Worst Consoles Ever?

Gamecube. Hated it.

Wii imo.

Game.Com for handheld?

Virtual Boy. It's the only game console that literally hurt when you played it.

while this console does have good games,  --- xbox360 , and ps3 , two for the price of  one, 

the first has to many error codes and problems the 2nd the online is total trash 

wii

wii

Flubbbs

N-Gage possibly haha.

CD-i

Jaguar

Virtual Boy

32X (if that counts)

All this hate for the Wii. I can't deny the amount of shovelware on it, there was a lot. But among that library there is a large number of gems:

• Bit Trip Series
• Cave Story
• Data East Arcade Classics
• Donkey Kong Country Returns
• Epic Mickey
• House of the Dead 2 & 3 (both on 1 release)
• House of the Dead: Overkill
• Kirby's Dream Collection
• Kirby's Epic Yarn
• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
• The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
• Metal Slug Anthology
• Mario Kart Wii
• Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
• Metroid Prime Trilogy
• Metroid: Other M
• New Super Mario Bros. Wii
• Pinball Hall of Fame: Gottileb Collection
• Pinball Hall of Fame: Williams Collection
• Rayman: Origins
• Red Steel 1 & 2
• Resident Evil (Remake)
• Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles
• Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles
• Samurai Shodown Anthology
• SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1
• Sonic: Colors
• Sonic: Generations
• Super Mario All-Stars
• Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2
• Super Paper Mario
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl
• Wii Play
• Wii Sports
• Wii Sports Resort

And the Wii Virtual Console is fantastic for getting those games that are just too hard to track down or too expensive.

The Virtual boy. It was nintendo's only failed portable/console. 3D system. And the Atari Jaguar 64 bit console. Which sort of did get creative with the math to get the 64 number. Then Atari died.

WOAH WOAH WOAH...I'm seeing responses like the Gamecube and the Wii....

You guys need to go play an Apple Pippin before you dare say something about Nintendo consoles...yeah I'm not the biggest Nintendo fan around, but there are a lot worse options out there...AHEM Apple Pippin.

WOAH WOAH WOAH...I'm seeing responses like the Gamecube and the Wii....

 

You guys need to go play an Apple Pippin before you dare say something about Nintendo consoles...yeah I'm not the biggest Nintendo fan around, but there are a lot worse options out there...AHEM Apple Pippin.

NodakJo2010

^Exactly. Even if you don't like the Wii's library there's still the Virtual Console so the Wii can serve some purpose. There were a lot of consoles in the 80s and 90s that were completely useless and had nothing going for them outside of maybe one or two games. JML897

It's all opinion, I didn't have the Jaguar so I can't comment on it, out of all the consoles I've had experience with Wii was my least favourite by far.

• Almost nonexistent 3rd party support
• Hardware was a gen behind its competitors
• It forced motion controls on us, which is something I loath.

There's loads of other reasons but those are my main gripes with it, and there enough for me to put it as my worst.

All this hate for the Wii. I can't deny the amount of shovelware on it, there was a lot. But among that library there is a large number of gems:

• Bit Trip Series
• Cave Story
• Data East Arcade Classics
• Donkey Kong Country Returns
• Epic Mickey
• House of the Dead 2 & 3 (both on 1 release)
• House of the Dead: Overkill
• Kirby's Dream Collection
• Kirby's Epic Yarn
• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
• The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
• Metal Slug Anthology
• Mario Kart Wii
• Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
• Metroid Prime Trilogy
• Metroid: Other M
• New Super Mario Bros. Wii
• Pinball Hall of Fame: Gottileb Collection
• Pinball Hall of Fame: Williams Collection
• Rayman: Origins
• Red Steel 1 & 2
• Resident Evil (Remake)
• Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles
• Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles
• Samurai Shodown Anthology
• SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1
• Sonic: Colors
• Sonic: Generations
• Super Mario All-Stars
• Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2
• Super Paper Mario
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl
• Wii Play
• Wii Sports
• Wii Sports Resort

And the Wii Virtual Console is fantastic for getting those games that are just too hard to track down or too expensive.

Emerald_Warrior

Sonic Generations wasn't released for the Wii...

Nevertheless, I'd replace it with Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition. Although a last gen game, the Wii Edition was the definitive version of the game.

Philips CDi. Nothing else comes close.

