Looking at the insanity around how under produced the SNES Classic seems to be has me thinking. What is the biggest manufacturing blunder in gaming history? Is it the amount of Atari ET carts produced? Red ring of death? Nintendo Wii/Amiibos/NES Classic/SNES Classic under production? Actually making the Steel Battalion controller? $600 PS3? I'm sure there were more in the 80/90s I'm not remembering.
IMHO its the red ring of death. It killed Microsoft's momentum right as they were taking dominance of the home console industry. It cost them billions and the Xbox division still has never turned a profit. A little more testing of their manufacturing processes and they would have found the problems with lead free solder and their GPUs.
Nintendo's handling of the classic systems is the worst in the last 5 years for sure though.
IMHO its the red ring of death. It killed Microsoft's momentum right as they were taking dominance of the home console industry. It cost them billions and the Xbox division still has never turned a profit. A little more testing of their manufacturing processes and they would have found the problems with lead free solder and their GPUs.
Nintendo's handling of the classic systems is the worst in the last 5 years for sure though.