Has any console ever received as much negative press prior to it's reveal as the Nextbox has?

[Conegamer]

curl-6 said:

Conegamer said:
It's possible, yes. Similarly, I've never seen so much hate for a console on the market as for the Wii U, or so much excitement and positivity for a console which we have yet to see as for the PS4, but as we know the Internet means very little to overall success.

The PS3's first 6 months or so saw some absolutely vicious hatred as I recall.

And while I can't be sure as I didn't have the internet then, the excitement and positivity surrounding the PS2 before launch was quite something in my experience; the magazine articles, the giddy joy of several PS1 owners I knew, promises of Toy-Story level graphics...

Not sure if its on the same level of the Wii U, though. And at least we had seen the console and knew the price for the PS2, we don't have that info currently.