Systems with a short life.Which did you happen to own? Were you satisfied with their brief spark?
imagine being the kid who grew up with a cdi as one of your only consoles
>>750282202I actually owned an OnLive and played it a lot.
>>750282202I wonder if he still has it.
>>750282340My best friend had a CDI when it was released and something like 3 games.He never became interested in video games. Good for him, he now has 2 kids and me zero.
>>750282340With this controller.
virtualboy probably takes the cake (never had one)wonderswan had a pretty short lifei had an ngage if you can believe thatalso an ouya, but i bought it on clearance for cheap (€25 for a tegra was great value) as a server
had n-gage. didn't really even use it for games. was perhaps better than normal phone of it's time. from novelty standpoint, kinda regret trading it in when changed to newer phone at some point.
>>750282340that never happened. anyone whose family bought that shit was rich enough they could go buy a super nintendo.
>>750282202>Systems with a short life.Humans
>>750283597>>750282340This. The family rich enough to have a CD-i bought it for "education" so that the 20+ SNES games Timmy had didn't rot his brain.
This garbo was my first and only home console up untill the n64
>>750282202What was even the point of this? I missed that whole saga.
>>750282202>13 Dec 2021Where did the years go, fucking hellAnd I hope that poor loser got that tattoo lasered. It's as humiliating as a trap stamp
>>750283450I almost bought one like a fucking retard but I ended up getting the PSP instead. Best fucking purchase in my entire life.
>>750283889Google took a shot at forcing always online streaming. And since it's google, they came with an army of jeets and bots to shill their garbage.Then they demo'd it. Some assassins creed game. The lag was unbelievably bad, so much so it killed the project on the spot. Google got the memo, lost interest and quietly took it out back one year later.
>>750283898I've been saying this for a while but covid really did fuck with our perception of time. It was 7 years ago.
>>750282202My family was a Mac family in the 90s so I had the joy of being a Marachad
>>750283915had psp too. well still have it but it was like 2 years later when it launched here
>>750284000So it was a console but had no actual games?
>>750282202>Systems with a short life.More like a stillbirth.
>>750284261But they have a potential userbase of eleventy billion
The Wii U was a good console and you will never convince me otherwise.
>>750284261The delusion of the people who backed this thing was extraordinary.They were talking about getting GTAV on it, they really thought that this would be a super-cheap console that could run anything.
>>750284572if you owned a wii u 2-3 years after it's release then yeah i would agree but the first year and a little after was the most depressing time to own one
windows me
>>750284261i miss the ouya
>>750282202Tandy was pretty good for gaming in the 90´s. Especially for rpgs.
>>750284903They weren't sufficiently experienced with jeetlike behavior back then. A similar grift wouldn't work nearly as well today.
>>750285031man i don't even remember the lemonade stand lore anymorethey weren't invited to e3 or something and built a booth outside? i think?
>>750282202i hate goyim so much it is unreal. jews would truly be ubermensch if it weren't for the whole child rape hobby
>>750284261Ouuuuyaaaaa...
>>750282427https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4kxtKdbaPk
>>750282202Do you think he got it removed?
>>750282427>>750286631Genuinely never heard of this, must have just slept through that whole thing.
>>750286678That would be insulting to the welcoming community.
>>750282340Nobody owned a cdi
>>750285382>that rumor where the designer base it on the goatse
thestadia.... life... stadia life.... ugh
>>750286631I somehow ended up with Saints Row III on this. It was fun because you could jump into other peoples' gaming sessions, and whenever they'd get the '(username) is spectating your session' toast they'd inevitably stop whatever it is they were doing, the game would run for a few seconds, then oop, '(other guy) has ended the session' message.
>>750288157I bought one from thrift store years ago, so someone did and treasured it for 2 decades until finally gave it up for charity
>>750284261How people didn’t lose faith with all that, bringing gaming back to the television shit is beyond me.
I knew a kid who had an Atari Lynx, compared to the GB i was borderline unplayable.
A true technological feat for it's time
>>750288157Statistically someone did
>>750282202The first console with true 3D, even if it was barely used. The first Need for speed released on it.a 3DO2 almost happened, but ended up canceled, it was going to be similar to the dreamcast in power.
>>750282427what is it?
>>750284000Don't forget that you had to pay full price for the games, while also having to pay by the hour to play the games.
>>750282202I owned a Dreamcast. I liked it, every game I enjoyed on it came out on the Gamecube and PC. I paid for Stadia, I liked it. I travelled a lot and it was a better deal than paying extra to get my fuckhuge gaming laptop on every flight. Served me well in the US, UK, Australia and continental Europe.
>>750284261It's so funny that this died so horribly. It is basically the nintendo switch a lot of people wanted, IE no screen.
>>750284572Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate alone was worth it. Unfortunately locked at 30FPS. I'd kill for a 3 Ultimate release, and no, not MHGU/XX.
>>750283450In Finland you could them practically for free once it flopped and especially the multimedia capabilities were far ahead of anything else years after release. Plenty of storage for your crispy 128kpbs MP3s.
I have a magical ability to detect a future flop so I have never owned a shit platform.