Philips CDi. Nothing else comes close.

RossRichard

I can't understand the hate for the Wii here. Sure, there's shovelware, but there are SO many other good games.

A truly bad console would be the CDi or the Jaguar, one for terrible games and the other for faulty hardware.

That I played? The Saturn even though I think it's a good system. I have the luck of playing good systems.

The worst overall? Virtual Boy, Jaguar, Gizmodo, Apple Pippin, 3DO, Sega 32X, Philips CDI, and a bunch of others.

Mattel Hyperscan

All this hate for the Wii. I can't deny the amount of shovelware on it, there was a lot. But among that library there is a large number of gems:

• Bit Trip Series
• Cave Story
• Data East Arcade Classics
• Donkey Kong Country Returns
• Epic Mickey
• House of the Dead 2 & 3 (both on 1 release)
• House of the Dead: Overkill
• Kirby's Dream Collection
• Kirby's Epic Yarn
• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
• The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
• Metal Slug Anthology
• Mario Kart Wii
• Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
• Metroid Prime Trilogy
• Metroid: Other M
• New Super Mario Bros. Wii
• Pinball Hall of Fame: Gottileb Collection
• Pinball Hall of Fame: Williams Collection
• Rayman: Origins
• Red Steel 1 & 2
• Resident Evil (Remake)
• Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles
• Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles
• Samurai Shodown Anthology
• SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1
• Sonic: Colors
• Sonic: Generations
• Super Mario All-Stars
• Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2
• Super Paper Mario
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl
• Wii Play
• Wii Sports
• Wii Sports Resort

And the Wii Virtual Console is fantastic for getting those games that are just too hard to track down or too expensive.

Emerald_Warrior

Remove Generations since it's not a Wii game.

Add:

• Tatsunoko vs. Capcom
• Muramasa the Demon Blade
• Little King's Story
• Sin and Punishment: Star Successor
• No More Heroes
• No More Heroes 2
• Zack and Wiki
• Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn
• Fragile Dreams
• Silent Hill Shattered Memories
• Trauma Center series
• Xenoblade Chronicles
• The Last Story
• Monster Hunter Tri
• Punch Out Wii

A lot that I listed are third party. Some of these games overall have no motion controls.

Any system with SMG2, Xenoblade Chronicles, DKCR, and Metroid Prime Trilogy shouldn't be labeled as the worst system ever.

All this hate for the Wii. I can't deny the amount of shovelware on it, there was a lot. But among that library there is a large number of gems:

• Bit Trip Series
• Cave Story
• Data East Arcade Classics
• Donkey Kong Country Returns
• Epic Mickey
• House of the Dead 2 & 3 (both on 1 release)
• House of the Dead: Overkill
• Kirby's Dream Collection
• Kirby's Epic Yarn
• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
• The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
• Metal Slug Anthology
• Mario Kart Wii
• Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
• Metroid Prime Trilogy
• Metroid: Other M
• New Super Mario Bros. Wii
• Pinball Hall of Fame: Gottileb Collection
• Pinball Hall of Fame: Williams Collection
• Rayman: Origins
• Red Steel 1 & 2
• Resident Evil (Remake)
• Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles
• Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles
• Samurai Shodown Anthology
• SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1
• Sonic: Colors
• Sonic: Generations
• Super Mario All-Stars
• Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2
• Super Paper Mario
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl
• Wii Play
• Wii Sports
• Wii Sports Resort

And the Wii Virtual Console is fantastic for getting those games that are just too hard to track down or too expensive.

Emerald_Warrior

I agree with you that the Wii is not the worst, but when you resort to multiplats and games that are not even on the Wii (Sonic generations?) which at the same time, shows you have either not played portions of your list or you don't even pay attention to its game library, makes your opinion seem muted.

Most people put the CD-I and 3DO at the top of worst lists, personally, the systems that are actually bad never really make it on the lists like PC-FX, game.com etc.

[QUOTE="NodakJo2010"]

WOAH WOAH WOAH...I'm seeing responses like the Gamecube and the Wii....

 

You guys need to go play an Apple Pippin before you dare say something about Nintendo consoles...yeah I'm not the biggest Nintendo fan around, but there are a lot worse options out there...AHEM Apple Pippin.

GSJones1994

The N64 gets a free pass? Most of the world ignored it what's there to talk about?

