cool mods u could buy on the blackmarket. so wtf u mean satan and karen
Slight correction: While Wario Land is one of the best Virtual Boy games, the series started on Game Boy. The Virtual Boy gave us nothing but some bad to mediocre games.
I used to have an n-gage. Playing pathways to glory with my friends at school, and not having to carry around a separate mobile console was a lot of fun, and convenient.
I bought the Wii U (the only console I've bought aside from a PS3) because I'm a Nintendo fan and BotW was made available on it. I did like how in BotW the controller was used to aim arrows, control Sheika slate powers, and a few of the shrines required you to tilt the controller which turned the entire platform puzzle. BotW and Super Mario exclusives were well worth it IMHO. Nintendo still supports it.
I'm the lead dev of Retro Arena gaming and media OS, I can help you set up and try these retro systems without spending $5000 The Wii U didn't fail because it's bad, it was poorly named and advertised, however, a modded Wii-U can play every previous Nintendo system from nes to GameCube and n64. The fact you can grab one for $100 now means you should buy one and softmod it for free. The GameCube with HDMI and wireless controllers alone is great.
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Bro it's crazy how many weird, failed consoles there are out there. RIP to everyone that backed Ouya on Kickstarter
Ok
These consoles deserved better
No
Ahhhhh!!!!
wheres the kfc console
My dad worked at a 3D0 so that was my first console and I've literally never met another human being who's owned one lol.
have you met any animals who've owned one?
Did you love it?
I had a mate in high school back in the day who owned one. Never saw him fire it up though, it just sat under his PS1.
Man that is awesome
The game it released with, CRASH AND BURN was quite a foreshadowing thing.
XD
If you ever want to go down a crazy rabbit hole, look up the Gizmondo. Failed portable console who’s CEO turned out to have ties to the Swedish mafia and crashed a Ferrari. It’s banana sandwiches
I wanted to talk about that console but the video was too long as it is haha
@@TheActMan Then make a dedicated vid on it
hey I love ur videos man keep the good content going
@Yarp Yarp You'd be surprised.
@@randomnerd3402 The problem with Gizmondo is that beyond the crazy aspect of Tiger Telematics and the fact that the surviving units are slowly melting- it had maybe 14 released games. The Gizmondo just is more of a blip in Gaming History. Maybe a quickfire episode including the Commodore G64 and Amstrad GX4000 would be the better option with the NEC PC-FX as well.
The Wii U feels like a strange case where the console itself was a failure, but has an absolutely stunning library of games.
And better online shop, retrocompability, apps, ect. than the Switch
This is actually the reason i have mine set up by my computer. Ive put so much money into getting all my retro games.
And it'll become a God damn collectable
@@bishop716 you can hook it up to your computer? I also have one.
Yup along with turbo graphics 16, dreamcast, neo geo pocket color, sega Saturn and....idk that's all I got
When I was a teen I watched and rewatched AVGN time and time again and again and again. Now, in my mid-20s, this video felt like a very welcome trip to the past. Thank you
Google Stadia instantly became so irrelevant that I honestly completely forgot about its existence until you mentioned it
I never even heard about it until recently
@@starchild3215 They spammed TH-cam with horrible ads for about a year... so you're lucky you didn't endure that shit
@@whitephillip6997 I know this sounds crazy but I kinda wanna watch a stadia add and see just how horrible it is
Same. Until I see a TH-cam video talking about it, I forget the stadia exists. The fact that a company as big as Google can make a game service that forgettable is laughable.
@@starchild3215 Google made something with no search feature at all
CUSTOMER: “Hey, I’d like to rent Gex for the 3DO.”
CASHIER: “WTF IS THAT!?”
Honestly ya got me giggling already.
Gonna have to pick up a 3DO for Gex night.
Is it gex night I love gex night
@@103474az that f*cking lizard. Oh you wouldn't get it you're not a Gex fan
@@Goggleman7 I honestly feel like the 3do would be cool to own these days, as there are some cool exclusives on it.
Background music in this video: 👌😔
That al Kharid music gets me everytime
It's kinda catchy
Flute salad distorted is a banger
Ikr cuphead has a very good soundtrack
You're here?!
Pretty poetic that 3DO's launch game was called "Crash and Burn."
dude that was hilarious, there is no way, a failed game console's only game was Crash and Burn 😂😂😂
@@John-XI will be honest though. If I ever get my hands on a 3DO, first game I am getting is crash and burn. Racing games in general are fun, and this is a 3do exclusive.
The Ouya is what happens when a bunch of parents think "Hey how hard can it be?"
well at lease they tried, the Ouya at lease was interesting, only issue is that tech can be replaced in short period of time, they should of treated more like console then PC
It's some ok boomer shit
@kyotheman69 least not lease, 2 diff words
@Insert_text_here No, they don't. They spelled it wrong twice, and used "should of" and "then" instead of "than," with many words outright missing.
They're a moron. Like most of the Internet.
@Insert_text_here Perhaps. I see it often enough that it's a safe assumption to make, though. These are distinctly American mistakes.
