welcome to watch mojo
and today we'll be counting down our
picks for the top 10 botched console
launches
introducing call of duty multiplayer for
playstation vita
where you are now
sega saturn play your games in the 21st
century
and leave the rest of the world behind
for this list we're looking at the worst
console launches in video game history
this doesn't always mean the consoles
themselves were failures
just that their launches were handled
poorly let us know in the comments which
ones made you choose to save your money
now hopefully we don't screw up this top
10 like these consoles did
prepare to get disappointed here we go
number 10 playstation 3.
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as of 2020 the playstation 2 firmly
remains the best selling console
ever made fueled by the idea that
players would go along with whatever
sony decided to do with the follow-up
because of the ps2 success
sony put together a baffling lineup of
consoles when the ps3 was announced
with the high-end ps3 coming in at an
obscene 599 dollars
499 us dollars and 549 canadian dollars
it was no wonder where sony faced a lot
of backlash
adjusted for inflation that's almost
double the cost of the digital only ps5
luckily they actually listened to people
and cut the price
though they did have to strip the ps3 of
popular features like backward
compatibility to accomplish this
we will make playstation 3 available via
a two configuration plan
one with a 60 gigabyte hard drive disk
and the other
with a 20 gigabyte hard drive number
nine
xbox one
in the early years of the 2010s it
seemed microsoft completely lost sight
of what players wanted from a brand new
xbox
instead of focusing on the only thing
that really matters in a console launch
the games themselves microsoft wanted
the xbox one to be your one-stop media
center
putting an emphasis on how many
streaming services and tv channels you
could watch on your console
oh nice watch tv
watch movie even worse was the fact that
xbox one was initially supposed to be
constantly connected
to the internet and wasn't going to be
able to play used games
these features were thankfully dropped
but the xbox one
never gained back the ground it lost to
the ps4
xbox snap tv that does two things at
once so i can play games while i watch
my favorite
shows at the same time whoa xbox record
that
i just wish i had more time to play
number eight
playstation vita
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the psp was a smash hit building a
decent audience in a handheld market
previously dominated by nintendo
but by the time the ps vita launched in
2012
the landscape had changed smartphones
were more powerful and more widely
available than they were when the psp
came out
meaning that there was no longer a
market for what the vita had to offer
and unlike the 3ds the vita just didn't
have the support
or games needed to carry it introducing
call of duty multiplayer for playstation
vita
there are quite a few great games but it
was clear
sony didn't quite know what the vita
should be if you bought one at the
launch
it's probably been gathering dust ever
since
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number 7 ooyah with over 600 games
free to try there's something for
everyone an incredibly ambitious device
the ooyah was funded entirely by a
kickstarter campaign that received 8.5
million
from willing backers this tiny cuboid
console ran
android games on your tv but despite a
lot of excitement around it pre-launch
it just never took off we're not going
to bow down to other people's
conventions of how things have to be
done we're going to do it our way
it's just like you got your apk you're
ready to go
so few people actually bought the
console that just two years later
the entire company was sold to razer and
eventually the entire platform was shut
down
though it did have some fun games and
among the shovelware the console
was dead on arrival but at least its low
price meant you
didn't feel too ripped off 500 games and
counting
always free to try number six
xbox series x and series s
and finally you would dream
where you are now
a messy pre-order system meant very few
people were able to get their hands on a
series
x or even a less powerful series s upon
release
but considering the new xbox had
absolutely no exclusive titles at launch
and even its most anticipated exclusives
are also available on pc
you weren't missing out much by not
getting one
it is an excellent excellent game
only time will tell if the consoles are
successful but the terrible launch has
been mitigated only by the fact
fewer people wanted xboxes this time
although
even people who were able to get one
found the series x had
issues with reports coming in that black
ops cold war
had even bricked some consoles lame
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number five sega saturn
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the saturn had a pretty solid launch in
japan but things went wrong for sega
when it came to the north american
release
rather than stick to the release date
they originally intended they decided to
announce
at the very first e3 in 1995 that the
saturn was coming out in a matter of
days much to the frustration of the
retailers who had to sell it
and leave the rest of the world behind
they did this to try to get an edge over
the ps1 by releasing the saturn
sooner but unfortunately for them the
saturn's launch price was a hundred
dollars higher than sony's
and the ps1 outsold them anyway the
playstation became one of the best
selling game consoles
of all time number 4 playstation 5.
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demand has been insanely high for the
playstation 5
but what could have been an incredibly
successful launch has been
hampered by the fact that even sony's
most dedicated fans
have not been able to get their hands on
the console was sony claiming in late
november that absolutely every ps5
manufactured
had already been sold this left plenty
of people with no new console
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and with must play exclusives like demon
souls this
has hit particularly hard but perhaps
worse than anything sony itself has done
is the scalpers buying up ps5 stock and
selling it on for extremely inflated
prices
some have been even selling pictures of
ps5s for thousands of dollars
number three google stadia forget boxes
forget consoles
just your games your screens and
electric air
and this electric air is stadium
designed to stream games from google's
servers stadia was supposed to be a way
into gaming if you couldn't afford a pc
or home console
except stadia also relied on high-speed
internet to get a performance anything
close to gaming natively and also
emphasized 4k
60 frame per second gameplay for all
those people
with giant 4k displays high-speed
internet
but who didn't play video games so
stadiu is the best
technically this is stadium stadius
streaming pipeline leverages decades of
google research
is that a dog
the market for stadia just didn't exist
and on top of that
you didn't get access to aaa releases
for the price of a subscription
you had to buy them as well often for
full price despite the fact games like
shadow of the tomb raider had been out
for ages already
unthink the things you think of things
free your mind at the one place for all
the ways we play
number two atari jaguar through this
special tv offer you also get a free
second controller so you can go one on
one with a friend
atari today is a shadow of its former
self once a giant in the games industry
atari eventually stopped making consoles
and the final nail in the coffin
was the jaguar there was a lot of
potential in the console itself but its
baffling controller meant that playing
any game on it was
a struggle
in an effort to rescue the jaguar atari
released the cd add-on in 1995
but both the original console and the cd
were discontinued in 1996.
despite coming in at a lower price in
its competitors there just weren't any
games for the jaguar that anybody wanted
to play
and to be honest there weren't any games
people didn't want to play either
3d graphics powerful 64-bit
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number one virtual boy virtual boy
presents more
challenges inside the third dimension
marvelous tennis tunnel
boxer galactic pinball virtual boy
a 3d game for a 3d world even today
there are a few vr games good enough to
convince people to pick up a costly vr
headset
awesome as half-life alex is but though
vr
is expensive now at least it works
in the 90s this wasn't the case the
technology for vr
just wasn't there yet when nintendo
released the virtual boy
it's wario land a 3d game for a 3d world
wait till they get a load of me it was
expensive
had almost no games was extremely
uncomfortable to wear
and worst of all every single game was
in black and red
it's a surefire way to do permanent
damage to your eyes
and with no reason to buy it except for
the gimmick nobody did
virtual boy see it now in 3d
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