Why does everyone at Gamespot refute multiplatform games? Why do they not count?

[QUOTE="RossRichard"]

Philips CDi. Nothing else comes close.

GSJones1994

Question, have you played either of those systems? Just curious to see how you fromed your opinion.

Also to answer the thread, Mega duck I believe is what its called. It's bad enough some bad consoles with a few bad games, but when you have a LARGE library of bad games, well..

Why does everyone at Gamespot refute multiplatform games? Why do they not count?

Emerald_Warrior

I think because most consoles are judged on their exclusive games since then no other consoles could share them. 3rd party seems to brought up only when there are drastic differences. Like Doom on the SNES, Genesis, and Jaguar.

Sega saturn, virtual boy, 3DS, 3DS XL, WII, WII U, PS VITA, Xbox 360, Atari Jaguar, 3DO, Atari Lynx, N64 DD, PSP GO the titles were boring after a while. sonyfreak456

I was going to say something....

But then I realized it was bait..

[QUOTE="GSJones1994"][QUOTE="RossRichard"]

Philips CDi. Nothing else comes close.

Admiral-lemnant

Question, have you played either of those systems? Just curious to see how you fromed your opinion.

Also to answer the thread, Mega duck I believe is what its called. It's bad enough some bad consoles with a few bad games, but when you have a LARGE library of bad games, well..

[QUOTE="GSJones1994"][QUOTE="NodakJo2010"]

WOAH WOAH WOAH...I'm seeing responses like the Gamecube and the Wii....

 

You guys need to go play an Apple Pippin before you dare say something about Nintendo consoles...yeah I'm not the biggest Nintendo fan around, but there are a lot worse options out there...AHEM Apple Pippin.

Admiral-lemnant

The N64 gets a free pass? Most of the world ignored it what's there to talk about?

[QUOTE="Admiral-lemnant"]

[QUOTE="GSJones1994"] And don't forget the Apple Pippen and Gizmondo too.GSJones1994

Question, have you played either of those systems? Just curious to see how you fromed your opinion.

Also to answer the thread, Mega duck I believe is what its called. It's bad enough some bad consoles with a few bad games, but when you have a LARGE library of bad games, well..

Maybe Admiral is a big fan of Sticky Ballz. lol

[QUOTE="Emerald_Warrior"]

Why does everyone at Gamespot refute multiplatform games? Why do they not count?

NodakJo2010

I think because most consoles are judged on their exclusive games since then no other consoles could share them. 3rd party seems to brought up only when there are drastic differences. Like Doom on the SNES, Genesis, and Jaguar.

Well I think multiplatform games matter. Wii had a lot of 3rd party support, that's a good thing, not a bad thing. Whereas a console such as CD-i or Gizmondo which actually deserve "worst console ever" had nearly zero third-party support.

Regardless of that, there's a large number of first-party exclusive gems on the Wii in my initial list anyways.

[QUOTE="Admiral-lemnant"]

[QUOTE="GSJones1994"] And don't forget the Apple Pippen and Gizmondo too.GSJones1994

Question, have you played either of those systems? Just curious to see how you fromed your opinion.

Also to answer the thread, Mega duck I believe is what its called. It's bad enough some bad consoles with a few bad games, but when you have a LARGE library of bad games, well..

apple pippin had some pretty good PC games on it that were highly rated, just because the conole was a failure does not mean it did not have good games, look at the dreamcast. Although I will say that the pippin needed more exclusive content.

The GC was Nintendo's best offering since the SNES since the N64 had an atrocious library.GSJones1994

Pffft, N64 completely destroys the GameCube.

Nintendo spent the whole of the N64 era re-inventing and re-imagining their major IPs, they spent the whole of the GameCube era coasting along rehashing the stuff they did on N64.

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The N64 gave us the Smash Bros series, the Paper Mario series, the 1080 series, Animal Crossing, Mario Party.

What did the Gamecube give us? Pikmin? Batallion Wars? big woop.

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Gamecube had -

The weakest core Mario game

The weakest Mario Kart game

The weakest Star Fox game

A disappointing Wave Race sequel

A disappointing 1080 sequel

The only saving graces that system had were the excellent Smash Bros Melee, F-Zero GX, Eternal Darkness, Metroid Prime, and the decent sized selection of belated PS2 ports and multi-platform games.