The virtual boy will always look like a portable camp grill
@@aproe610 amongoose
ew tf2
@@aproe610 that was my first thought
The fact that no one is pointing out that it's a expansion to a console not its own console it says a lot about his community here
Looks to me like an old tripod camera, like my dad probably had once
Stadia: “so you don’t have enough money to buy a high end PC? Well you need to have enough money to have a high end internet”
Easier said than done as most places outside of the metro city areas may not have access to really fast internet or if they do, the connection would have bandwidth limits.
@@sbojan83 that’s... that’s the point of my comment?
Stadia is aimed at people who can’t afford a high end pc to play games; but in places like Latin America where the “most public would be”, internet is REALLY slow (~5Mbps on average) really bad and really expensive, so if you can’t afford a high end internet Stadia loses its entire point which is to provide “affordable” high end pc gaming to people that aren’t able to pay for it.
And GeForce Now was already out and actually worked lol. And it's free.
"Don't you guys have a PC?"
@@Myth_or_Mystery76 "Don't you guys have NASA internet??;
I actually enjoyed the Ouya..... For 2 hours before it overheated and permanently broke. So much for that fan they claimed was so powerful since they didn't take in how you had to have proper ventilation.
This is like playing 3DO at Gex’s house.
i love the economy
Me too
Is it Gex night?
@@bernietea its always gex night
@@GTNyt did I hear Gex?
When I was growing up, if your family owned a Neo-Geo, you were considered RICH!
Considering Neo Geo console was basically an arcade, it explains the price tag xD the games were beautiful, as a real arcade
Hell, you're still considered rich if you own one now. Look up their prices.
I mean considering they cost $650 in 1990 (almost $1,250 today), I can see why you'd think they're rich lol.
i started off from the 64 to the macintosh floppydisk game console then from ps1 upwards: that was rich enough
So the Neo-Geo was more of a flex than anything really
Why is Mass Effect 1 so AWESOME?
It’s
Perfect
@@ExtraPrivatable +30 Paragon
We need this one
2 is better
@@fritotheplaystation2395 I disagree but there is a STONG argument for it
I remember having a Wii U when I was younger, and I had a good experience with it despite the poor sales. Everyone I talked to would ask me "Hey, do you have any games?" and I would be like "Yeah, I have some". Then when asked what console I had, I told them I had a Wii U. They usually looked at me "wtf is that?".
The wii u was a pretty good system probably one of my favourite Mario games
@@paulovalente738 Smash bros 4 was also really good. Yoshis wooly world. It has an exclusive mario tennis game. Sonic lost world I am planning on trying out soon. Most games have been ported over to switch anyways. But alot of others still havent.
Another game I gotta mention that is an eshop exclusive to the Wii U is the game fast racing neo. It is pretty cheap, it was like 14 bucks. And it looks and plays pretty well to. And is most likely going to be gone and forgotten when the eshop goes down in march. But it makes me strongly think of F-zero. The other cool thing is it has like a 5 dollar DLC option.
I dunno, I love my racing games. So I figured I would mention that If you didn't know.
I am sure there are others. But fast racing neo is pretty legit for 15 bucks.
@@qunt100 Fast Racing Neo is on the Switch under the title of Fast RMX, FYI.
@@dustinrausch5008 Yah but it isn't the same game. It is a sequel to that game. There is a prequel on the wii.
Wii U was misunderstood. Something that I appreciate about it over the Switch is how much personality it had. The OS wasn’t bland and silent and it had some great games for it.
I'm from Russia and I still have 3DO tucked away at the country house. It introduced me to the Wing Commander series. Funny thing is, it feels like in the entirety of Russia, only 2 people know about the existence of 3DO: me and the guy who sold it to me, lol.
Russia is very diverse, yes Moscow is very white but Russia in the Siberian wastes is very colourful. These parts are autonomous regions but all are part of Russia
A guy from me apt complex had a 3DO tho. PSX was of course more popular. SNES was hard to come by too.
@@haruhisuzumiya6650 Agreed
Nope I do as well.I played Gex the gecko on a 3do
"Hey man, wanna compete in the console market with me?"
"Yeah, wanna price our console so high that nobody who wants one can buy it?"
"Definitely"
-like 99% of failed consoles
Pretty much. Gizmondo was also to expensive. Like do they not know the current market that is available alredy?
It would be like a new big ass console release now from a new company or some shit, and they were marketing it and it sounded better than xbox series S or playstation 5, and it did everything 10 times better and it had all these cool features. But oh yah, it costs 1300 dollars. Like im not gonna buy that shit when i can get a playstation 5 for 600 bucks. Like they have to know the market.
