This is just a sad attempt at hits.

How did my N-Gage find its way to the OP?

It is currently at 65 million and selling at a rate of 12mil a year, that's going to rapidly drop off when the PS4 releases, but that's a year and a half away at least. It'll reach 90mil.

What is this list referring to? Hardware failures, console launch failures or console lifecycle failures? It doesn't make sense, especially considering the PS3 and the Dreamcast are complete opposites.

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Just PS3, Saturn and Dreamcast for me. All three are some of my favourite consoles of all time though.

I don't think PS3 should be number 1, sure it made Sony lose all the money they earned during the PS1 and PS2 era but at least it's still alive. Then again Sony is a multi-billion dollar company so they had the resources to keep it alive, if it was anyone else it would have been toast. I still don't think it should be number 1, maybe in the top 10.

Damn, I even fail at failing, just have 4 - 2 x C64 (computer not console), MegaCD and NGage.

The list is in reverse order. #1 is actually #25. Which PS3 is the least fail, CDi the most.

Why do I know this? Because most of the top 10 are nowhere near as failing as the bottom 10.
(OP, maybe this could be reversed?)
Also, I can see why the PS3 made the list, and I agree with the rest of it, though I personally would've put something else on there, like the Atari 5200, or NeoGeo. The PS3 would basically be one of the others, if it wasn't for Sony to pull some rabbits out of hats. They dodged a big bullet, and the fact that it's more than relevant today is actually a compliment to their competence.

I can say "fail at failing". Of all the things I have, I appear to nearly always have chosen wisely.
I own three of the above, or have owned three as I don't have the 32X anymore. Gonna eBay it back sometime (not that it's great, but just because), my MegaDrive gets lonely.
I have (had):
PS3
Dreamcast
32X

Help me understand 'cause I honestly cannot. No tech problems and  is "Launch fail " a new kind of fail because that is all the justification the "journalist" provides.

If anything managing to turn around such a slow start is definitely a won battle for Sony.

Yeah, but you see , the whole picture kinda stays black with a "no signal" sign dancing around when your system fries.

lets get this straight...regular commodore 64...ie non semi console one was a friggin MONSTER fun machine to game on...we had to MAIL...aka snailmail games between friends or physically hand them to each other...then cracking came...then we all learned how to double side a 5 1/4 360k....omfg i feel old but damn those were good times...DAYS spent in front of a tv or pos comm monitor.

I was obsessed with the 64DD, and it just never came out. I feel like I'm still waiting for a proper release. Tear.

Why was this brought up?