Red 5's Kern personally backs Kickstarter, hopes for dev kit.
Outspoken ex-World of Warcraft lead and CEO of Firefall developer Red 5 Studios Mark Kern has railed against current consoles and remains skeptical of their successors, yet he's interested in developing for Ouya.
From systems that could keep your beer cool, to oddities trying to get in on the popularity of VHS and laserdisc, you’ve got some very, very weird video game consoles out there.
I had the LaserActive... it was a nice collectors piece but not very practical. Especially when it came to needing recapping. I think i paid all of about $50 for the floor model from an incredible Universe back in the day. I ended up selling it many years later for $300 at the time due to it needing a new laser and the aforementioned recapping.
An honorable mention not on the list would be the VM Labs Nuon. It basically looked like any regular DVD player but it had ports on it for controllers to play specific games. one of which is still exclusive to it with Tempest 3000. It also offered nuon enhanced DVD movies with extra content not accessible by regular players.
Virtual Boy, Sega Nomad, Ouya and the other troubled game systems that nobody bought.
How has this article missed out Sega's Dreamcast and Nintendo's Wii U, two consoles that were actually superb devices in their own right, but were seen as failed due to lacklustre sales at the time of release?
Wonder how long before Stadia appears on the list surprised the Ngage is not on that list
Talk about a blast to the past.......I remember trying the virtual boy at Toy R Us and it was cool but I did feel slightly disoriented afterwards......good article.
The Ouya, a failed Android gaming console from early in this generation, is getting a second lease on life thanks to Internet archivists and some new software.
That's pretty cool they were able to bring it back. It sucks when something online only gets killed.
I got mine when it first launched, however it wasn't good for anything other than retro emulation. I couldn't sell the thing fast enough. Managed to get almost all my money back selling it on eBay.
I guess the Stadia launch is bringing back memories of other failed consoles/services.
I keep seeing people 'doubt' the future of consoles but at the end of the day look at how well Kinect did, I'm using Kinect as an example because it's recent console related tech which has sold crap-loads. it's an example that consoles are still here and aren't going anywhere for a while.
Sure tablets / phones are making the mainstream move onto gaming but hell for gamers like myself who like to sit back in front of the TV and put the console on, you just don't get the same experience with a tablet/phone.
I suppose NextGen will be the real test for consoles but I for one will always back the console.
No matter what these mobile,MMO,Casual devs and publishers say freemium is not the future. Its a nice option but a freemium game will probably never be as good as a 50$ boxed game. Only freemium game on my mind is Planetside 2 i tried Firefall and didnt like it.
STFU NOOB!!!
I hate these guys....go to hell with your console doom and gloom
FFS!!