Submitted 5 hours ago by 64bithero@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
I think it’s the Wii for me. I always felt like the controls were too limiting have games that played well. Sure there are some good games I played, like Mario Kart Wii and Mario Galaxy, but overall I remember being disappointed with both the game selection and how bad the controls were.
(dis)honorable mention: the Switch 2, because there’s nothing to play on it that I can’t play better on pc+deck.
Xbox One. Everytime I booted it up to feed the Halo crave, there’d be an update that took like an hour. Finally get on… Halo needs to update. 1 hour later, I’ve lost interest.
Repeat 6+ months later.
I owned a fucking Virtual Boy.
Probably the Switch. It’s … fine, I guess? NES? Awsome. SNES? fantastic. GB? amazing for its time. Genesis was killer. Atari 2600 was huge in its day. The switch? Meh.
It doesn’t help that I’m generally unhappy with nintendo being a bunch of greedy fucks as I see it.
I am one of the few lucky ones to actually get an Ouya… It wasn’t great.
My friend got an ouya, I think he mostly got it as a bit of a curiosity since he was a game dev student (and now does it professionally)
It absolutely didn’t do anything particularly different or better than any other gadget we could have hooked up to the TV to game on, but we did have a lot of fun with it for a while. It was kind of nice that it was so small so he could carry it around easily if he wanted to take it somewhere for a party or something.
And a few of the games we first discovered on the ouya are still mainstays of our parties when we manage to get together as busy adults.
Through a series of moves, roommate swaps, and marriage, that ouya (though not the controller) has actually now ended up in my possession Image
It’s on the left with my small collection of retro consoles and handhelds. Couple other cool bits of geeky paraphernalia scattered in there too. Disregard the mess on the coffee table and such, this was taken in the middle of some renovations, turns out I don’t take many pictures of my entertainment center.
Nice portal gun hiding up on a shelf.
Every so often I get reminded of the Ouya. I still have mine from the Kickstarter somewhere. It was good in concept, and I even saw posts of it being sold in major retailers like Target, but it just fizzled out far too fast.
I came to say this. Some good games on there, but Julie Uhrman is the worst. and to think, she just failed upward.
PS3. Coming from the PS2, the library was bland in comparison. And later on, when I got interested in console modding, the PS3 was the slowest and most cumbersome to do anything and with barely any variety of homebrew stuff. And also, I'm dreading having to replace the controller (due to the 3rd party PS button situation) and replacing the HD (due to how entangled pieces apparently are).
Later on, it'd become an overpowered PS2 console for me.
I wouldn't call any console I own a disappointment, even the Wii U had several games I loved and put too many hours into. But the system I ended up playing the least was the Steam Deck. It's just too bulky to feel like a proper portable, not nearly as cozy as the Nintendo handhelds I grew up on. I get some use taking it to FGC events as a monitorless setup (and I will be bringing it to Combo Breaker 2026 next week), but that's kinda all I ended up using it for.
I still don't regret buying it as the most important thing to happen to Linux gaming, but it was a system I bought to have more than to use. I later bought a Miyoo Mini Plus and ended up putting far more hours into that than I ever did the Deck. If anyone ever gets SteamOS running on a device in that size form factor, they'll get my entire bank account.
I acknowledge the Steam Deck is an important step forward for PC gaming, but I just didn’t get enough use out of it to justify the purchase. I ended up giving mine to my friend whose only gaming option prior to that was a shitty old laptop. At least now we can play stuff together that’s been made in the last decade.
Xbox. I wanted a gamecube but my parents didn’t like nintendo for some reason. Now im old and i don’t like nintendo for some reason, and I still don’t like xbox
My friend, there are lots of reasons not to like the litigious corporate monstrosity that Nintendo has become.
“Proper adults” play whatever the fuck they like, including Zelda.
minus that one comic book looking gorey slasher game for the wii
Probably the Sega 32X. The messaging around it was kind of confusing, and still being fairly young when it came out, I was expecting it to be the gateway to 32 bit gaming that I would be enjoying for years to come. I ended up getting virtua racing on it, which was better than the Genesis version, but nothing spectacular really. I also got virtua fighter, which was a genuinely good game. Almost everything else was ports of mediocre games that had already come out on the Genesis. A couple of original games like knuckles chaotix just… Kinda sucked. Then when I found out that all of the support was going behind the Saturn, and that’s where all of the new and original games were going, well I just felt swindled.
PSP. I know now people are racing about it, but the games basically all sucked except a few and it was a pretty good emulator handheld though. But it mostly collected dust.
The Nintendo Wii.