If anything, really push the console and do all that shit and find some way to release it for cheaper. I mean, the switch isn't the greatest in terms of the tech and graphics and all that, but it only costs 300 bucks. And the games are really good to.
well ps3 almost kill them self when they price announced but try reducing the cost and success
@@weeebie price does matter, that's why the 360 was cruising early 7th gen until the skin versions came out as at the time the PS3 was trying to sell for like twice the 360, which in pretty sure was priced to be more expensive than the the ps5 and series consoles
Scott the Woz actually mentioned that during E3 1995, Sega announced the Saturn was ALREADY available with a $399 price tag. Announcing that the Saturn was already available had actually pissed off many retailers cause they wouldn't be given the appropriate amount of time to market the game in their store. Thus, many retailers refused to sell the Saturn.
This. The Saturn was rushed to come out before the PS1, which led to supply issues and a lack of games.
That and a handful of other problems. Sega Japan and Sega of America hated each other. The head of Sega America didn't want 2d games (something the Saturn excelled at) and only wanted polygon based 3d games. Both Sega of Japan and America did a bunch of stupid stuff.
@@Gatorade69 That's insane because I actually loved the 2D stuff back then. 3D was often meh because it wasn't something really mastered yet. Even now when people play games of that time period, the 2d holds up much better than a lot of the 3d stuff.
And I was absolutely the target market. So I dunno.. Japan probably had it more right...
@@zhawkmoth3653 I don't necessarily think Japan had it more right, they did in some regards and not in others. It was Sega of Japan's idea to release the Saturn with no launch leaving a lot of pissed off retailers, some who dropped the console and did not sell it. It was also Sega of Japan that decided to not have a standard and or good dev kits and reference materials, which is why a lot of companies chose Sony and the PlayStation. Some sources claim that Sega wanted to keep it that way so their in house developers would have an edge. Both Segas made some really stupid choices, I wonder what could have been if they had both worked together.
Heeeeeeeeeh
The Sega Dreamcast and Wii U wasn’t even bad consoles, they just came out at either bad time, or had bad marketing.
I liked playing with both
I still use my wii u on a regular basis
wii u was the biggest piece of sh1t console ever. wtf you smoking
@@BugsoftheSeaSame. Mostly for the hd Zelda games and „gamepad“ titles like captain toad.
Smash bros Wii U is still a killer smash bros. game. I can't really think of anything else though.
I also liked the Wii U and 3DS eshops as well. A ton of games on the Wii U that still don't exist on switch yet. And switch just lacks the personality. All the menus are blank with no music playing.
@@qunt100if the switch had the menu of the original Wii id buy one just for the nostalgia.
Whenever i see a company fails miserably, i feel bad for the people who founded and established it.
I know this is how world works and no one stays relevant forever, but it’s kinda heartbreaking when you see someone puts heart and energy into something then it fails.
Assuming they actually tried anyway... Looking at you ouya
@@vyor8837 yeah ouya got alot of monies that they didnt even try to make money with it
@@vyor8837 I don’t think the developers didn’t try their best. It was the management’s fault
@@krzysztofobodzinski2529 what developers?
@@vyor8837 people who actually designed and worked on this stuff. They’re usually very restricted by what the management allows them and what not
The Dreamcast was a banger console. Salute to Sega for going out on a high note
The funny thing is that Sega of America had enough money to support the Dreamcast an extra 2 years we'll as Sega of Japan brought out the white flag and surrender.
The Dreamcast is My #1 Favorite Console Of All Time 🙌
@@gokusondbz agreed.
@Kosorou Gaming 2 Studio Archives find something better to do with your time than fishing for replies lol
@Kosorou Gaming Archives original 2k games were lit
Day #2 of asking Act Man to make a "Why Is BLOODBORNE So AWESOME?!?!"
It isn't
Would you hate me if I told you Bloodborne was my least favorite Souls Game?
To be fair, I only played through it once when it first came out. Might be time for a refresher
i would love it as well but what can he say about the game that doesn't already apply in his Dark Souls video?
Also, i dont think he's a fan of cosmic horror(i don't think liking Dead Space counts)
@@TheActMan 1. You knew the day would come for u to review it
2. Wat martial art do u know
@@mikeehrmantraut1899 his favorite is DS1
As kids we got the sega pico system. It was a cartridge and small book that you plugged into a touch pad that you used through a pen. It would display on the TV and for our age was pretty cool. Just like these systems though it didn't last long and our broke never to be used again
Your description brought back memories I didn’t even know I had haha. Pretty sure my dads girlfriends son had one of those with a Winnie The Pooh game.
People who bought a Stadia got exactly what they deserved. When I first heard about it I knew it was going to be a steaming pile of garbage because the idea of streaming anything is solely dependent on someone's internet speeds which seems like something everyone else suddenly forgot.
How did Netflix and all the other streaming services do so well then? 🤔
@@Andy-uq4hq Well because it was watching and need smaller internet.
@@Andy-uq4hq because streaming a video is WAAAAAAY easier than streaming a heavy videogame
@@Andy-uq4hq almost like streaming a 6-8gb movie that buffers every 20-30 seconds. Then a 40 Gb game where your using another machine to run the game then routing it through the internet to you.
It's not speed that causes the issues that actually matter
Bro it sounds like you got a hyper scan, that's true internal rage
Never thought I'd see you here. Also you make my days 10x better when you upload.
