Top 10 Worst Gaming Consoles

The Top Ten

Virtual Boy

Let's make a quick recap:
This is a console with monochrome graphics, namely red and black.
This is a console labeled as "portable," in spite of its obvious bulkiness.
This is a console whose library encompasses a total of 22 games. And most of them didn't even emphasize the "virtual 3D" effect the console boldly boasted.
This is a console that didn't even last a year on the market.
This is a console that can cause headaches from prolonged exposure.
This is a console that deserves to be smashed with a sledgehammer because it is simply bad, and it should've never been made.

Of course. Nintendo is always coming up with ideas. The competition was epic. The graphics were getting better. Nintendo continued their massive line of great consoles. They announced the VR32 would become known as the Virtual Boy. They thought it would be great. It turned out to be horrible instead.
The controller has a battery pack. You can swap it with an AC adapter. But when you play on the table, it would come loose and shut off your game.
Philips CD-i

To start with, WAY TOO BIG. That's not my complaint, though. It had four controllers throughout its lifespan. The one that came with the console sucks so bad it isn't even worth using. One looks like a spoon, one is like a Genesis controller without a Start button, and one is a Super Nintendo controller with a joystick on top of a D-pad. The one that comes with it is almost as bad as the 5200 controller. Also, there is not ONE good game on the CD-i. The well-known ones are a crappy Mario game and three crappy Legend of Zelda games. I don't count them as LoZ.

This has to be the worst console to come out of the 1990s. The remotes are poorly designed and plug into the back of the console, despite there being a port in the front. The games are asinine, such as the infamous The Legend of Zelda games and Hotel Mario, plus a worse version of Dark Castle. Overpriced? Check. Got to have absurd prices in your bad console. The graphics are also awful.
Xbox One

I've owned 10 consoles in my life, and without a shadow of a doubt, the Xbox One is the worst one. Simply put, it's crap. Really crap. Microsoft has managed to suck out all of the joy and excitement of getting a new game by then making you wait around 2 hours while it installs. 2 hours is on a good day, too, I should add. Don't even waste your time trying to install a game on Christmas Day because it isn't going to happen. Got a hard copy of a game and think you can get around this by playing it from the disc? Think again! But hold on, at least once it's installed, you'll never need the disc again, right? Wrong again!
Then just when you think it's finally installed, you have to update it. Then there are the regular issues with servers going down for online games, the lack of quality games outside of FPSs, the absolute requirement to buy Xbox Live because frankly, it's not worth owning the console otherwise, and the lack of local or split-screen games. I miss my SNES!
R-Zone

The Virtual Boy at least attempted VR. The Virtual Boy also had a pretty good line of games and a good controller. The R-Zone was an awful version of the Virtual Boy that scrapped the idea of VR but kept the red-and-black art style, despite it being unnecessary for the R-Zone.
The R-Zone had no good games, as the games on the R-Zone were essentially the Tiger wrist games played up close to your eyes on a piece of reflective plastic in bright red and black, while awful audio made your ears bleed. The R-Zone also had a terrible controller, which is fitting for its awful games. The only good part about it was that it actually featured a head strap.
Atari Jaguar

The only reason the games were bad was because the system had a mixture of different processors instead of just one 64-bit one. That's what made the games hard to program.

This was the first 64-bit console, but it failed miserably.

It was so bad it brought Atari down to ruin.
3DO Interactive Multiplayer

Not the worst console. It definitely doesn't deserve to be sixth. But it is bad. It's overpriced, focuses more on crappy, window-sized movie footage than on gameplay, post-modern consoles in a nutshell, and gave us Plumbers Don't Wear Ties. With those exceptions, it's playable.

The 3DO was advertised as the most advanced video game console, and it even mocked the SNES and the Mega Drive by calling them baby toys. However, nobody ever wanted a 3DO, maybe because the price was 700 dollars.
You could daisy chain controllers, and all of the models had only one controller input. Why they made many models with one controller input is unclear. Instead of two inputs, they used one, so you had to daisy chain them together.
Gizmondo

Why are ads on a console? Explain that. This thing was naturally on the meh level, but ads, come on! Who wants to see toothbrush ads when doing something crazy important? Ads, are you serious? It's not like the creator or the ads win anything at the end. Because the creator paid so much for these ads, the console is expensive. Play it yourself and ask yourself, Why did this guy make a disgrace to games?

Horrible handheld console, horrible games, and you get interrupted by ads during gameplay. It's expensive garbage! You could save your money rather than buying this, or you could save it for a Game Boy!
Game.com

It has horrible games and ports from famous franchises or movies, and why would anybody want to buy a black-and-white handheld console that was made in 1997?! And it has internet, text only. I can't believe it. Imagine using this to text people, and you can't leave your house because you need a wire for the internet. Why not just use a computer!?

