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Barkley on 30 July 2019
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DonFerrari said:
Barkley said:

Virtual Boy is a console, the PocketStation is a peripheral that required a PlayStation. There's far more merit to include the Virtual Boy, but I'm not going to include either. Not just because of the Virtual Boy's short life and terrible sales but:

"an increasing amount of company resources were being reallocated to Nintendo 64 development."

"The console was pushed to market in an unfinished state in 1995 to focus on Nintendo 64 development."

The Virtual Boy was essentially put out to die, and is the most extreme case of atypical sales.

The fact Nintendo prioritized another system doesn't makes Virtual Boys stop to exist. Should we exclude PSVita because Sony decided to focus on PS4 when they saw Vita wasn't going to be a strong seller?

The Vita received FAR more support than the Virtual Boy, it had a clear place in Sony's lineup (Handheld, successor to PSP), it wasn't discontinued after a year, it isn't any more atypical than the WiiU and it wasn't put out to die.

Virtual Boy didn't even have a place. N64 came out a year later, Virtual Boy was never meant to be Nintendo's Home Console and certainly not it's handheld.