Most dissapointing Nintendo console?

[Demuwan]

Color TV Game
NES/Famicom (AV | NES 2 )
SNES/Super Famicom
Virtual Boy
Nintendo 64
GameCube
iQue
Game & Watch
Game Boy
Game Boy Color
Game Boy Advance (SP | Micro)
Nintendo DS/ Nintendo DS Lite

For me it would have to be the virtual boy made my head hurt:nono:
It also made me dream in 'red'.

[KKOB]

gameboy pocket-the screen went all blurry with motion in mario for the GB and i couldnt play it! grrrrr!!!

[Atomic Boo]

Gameboy Advance - games were mostly rubbish and not much of an improvement over gameboy colour.

[KKOB]

Gameboy Advance - games were mostly rubbish and not much of an improvement over gameboy colour.

kinda agree, but it revived all the SNES classics and had some very very high quality games, im glad nintendo didnt make it more powerful, however over looking a back lit screen and not fitting the original GBA with one was just crap really.

[The Bard]

iQue, followed shortly by the Game and Watches...

[Indigo]

iQue, followed shortly by the Game and Watches...
iQue? It wasn't even designed for our market. I don't see how you could call it a disappointment.

[Fields]

For me, it's the Gamecube. Yes, there were some fantastic games, but it promised so much more. Online games failed to materialise, the whole GBA connectivity thing didn't deliver, and none of the big releases really lived up to the massive hype they generated. And all this was reflected, of course, by disappointing sales figures.

[AshMat]

I still don't get what the iQue is, and the Game and Watches are great little machines.

Virtual Boy for me.

[triforcemario]

iI still don't get what the iQue is, and the Game and Watches are great little machines.

iQue is the company that sells Nintendo products in China, the first iQue was a Nes, Snes and N64 all-in-one controller, which was just an controller which you plugged into the TV, and the games could be downloaded from kiosks (Nes, Snes and N64 games) onto a flash memory card for low prices, from what I can gather, it was quite succesful, but there wern't many games... and the second iQue produect was the iQue DS, it was more or less the same as a normal DS, besides tha it had different firmware which was in chinese, and as the iQue DS logo on it instead of the Nintendo DS logo.

[Blue_Ninja0]

Virtual Boy

[ViPeR]

For me it has to be the Game Boy Color, it was too little too late to be honest.

[Mr. Bananagrabber]

Gamecube. Worst system this generation by far. About 5 games worth owning.

[soag]

I have an IQUE it freaking rocks, playing starfox in chinese its a right laugh when drunk :D

[The3rdChildren]

GameCube for me. All of the best games on it aren't even directly from Nintendo.

[DanielTimothy]

Gamecube. Worst system this generation by far. About 5 games worth owning.

. . . and one of those games is enough reason to have a cube.

[The Bard]

Gamecube. Worst system this generation by far. About 5 games worth owning.

Load of toss. I have about 40 games, all of them I consider essential. To there. :heh:

[Bren]

gamecube. I played my xbox a lot more than it. And iv never done that with another nintendo console. N64 my personal fav.

[Caris]

gamecube. I played my xbox a lot more than it. And iv never done that with another nintendo console. N64 my personal fav.

couldnt of said it better my self.

[mcj metroid]

.........none that i'v played but i suppose gamecube could have been so much more with more third party.never played vb

[triforce_keeper]

GBA because I didn't really buy a lot of games on it due to most of the games were not appealing to me.

[Zygo Ape]

Gameboy pocket for me, i didnt really see the point.

And the only reason i didnt say Game Boy Colour was because of Dragon Warrior Monsters and Pokemon Gold/Silver

[Fierce_LiNk]

Gameboy advance is mine. I wasn't really 'into' handhelds at the time, so i didn't have the energy to buy that many titles. I spent more money playing titles on my gamecube and N64, rather than getting a new advance title.

Luckily, the DS came and totally changed my perception of handhelds.

[Ramar]

I'd say GBA, I played on my old GBA the other day and I was like. "How on earth did I play this, I can't even see the ****ing screen". I honestly can't imagine how Nintendo thought they could sell the product, the SP was like a knight in shining armour and saved the day.

[Zell]

All the nintendo consoles I own (snes, n64, gbc, gba, gamecube and ds) were all worth getting, none of them disappointing. It's really hard to say which is the most disappointing, the most obvious choice is gamecube, but with games like smash bros and resi 4... gamecube is obviously not a disappointment.

[mario_jr]

Virtual Boy hands down.:cry:

[Shorty]

Never played the Virtual Boy, but it was probably a huge disappointment to those who were expecting to be immersed in a huge 3D virtual world, and not get stabbing headaches and red marios burned into their eyeballs.

The Gamecube has been fairly disappointing. Every time I saw a 3rd party game advertised on TV for "PS2, Xbox and PC" it really annoyed me. Started to wonder if Sony and MS had got together to pay the 3rd party developers to screw us over. On top of that Nintendo never delivered a lot of things they suggested or promised, like Mario 128 and Zelda has been pushed back a year. Yes TWW was great, but so, so easy and that really let it down - same for Mario Sunshine. Then there's Nintendo's crappy online "service", I loved PSO but it was a) the only online game worth mentioning and b) not supported properly by Nintendo, they couldn't even be bothered to set up servers. They really screwed up that department.

