ITT failures
try not to post recent things just to shitpost about them
>pic related
Can you really consider the N-Gage a failure when it predicted the future?
>>337256101
>>337256205
>ocean pacific
holy shit i haven't seen that logo in a while
Define failure
>>337256101
I had one of these for a while. Played a shit ton of Tony Hawk on that thing as a kid. Pretty comfy.
>>337256101
I liked the N-gage it had a ton of good games and impressive cellphone and handheld hardware for that year. It also had online gaming on the go. I can name at least a dozen of good games. Thats more I could say from the xbox one, the ps4 or the wii u.
The N-gage is bad is literally a TBBT tier meme by people who really didnt have one or used one. But Its bad because pop culture present it as bad!
On the same note, Spider-man 3 while being the worst of the original trilogy still shits on 80% of modern capeshit. So was it that bad in retrospective? Or is it just le bad movie meme from pop culture? Was it really worse than IM2, IM3, Thor 1, Thor 2, both Avengers, TDKR, BvS and Tranktastic 4? Was it?
The answer is memes.
>>337256101
I had an N-gage
Best phone I ever owned. Hacked the shit out of it, people always wanted to know what it was and met a few great people because they showed interest and started talking.
>>337256250
>N-gage makes the example that a hybrid games machine and phone is a massive failure of an idea
>sony releases the vita anyway
>lo and behold the vita is a failure just like the N-gage was
>>337256250
At the time, it was a failure but mainly due to its design. I had an Ngage in high school and while everyone in my class thought it was the tightest shit ever, I was the only one who had it while everyone else had some Nextel walkie cellphones. Couple of years later, the Ngage QD comes out and I see a few people having them, but this was right around the time Apple was coming with the first iPhone.
I ended up boxing my Ngage in 2006 due to a failing battery and got a regular flip phone , I still have it in the basement.
>>337256101
>try not to post recent things
Like this?
>>337256101
way ahead of its time... this was basically a smart phone before smart phones existed
>>337257042
>storing electronics in a basement
>>337257042
>Nextel walkie talkie phones
No high school student should've be walking around with these damn things, but they were. They were at the height of popularity in 2006 and only because dumbasses abused the CHIRPS and using grainy music ringtones from the phone's very loud front speakers.
>>337257142
Or this?
>>337257313
>Implying my basement is humid
My dad has made that his home for the last decade so he can avoid my mom, without having to move out
Bomberman
Colin McRae Rally 2005
Crash Nitro Kart
The Elder Scrolls Travels: Shadowkey
Glimmerati
King of Fighters extreme (it was the gameboy avdance version with better graphics and 4 face buttons instead of 2)
Pandemonium
Pathway to glory
Pathway to glory Ikusa islands
Pocket Kingdom: Own the World
Rayman 3
Requiem of hell
Rift
Sega Rally Championship
Spider-Man 2
Sonic N
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Team Stealth Action
Tomb Raider
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
Virtua Tennis
Warhammer 40,000: Glory in Death
Worms World Party
WWE Aftershock
X-Men Legends
X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse
Xanadu Next
One
All good games
>>337256101
I had an N-Gage, I had to take the battery out to put games in
>>337257403
More something like this
>>337257707
>I had to take the battery out to put games in
Alright, someone defend this
No idea why this did so shit, any of you guys own one?
>>337257790
Fixed on the QD.
You could install backups of all your games in the mmc card anyways so there was no need to remove the battery.
>>337257723
This wouldn't be too recent, would it?
>>337257790
If you had it pirated you could have multiple games one one sd card. Also, with new QD version you didn't have to take out the battery.
>>337257485
>finished basement
nice
>dad lives in my mom's basement
this is some next level NEETery
>>337256864
I'm amazed there are such things as N-gage apologists.
It was a bad, overpriced product that sold poorly and was critically panned. It's not secretly good and no one gave it a chance, like you're suggesting, it was a piece of shit. You don't have to own one to know it was a fucking joke.
Well, lets start with this colossal fuckup
Not a failure, but Sony sure treated it like one.
>>337257938
play time is over
DELETE
>>337256864
>Both avengers
Decent bait m8
>>337258104
Man, when I saw the pitch for this I thought it was an amazing idea.
>>337258072
It wasnt overpriced considering it was some of the first actual smartphones that had real multitasking and internet connectivity.
It also shitted in terms of technology on both the gba and any other phone of that time.
The library while small it was full of quality titles.
Really, what you know about it was just the memes.
>>337258241
I remember buying that off my friend's little brother for $20, best emulator device I had until I got a GPD XD (fuck yourself if it triggers you)
I really wish slider and flip designs would come back into the mainstream, the only 'innovation' I see is a curved screen on the new Galaxy phones. Whoopdy-fucking-doo.
>>337258668
tfw we will never play Pocket Kingdom again.
>>337258550
Now it's led to shit like this
>>337258550
It still is a great idea, albeit impractical.
How about successes that died anyway?
>Turns more profit than any other TTL brand
>Killed because they could make slightly more profit just licensing shit out instead of pouring effort into making their own game
I'm mad as shit. Literally shooting a healthy horse.
>>337258851
Christ almighty you can rent a game through redbox for two dollars a day (unless they changed that shit).
>>337256897
>N-gage makes the example that a hybrid games machine and phone is a massive failure of an idea
Yet the idea didn't fail.