Exactly. That hate sounds way too personal.
More like Hyper Scam...
Hahahaha did you hear what The Act Man said at 22:01? X BONE lmao 😂😂
The fall of the Dreamcast is still an utter tragedy to me :(
Sega consoles to the Dreamcast: "Send me out......with a bang"
So if Sega was able to make money making consoles again with quality and properly working well, then they should team up with Dell or Samsung to make the Sega Monolith: with a whole lot of features of the next generation of gaming and includes stuff fans want: Third Party and Indie Developer support.
same, since I had one
It had some nice titles (Soul Calibur, Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi and few more)
It was released bit too late, playstation 2 eat it :/
RIP Dreamcast, I owned you for a day and then swapped it for a PS2 that lasted equally as long
Dreamcast & Saturn 😢
My childhood was very lucky and unlucky. My parents opened a Video Store in 1982- 2002. We rented video game consoles and of course many games from all the consoles released during them years. When they decided to close the Video Store, I was able to keep everything gaming. So I became a console collector, I own every US home & Handheld gaming unit ever made with the exception of the NintendoStation. I even went back and got the Magnavox Odyssey from 1972.
What sad is, that I do own every console you showed off. Except the Japan consoles and I agree with you in every way.
why are you unlucky?
@@jinx8624 I had to buy my own consoles from 2002 to present day. To keep the collection going.
This may be satire but if not, you are the least self aware rich kid that has ever existed @lordkuku
@@v.k.healthlongevity9807 Damn, I wish I were rich. I struggle to pay my bills every month. You have no clue how I am and yet you'll make assumptions about someone you don't even know. HOW PATHETIC of a person you are.
Actman: "I guess theirs also Valve, Epic and Blizzard but we're not talking about the false messiahs"
Me: "Soon the Great Journey shall begin. But when it does, the weight of your heresy will stay your feet. And you shall be left behind."
There’s always halo references in his comments lol
@@whatclub3934 this wouldn’t be an Act Man video without Halo References!
I mean, those three suck now.
@@J01789 Valve just released a new Half-Life game. Let that sink in for a moment.
@@snowtyler A game on expensive hardware that not everybody owns and is worked around a fad gimmick. And before that they hadn't released a non Dota based game since 2014. That's garbage.
"This would be totally acceptable today but back then products had to be complete" oh my god I hate how true that is 🤣
It is the damn truth. Lol I feel like everyone I know now is a con artist. The internet has completely removed the barrier to entry. As long as you got the views and the shares, regardless of how hated the video is or disliked it is. Or how bad the quality is. If it has a billion views. That is money at the end of the day. Kind of sad really.
You have an ultra power computer cooled by an iceberg? Ok. You earn 20-30 fps
Don’t forget the R-Zone.. if you don’t know what it is do you’re self a favor and don’t bother looking it up 😂
ATTENTION BROTHER!!! I have two very very sweet girlfriends who I show off (I smell like 100 not-alive orangutans oh nooo) in my perfectly great videos that most people consider to be the reason of life! Thank you for you attention, dear dude kid km
I'm an avgn veteran, unfortunately I know damn well what the r-zone is 😂
or the Solja Boy console.
What’s up checkmark?
Remember the commercial.......AAAHHHHHH
“It’s called a cell phone” had me laughing out loud in the gym!
Same
“What’s the first thing you notice about the CDI?”
*SPAGHETTI*
Come back when your a little richer
@@dragonmaster3030 You forgot the *MMMMMMMMMMM*
@@ootdega oh, well my mistake
MAH BOI
11:52
I'd disagree about the EA thing but...
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Sorry bruv, i dont got that kinda money anymore..
To many paywalls, 😔
Maybe, for what i heard, the CEO was fired for how bad he
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Hey nice hat
@@dustinsterling3248 Thx
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I was amazed that anyone cared about the Ouya. I remember being so unimpressed when I saw the Kickstarter but a bunch of friends and youtubers I watched back then thought it was gonna be an insane innovation. It looked like trash and the backlash after it released was hilarious
A good friend of mine kept bugging me to port one of my games to the Ouya... he said it was gonna be the most amazing console ever. I was reluctant because it was coming from a company with no track record, so I held off but kept it in the back of my mind. Then when it launched, it came to the surface that other developers were having a hell of a hard time with communication with the parent company... there were a lot of technical issues and the Ouya developer forums were apparently flooded with complaints and inquiries, all of which were either being ignored or just brushed off. I don't think I've ever breathed such a large sigh of relief for being cautious.
The only good thing about the Ouya was that it did spawn Towerfall that was later ported to PS4.
One of the best arcade style local multiplayer games ever made.
I thought it was some of that knock-off consoles you can buy on Amazon
Hey, anyone remember the Amazon luna
I never even heard of the ouya but when I saw it in this video I knew it was doomed just from the size of it and the look of the hardware. It looks severely underpowered. If it had n64 level graphics I'd be surprised
I’m a huge fan of The Act Man, I even got my dad into the channel and I watch Avery new video with him. But I gotta say, this is just my favorite video from the channel. It’s just well put together and covers an interesting topic. I rewatch this video frequently.