The Gamecube's been a great console, but compared to my original expectations it has to be classed as a disappointment.

[Babooo]

Has to be the Gamecube. Hardly any games that were essential, most of the triple A games were disappointing IMO (Mario Kart/Mario Sunshine/Wind Waker) and not alot of 3rd party support at all. The only positive thing I can remember about the GC was Resi 4.

GBA connectivity was crap as well. What a flop that was.

[Yggdrasill]

Virtual Boy is the worst

[Blue_Ninja0]

How can some of you consider Gamecube worst than a videogame machine that induced headaches and was overall bad? (virual boy)

[Mr. Bananagrabber]

. . . and one of those games is enough reason to have a cube.
. . . Which one is that?

[Kurtle Squad]

Yeah...The Gamecube ahs loads of really fun games. Smash Football, Smash Bros., Mario Kart, Monkey Ball, Battle Stadium, Naruto GNT, Metroid Primes, Wind Waker, Wario Ware....I'll even go ahead and say Kirby Air Ride.
And sure, Sunshine and the Starfoxes weren't amazingly great; but they're not shit, and in my opinion are worth having. There are also pleanty more games on there (inc. the Resident Evils, Killer7 etc etc).

I have over 60 games at the moment, with only a few I've found slightly to pretty disappointing, but have only found 2 terrible enough to sell (Spyro: Enter Dragonfly & Bleach GC)

I think one problem of the Gamecube is that there aren't enough Killer 1P adventures for it; therefor, to get the most out of it, you need to have friends ;)


Anyway..I'll have to say the GBA is the most dissapointing, out of the ones I've played; not because it's shit, just very flawed.
First of all; you needed wires for everything until Pokémon LGFR, which was near the end of the GBAs decent part of life.
2. There weren't X & Y buttons *Tongue put into chin kinda place infront of lower teeth*
3. Crap D-pad & no backlighting on the original
4. Mico was pointless & you needed new wires n everything etc *Tongue > Chin*

[Fields]

How can some of you consider Gamecube worst than a videogame machine that induced headaches and was overall bad? (virual boy)
We're not talking about the worst console, we're talking about the most disappointing. Yes, Gamecube was a great console with some great games, but dig out some old magazines and plunder some internet archives and you will see that it promised so much more than it actually delivered. I don't think the Virtual Boy hype machine was ever really that big, and its failure not all that surprising.

[Blue_Ninja0]

^You'r right, but still, Virtual Boy promised 3D if i'm not mistaken, and it did not work at all. After Virtual Boy i say gameboy colour or gameboy advance (non-SP).

[conzer16]

Gameboy advance is mine. I wasn't really 'into' handhelds at the time, so i didn't have the energy to buy that many titles. I spent more money playing titles on my gamecube and N64, rather than getting a new advance title.

Luckily, the DS came and totally changed my perception of handhelds.


Absolutley the same for me.

(and I bought the SP as well.....:horse: )

[Shorty]

gameboy colour

Argh how dare you, that little box of beauty gave everything it promised. I loved my GBC, wish I hadn't sold it to get my GBA. It was green, sleek, bright and played Metal Gear Solid - what more could you ask for?

[DanielTimothy]

We're not talking about the worst console, we're talking about the most disappointing. Yes, Gamecube was a great console with some great games, but dig out some old magazines and plunder some internet archives and you will see that it promised so much more than it actually delivered. I don't think the Virtual Boy hype machine was ever really that big, and its failure not all that surprising.

Reading that I can understand why it was dissapointing. I just bought the Resident Evil 4 Gamecube pack for 45 quid though and I'm a very happy man. I got cravings to play Tales, Resi and even Windwaker after ridding myself of my cube a while back. I tried to wait for Wii . . . Ah well. :)

[demonmike04]

Argh how dare you, that little box of beauty gave everything it promised. I loved my GBC, wish I hadn't sold it to get my GBA. It was green, sleek, bright and played Metal Gear Solid - what more could you ask for?
For it to make toast of course :p

[Blue_Ninja0]

Argh how dare you, that little box of beauty gave everything it promised. I loved my GBC, wish I hadn't sold it to get my GBA. It was green, sleek, bright and played Metal Gear Solid - what more could you ask for?

Well, it was not a disappointing console. But the topic reads THE MOST. And between NES, SNES, N64, GC, GB, GBC, GBA, NDS and Virtual Boy, i chose Virtual Boy in the 1st place and the GBC in 2nd.

With that i still love my GBC a lot. I just never got disappointed with any Nintendo console i owned.

I'm not talking here about half-consoles like the game and watch or pokemon mini. Nor the console remakes, as i consider them the same console.

[martinist]

The virtual Boy gave me a headache it was too red....red red red....not enough colour and the games were just a let down

[mcj metroid]

what's the deal with the virtual boy.i remember what it looked like but did u need a tv or what?i sounded a bit daft having to get on your knees and look through the lens!Why wasn't it just a headset instead of a tripod?