Aye. Should have never been manufactured.
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What is the biggest manufacturing blunder in video game history?
- Thread starter Sulik2
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Aye. Should have never been manufactured.
SoundPulse
Banned
Yeah. You shouldn't put them into tray or slot loading players. Your cheap portable CD players were the most common way to play them. In other words, they were a pain in the ass.
A slighlty better idea were CDs shaped like this, which were mostly used in the Linux community back in the day:
There were also some Pokemon CDs shaped like this.
Glass Shark
Banned
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You've got it right. RROD was definitely the more expensive blunder but UDraw was the more devastating obviously based on each company's financial standing.
There were lots of stories of people just buying a new 360 (sometimes more than once) instead of going through the warranty process. I'm sure it cost them a shitload, but with Udraw there was basically no upside for THQ and they couldnt just fix peoples tablets, since the issue was actually selling them in the first place
Red Ring of Death. I had to send the Xbox360 in to be repaired, about a year later it got the RROD again. Eventually I had to buy a new Xbox360, which I thought was inexusable. One console should last me for one generation.
That was the very reason that I switched to Playstation this generation (never owned a PS before) and never looked back.
That was the very reason that I switched to Playstation this generation (never owned a PS before) and never looked back.
How did this even get to the production phase
Basically it never worked and it could destroy devices, NoA has been always a public enemy
Kayo Police
Member
Killed an entire company.
Can you still find these? I kinda want one now lol
They aren't on the same level.
RRoD did cost them over $1 billion while uDraw revenue was $100 million less than they expected, meaning losses were considerably lower than that.
THQ had far more problems than uDraw.
Affeinvasion
Member
Atari's collapse and the RROD are the biggest, but Nintendo's handling of their mini consoles is probably the stupidest and the easiest one to have avoided.
It's probably not the biggest manufacturing blunder, but it is the one I am most curious about.
What exactly was so bad about the Batmobile that all the Batmobile Special Editions for Arkham Knight were cancelled at the last minute? I really would love to see what caused that strange last minute cancellation.
What exactly was so bad about the Batmobile that all the Batmobile Special Editions for Arkham Knight were cancelled at the last minute? I really would love to see what caused that strange last minute cancellation.
Darth Pinche
Member
RROD. I went through 5 warranteed consoles before I got wise and sold the last one as soon as I received it.
Huge Succeeded
Banned
it's not a perfect circle so it shakes and wobbles when spun
HueyFreeman
Banned
GlassBurrito
Member
djplaeskool
Member
RROD cost MS over a BILLION dollars...
sixteen-bit
Member
RROD was the first thing that came to mind. Costed MS $1 Billion.
Sumio Mondo
Member
Nintendo DS is probably one of my favorite systems of all time . I never had a problem with the hinge but I've had multiple shoulder buttons on multiple devices start to give out on me and I wasn't even a Mario Kart player.
Unknown?
Member
Oh gosh Apple Pippin! I hope they never try to get back into consoles or any dedicated gaming devices.
E.T. for Atari 2600 was a big blunder but Pac-Man for Atari 2600 was a even bigger one.
At the time, Atari projected 10 million consoles were still actively used by video game enthusiasts. Atari decided to produce 12 million game cartridges, anticipating every Atari 2600 owner would purchase the game, while two million new customers would purchase the system to play it.
In the end Pac-Man sold 7 million units and is the best selling Atari 2600 game yet 5 million units went unsold!
At the time, Atari projected 10 million consoles were still actively used by video game enthusiasts. Atari decided to produce 12 million game cartridges, anticipating every Atari 2600 owner would purchase the game, while two million new customers would purchase the system to play it.
In the end Pac-Man sold 7 million units and is the best selling Atari 2600 game yet 5 million units went unsold!
I had a DSi's shoulder button give out after falling from 2.5 ft high. No other handheld has ever had a similar problem.
Silvergun-Blue
Member
In reference to the bizarre shaped cd's, most if not all instructions for optical disc devices will specifically state that you shouldn't play unusual shaped discs along with discs with labels on them. I'm pretty sure it voids your warranty.
Anyway, for my suggestion. Wasn't there a significant amount of faults in the Big Daddy figure for one of the Bioshock special editions?
Anyway, for my suggestion. Wasn't there a significant amount of faults in the Big Daddy figure for one of the Bioshock special editions?
Various Artists
Banned
First post wins.
Well I thought Sony stunting the growth and their dominance of the VR industry was a worthy manufacturing blunder...
Davlicious
Neo Member
My feeling is RROD takes the cake. It was disenchanting from a consumer standpoint to see that level of blunder slip through the cracks. My 360 died playing RE5 coop shortly after it launched. When the Dreamcast launched some of the Sega published games didn't actually have any data on the discs. I returned 2 copies of Sonic Adventure to get a working copy.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Cost perspective: RROD
Impact perspective: UDraw tablets literally sinking THQ
Stupidity perspective: NES/SNES Mini or Disney Infinity figures
Impact perspective: UDraw tablets literally sinking THQ
Stupidity perspective: NES/SNES Mini or Disney Infinity figures
Fbh
Member
RROD. It was just ridiculous. And if I remember correctly it took them quite a while to fix it. I remember people in forums talking about the "Jasper" or "sephyr" motherboards...they had to make like 3 waves of internal changes to fix the issue.
Since I have memory of playing games I've only had two consoles die on me...both of them were 360's
Since I have memory of playing games I've only had two consoles die on me...both of them were 360's
ResidentDante
Member
1. Put this in a PS4/XboxOne/WiiU disc slot
2. Watch the console murder itself trying to spin an oddly shaped disc.
3. Un-profit?!
The PS3 was a Trojan Horse though...they sold it at that kind of loss to win a format war against HD-DVD...stand alone Blu-ray players were going for $900+ when the PS3 launched it was not only a gaming console, bit the best Blu-ray player on the market for $300+ less...
It might have almost killed video games in NA until Nintendo famously launched in the toy aisle, but it didn't affect Europe or Japan much.
TakeItSlowDude
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Sega 32x
Sega CD
Sega Nomad
Sega CD
Sega Nomad
Graphics Horse
Member
People always get this wrong, it's US launch was the same day the US launch date was revealed, when it had been on sale in Japan for 6 months already.
Ryouji Gunblade
Member
RRoD is still fresh on my mind. I feel lucky to have gotten my 360 late-ish in its lifespan.
TetraGenesis
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HomerSimpson-Man
Member
Man, thinking about it it seemed if it was anyone else but MS wouldn't have survived the RROD, a design flaw do bad it cost over a billion dollars is insane. I worked retail and people who had the amount of red rings was rediculious.
Lol. Wow.