It's a crappy handheld made by Tiger Electronics, and the games are on mini-cartridges. Most games are popular franchise ports, and why would anybody want to play a black-and-white handheld?! It was released in 1997?! That was the time when the GBC was alive?!
N-Gage

Horrible ports of games, a small screen, and a desperate attempt by Nokia to compete with the Game Boy.
I can't believe this. Imagine you watch this commercial and you will be all like, "Damn, that's the hot ticket," but you end up getting horrible ports of games. And look at the design. It's like a space taco! The buttons are just horrible, and even the Microvision is a whole lot better than this.

Something I was interested in when I was younger was a mobile phone and game console, but I never got it. According to many people, N-Gage failed and sounded crap.
Sega 32X

Sega CD was bad. But at least it was just one add-on, and it has one of my favorite games, Sonic CD. But the 32X. The only game that was good on the 32X was Knuckles' Chaotix. Nobody should have cared about the 32X because six months later, in the US, the Sega Saturn would come out, and I actually liked the Sega Saturn. They also thought of making the 32X a later console called the Sega Neptune. And it should have been, but I think that would replace some of the Dreamcast's time.

Let's be fair: the 32X was never meant to exist. The add-on was released around the time of the Saturn, which also failed, but not this badly. The one thing I can hand the 32X is that of the 40 games, yes, only 40, released in total, many of them were actually half-decent.

The Newcomers

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SouljaGame Console

If Nintendo had made this joke console, there would be no more Nintendo!
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Game Child

Is it me or was this just a cameo in a Gumball episode?

The Contenders

RCA Studio II

A console that was already obsolete compared to the Fairchild Channel F at the time of its launch in 1977. It was in monochrome, while the Fairchild was in colour. There was actually NOTHING at all good about this console. It had no external controllers, which meant two people would have to huddle around the keypads. Horrible wiring forced you to use a switchbox, it was a possible fire hazard, and it had NO games even worth playing!

It tried to be a hit but failed miserably. It had no external controller, so you needed to huddle around it. Plus, why would anybody want to play on this?! Well, I give the answer: it's a piece of garbage.
Apple Pippin

This is worse than the Xbox 360. At least the 360 plays games well in terms of software. This can't do anything right, including browsing the Internet and whatever else it's designed for. The name just sucks. Who wants to play on a Pippin? Apple, just stick to what you're good at: nothing.

This product was made by Bandai and Apple. The price tag doesn't get any better: $600. Yeah, top dollar. By the way, the market was already dominated by the N64.

Apple is so terrible at making gaming consoles that they never made a successor, and Mac games became bad.
Wireless 60

My mistake, THIS IS the Air 60. This thing is a ripoff of the Kinect, which is a ripoff of the Wii. There are no remotes, just a bad sensor bar that doesn't sense. No good games. It's too expensive. I think I found something worse than the Wii U. It's called the Air 60, and it's a follow-up to the 60, a rip-off of the Wii.
Meanwhile, the Air 60 is a ripoff of the Kinect. Unlike the Wii, there are no remotes, just a really bad sensor bar that doesn't actually sense. Only a few games take advantage of the 3D, while the rest look like PlayStation 2 games, except in 2D. If you don't like the Air 60, beware the Hunting 60.

Just when you think you've found the worst, something like the Wireless 60 comes along. Can you believe that it got three sequels? Yeah, that makes it a legacy console in Gen 8? I estimate. I can't find the date. It's a ripoff of the Wii, which already sucks, except this doesn't even have good games. I won't say much, because it's at least not as bad as the Air 60, the dreaded Hunting 60, or the abysmal Zone 60. Do me 60 favors and unrelease these consoles.
LJN Video Art

This is not twenty-seventh. This is first. It's made by LJN. No, don't play it. No need to. It's made by LJN. A video game CONSOLE made by LJN. Still not convinced? Relax yourself and enjoy the fine-tuned ambience of white noise and a squeaky joystick. Look at the beautiful images of jagged lines you can draw. When playing the Video Art, you only need one game. Even the name sucks. Why is this a console? Why is this even a game? Why does this exist?

The fact that the Laughing Joking Numbnuts who gave us the worst Microsoft Paint ripoff ever are so infamous for ruining countless video games, no matter who programmed said games, would be plenty absurd on its own.
PlayStation 4

Until this was released, I thought nothing could be worse than the PS3.
But the library is somehow even weaker, the controller (which was already trash for me) was somehow made worse, and the price is way too high. The Wii is better than this. The Virtual Boy is better than this. The PS3 is almost as bad, but not quite (at least it has the excuse of being older).

I have owned 15 consoles, like the Xbox One S and GameCube, and without a doubt, this is the worst of all. It only lasted 6 minutes until it said, WARNING: Your PS4 is malfunctioning. Then BOOM! It overheated randomly, flipped 15 times, and broke down.
Second, the storage made it worse. I played Minecraft, and it said too much storage. When I checked, it was 200 MB out of 408 GB. WHAT THE HELL?!
Finally, the graphics. They killed me!
Atari 5200

Giant garbage like the CD-I. They tried to be cutting edge by eliminating the use of wires. It was intended to replace the Atari 2600, but ironically, it failed and faded away. Why does everybody forget about it? Well, it's a piece of garbage! And the controller just sucks. What the heck, it has a keypad. What is the keypad for?! Why didn't they do it like the 2600?! And the controller is like a phone.