The virtual boy literally looks like a Level 1 TeamFortress2 sentry
But cancerous
@@Adumbshiba mini sentry
@@comical_world Mini Sentry on Hightower
Haha dumb mini looking sentry
Engineer gaming is not impressed with this model.
"What's the first thing you notice about the CDI?"
"Spaghetti"
Dude, Act Man, that cut had me rolling. One of the best use of memes in a long while.
Literally those super Mario and Zelda cutscenes are so funny they hurt
this thing was dumpster fire, always remember it thanks to AVGN, his videos were the best, Peanut butter gamer has great videos as well on this shit console
I worked at a Gamestop during the 32-bit to 128-bit era and distinctly remember my GM coming back from the manager conference in Texas _(I think Darrel Hammond was the comedian that year...)_ followed by two boxloads of swag in the mail but the shiny new NGage had made it back with him on the plane.
*Is Stylophone as an instrument equivalent to Virtual Boy as a console?*
No.
Yes. Except a stylophoneis actually decently entertaining
Is mayonnaise an instrument?
Hey, I’ve seen a few of your covers on the Stylophone.
What is a Stylophone
How funny would it be if EA made a gaming console called the lootbox
LoL
Sounds right up their alley
No disc tray just a credit card reader
You can only play live service games on there
@@dumpy8312 and a no money back guarantee XD
It still baffles me how Sega was able to release one of the greatest console's in the history of gaming, the Sega Genesis, then go on to be completely irrelevant just 5 years after the end of that console's generation.
shush
To be fair Nintendo have only really stayed relevant by by brand recognition and producing fun but pretty safe games
Saturn was very underrated. That system had great games and in some ways it was more powerfull than the Playstation. Saturn did 2D games much better than than PSX, but at the time 3D gaming was all the rage.
Add to that it was difficult to program for, the disastrous marketing and half the major retailers boycotting the system...
Plus the Saturn had an internal memory and memory sticks. So you could actually save your games with buying a stick.
I believe that most of the success of the Genesis was due to SEGA of America. SEGA of Japan was out of sync and didn't understand that the US was a much bigger market than Japan and VERY VERY different. The book Console Wars was a fantastic "read" ( I actually listened to the audio book). Sega of Japan seemed upset that SOA was doing better than them and put their foot down and continued to not read the room. Thus the downhill slope of Sega.
@@MidwayMaiTais Somewhat. Sega of America did do a great job marketing the Genesis (and really helped Sega in America) but the Mega Drive was also big in Europe and South America too. There was a lot of animosity between Sega of Japan and Sega of America but both of them did a lot of idiotic stuff.
This video unlocked childhood memories with the hyper scan. I haven’t thought about that system in years and the only game I played as a kid on it was the Ben ten one
The sad thing about DreamCast is that it was actually a good console.
It was too early. Sadly
Some indie devs still make games for it. It's really easy to make games for the dreamcast
The Saturn was pretty good too
Also Saturn. Even the Sega CD has some good games though too expensive. 32x was pure failure
@@devingruver291 Really? That's weird, seems like a waste of time. Would you mind telling us the name of any of these games? Im really curious.
I knew the Wii U would be the poster boy for this video
But it shouldn't be....
Probably because most of the viewers don't remember the 90s well enough to click for a Philips cdi
waiting for actman's why skyrim is so awesome is almost as painful as taking an arrow to the knee.
@@whiterunguard6415 cause skyrim isn't awesome
Ok Wii U hater
The virtual boy sounds like the idea was there but the technology wasn’t until 20 years later
actually the tech was being developed at the time...
Even 20 years later, the virtual reality concept is still a novelty like he said.
The technology is still not really here
@@sertiana2512 The Oculus Quest needs some real competition for the technology to become truly mainstream... So far, I ain't giving my money to the Zucc.
Honestly I think games should never go vr, lots of screen burn, and my god if it's ever taken online
I owned a Panasonic 3DO when they were released. Great memories playing Need For Speed to death. That game was awesome. One of the few decent games for the system.
“Why Kotor 2 is so awesome”
I’m not gonna stop m8. You did fallout new Vegas. Kotor 2 deserves a chance.
Yes!!!!!!
“Like so many Jedi...he hears, but he does not listen!”
Do it please!!
It may have to compete with Bloodborne. Best of luck to you.
Yes
"Nintendo, sony, microsofts. The 3 gods"
Soulja boy console: amateurs
Kloppo!
Souljaboy the elder being
Nintendo: "STOP! YOU VIOLATED THE LAW!"
KFC Console master race
4 actually
It's such a shame because the Deamcast was a FANTASTIC system and incredibly powerful for its time!
Then the PS2 came out & crushed the Dreamcast
@@zaneheaston8254 PS2 was overrated. The only thing it had going for was DVD playback but even that wasn’t better than a standalone DVD player despite being cheaper.