>>750289668What's the next generation of gaming looking like from your crystal ball, Anon?
>>750285382The first time I ever saw 3d on a handheld was the ngage playing tony hawk. I was impressed but I thought the vertical screen was awful. Little did I know what was to come
>>750289528but with NO GAMES
>>750289229Very early cloud based gaming system. Worked well for the time.
It pains me how technology has now become so expensive it soon will be almost impossible for everyone to make new hardwares. I liked when there was a lot of smaller hardwares instead of just the big ones. This very much lessened in the 2000s and 2010s but this is now impossible.
>>750289929How early is early?
>>750289968that one was faked
Not really short lived, but I enjoyed the V Smile as a kid,Anyone remember it?
pic unrelated
>>750284261if this gets one million viewsi will film myself pissing on the ouya
>>750284572I prefer it vastly over the switch: Use a box to give you plenty of space for hardware, use a mobile screen to simulate a handheld experience. I get it, you have to have the balls to sacrifice true handheld mobility and nintendo probably felt like they already had their answer in WiiU's sales that it wouldn't have worked, but in a different timeline where they'd done things in reverse where the switch approach was first instead I think it could have hit at just the right time to truly capitalise on the concept while also allowing them not to suffer the 3rd party issues they've had with switch 1/2 where the hardware just can't compete because it has to fit in an already too-heavy handheld. You could have even really pared things down so the screen had as little hardware in it as possible and have a cheap 2nd/3rd/4th screen/controller for all those friendslop games, but hindsight is 20/10 and probably bullshit anyway.
>>750290124I really don't get it.
>>750285382https://github.com/LeithSilver/mgsm
>>750290124I like hand-crank tech in general but the basic efficiency for power generation has been the same since its inception and the power demands have only gone up. If you could find a better way to provide "free" power to a platform it would go intercontinentally ballistic and not just for video games but right now it's basically for low-power novelties like this and emergency radios/torches. Someone feel free to invent a tiny wind farm or solar panel not the size of a house though please.
TIGER dot com
>>750290124>>750290403>hand-crankI thought it was the lock of a caged console
>>750290403tiny nuclear plants inside of (You). no more eating required, just distilled water for cooling. buttplugs to power external devices. give me 700 trillion dollars
>>750290262It's a handheld console with games
>>750290614Donezo. >>750290602If chastity was a reliable form of energy we'd have plugged(heh) most of /lgbt/ in by now.
>>750290342oh no
>>750290692but that's not important right now
>>750290095Oh I remember these, I think there was also a 3D one. I forgot it's name. Was like, PS1 power.These were only for education games, right? Even when I was young, I thought they looked dumb. But they sold very well in the 2000s
>>750290124The crank is an analog input, not power generation
>>750282202>tattooing your twitter handle onto your bodyWhat a fucking retard lmao
>>750290095I had this exact one as a kid and only played the one Toy Story 2 game on it.
>>750282202at least the corpo bootlickers mark themselves, easier to weed them out later
>>750290124I dunno why, but this thing just screams "nepobaby".
>>750289925Same is said about every fucking system until it has games
>>750291281There was no until.
>>750284261https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U39L4mEyIRc
>>750290847so fucking stupid
>>750292651It works.
>>750284261I regret backing this thing on kickstarter.I think the only nice thing I can say about it is that it's vulnerable to the tegra rcm stack smash so it's basically unbrickable and I can install debian on it. Even then it's weaker than a Pi 4 by now.
>>750283446>virtualboy probably takes the cakeStill have it, actually, though its literally been decades since I've turned it on. teleroboxer was fun, as was the wario game, red alarm would have been kino as fuck if you could actually see what the fuck was happening, and my whole family played the fuck out of the pinball game and got really competitive about the high scores. we also had a golf game and the mario brothers title but those were pretty forgettable.
>>750290403You'll be happy(?) to know then that the crank is an input device and doesn't generate electricity for charging purposes.
you'd have to be cranking like 1000rpm
>>750290004Of course, but it was amusing that it was boasting a download-only, always online model...in 2003.
>>750284261https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0ha6Mb5_YQThis will sell our console.
>>750293826
>>750289306Also worth mentioning the demo they did that had the borderline unplayable lag was also with the server it runs on in literally 2 feet from the console. Does anyone have the advertisement image Google put out that had it next to the Power Glove and the fucking ET game? There's no way some mad fucker didn't do that on purpose.
>>750284261>1gb of ramYeah wow I have chinkhelds better than this.
>>750295837Anon, back in that era, that was a lot of memory. The average android phone had 512MB.
>>750290095i really wonder if these shitty kids consoles can be hacked and have a homebrew / developer / demo community, leapfrog too, as the leapfrog TV's cartridge format is the same pinout as a SD card
>>750292252https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UPezXs-6_g
post the artifact tattoo
>>7502961091gb was absolutely NOT a lot in 2012. The PS4 came out less than a year after the Ouya and it had 8gb of ram.