There are many problems with this thing. It was a console with the worst controller ever, and a price even higher than the 2600's price. So they later helped the controller problems with the release of the 7800.
PlayStation 3

They always break easily. I had to buy three PS3s. The first one I got was, I think, one of the early ones that was compatible with PlayStation 2 games, but the problem was that the eject button stopped working. The second was the same and had the same problem, though some PS2 games won't work. The final PS3 I got was a red one whose disc drive opens sideways, but it's on top, and somehow the laser broke, so it can never play my games. This is the main reason why I don't play PS3 that often. I play PS2 more.

I hated this console. It's not as bad as some others, but for the price they charged, it was a terrible waste of my money. A shame, since PS2 was actually pretty good. If a PS2-quality console had come out instead of this thing, Nintendo might finally have come second best for me, with the Wii being the low point in quality, but PS3 came nowhere near even this comparatively low bar.
Xbox 360

Microsoft needs to learn from their mistakes. Oops, I mean failures. Seriously, people, Microsoft fails at the video game industry because they rush out their consoles, which leads to flaws like the Red Ring of Death, poor hardware design, lack of Blu-ray compatibility, lack of exclusive titles, the overhauling of shooters, and the people who own an Xbox and say PS3 sucks and Nintendo is for little kids, which annoys me personally! And Xbox didn't do anything important for the video game industry. You want to know who made the game industry important?
Atari, Nintendo, Sega, and Sony! Microsoft didn't do anything!

Sorry if I get anyone angry, but this isn't exactly some perfect console. The exclusives aren't usually that groundbreaking, with the Halo series being mostly an exception. The extremely high price and the fact that you have to pay for an online membership means it's a lot more money-snatching than most other consoles of the current gen and previous ones.
However, don't hate on Kinect at all. In fact, I think it works quite well and is a nice little addition to your Xbox. I'm not saying this console is the worst or anything, I'd just rather use a PC, PlayStation, or Wii than this.
Sega CD

The year is 1992. Sega just released a super cool Genesis add-on! Playing games from compact discs sounds like a great investment! Try sitting through some minutes-long FMV cutscenes that play within a 16-bit framework, with terrible results. If your game isn't like that, it's likely Genesis-quality with minor improvements in visuals and more FMV. At least it sounds better.

Sega. I hate this add-on. Sega. I want a different system. Sega. I don't have enough money because I wasted it on this piece of crap.

Okay, I have one great game on here, and it's Sonic CD. It's great. Sonic CD is the only good game on there!
Sega Saturn

The Saturn had a TERRIBLE marketing campaign. The biggest mistake Sega made was making the console extremely difficult to program for, especially for 3D games. This means that nobody was able to push the hardware to its limits. The hardware is more powerful than the PlayStation's, but it rendered in quads instead of triangles, forcing 3D designers to change every model for the Saturn to render.
Its game library was very lacking, with not many games that people remember. Although there are exceptions, like NiGHTS into Dreams, House of the Dead, Radiant Silvergun, and a few others.
It did quite well in Japan, but the western regions bought PlayStations and N64s instead. Perhaps if the marketing had been much better and the development of games had been easier, it could have saved it, and the Dreamcast.
HyperScan

It's like those horrendous plug-and-play consoles, but developed by a popular toy manufacturer and with interchangeable discs.

What do the Hyper-SCAM and all five or six of its games (ignoring homebrews) have in common? They're rated T for TERRIBLE!

Let's face it, the Hyper-SCAM is as phony as a three-dollar bill.
Nintendo 2DS

So this is the remake of the DS, but it can play 3DS games. If anyone mistakenly drops it, it just goes smash because of its poor open design.

My only question to ask about this product: Why does this exist?

The 3DS was awesome, but this sucks!
Vii

What is with the name? It just says Wii's lesser twin. Insult to games. Why do people knock off good consoles and make farces out of them? Ugh. This thing should die.

This is a stupid ripoff of the Wii! This is full of crap!

Probably from Nintendo's self-parody division.
Atari 2600

It had a lot of bad games (E.T., Pac-Man 2600, Custer's Revenge, Atari Sports), but it's a legend. Oh, and the PS1 and PS2 are the longest-living game consoles.

I bet it's only here because it has E.T.
Atari Jaguar CD

Atari released a CD-based add-on for the Jaguar, couldn't sell it, and the best part is that it doesn't work. How did they mess it up so badly? The most important part is for it to work. Not to mention, it looks like a toilet. I'm not kidding, look it up.

What was Atari thinking when they made this? "Let's take a system nobody owns, make an add-on that requires the normal system, and make it look like a toilet. Yeah, that will be good and successful."

A CD-based add-on for the Jaguar that didn't actually work. That defeats the entire purpose of an add-on. It looks like a toilet.