@@crazedlunatic43 It has better games Dreamcast was shit,
@@mountaindew3201 At least the Dreamcast had built in four controller ports and was much easier to code for than the PS2’s complicated architecture. Add to that, if the install of the PS2 wasn’t high, then developers would’ve ditched the PS2 in favour of the Dreamcast, GameCube and Original Xbox since again it was a pain to code games for it. Oh, and the Dreamcast is now worth more than a bargain bin PS2 that you could find at a local thrift store because of how many PS2’s have sold overall lol.
@@crazedlunatic43 I don't know enough about the subject to agree or to disagree with your points. But damn why did they release a controller with just one analog stick? I was really put off by that after experiencing ps1 dual shock as a kid
Funny story, I believe it was, 10 years ago? Me and my brother were searching for game consoles named after animals (we didn't know shit about game consoles) and we came across the Jaguar in disbelief. We would've probably have spent hours searching for one if we didn't chose that single animal lmao. He's in the Navy now and I hope he doesn't forget that memory.
The Ouya was such a cool idea. Still have mine as a collectors item lol. I do remember turning it on, seeing the games, and thinking “this isn’t gonna last long”.
Dreamcast was an awesome console. I’d buy one now if I saw one in my local gadget shop. It still has amazing games like Shenmue, Shenmue 2, MSR, and the Sega arcade classics.
@Kosorou Gaming Archives opinions and preferences don't exist in your world, does it?
Soul Calibur kicks ass still does
Shenmue 2 Was EU🇬🇧 & Jap🇯🇵
ONLY Title...It REQUIRED A
GameShark In-Order To Work
On US🇺🇸 Consoles....UNTIL The
Xbox Version Was Released.
Reply 5
is it weird I own every game console on this list but one? I never got a Google Stadia. I honestly don't call it a console, more of a service.
Good. I had a subscription for it, bought gta 5 full price, it only ran in 480 and i could barley get 30 fps in prologue. It sucks
I avoid subscriptions like the plague. So the Google Stadia was easy for me to ignore.
@@engihere5434 huh GTA 5 on stadia you’re tripping and the Loweat they can go is 720….
The reason streaming based consoles are failing now is that people don’t realize that streaming games like tv shows is too difficult. We don’t have the proper networking infrastructure in the majority of the world to actually accommodate consoles like ouya and stadia. Not just that but proximity from the server can mean anything from a seamless game experience in a state close to the servers, or a Google slideshow in an area far away…
"Who knows where I'd be if I never owned a Nintendo 64?"
"I'M TIRED OF READING BOOKS!"
30 seconds into a half-hour-long video and I knew it was time to Like and Subscribe. Well done, sir.
The Acting Mail Man literally threw 8 pounds worth of books at the floor just for a bit, and it was beautiful
Even though the Wii-U failed, it holds a special place in my heart. It was the first ever console I got for a birthday. The special part is that my mom gave it to me and I personally loved it. Just the memories it gave me were great.
If you still have it. I highly advise you to mod it. There are easy on-line guides on how to do it. And it turns the WiiU in a beast capable of playing retro and backup games from all the oldest until its generation. Plus Netflix and TH-cam.
@@AlexNightsyup. Softmodded mine. Would never get rid of it. Best console I've ever owned. I'm a bit sick of hearing its a failure just cause people thought it was an add on for the wii....
@@AlexNights tbf its better for us. We can get this thing so cheap cause everyone else thinks it's cool to hate on it. Plus the pro controllers battery lasts for WEEKS!
waiting for actman's why skyrim is so awesome is almost as painful as taking an arrow to the knee.
Personally didn't like it, but Im happy it's given you special memories, that's awesome ❤
Dreamcast was so good and so tragic.
Amazing to think that today, with more advanced technology in our consoles, they only cost around 300 to 500 dollars, yet these old consoles cost so much more.
The "299" moment was so brutal, I love it
Was that Michael from the Office? That’s who it sounded like
the 3DO: shit welp... we're doomed
the sega saturn: dont worry we have sonic... RIGHT? *guys.... we have a new 3D sonic game right?*
atari: anyone know where my Lynx went?
the apple pippin: wait... I'm a console? NO.... I'm not a console I'm kinda a PC
Sony: *loads light gun with malious intent*
Like for real it killed me
0:32 and what friendships might still be intact if I had never played mario party...
Sup checkmark
All of them lol
Sup check mark
@@TheActMan pp
@@Akunai_ You guys. My name is NOT CHECKMARK! Also HI ACT MAN!
The DD is like that one person who keeps saying I’m busy but that’s just an excuse
Patroling the post apoclyptic streets of dubai almost makes you wish the act man to do a 'WHY IS SPEC OPS THE LINE SO AWESOME'
Haha that's too good 😄 🤣
Despite the flaws I love the Wii U. It was my first console and it will always have a special place in my heart
Yah i agree. And there are a few exclusive games on it. Smash 4 for example is still an awesome game to be playing. There are others i am sure, but most of the popular ones got ported over to switch such as mario kart 8. But i have a fascination for the old stuff in the industry. Still worth holding onto in my op. Heck i even want a virtual boy some day. Someone needs to make a mod that ports all the virtual boy games in color. That would be pretty neat.