Like so many, I fell to the marketing hype. Was completely bored of the thing after like a week. Where it was definitely some peoples cup of tea, it was most certainly not mine
Probably the virtual boy. It was so cool at the time, I got Red Alert(?) and it was fantastic. Then there was like, a bowling game, and maybe a wario game? And nobody made anything else for it, and it sat in a drawer for years before my parents made me get rid of it. It could have been so good.
Aw I came for this answer. I was fortunate to see through the BS because I was very immersed in the tech at the time, but the VB genuinely had cool potential and I wanted it to succeed so it could lead to new generations of full-color VR (which took like another 2+ decades).
Yup came here to say this. Had Mario tennis and I’m sure some other game but yeah not a lot of games. However it did cause a lot of headaches.
But otherwise I mean, I’ve not bought anything I would say is disappointing but also I haven’t bought any current gen bullshit.
WiiU was maybe a little closer to a disappointment? But more so because it wasn’t as popular. I absolutely loved the 2nd screen for shit like shoving the UI for MH3U on there so I could look at it while keeping the main screen clear.
there were only 14 titles released in the US
Shit it was red alarm, dang it.
Also, that number sounds about right lmao, it was so bad
Nintendo Switch, I should have known better. Nintendo consoles are great for kids who are new to playing games, not so much for people who have been gaming for generations.
I loved my Switch. My WiiU…not so much.
I feel ya. I was a diehard Nintendo Power subscriber for probably longer than appropriate (thanks, parents) but they didn’t keep up with me.
The Switch was a slow burn for me. Initially I bought it and hated it. I bought BOTW (had it on Wii U as well) and I felt underwhelmed. Fast forward to end of year and games like Mario Odyssey came out. Not to mention I had a lot of travel and the system just felt perfect for me. Loving the Switch 2 now.
Ironically I bought a Wii U and loved it at first. Only to look back now and see it’s a system I never bought more the 3 games for …
PS Vita. It had so much promise, but the games weren’t really there and Sony kinda just forgot about it. I remember it was the first time you could stream a PS4 game to a handheld, which was novel at the time. But it never felt “good enough” and most games didn’t support it or were too finicky. If I look at my Steam Deck now, I think that’s more or less what Sony had in mind for the Vita as well
I was a bit conservative myself (or maybe lucky that neighbor kids had a 3DO and Sega CD I could try) but I did own a Sega Game Gear. That thing drank 6x AA batteries like there was no tomorrow. And the game library was very looser lackluster after the Sonic titles.
That thing drank 6x AA batteries like there was no tomorrow.
There were NiCad rechargeables. I didn’t own a Game Gear, but a friend did, and I remember him using NiCads for that and RC vehicles.
It’s been a looong time. But I think it drank those too? Engineers in those days maybe didn’t know how to optimize a full color screen with good brightness like that device sported.
I was pretty disappointed after getting a Switch 2 when I found out that Nintendo had blocked all video streaming apps on it. Even apps like Pokemon TV, which had transferred from my Switch 1 during account migration, were blocked from opening despite being downloaded on the device.
I would have got a switch if it was allowed to do the things it can do.
even youtube?
Yes. I couldn’t get any video streaming app to play. I don’t think you could even download them from the Nintendo Store, but I’d have to double check.
Switch Lite. Great console, but limited in stupid ways. Why no video out?
Yeah it’s not that much cheaper than a normal Switch. I’d love a smaller switch 2 with an option to video out to TV
I bought a WiiU for Bayonetta 2.
Not only was the WiiU itself little more than a paperweight beyond running it, the game itself was extremely lackluster and simplified.
I didn’t even bother emulating bayo 3.
My Atari 2600 that i got for xmas from my grandparents when i was 11. I loved it, but my stepdad monopolized it and rarely let me play it. Him and my mom made a rule in our house that we weren’t ever allowed to play videogames, so they took it away from me, and only let us play for a few minutes a month. I didn’t really play videogames until i bought an N64 when i was in my 20s.
That’s unfortunate. Hopefully you’ve made up for lost time
When i got my N64, i got Zelda OoT…and then it was my GF who kept harping at me to turn it off.
I don’t think i really got into gaming until i stumbled upon Subnautica. Wow. The creative mode in that game is like a SCUBA vacation.
By default it’s the Xbox 360 because it’s the only console I owned. Apart from the RROD it was actually pretty great. I mostly played oblivion on it. One time I was in a very cold city with minimal blankets and no heater. I fired up the Xbox and warmed my fingers on the fan air. It was good times.
my dad got a 3do and it was a piece of shit he never got a console for himself again lol
Atari Lynx. Don't get me wrong, I loved the thing and spent many an hour playing on it. But just like most Atari systems it never got its claws into the market and ended up playing second (at least) fiddle to the Gameboy, even though it was way more advanced.
