| JackHandy said: Anytime a future purchase requires this level of analysis, a red flag should go up. The most successful consoles of all time (and products in general) jump out at you from the moment they're unveiled and scream, "BUY ME YOU FOOL!" with no questions asked. The rest, well... |
This is simply not true:
The NES was met with widespread scepticism and Nintendo had to camouflage its identity as a gaming console by bundling R.O.B. with it and calling it an "Entertainment System".
The PS1 didn't sell that well for its first year or two and Sony really had to work for its success.
The Gameboy was ridiculed for being black and white and not being powerful enough when it released.
The DS was ridiculed to no end and the whole internet was shocked when it outsold the PSP.
The Wii was so hated by the whole "gaming industry", that most people and analysts predicted it to be Nintendo's last console.
The Switch got an incredible amount of hate when it was unveiled, for the same reasons the Switch 2 is getting hate now.
It's like with every new generation people completely forget what happened 5, or 10, or 20 years ago.
