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.
What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ?
Submitted 2 weeks ago by 64bithero@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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Harrk@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I quit getting consoles after the PS3 and Xbox 360 and I made the right decision. The PS4 and XBone were painfully slow, had horrid load times, and everything was expensive. Watching my friend play Monster Hunter drove me insane, like five minutes of loading per hunt!
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
An hour progress in Morrowind, so caught up I forgot to save. Red ring.
Zarxrax@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
orenj@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
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
Deconceptualist@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
My friend, there are lots of reasons not to like the litigious corporate monstrosity that Nintendo has become.
iamthetot@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
“Proper adults” play whatever the fuck they like, including Zelda.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nintendo has always been litigious. I don’t understand this myth that they used to be wholesome and friendly in the good old days.
They sued Atari for making NES games. They sued Galoob for making the Game Genie. They sued Blockbuster for renting their games.
Kirby the character is literally named after Nintendo’s lawyer John Kirby.
ieGod@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Shitty take.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
minus that one comic book looking gorey slasher game for the wii
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
I owned a fucking Virtual Boy.
modus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I tried one in the local shop and couldn’t see why anyone would want that shit.
Strider@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And I bought one cheap while on a trip to the US (being European). Was happy I got this curiosity cheap. Worth it for me.
missingno@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
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.
darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
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.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
radiofreebc@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I loved my Switch. My WiiU…not so much.
SmokedBillionaire@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’ve got more than a thousand hours on my Switch, easily among the best consoles I’ve ever played on since my start on the Game Boy and Genesis. What do you feel makes brings it down for adults?
jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nintendo titles are, essentially, very good introductory video games. If you’ve played, well, pretty much any RPG, there’s no point playing Zelda or Pokemon. Same for fighting games and Smash Brothers or racing games and Mario Kart.
Everyone has to get started gaming somewhere, but beyond nostalgia? The rest of gaming has moved in from Nintendo.
64bithero@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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 …
Deconceptualist@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
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.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Same with Switch. I got it for MHGenU so it was still worth it—I put hundreds of hours into GenU, it’s one of my favorite MH games ever.
Every other game though, I’ve just played on my computer. My friend lent me BotW to try and as soon as I stepped outside and the framerate dropped, I shut it down and looked into how to play it on my computer. A little while later, I had it running at 1440p/120+ FPS with shaders and mods and stuff. Since then, I’ve just been playing everything on my computer.
AstroLightz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nintendo Switch
Mario Odyssey was fine, but I didn’t really see the use for a portable slab compared to a pocket-size device like my phone or the 3DS. Also, this was the first Nintendo device that felt completely soulless. At least the Wii U had some charm to it.
SoloCritical@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
yep, switch sucks balls.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
Katana314@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I get a nervous inhalation each time an acquaintance asks me for advice in buying a gaming laptop.
Their computing world started with laptops, and they want to extend the idea. It’s so hard to express to them it’s generally not a good one.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah right, especially with handheld devices becoming increasingly popular. The steam deck was by best purchase by far, in terms of fun per pound spent. And there’s much more powerful alternatives out there now.
hactar42@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I bought a gaming laptop around 2005. You could anchor a ship and melt the polar ice caps with it. I don’t think I ever installed a single game on it.
Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 weeks ago
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.
JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
PS3 was on one the best consoles ever released tho
Maybe the library was meh (I didn’t really notice it) but from a hw it was peak. It was famously sold at a loss based on how much power it had
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
For a while, it was the cheapest Blu-ray player you could get
crimson_iris@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I’ve replaced the HDD with an SSD a few years ago. It’s very easy. Just make sure you backup your savegames and settings first.
OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
The Sega Game Gear. That sucker could drain six AA batteries in about three hours. Do you know how hard it was to find a place to buy AA batteries on Christmas day?
While a rechargeable battery pack fixed that problem, most of the games were garbage compared to the GameBoy. The first party games were the best, but most everything else was ‘meh.’
I never did get that TV tuner add-on either.