Xbox Series X. I sold it right when Starfield early access hit and it wasn’t an Internet darling. Knew it was downhill from there. Before that by the end to 2020, they Bought Obsidian, Inxile, Bethesda/Zenimax, iD, Ninja Theory, and studios I thought would make a major quality jump like Compulsion games. I thought they’d be releasing awesome RPG games every year by 2021. That didn’t pan out
The OG Xbox. I’m sure it’s actually a fine console with great games on it, but my own personal experience with it was frustrating. I had already owned a GameCube and a PS2, both modified to play games from a SD card/hard drive and output an HDMI signal for modern tvs. I figured I’d might as well own the main 3 consoles from that generation and get the Xbox. I bought one that came with some cheap third party controllers and the first thing I did was replace the old capacitors on the circuit board. No problem there. Now there were 3 modifications I wanted to install, a mod chip with a new OS, replace the HDD with an SSD to install games on, and the HDMI converter. First up is the mod chip, and the install went fine. Except that after installing it with the new OS, the controller doesn’t work. From here, I’d tinker with it for a day or two and then get pissed and shelf it for a couple of weeks before going back to it. I even bought extra controllers which didn’t work, and a fucking oscilloscope to trace the controller signals through the motherboard to see if I accidentally de-soldered something installing the mod chip. Turns out the problem was the guy who made the OS didn’t put any tolerances in for the controller signals, so the third party controllers I had just didn’t work. Got some original Xbox controllers, and everything was fine and fucking dandy. The SSD install actually went in no problem. The HDMI converter was a pain in the ass because I had to solder in this ribbon cable with tiny contacts, but I got it in. And it just didn’t work. Apparently the two mods, mod chip and HDMI converter, were supposed to work together but sometimes they just didn’t since they are made by two different people. Only remedy is get another mod chip or converter and maybe those work. But I got lucky and one guy made a dual mod chip and converter. So I got that. Installed it. It fucking worked. I spent some time downloading and installing a bunch of games to the SSD. When I was happy with my newly acquired library of Xbox games, I unplugged it from the setup on my work bench and moved it to my living room, and when I turned it on the TV showed no signal. Fuck. When I cracked it back open, the mod chip had an LCD display with a fault code that should mean a bad solder joint or firmware needs to be reinstalled. I did both, but no luck. Checked the forums and found good news and bad news. The good news was that at least a dozen of other people are having the same problem, so there should be a fix, right? Well… Bad news was that the creator was responding to everyone with a, “I’ve never had that problem, you must have done something wrong. Buy a new kit and install it correctly this time.” … This bitch… I put that Xbox right in my closet and haven’t touch it since 2023. I spent 2 and a half years and a lot more money than I want to admit on that console and I’m just fucking done. I might go back and get it working some day, but I still want to vomit whenever I glance at the damn thing
I guess the PS3?
I felt like I begrudgingly bought it, out of spite. Like I HAD to buy it, or I was no longer a modern gamer.
And then it just fell flat for me. I played GTA, and maybe a handfull of other games, but mostly GTA.
I guess the PS4 is actually the same story, except I just never played it. To this day I have a PS4 that I never really used. But I also had no excitement for it.
And I guess the same for PS5. I bought it to play GTA 6, thinking it was coming soon. That was 4 years ago. I’ve watched dvds more than I’ve played games on it.
But with PS3, I actually had excitement brewing. I expected big things. It just never materialized.
I’ve already decided I’m not buying a PS6, and I’m not buying GTA6.
Well that just sounds unfortunate do you play a lot of PC or just don’t game much ?
I find myself playing more retro stuff.
I bought the Retroid Pocket Flip 2, which is exactly the same everything as a Retroid Pocket 5, with the exception of form factor. With apps like game native, I can play older PC games.
But like…have you ever played Super Mario Bros 2 at 2am, while smoking weed? The game holds up.
I guess I’m not a fan of the greyscale realistic graphics of a dystopian future, and everybody is shooting guns.
Yaaaaaaaaaawn.
But Stardew Valley?
The Survivalists?
Those games are amazing! Colorful graphics. I don’t need realism. I need escapism. I need worlds that make me feel SOMETHING positive in my life.
But ever since PS2, it’s been guns guns guns, rainy grey skies, post apocaliptic worlds. I don’t need that, and it’s been industry standard for 25 years it feels like.
I’m loving my Flip2 though.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 24 minutes ago
Honestly, my gaming laptop. Bought a few years ago, 3050. It was good and I could play games on it - but I live in a situation where all my electricity is solar generated and limited, charges 12v batteries and runs mains appliances via inverter. And the laptop was just too power hungry for long gaming sessions.
It was more a failure of me to properly research than a problem with the product, but was a let down. Bought a steam deck and never looked back.