Failed consoles and handhelds

>but it was the only playable game on this console.
sims, path of glory, that diablo clone, that 3d fps, tomb rider, probably a few more good games i forgot
N-Gage QD didn't have this problem

And people would think you didn't know how to hold a phone properly.

I had an ngage and I read scanlations on it. that was my big introduction to manga
my father also pirated a shitton of games for it, so I always had something to play while mobile

The Phantom.

The 3DO's licensing agreement made it an interesting ecosystem, like a VCR approach to home consoles. Unfortunately it was also priced similarly to VCRs, and no one on Earth was willing to spend $700 to play Gex in 1994.

asphalt 1 and 2 that were in full 3d
doom port, worms

I played it and I do agree those are great features. Unfortunately it did them all with mediocrity. There were devices that did all those things better than the NG did.
>vertical screen
>take the device apart to change games
>"hold the taco" phone LOL
It sure is an unusual device though.

Sorry but anything that tried to emulate 3d to me was not that good. I had Tomb Raider, other than the novelty of it being a 3d game I just couldn't enjoy it that much.

It's a shame the genesis addons bombed, alongside the SNES CD-ROM. We could have gotten some really good 2D games had the 16bits lasted longer. Nintendo was no stranger to extra chips for more power, I always wondered what the "Nintendo 32X" would have been like

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Zeebo, the Brazilian doenload-only console with its own 3G connection

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It was mindblowing to play THPS on phone while GBA barely plays 3D games

This thing had an official version of Resident Evil 4 on it. It was shit, but still.

i remember posts about this, it had quake 3 and some other ports

It didn't had wifi

looks like one of those autistic ps5/xbox2 renderings

I must be misremembering or confusing it with some other feature. Perhaps Bluetooth.

yeah I bought one
I wanted a psp but I couldn't afford it

neat little emulator at the very least
(and indeed most)

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QD was amazing and stylish. The design is so fucking good goddamn. It was what N-Gage should had been in the first place. It's a shame that the original was such an embarrassment to everyone that QD was DOA.

This shit was more expensive than the PSP, what the fuck user

He probably got the one that plays adverts at random periods, which is even more retarded than buying a Gizmondo in the first place.

It was a different time, the masses did not approve of expensive handhelds back then, paying for a $299 phone/handheld hybrid was unthinkable for the common folk while the GBA was on its SP version being sold at $100, triple the price wasn't worth even the N-Gage was showing some unprecedented 3D capabilities for handheld gaming at the time.

Only in recent years people became open to paying more for portable devices.

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The Phantom was never even released to begin with, it was trying to be a Steam Box in the freaking 6th gen.

N-Gage was so popular in my school (literally at least 10 kids on each every classes owned it) and my country overall, that I was shocked that it bombed internationally

Why would even want a Gizmondo by the time the PSP existed? That thing was novelty from the late GBA days, it was already known to be a failure by the time the PSP was a thing, you could've just waited and saved a few more bucks.

fun fact: that advert version didn't even have ads since they never activated the thing, therefore it was easy to just get that version

You lived in a community of rich kids or something? The N-Gage was literally 3 times the price of a GBA, the "impressive" 3D graphics could not pull too many people in, and the 2D games were the same stuff the GBA was getting, no superior sprites, nothing.

That thing is part of why the Saturn didn't take off. They released too many consoles and addons in a short period of time. Virtual Boy was released around the same time too, and that also shit itself.
Coincidence? Yes

Far from rich. But most owned a Symbian phone.
Also I didn't know that it was that expensive like said. It was about $200 in my country. It's still expensive back then according to my parents

The 32x was the one who got killed by the Saturn, companies dropped the 32x like the plague once SEGA unveiled the Saturn out of nowhere, it was the Playstation and SEGA's completely idiotic handling of the Saturn that killed it.

which country?

It was 299 at launch for original N-Gage but the QD version dropped the price a bit to see if it still could be salvaged, but the damage had been dealt already.

Indonesia
Yeah I think that was when QD dropped. My friends bought that too.

The 3D graphics on the N-Gage at the time was just pure hype and no substance, it tried to fool you into be amazed that fucking Tony Hawk and Tomb Raider were running "supposedly" like 1:1 ports from the console versions but they had serious compromises in audio, animations, depth of field.

Two sides of the same coin I tend to think. But yeah the US Saturn handling THAT was a baked turd

The Zodiac. It's the neatest device nobody's ever heard of, basically just a PDA with buttons so you could actually play games.

It died very quickly because the PSP basically destroyed any marketshare it could've held. It was certainly a sign of things to come in the mobile scene though, with a full on aluminium shell and a nice big touchscreen.

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It was actually a porn of the phone version, that's why it was so bad.

a port*

I fucked up hard, didn't I?

I remeber being impressed by Call of Duty on this thing, of course I saw only pictures

Never knew it was so big there