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I think one saving grace for the Game Gear was that you could also play Master System games using an adapter, if I remember correctly?
jmet_b@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You might be thinking of the Sega Nomad, which was made explicitly to pay the full size cartridges. My dad had one for a while and it was the Game Gear turned to 11, flaws and all. Huge, hot, heavy, and devoured batteries. It was a cool concept on paper but nobody wanted to spend hundreds on it to play Sonic the Hedgehog on a tiny screen with a giant warm brick as a controller.
polle@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Instant flashback to my childhood. At some point i finally got a used game gear somewhere and the games were just awfull.
toomanypancakes@crazypeople.online 2 weeks ago
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.
ch00f@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
there were only 14 titles released in the US
toomanypancakes@crazypeople.online 2 weeks ago
Shit it was red alarm, dang it.
Also, that number sounds about right lmao, it was so bad
Deconceptualist@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
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).
TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
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.
farmgineer@nord.pub 2 weeks ago
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.
PineRune@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
luthis@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
I would have got a switch if it was allowed to do the things it can do.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
even youtube?
PineRune@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
DevastatedBungHole@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
PS5. Minimal games
radiofreebc@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
64bithero@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s unfortunate. Hopefully you’ve made up for lost time
radiofreebc@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
johnydoe666@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
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
afaix@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Unpopular opinion, but Xbox 360. The first ones didn’t have hdmi, didn’t have a hard drive, the giant power brick was unsightly, the controller has the worst dpad I have ever touched and playing any fighting game on it was a pain, the paid multilayer cancer grew there, the ads in the main menu of the console… And I didn’t get to see the red ring of death since I’ve switched to PS3 as soon as I could afford one.
I know a lot of people have fond memories of it, but for me the 360 represented the worst of the console manufacturers’ greed, milking the consumer to the bone while cheaping out on everything that was possible to cheap out on.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Mine was also the 360, but simply because of when I got it. I was a young teen when it originally came out, and begged my parents for one. They were concerned that my kid brother (several years younger than me) would inevitably end up playing the games I had for it. The 360 was marketed more as a mature console, compared to the family friendly Wii. So I had to wait until my brother was old enough to play games like Halo.
All of this meant that by the time I finally got the 360, the XBO was nearing release. And the 360’s multiplayer heyday had largely passed by that point, as everyone had largely moved on from games like Halo 3, Modern Warfare 2, Assassins Creed Brotherhood, etc… So matchmaking lobbies for all of the games I wanted to experience were basically only full of the diehard fans who had absolutely no sympathy for new/learning players. It meant I ended up using it primarily as a single player console. I enjoyed lots of single-player games like Final Fantasy 13/13-2, Lost Odyssey, Mass Effect Trilogy, Dark Souls, etc… But that’s pretty much all I used it for. I’d chat with friends while I played if they were online, but it quickly became clear that my friends were moving on from the console.
All of the big multiplayer experiences for the 360 were largely lost on me, because none of my friends were interested in playing those old games by that point. And multiplayer is unfortunately a large part of what the console was designed for. I think the only multiplayer game that really held our attention was Destiny, and even that turned out to be a pretty big disappointment after a while. We only really kept playing it as an excuse to hang out in voice chat.
I was also largely moving towards PC gaming by that point. I had already experimented with installing games like Oblivion and Skyrim on my (really shitty) laptop, and got them running at potato quality. I saw the potential, and shifted towards PC gaming after getting the 360. I saved up my money from my first job, and built my first PC a year or two after getting the 360. So I only really kept the 360 around for the exclusives that weren’t on PC.
Nowadays, I just emulate the 360 exclusives for single player. Currently working my way through Lost Odyssey, because I never actually got around to finishing it on the 360. I think because I built my PC before I beat the game.
afaix@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I still want to play some of the rpgs of that era: Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, Eternal Sonata
Just need to find the time somewhere 😅
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My Xbox 360 RRoD’ed on me twice.
It also had its disc drive die THE DAY I got Skyrim on release after waiting in line for it.
I spent the next several hours learning how to flash the firmware of a broken RRoD’ed Xbox 360 so that I could replace my drive with its parts.
It was simultaneously the best and worst console I ever owned:
Best because I have a lot of fond memories playing Halo 3 multiplayer, Skyrim, etc. with my friends in my college apartment we all shared.
Worst because it was an unreliable piece of shit.