[QUOTE="GSJones1994"]The GC was Nintendo's best offering since the SNES since the N64 had an atrocious library.Domino_slayer

Pffft, N64 completely destroys the GameCube.

Nintendo spent the whole of the N64 era re-inventing and re-imagining their major IPs, they spent the whole of the GameCube era coasting along rehashing the stuff they did on N64.

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The N64 gave us the Smash Bros series, the Paper Mario series, the 1080 series, Animal Crossing, Mario Party.

What did the Gamecube give us? Pikmin? Batallion Wars? big woop.

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Gamecube had -

The weakest core Mario game

The weakest Mario Kart game

The weakest Star Fox game

A disappointing Wave Race sequel

A disappointing 1080 sequel

The only saving graces that system had were the excellent Smash Bros Melee, F-Zero GX, Eternal Darkness, Metroid Prime, and the decent sized selection of belated PS2 ports and multi-platform games.

[QUOTE="GSJones1994"][QUOTE="Admiral-lemnant"]

 

Question, have you played either of those systems? Just curious to see how you fromed your opinion.

 

Also to answer the thread, Mega duck I believe is what its called. It's bad enough some bad consoles with a few bad games, but when you have a LARGE library of bad games, well..

Admiral-lemnant

apple pippin had some pretty good PC games on it that were highly rated, just because the conole was a failure does not mean it did not have good games, look at the dreamcast. Although I will say that the pippin needed more exclusive content.

to me handheld consoles, now put to shame from iphone apps. Why? Because when do you like to play a 2d game on a small display, when you can do it comfortably at home on your sofa on your lcd.

of these consoles i owned game gear and i had some fun with wonderboy but then i had also pain to my eyes so i sold rapidly the whole and i never regretted

Oh come on, the GC has Resident Evil 4 and all sorts of Capcom goodness too.GSJones1994

Capcom released 5 or 6 good GameCube games, all of which were multiplatform.

Rareware released 9 or 10 great exclusives on N64.

Rareware were releasing some of the best, and most impressive games of that gen, whilst outside of RE4 Capcom were using the GameCube as a dumping ground to squeeze some extra cash out of their old titles, or a proving ground for titles they were unsure about.

How could you say Sunshine was bad? It was good.GSJones1994

No, N64 had ZERO 3rd party support, only good titles were from Rare and NintendoGSJones1994

No, Konami, Treasure, Rockstar North, Ubisoft, Activision, Midway, EA, Infogrames, and Acclaim all released respectable numbers of good games on N64.

You clearly don't know anything about N64 at all.

How come the GC gets bashed but the N64 gets a free pass?GSJones1994

• Because the GameCube was a lazy port-machine, whilst the N64 was the home of some of the most important releases that gen.
• Because Nintendo's 1st party titles were largely superceded on GameCube whilst their N64 titles were ahead of the game

[QUOTE="GSJones1994"]Oh come on, the GC has Resident Evil 4 and all sorts of Capcom goodness too.Domino_slayer

Capcom released 5 or 6 good GameCube games, all of which were multiplatform.

Rareware released 9 or 10 great exclusives on N64.

Rareware were releasing some of the best, and most impressive games of that gen, whilst outside of RE4 Capcom were using the GameCube as a dumping ground to squeeze some extra cash out of their old titles, or a proving ground for titles they were unsure about.

How could you say Sunshine was bad? It was good.GSJones1994

No, N64 had ZERO 3rd party support, only good titles were from Rare and NintendoGSJones1994

No, Konami, Treasure, Rockstar North, Ubisoft, Activision, Midway, EA, Infogrames, and Acclaim all released respectable numbers of good games on N64.

You clearly don't know anything about N64 at all.

How come the GC gets bashed but the N64 gets a free pass?GSJones1994

• Because the GameCube was a lazy port-machine, whilst the N64 was the home of some of the most important releases that gen.
• Because Nintendo's 1st party titles were largely superceded on GameCube whilst their N64 titles were ahead of the game

The worse console out of what I have owned and what I have played enough to have a valid opinion on is a Sega Game Gear. It's OK but ultimately the bad battery life and washed out screen mean I don't really play it much. The battery life is much better now w/ modern batteries but the screen is still kinda blurry and very washed out. Also, unlike a Nomad, there is no easy way to update to a more modern LCD.