What is the worst selling classic game system?

[Buyatari]

The post on best selling console got me to thinking....what is the worst selling of all time?

Not prototypes. An actual released system.

[theclaw]

This has got to be weird. Maybe Super A'can, sold only in Taiwan it seems.

Pippin I can't imagine did well at all either.

Panasonic M2 I'm guessing is the prototype console, nearest to achieving finalized hardware before cancellation. Its protos look quite professionally done.

[Tupin]

Not "classic", but the worst selling gaming device is probably the Gizmondo.

[skaar]

Wasn't the GB Micro considered a flop?

[Gamevet]

Wasn't the GB Micro considered a flop?

That was more of a collector's item. It was still a Gamboy.

One of the worst selling consoles would probably be the Halcyon, with a price of $2,500.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeI5zKeGELA

[thebeeks]

Does the Nuon count? That would be my guess.

[A Black Falcon]

I assume the RDI Halcyon doesn't count as released?

[Gamevet]

I assume the RDI Halcyon doesn't count as released?

It was sold at trade shows, but never made it to retail. The high price probably kept retailers away from the product.

The NUON became an added component to DVD players, but very few of those were sold as well.

Does anyone know the name of the console released by Exidy? I may be mistaken, but I recall my cousin having a system that included Exidy's Mouse Trap. I sort of remember seeing ads for it, and I'm leaning towards the Arcadia 2001, but it didn't have a Mouse Trap game. This system was white, from what I remember.

[A Black Falcon]

Hmm, so should the Halcyon count or not?

Oh, and on that note, how about the Adventurevision... that's got to be one of the rarest.

[goatdan]

I wouldn't count the Halcyon.

If you're looking worldwide, it pretty much HAS to be the Super A'Can. I believe that research that I did on it a long time ago was that less than 10,000 consoles were produced, and a large percentage of those were sold for scrap. They aren't something you can find pretty much ever.

Gizmondo would probably be the follow up to the A'Can, and would be the worst selling console to be released in the US in some limited fashion.

The NUON didn't sell huge numbers of games or controllers by any means, but the DVD players it was in sold fine. Most people didn't know that it came with a game system in it. My parents actually got one totally randomly at Best Buy that they use to this day. I would bet that there are well more than 25,000 Nuon systems that got sold, but I would be surprised if 1/10th of them were because of the gaming capabilities.

[tom]

The Mattel console from a few years back?


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[mylifewithsega]

Mattel had made another console besides the Intellevision? Damn, I'm behind on my gaming knowledge.

[markusman64ds]

Mattel had made another console besides the Intellevision? Damn, I'm behind on my gaming knowledge.

The Mattel Hyperscan. I wouldn't call it classic though.

As for Exidy, they had the Sorcerer.



I didn't think the original thread was going to go far, but a spin-off? WOW.

[Buyatari]

Mattel had made another console besides the Intellevision? Damn, I'm behind on my gaming knowledge.

They had the Aquarius too.

[Bojay1997]

It was sold at trade shows, but never made it to retail. The high price probably kept retailers away from the product.

The NUON became an added component to DVD players, but very few of those were sold as well.

Does anyone know the name of the console released by Exidy? I may be mistaken, but I recall my cousin having a system that included Exidy's Mouse Trap. I sort of remember seeing ads for it, and I'm leaning towards the Arcadia 2001, but it didn't have a Mouse Trap game. This system was white, from what I remember.

Where are you getting your information about the Halcyon? There is no evidence it was ever sold anywhere. The only systems that have ever been found or sold long after the fact came from former investors in the company. I have a pretty substantial Halcyon document archive and I have never found any evidence that it ever made it to retail.

[Retronick]

The Vitrual Boy was a mammoth flop for Nintendo. You don't just support a system for a few months and then stop because it's a winner. I'd count that as one of the worst selling classic consoles.

I don't think the Atari 7800 moved too many units either, but I don't have any figures handy.

[o.pwuaioc]

The Vitrual Boy was a mammoth flop for Nintendo. You don't just support a system for a few months and then stop because it's a winner. I'd count that as one of the worst selling classic consoles.

I don't think the Atari 7800 moved too many units either, but I don't have any figures handy.

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/MattM...1986__1990.php

[A Black Falcon]

The Vitrual Boy was a mammoth flop for Nintendo. You don't just support a system for a few months and then stop because it's a winner. I'd count that as one of the worst selling classic consoles.

I don't think the Atari 7800 moved too many units either, but I don't have any figures handy.

As the link above shows the 7800 sold several million systems and beat the Sega Master System in North America, finishing second. It didn't do too badly, considering how dominant the NES was.

As for the VB, it's certainly Nintendo's worst-selling console, but it sold hundreds of thousands of systems, far more than the worst selling systems ever must have sold.

[Retronick]

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/MattM...1986__1990.php

As the link above shows the 7800 sold several million systems and beat the Sega Master System in North America, finishing second. It didn't do too badly, considering how dominant the NES was.

As for the VB, it's certainly Nintendo's worst-selling console, but it sold hundreds of thousands of systems, far more than the worst selling systems ever must have sold.

Ask for figures and KABLAM! You get figures. There were only about 800,000 VB units produced, so now the question is, how bad is "the worst"? I'd say "Gizmodo" but that's hardly classic. Apple/Bandai Pippin perhaps?

[Tupin]

As others have said, definitely the A'Can. Even the Gizmondo sold more, though they did make more Gizmondos. Goatdan, did they really make only 10,000 consoles? How was that even worth their time to make so few?