64bithero@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They offered the HDD as optional if you paid for the “pro” package. The HDMI was a bummer but being honest I needed to buy a special adapter to use on my TV because I didn’t even have component out ! So slightly understandable at the time.
It wasn’t a well built system none of that generation was. I went through three Xbox 360s. I bought my fourth 2 years ago !
Lot of fond memories though
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
PS5 or Nintendo Switch.
PS5: No games I want to pmay except Demons Souls Remake. Its the only PS5 game I own. Every other game I wanted to play I just play on PC instead.
Switch: Weak, underpowered “console.” Never left the dock, ever. Still had performance problems in first party titles, like Breath of the Wild chugging to 15fps or less in the Korok Forest when facing East for some reason. After I was disappointed with Breath of the Wild, I haven’t touched the 2014 midrange tablet “console” since. Only emulated the games for an immensely better experience.
OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
IIRC that Tegra X1 chip was launched in 2015 so the Switch launched with an obsolete SoC. It’s surprising to see how much performance they’ve been able to wring out of that old tech for nearly a decade. Color me impressed.
azdle@news.idlestate.org 2 weeks ago
That’s kinda, at least historically, been Nintendo’s whole thing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpei_Yokoi#Design_philoso…
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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.
ch00f@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Switch Lite. Great console, but limited in stupid ways. Why no video out?
Meatwagon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Gamecube.
The other consoles were pushing for more, but instead the Gamecube only cared about being small?
I was fresh off Nintendo 64 so I was expecting Banjo-threeie, other awesome Rare games, a new Mario, the new Zelda, and finally a Pokemon game on a modern console!
Hahaha
Mario Sunshine was such a bad game that had none of Mario 64’s soul I never touched another Mario game after that. I hated the art of Zelda Windwaker and that it had lost all the dark vibes, and obviously none of the other games I was expecting never happened. I felt completely scammed for being loyal to Nintendo. I taught me to never be loyal to a brand.
The one and only game I enjoyed on that system was Metroid Prime, but as a child I was only allowed one new console like every 5 years and I deeply regretted not getting a PS2 instead like my friends.
anakin78z@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The PS4. My wife and I played a lot of PS3, so we were excited for the 4, but it just didn’t hit right. We ended up barely using it. At some point we let someone borrow it and never asked for it back.
I don’t even remember what we didn’t like, except that we were both pumped for the latest sack boy game, which ended up not anywhere near as fun as the first one.
Deconceptualist@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
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.
Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
PS4 - no games
Xbone - no games
Didn’t buy PS5 or another Xbox myself but my roommate did get a PS5. No games. He’s not buying another Sony console either.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
my dad got a 3do and it was a piece of shit he never got a console for himself again lol
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I haven’t gotten into a console since SNES.
I bought a PS5, played it a few times, but it gathers dust. I think it was last powered up in 2024.
tobz619@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
PS5, ever since I stopped with PS Plus, there’s basically no games.
The only way they can get me back is dropping the PS Plus requirement for online play.
Fedegenerate@fedinsfw.app 2 weeks ago
Xnone. It sucked so hard I converted to pc/android/emulation gaming. I bought it on and for the Fallout 4 release. They both sucked so bad I haven’t bought a console, or Bethesda game since.
I still want the console experience though. Couch gaming, mostly all set up. I don’t have the inclination to research a build, buy all the individual parts and build the thing.
I was thinking about a Beelink SER8, but the Steam Machine announced. When the steam machine releases I’ll compare it to equal price point minis. Steam gets a valve bonus, plus a bonus to knowing that’s the target Devs will be trying to hit.
_Lory98_@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
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.
roger.wood@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
I am one of the few lucky ones to actually get an Ouya… It wasn’t great.
Fondots@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Meatwagon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Your entertainment center is so cool I didn’t even notice the so called “mess”.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
That’s a lotta Chianti
NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 2 weeks ago
Nice portal gun hiding up on a shelf.
PineRune@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
MoreZombies@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
I came to say this. Some good games on there, but Julie Uhrman is the worst. and to think, she just failed upward.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
It was sooo bad. We had such a bad time with it. The controller buttons stick, the software was super buggy, and they required a credit card to log in (I dont know if that changed after the first couple of months, but I remember being pissed).