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Onimusha12 on 10 May 2008

What is your list of the worst mistakes made in gaming? So many to choose from, but what is your list?

Mine is...

1. Virtual Boy
2. Nintendo saying "screw off" to third party developers with the N64.
3. Sega abandoning Saturn third party support in favor of forcing the Dreamcast.
4. Capcom disolving Clover Studios
5. Blu-Ray as the standard for the PS3
6. UMD

I know, not much of a list, but maybe you can do me one better.



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windbane on 10 May 2008

blu-ray wouldn't be in my top 20. UMD isn't that bad, it's just that the movies cost too much at first. Load times aren't the best, either. Can't really argue against it being in a top 10, I guess.

Blu-ray will be great for gaming. Developers are already filling up discs.

I'd add: Sega CD, 32X, too much shovelware during Atari days, Philips cd-i, neo geo, Jaguar



disolitude on 10 May 2008

Take a look at this thread...similar idea about mistakes companies made with consoles

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?start=0&id=16456



Onimusha12 on 10 May 2008

Were Blu-Ray's small benefits to gaming worth seeing the PS3 destroyed at launch and losing the lion share of its once treasured third party exclusivity to the 360 and Wii? Whether its a good choice or not for gaming, it severly damaged the PS3 and halted the momentum of the Sony brand thus was a huge mistake.

I suppose UMD isn't that high, but I was trying to round out a list.



psrock on 10 May 2008

1. $599 for ps3
2. virtual boy
3. nintendo not going to cd drive\
4. 360 hardware issues\
5. ps3 not going after 3rd party support exclusives.



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kingofwale on 10 May 2008
Onimusha12 said:

What is your list of the worst mistakes made in gaming? So many to choose from, but what is your list?

Mine is...

1. Virtual Boy
2. Nintendo saying "screw off" to third party developers with the N64.
3. Sega abandoning Saturn third party support in favor of forcing the Dreamcast.
4. Capcom disolving Clover Studios
5. Blu-Ray as the standard for the PS3
6. UMD

I know, not much of a list, but maybe you can do me one better.


 RRoD not on the list?? 1.1 billion cash sitting aside, + millions already spent on repairing.

Seems pretty big mistake to me 



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libellule on 10 May 2008

I can't rank them but

- too high price fo the PS3
- MS not dropping price enought in 2007
- Sony not securing GTA4
- MS not buying the full exclusivity of GTA4
- Sixaxis

(sorry for focusing on this gen only)



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FJ-Warez on 10 May 2008
Onimusha12 said:

What is your list of the worst mistakes made in gaming? So many to choose from, but what is your list?

Mine is...

1. Virtual Boy
2. Nintendo saying "screw off" to third party developers with the N64.
3. Sega abandoning Saturn third party support in favor of forcing the Dreamcast.
4. Capcom disolving Clover Studios
5. Blu-Ray as the standard for the PS3
6. UMD

I know, not much of a list, but maybe you can do me one better.


1.- Virtual Boy

2.- The Ninty-Mafia of the 90s

3.- Dev cost and price of the PS3

4.- The Cell

5.- EA

6.- RRoD

7.- UMD

8.- The dev apathy towards the Wii (can be fixed)

 



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Onimusha12 on 10 May 2008

Yeah, well that's why I was waiting for other people to add to it. I can't remember everything, but yeah, RROD would probably be a good sixth place mistake right beneath Blu-Ray.



MrMarc on 10 May 2008

I'm surprised no one said it yet but quite possibly the biggest mistake ever in gaming is Nintendo, Philips and Sony not joining forces in originally developing a CD addon for the SNES.

That pretty much directly lead to the birth of the Playstation and the 2 generation asskicking for Nintendo. At the same time though it directly lead to Nintendo's new way of thinking and the state they're in now so in hindsight... who knows heh!