>>337257042
I'm well aware of the N-Gage being a commercial failure, but it did correctly predict the future, so its commercial failure was just a stepping stone to future success.
>>337258668
>t wasnt overpriced considering it was some of the first actual smartphones that had real multitasking and internet connectivity.
The market wasn't there and they didn't have the marketing team to make it an essential item. The N-gage could have started the smart phone boom early but they didn't have the design in place for mass appeal.
Part of the reason the N-gage failed so hard and became a big joke was how directionless it was in it's demographic, most users were children with rich parents and teens with disposable income showing off an expensive toy.
>>337258851
>that price scaling
jesus christ.
>>337259031
Was it making money though?
>>337259031
>Playing kids games (6-12yrs old)
>>337256729
Holy shit dude I get that I got older but what the fuck happened to youtube? Like didn't this guy used to at least make animations or songs or something. When did every single youtuber on the planet decide to start making THIS.
>>337259298
the only failure about this is that it was a PS4 exclusive desu
>>337259157
>phones
>real games
pick one.
>>337258851
>stream game for 90 days for more than the retail price
ISHYGDDT
>>337259347
It was turning very healthy profits, but if just licensing the brands out makes even more money without you lifting a finger, why bother right?
>>337259407
>I only play mature games for mature gamers such as myself
>>337258317
Not that guy but its too damn produced for me. Like I get this a bullshit complaint but it really does seem like the definiton of a focus group movie, nothing significant happens, no one dies, jokes are placed at THOSE moments where it seems like they are just begging for laughs. Haven't seen 2 though.
>>337259446
That's not the point, anon.
The N-Gage correctly predicted that the future was about games being played on cell phones.
>>337256690
holy shit. I had that on gameboy.
Good to see its as bullshit as I remember.
>>337257403
Fuck man I remember my dad hyping the shit out of this and saying how I should buy one because I was getting a cs degree and was into programming. He was saying the same shit about the cloud and vr so I guess hes actually a good barometer of shit technology. Just in general if normies (i know) are touting it as the next big thing its probably more marketing than product and will bomb.
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>>337259293
At least they launched a subscription service, because they clearly don't know how to price rentals
>>337257313
>that pic
>>337260032
>Fuck man I remember
>like it was a long time ago
>check
The ouya kickstarter was 4 fucking years ago.
I need to get off this site
I highly doubt it could be the greatest game ever so
>>337259686
the N-gage wasn't a cell phone with games though, it was a games machine with cell phone capability. it also actually had real games unlike modern smartphones.
>>337256864
fuck the ngage. I bought 2 of those things and each one bricked within a week. FUCK the ngage and FUCK U
>>337260032
> Cloud
> Shit
Its the largest gaining sector for Apple, Amazon and Microsoft bruh. AWS in particular is printing money for Amazon.
>>337259559
As far as I understand from reading leddit comments (so basically dick) their stupid model of releasing a new game every year and making all the old models incompatible is what really did it in with the market.
>>337261416
>AWS in particular is printing money for Amazon.
Doesn't Amazon still break even every quarter though?
>>337261416
Yeah dude but it didn't revolutionize gaming or consumer entertainment in ANY way. As far as I know all those profits are backend shit for companies that the average consumer couldn't care less about. But correct me if I'm wrong because I don't know shit dude.
>>337258241
Gameloft games were so ass but that was all their was for the gamer who yearned for more than bejeweled tier games. I still remember playing modern combat 2 on my phone and being simultatenously amazed that it was basically a glorified point and tap game but at the same time had a full fledged multiplayer fps to point and tap. Is there anything better these days, haven't played phone shit in years.
>>337261613
Amazon has a business model of putting profit they make into R&D and new products, there are a number of articles about it online if you care to read.
Wall Street accepts it because the day Amazon turns of the R&D money they become gigantically profitable (like never before seen profitable, they are approaching growth that would see them have a $1000 per share price and a valuation of a trillion dollars).
Its actually really interesting, a lot of economists have created models where the US government follows this practise of loading debt and increasing public spending to simulate growth and their models show really strong growth. Its why trump was ridiculed for saying he would like to reduce the deficit by enforcing discounts (from government institutions, the fucking idiot)
>>337261706
Ohhhh I thought you were talking in a more general term as in Cloud as a whole, not for gaming. In your example you are partly correct, the exception being Microsoft and Apple who use the cloud for gaming and its pretty profitable (Apple use iCloud for mobile game saves, and MS offers a suite of cloud services through Azure that is making quite a lot of money)
>>337262158
>>337262312
Some examples:
Microsofts cloud service makes up 1/3rd or their revenue: http://www.businesscloudnews.com/2016/01/29/cloud-now-makes-up-one-third-of-microsoft-revenues-as-azure-soars/
AWS growth up 69% last year: http://venturebeat.com/2016/01/28/amazon-web-services-brings-in-2-4b-in-revenue-in-q4-2015-up-69-over-last-year/
40% of Apples revenue last year came from recurring revenue (Think iCloud, iTunes Match, Apple Music etc) : https://www.ariasystems.com/blog/apples-icloud-highlights-success-of-recurring-revenue-model/
>>337257142
>>337259298
>>337259031
>Failure
>Made a profit
I dont think you retards understand what "
failure" means
>>337262992
It means something like you
>>337256101
I liked the MGS game they had for the N-Gage QD.