>>750282340Every time I regret having owned a 3DO as a kid, I remind myself at least it wasn't a CD-i or a Jaguar
>>750282202Stevie Wonder could have seen Stadia's shut down coming when it launched given how often Google kills its new products
>>750284261What does a Bavarian woman scream as you fuck her?
>>750286578https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY5yG2KyQfM
>>750293392Ahead of its time
>>750282202Every community is "so welcoming". What does it even mean?
>>750295158>$60 was considered highway robbery for a mediocre AAA game just 13 years ago>now people are tripping over themselves to try rationalizing why it's okay for Nintendo to charge $80 for fucking Fire Emblem
>>750290342>Metal Gear Solid Mobile, originally released for the Nokia N-Gage 2.0. Reminder that N-Gage 2.0 =/= N-Gage.The og N-Gage was a device that was made to run games specifically made for it that could only be played on it, despite sharing the OS with other Nokia phones.N-Gage 2.0 was a game distribution platform, not a device, and many Nokia phones running on the S60 platform could play games made for it, but most games made for it didnt actually require the N-Gage 2.0 platform itself to be used at all.Effectively, the N-Gage 2.0 has more similarities with the modern Google PlayStore than it has with the original N-Gage.
>>750300956But how much content is there
>>750301126a lot of junk food busywork content
>>750301486Sounds like cope
>>750301660it's literally the most common complaint about the game, that there's not a lot of actual Fire Emblem gameplay compared to the deluge of Temu Persona crap they've piled onto it
>>750301126how much POST LAUNCH SUPPORT is there
>>750282427i member playing Darksiders on OnLivethe selling point of it for me was that I could play PC/Console games on my phone and now, many years later I can do that natively or through emulation
WHAT THE HELL IS AN ON LIVE?
>>750298241kek
>>750295303Founded it. The blank podium at the end is supposed to be teasing Stadia as being the next big thing, standing alongside gaming accomplishments like the Dreamcast, the Power Glove, and fucking ET.Supposedly what happened is the guy they put in charge of making the display was fucking with them, and no one involved with Stadia knew enough about video games to realize it.
It hurt.
>>750301000yep and I do remember playing N-Gage games on my Nokia 6600, they were essentially .jar files that you could download and install on any Nokia phone of that generationi remember playing shit like Assassin's Creed and Splinter Cell
>>750304154I think I got him to a week or so once
>>750304154this shit outlasted a fuckton of consoles posted itttamagotchi was kinowish I had one now
>>750285206yeah and e3 called the cops on them for it to
>>750303413one balance patch, a jpg for buying the season pass, and 6 months of twitter posts saying "which house are YOU choosing?"
>>750306365I need a CONTENT ROADMAP
>>750282202I played a cloud based game for the only time yesterday, when I played Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4 on Xbox Cloud while it was downloading on my Series X.It looked like absolute ass, even though it was responsive. But the resolution was ass.
>>750293882Then get it again for Switch 2.Dragon Hopper is the best game of this year.
>>750290124Wasn't this supported by the guy that came up with Katamari Damacy?
Wii U is probably the closest mine have come.>Bought it for the Kirby Canvas Curse sequel and SMT X Fire Emblem>Rainbow Curse was dogshit and SMT x Fire Emblem became idolshit
>>750282202Bought one for $15 from Goodwill.
>>750286678I wouldn't.
>>750282340Wand of Gamelon is one of the best Zelda games ever made.
>>750290403That crank is a game controller, it doesn't charge the console at all.
>>750293392The Ngage hate felt so forced. I thought it was awesome
>>750282202how come stadia failed but geforce now is flourishing?
>>750284256It was a subscription service where you paid your monthly subscription so you could buy games at full price and use their servers to stream the game. Often this included input delays, as you'd expect, and in my experience being a tester for a handful of games that were on the service often would have visual degradation while playing and if you were playing in 4K you'd easily burn thru 100GB of download bandwidth in one day as I found out the hard way working from home as a tester with a 1 gigabit connection and a monthly download limit that would then tack on $10 for 10 more gigabytes of download each time you passed your limit because my ISP didn't do unlimited download plans at the time. You'd also run into a lot of random hitching from the streaming side which left devs with nothing they could do to fix it in some cases. They did pay devs a lot of money to make Stadia versions of games though, something like a couple million for anything kind of popular, which all they had to do to make it work was basically make a version that can run on Linux which for some was a half hour job working on binaries so I'm sure some Linuxfags benefited from it at least.Then when it died all the games you paid full price for died with it, no refunds. The controller they sold for it was passable quality at least, but if I remember right they had to do a last update to make the controllers not just brick after losing connection to the servers or something.
>>750282202Why does his skin look like that? Disgusting.
Moreso region locked, but Sony did a lot with their attempt to rival Sega's VMU.
>>750308253You looked like a retard trying to use it as a phone and the "take the battery out just to play games" part was an instant killer for kids, it makes it lame.
>>750290124anyone who thought you could power a console with a crank is a fucking moron, you can barely power flashlights wit this shit.
>>750282202My uncle had a CDi and N64 until PS2 was released. Then he never strayed from Sony. RIP. Only games I remember on the CDi were Gex and Road Rash.