Nintendo: Even in their greatest failures they manage to bring about some of their greatest victories.
Not really. The Wii U and GameCube are both terrible failures on all numerical measures.
@@kob4918 yeah but they ported the Wii U games to switch and made lots of money so in the end the Wii U is a victory
The Nintendo GameCube was a great console it deserved more success than it got. But the PlayStation 2 was the better machine because it had the best games most of the third parties avoided the GameCube and robes because of mini DVDs it was a lot easier to make games on the PlayStation to an Xbox then it was to make it on GameCube.
@@kob4918 I have a wii U lol
@@youfinnagetrunupon761 don’t care
While the WiiU was a Massive Market Failure, it was a Superior sucess for it's Leadership. Satoru Iwata as the console was failing took multiple massive payouts along with the Board of Directors taking big pay cuts as well, All while Iwata was Hospitalized and terminally Ill. Iwata was a Saint in an industry of sin. You can't name any other CEO who will take massive cuts to his pay and take the blame for the failures to shelter the developers and employees from being fired.
GameCube was also a Massive Market Failure, which led to Wii. GameCube was so bad, they stopped production on them in 2003! Look it up, production stopped on GameCube in 2003!
@@jackson5116 I love and still have my gamecube. And it blows my mind how expensive some of that shit is getting now to. You better be willing to pay like 140 something bucks for a gamecube edition of twilight princess if you really want it that badly. Kind if insane.
13:38 "OUYA play a demo" Ah, I remember those old pc days when developers made demos.
Shareware floppy disks, ftw!
Nintendo is a hugely successful company today, despite having three of its products on the worst list.
In other words, it survived the worst failures three times!
You can see that Nintendo is a very powerful company.
You can thank them for the NES who fixed the gaming world.. and the Wii, who gave them billions.
only because the Wii was a run away success... neither the N64 or GameCube sold very well...
@@Oturan20 Makes sense, the Nintendo 64 was a turd. The GameCube though was a good console but not including a DVD player with it hurt it. A lot of my friends and I both got the PS2 (or Xbox) after also telling our family "We can use it as a DVD player too !" It really did help sell more console because at the time it wasn't that much more than a good DVD player.
@@Gatorade69 let's not even mention N64s cancer causing controller and the GameCubes stubbornness with it's disc and Nintendo hate for piracy leading to disc with less memory than both PS2 and og Xbox as well as making it impossible to be a DVD player, not to mention it was still stuck at like 480p
R u implying the GameCube and Wii U are bad?
"Stadia is so cool and revolutionary " man imagine him playing about geforce now
Damn, I remember being a kid and wanting a VirtualBoy so bad! Now I'm really glad my parents never got me one.
I 'rented' one from blockbuster, took it back after the rental and never wanted to buy one
I actually had one it was completely shit
This video ended up becoming the greatest roast I’ve ever seen lmao
Definitely
Especially "nowadays we have a thing that can play videogames and also is a cellphone, *it's called a cellphone* "
Ever heard of AVGN ?
The N64DD was released on my date of birth... No wonder why I've had bad luck all my life.
LMAO
If PC is so good where’s PC2?
xbox is so good the 720 is coming out soon meanhile there will never be a pc 2 cuz pc sucks
this isnt dunky's
My dude we should be on pc 7 by now
This is my favorite video of yours I wish you would make a extensive break down of every console ever.
Therapist: “Act Man the Woz can’t hurt you, he’s not real.”
Act Man the Woz-
Timestamp?
waiting for actman's why skyrim is so awesome is almost as painful as taking an arrow to the knee.
@@whiterunguard6415 Very painful
I thought the same thing. This is very much a StW type of video, but with Act Man's chad energy instead of StW's signature nerdy style (which ofc I still love).
Can't stand StWs face, I want to watch the videos, but he looks so uncanny dorky that's it physically hurts me
"Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft. The 3 gods of gaming"
KFC gaming console: there is another
Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft in perfect unison: Hahahaha!
Day #1 of asking actman for "why is oblivion so awesome?!"
And so the cycle begins anew
... and bad xD
Yeah.... Nah
Nah call of duty modern warfare (og)
Why Morrowind is so awesome and old!?!
Fun Fact about the Virtual Boy:
The prototype used 3 led screens, the classical RGB, to show nice non-irises melting graphics. But Nintendo decided to limit to one color due to production cost, it would almost quadruple its sales price if ir had the 3 colors.
Also, they choose red cuz it was the cheaper of the three.
