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hey guys this is Austin and today I'm here with the top five failed videogame consoles ever so in the last 30 years we've seen a lot of consoles come and go most have been pretty good a few of in spectacular while the rest will be a little of we'll call them questionable so whether this is because they are ahead of their time because there are some poor business decisions or just the simple fact that they sucked here are the top 5 worst video game failures of all time coming in at number 5 is the Philips CDI from 1991 now this actually wasn't strictly a game console what they were trying to do here was actually make something that was a little bit of a computer a little bit of a game console and it was ahead of its time in some aspects especially considering the fact that it used CDs well before the PlayStation 1 did unfortunately the CDI wasn't a very good console or computer now part of this was due to the fact that since it was launched in 1991 is in between generations and because of this the hardware was really pretty underpowered on top of that this was the controller it uh it used so on that may have played a slight role in what what were they thinking as if the $700 price tag wasn't enough the CDI also had some license Nintendo games or more specifically the Legend of Zelda which was horrible it was seriously one of the worst video games of all time making the CDI fittingly enough one of the worst consoles of all time coming in at number 4 is on live from 2010 now this one actually is still technically around so I guess we can't fully call it failed yet but for the most part this was one of those things it was a great idea because ahead of its time and pretty much crashed and burned on live used what's known as cloud gaming which meant that it was entirely limited by your internet connection as everything was going to be rendered and all the games were being run on some server somewhere if you had a decent internet connection I actually was not half bad however and this is the big part you still had to deal with a little bit of lag as every time you hit a button it wasn't just going three feet to your console it was going five ten hundred maybe even a thousand miles to the nearest OnLive station unless you had an amazing internet connection on life was really difficult to work with all it took was someone in the house to start watching Netflix or downloading something and you start seeing lag in your game it would even start to get lower quality and just it did not work very well now when OnLive was first being announced and before it actually came out it was valued at up to 1.8 billion dollars however a short two years later when it actually went under it's sold for more like four million dollars coming in at number three is the Apple Pippin from 1995 now this is the first and only console apple ever designed and just like the CDI it wasn't strictly for games as there were other applications that were available on the console the pickle is mostly based on Macs at the time just cut down to a console like form-factor and while there are advantages to this one of the big disadvantages was price is it was $600 brand-new in a time where there was the amazing PlayStation 1 for much less than that it made Pippin a really tough sell while the Pippin saw some very mild success mostly thanks to Bandai who actually licensed it and created quite a few of these consoles for the most part it was a flop and as soon as Steve Jobs came back to Apple it was one of the first things axed and number two we have the Nintendo Virtual Boy from 1995 on paper this looks really impressive even by today's standards it was a bit of goggles as well as a controller that allows you to see 3d images and play games and everything and it looks really cool except that well imagine what 3d and virtual reality looked like with 1995 technology not particularly good the Virtual Boy could only display the color red and the graphics were very simple making the 3d effect not quite as good as it could be on top of that just like with the Nintendo 3ds of today the 3d effect gave a lot of people headaches as you might expect at $180 the Virtual Boy didn't last too long as it's so well under a million units Nintendo quickly pulled the plug to go back to making piles of money with the Nintendo 64 lastly in number one we have the Sega Dreamcast from 1998 unlike the rest of the failed consoles on this list the Dreamcast was actually one of the best of all time it just so happened to sing Sega's Hardware business in the mean time the Dreamcast was a heavens time in several ways for example it was the very first console to include a modem which allowed you to play online games years before Xbox Live in the PlayStation Network ever showed up there were other good ideas as well including the fact that the controllers had the memory card slots now while this wasn't anything amazing what was cool was the fact that the controllers actually had buttons and a screen which meant that of course you go and load up all your data and everything like that but some of them actually had mini games that you could play straight on your memory card while the Dreamcast didn't have a long lifespan it did have a ton of potential and in fact a lot of what they worked on for the Dreamcast was moved on to the Xbox and we all know how that one turned out anyway I'm curious to know what's the worst video game console you guys have ever used definitely be sure to let me know in the comments below if you enjoyed definitely be sure to check out the last episode where I went over the top 5 worst phones if you enjoyed definitely be sure to leave this video a thumbs up and if you're interested in more videos like this be sure to subscribe anyway guys I will get you next time