Probably the Ouya....

Unpopular opinion, but Xbox 360. The first ones didn't have hdmi, didn't have a hard drive, the giant power brick was unsightly, the controller has the worst dpad I have ever touched and playing any fighting game on it was a pain, the paid multiplayer cancer grew there, the ads in the main menu of the console... And I didn't get to see the red ring of death since I've switched to PS3 as soon as I could afford one.

I know a lot of people have fond memories of it, but for me the 360 represented the worst of the console manufacturers' greed, milking the consumer to the bone while cheaping out on everything that was possible to cheap out on.

Tiger GameCom. I really think it had a lot of potential and was ahead of its time. They didn't make a lot of games for it and it was underpowered. Some really cool ideas though, it was the first touch-screen anything I had. It had 2 game cartridge slots. It had built in utilities, tools, and games.

PS4 - no games. Worse multimedia experience compared to PS3. No longer matters to me but did at launch.

Xbone - no games

Didn't buy PS5 or another Xbox myself but my roommate did get a PS5. No games. He's not buying another Sony console either.

Artificial value of exclusives lost combined with drastically less output from AAA and oddball titles like Sony had on PSN during PS3 era renders consoles completely pointless to me now. Since I was always PC gaming while also owning consoles in the past, I built a PC for the living room too.

Upcoming disappointment:

Probably Switch 2. I think Nintendo has lost their way ever since Iwata died. Certainly their style has evaporated. You will like your black/white barren GUI or else Mario's getting shot. Switch 1 was already borderline.

The Switch, because it removed all the cool features the DS had.

I haven’t gotten into a console since SNES.

I bought a PS5, played it a few times, but it gathers dust. I think it was last powered up in 2024. I don’t find the games fun.

My Switch 1 broke after just a few months. That gets it the worst spot for me.

They all have flaws, but I've had a lot of consoles over a lot of years and don't have any I'd call "bad" all around. Each did its job masterfully.

Thinking about the question made me remember this bad boy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Advance_SP

That might be the favorite. Great size, battery, controls, games, peripherals... I kinda think I remember it got internet hate for some reason? But I LOVED this thing. Ultimate evolution of GameBoy.

For me it was Xbox One. From day one (no pun intended) it just didn’t feel good to me. The UI experience never got away from being awful. The system itself was a sluggish awful mess. It should never take more than 3 seconds to load your options menu . On top of that Everytime I turned on my console it would take a half hour or more to update. The must have games just never came. The games they did come played worse than nearly anywhere else. If I was a teenage when I bought this system and played everyday some of these short comings could have been avoided. But as an adult it just felt terrible . From here I went back to Pc gaming made a rig that would destroy any console at the time. It was so bad to me I canceled my Xbox Live Subscription I had for 15 years ! That killed my love to Xbox entirely.

Probably second place was the PS3 but I bought it at the end of the generation and never got the exclusives I should have ..

I owned a Virtual Boy back in the day and... yeah. It sucked. I bring it up every time people think Nintendo are infallible - they do have shit ideas from time to time.

I also owned a PSP and I just didn't use it much. I know it's a well beloved console but I didn't really like anything that I played on it.

The Wii was just okay, I just got tired of the gimmick too quickly, and the library was just atrocious. If you don't like movie tie-in games, you miss out on like 3/4ths of the entire catalogue of titles.

I think I'm just tired of console gaming at this point. The only reason I would buy a console is if it were a mobile console that I can take with me when I want to game away from my PC, and so far the only companies that are interested in developing mobile consoles are Nintendo and Steam.

Meta Quest 3s. It was an initially a cool way of playing games but the novelty soon wore off and most games are not that good with VR. Up until then I iterated through Nintendo systems and was always satisfied.

Switch is easily my least played console. Its library was nearly entirely made up of games I already played on the Wii U. On top of that they had the cheek to require a subscription to play online. No thanks.

I am one of the few lucky ones to actually get an Ouya... It wasn't great.

Switch was what made me realize golden era of gaming was over, but it took about a year to set in because of the disconnect between the NX presentation and the actual product.

Seriously, go take a look at the original NX Switch presentation and it would almost seem that Nintendo was selling a completely different product.

All of the Wii era inspired hardware went mostly unused because the Switch couldn't play Wii games, and Nintendo didn't bother to even port their own titles outside of recycled Wii U content that didn't sell well on the original console.

The software similarly was a joke. I have more functionality on a Nintendo DS than a Switch, and that isn't even including "unofficial" homebrew. You can't even voice chat with your friends without using an external app, which is insane considering the DS, DSi, 3DS, Wii, and Wii U that preceded this.

Major features that gave Nintendo the edge were gone. DS Downlaod Play, Streetpass, included minigames & apps, themes, free online, eshop points, wifi events, etc.

On top of that, the library was just not interesting enough to warrant paying $60 a pop for single player games, and the multiplayer selection was sparse, despite the main feature of the console being joycon controllers.

I got bored of it after only a year, and ended up having to change the joycon c-sticks a couple years later because of the drift issues.

IMO it was a massive success just because of the portable format allowing you to play big name games on the go, but it absolutely fails as a handheld console when compared to the DS line, which did so much more for so much less.

Now that other handhelds like the Steam Deck, AYN stuff, Legion, etc exist, there's really no need to buy a Switch (2) for third party titles, which makes it a complete Nintendo only buy in.

The kicker is that Nintendo made absolute bank which is now why the Switch 2 is going for $450 (soon to be $500) and bumped their game prices to a whopping $70-80 because they know people were fine with it.

If I had more time on my hands, I would legitimately go make a modern version of Streetpass and download play for modern handhelds because that stuff was so cool and useful.

Xbox One S. The library was crappy and the games are more expensive than on steam for some reason I can't fathom.

Nintendo Switch

Mario Odyssey was fine, but I didn't really see the use for a portable slab compared to a pocket-size device like my phone or the 3DS. Also, this was the first Nintendo device that felt completely soulless. At least the Wii U had some charm to it.

Xbox One. Everytime I booted it up to feed the Halo crave, there’d be an update that took like an hour. Finally get on… Halo needs to update. 1 hour later, I’ve lost interest.

Repeat 6+ months later.

In my case, there were two:

• Phillips CDi (need I say more?)
• PS2 after having a Dreamcast and a Gamecube

Nintendo has ironically made my favorite and most disappointing consoles.

Most disappointing:

Virtual Boy WiiU Wii Switch

Best:

NES SNES Game Boy GBA

PS5. Minimal games

Nintendo Switch

I've never really clicked with the Switch and we've had one since launch. It's not all bad, handheld and home console in-one is a pretty cool concept, but it underwhelms in all ways. Also browsing the eShop is painfully slow too.

Probably the Sega 32X. The messaging around it was kind of confusing, and still being fairly young when it came out, I was expecting it to be the gateway to 32 bit gaming that I would be enjoying for years to come. I ended up getting virtua racing on it, which was better than the Genesis version, but nothing spectacular really. I also got virtua fighter, which was a genuinely good game. Almost everything else was ports of mediocre games that had already come out on the Genesis. A couple of original games like knuckles chaotix just... Kinda sucked. Then when I found out that all of the support was going behind the Saturn, and that's where all of the new and original games were going, well I just felt swindled.

Xbox. I wanted a gamecube but my parents didn't like nintendo for some reason. Now im old and i don't like nintendo for some reason, and I still don't like xbox