"Lets all laugh at an industry that never learns anything, tee hee hee!"
why Yahtzee is my hero
You think Bungie and Apple giving Halo to Microsoft was a mistake? I doubt halo would have existed without them. You'd just have this one meh 3rd person action game on Mac and that would be it
But you do have one meh 3rd person action game with Halo. 🤣🤣🤣
@@USERTM7 its a first person game my guy
@@itzk_xrma he means one of the spin-off games
@@matthours1783 The only real spin off was halo wars which i dont think counts since its top down, but i could be wrong
@@itzk_xrma mac world 99, halo used to be a 3rd person game, its not a spin off, never was
Patrolling the Galaxy, makes you wish That Actman would do a “Why is Mass Effect 2 So awesome”
Mass Effect is more then AWESOME. It’s iconic
I’m thinking of pulling a NCR Trooper with a new account called “The Stargazer’s Child”, asking him to tell the story of the shepherd.
I see your following the trend as well
Discovering new alien races, then fucking them
No your not him l. You can't replace him! He was a legend!
I remember when Philips would run hour long infomercials for the CDI right after Saturday morning cartoons. 9 year old me wanted one so bad. My parents thought I was nuts for asking for something that cost more than a used car at the time.
I have fond memories of my 2600. I think the lesson to be learned here honestly is that even though it was tried and failed there was much to be learned about what works and what does not. This translates now into the games we have today. Also I hate motion controls with a passion.
I bought my 3DO second hand, near the end of it's life cycle. I loved it. But then again, there were a bunch of games available for cheap at the time and I only paid $75 for it including a dozen or so games
Those snk fighters were arcade like.
Still waiting for your
“Is Munch’s odyssey a real game or a fever dream I had when I was 8.”
Video
Huh
@@AceBallon3721 if you know you know
When I was still on Famicom (I didn't stumble, I really meant Famicom. For some reason they sold better than the NES. We had access to both in the middle east), my father wanted to buy us a gift for summer vacation after doing well in school. How lucky were we that it ended up being the original PS. Imagine all the bad consoles my father could've ended up picking, yet he picked the right one. He wasn't even a gamer, he went by what the shop owner advised him to buy. That was a summer well-spent at home.
The list contains three of nintendos consoles, two being a pro models of the earlier models ,the very reason nintendo doesn't release a switch pro.
The Wii U is not a pro model of the Wii. The fact that this confuses so many people is part of the reason why the Wii U failed. To this day my sister still can't understand what a Wii U is
@@TheNewRobotMaster I understand what it is, its shit
ill leave now
Gameboy Colour and New 3DS beg to differ
Why is Oddworld Strangers Wrath so AWESOME?
That's the Oddworld game you want him to cover? Oddworld was best in 2D
Yep I played it on the OUYA XD
What ive learned: 90s designers must have been wild
Honey, you don’t know the half of it.
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For someone who owned the N-Gage I absolutely loved it. It wasn't anywhere near as bad as people say... you just looked odd when you would talk on the phone lol
The CEO of Ouya is like if Satan and all the Karens in the world were combined into one being
...huh???
they literally designed it and advertised that u can mod it.
just imagine if it didn't fail all the cool mods u could buy on the blackmarket.
so wtf u mean satan and karen
@@watersquid8847 Black market?? It's computer hardware, not a fuckin arms deal
@@ootdega What you think the black market is?
@@watersquid8847 If you're into modding, just get a PC lol
@@watersquid8847 cause they scammed everyone
Slight correction: While Wario Land is one of the best Virtual Boy games, the series started on Game Boy. The Virtual Boy gave us nothing but some bad to mediocre games.
Wario land only solid game
Mario clash is also pretty fun.
The PlayStation Vita was such a failure that it's not even on this list.
PSVITA sold more than all the consoles on here. its sad to say its a failure cause it was so good
@@thatonerampartmain8843 Let's not forget that their store is closing this august...
@@JonnyHorseman oh fuck
In Japan it actually had a pretty good success because it's used to play visual novels.
@@la-zrider2749 yeah i consider the ps vita to be a success even with its low sales
I used to have an n-gage. Playing pathways to glory with my friends at school, and not having to carry around a separate mobile console was a lot of fun, and convenient.
I love the terran scream everytime EA is mentioned in your videos
That's cuz it sounds like a long "EAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaa". Great audio pun from the Acting Man.
@@mancamiatipoola wow i never caught on to that. It makes it even funnier. Thanks for letting me know!
I bought the Wii U (the only console I've bought aside from a PS3) because I'm a Nintendo fan and BotW was made available on it. I did like how in BotW the controller was used to aim arrows, control Sheika slate powers, and a few of the shrines required you to tilt the controller which turned the entire platform puzzle. BotW and Super Mario exclusives were well worth it IMHO. Nintendo still supports it.
I wonder what would happen is Sega decides to make a new system nowadays.
I'm the lead dev of Retro Arena gaming and media OS, I can help you set up and try these retro systems without spending $5000
The Wii U didn't fail because it's bad, it was poorly named and advertised, however, a modded Wii-U can play every previous Nintendo system from nes to GameCube and n64. The fact you can grab one for $100 now means you should buy one and softmod it for free. The GameCube with HDMI and wireless controllers alone is great.