Honestly, my gaming laptop. Bought a few years ago, 3050. It was good and I could play games on it - but I live in a situation where all my electricity is solar generated and limited, charges 12v batteries and runs mains appliances via inverter. And the laptop was just too power hungry for long gaming sessions.

It was more a failure of me to properly research than a problem with the product, but was a let down. Bought a steam deck and never looked back.

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.

The Switch.

Damn thing was fragile af, and they wanted to rent everything to us, no more Virtual Console no more solid hardware, they spend more money suing people for fixing it then they do on it like blocking local backup of saves so they can force a cloud sub and them still not having fixed the drifting JoyCons then charging you more than they are worth for repairs.

Probably the Switch. It's ... fine, I guess? NES? Awsome. SNES? fantastic. GB? amazing for its time. Genesis was killer. Atari 2600 was huge in its day. The switch? Meh.

It doesn't help that I'm generally unhappy with nintendo being a bunch of greedy fucks as I see it.

I owned a fucking Virtual Boy. Do I really need to explain why I was disappointed?

The Nintendo Wii.

Like so many, I fell to the marketing hype. Was completely bored of the thing after like a week. Where it was definitely some peoples cup of tea, it was most certainly not mine

PS3. Coming from the PS2, the library was bland in comparison. And later on, when I got interested in console modding, the PS3 was the slowest and most cumbersome to do anything and with barely any variety of homebrew stuff. And also, I'm dreading having to replace the controller (due to the 3rd party PS button situation) and replacing the HD (due to how entangled pieces apparently are).

Later on, it'd become an overpowered PS2 console for me.

PSP. I know now people are racing about it, but the games basically all sucked except a few and it was a pretty good emulator handheld though. But it mostly collected dust.

I bought a WiiU for Bayonetta 2.

Not only was the WiiU itself little more than a paperweight beyond running it, the game itself was extremely lackluster and simplified.

I didn't even bother emulating bayo 3.

I wouldn't call any console I own a disappointment, even the Wii U had several games I loved and put too many hours into. But the system I ended up playing the least was the Steam Deck. It's just too bulky to feel like a proper portable, not nearly as cozy as the Nintendo handhelds I grew up on. I get some use taking it to FGC events as a monitorless setup (and I will be bringing it to Combo Breaker 2026 next week), but that's kinda all I ended up using it for.

I still don't regret buying it as the most important thing to happen to Linux gaming, but it was a system I bought to have more than to use. I later bought a Miyoo Mini Plus and ended up putting far more hours into that than I ever did the Deck. If anyone ever gets SteamOS running on a device in that size form factor, they'll get my entire bank account.

PS Vita. It had so much promise, but the games weren’t really there and Sony kinda just forgot about it. I remember it was the first time you could stream a PS4 game to a handheld, which was novel at the time. But it never felt “good enough” and most games didn’t support it or were too finicky. If I look at my Steam Deck now, I think that’s more or less what Sony had in mind for the Vita as well

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

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

Probably the virtual boy. It was so cool at the time, I got Red Alert(?) and it was fantastic. Then there was like, a bowling game, and maybe a wario game? And nobody made anything else for it, and it sat in a drawer for years before my parents made me get rid of it. It could have been so good.

By default it's the Xbox 360 because it's the only console I owned. Apart from the RROD it was actually pretty great. I mostly played oblivion on it. One time I was in a very cold city with minimal blankets and no heater. I fired up the Xbox and warmed my fingers on the fan air. It was ~~good~~ times.

Switch Lite. Great console, but limited in stupid ways. Why no video out?

I was pretty disappointed after getting a Switch 2 when I found out that Nintendo had blocked all video streaming apps on it. Even apps like Pokemon TV, which had transferred from my Switch 1 during account migration, were blocked from opening despite being downloaded on the device.

my dad got a 3do and it was a piece of shit he never got a console for himself again lol

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.

Nintendo Switch, I should have known better. Nintendo consoles are great for kids who are new to playing games, not so much for people who have been gaming for generations.

Atari Lynx. Don't get me wrong, I loved the thing and spent many an hour playing on it. But just like most Atari systems it never got its claws into the market and ended up playing second (at least) fiddle to the Gameboy, even though it was way more advanced.

Xbox Series X. I sold it right when Starfield early access hit and it wasn't an Internet darling. Knew it was downhill from there. Before that by the end to 2020, they Bought Obsidian, Inxile, Bethesda/Zenimax, iD, Ninja Theory, and studios I thought would make a major quality jump like Compulsion games. I thought they'd be releasing awesome RPG games every year by 2021. That didn't pan out

Before that, Xbox and GameCube had so little compared to the PS2 but still had great games unique to themselves. PSP was fun but definitely was happier when I switched to the DS

I was a bit conservative myself (or maybe lucky that neighbor kids had a 3DO and Sega CD I could try) but I did own a Sega Game Gear. That thing drank 6x AA batteries like there was no tomorrow. And the game library was very looser lackluster after the Sonic titles.

My Atari 2600 that i got for xmas from my grandparents when i was 11. I loved it, but my stepdad monopolized it and rarely let me play it. Him and my mom made a rule in our house that we weren't ever allowed to play videogames, so they basically took it away from me, and only let me play for a few minutes a month. I didn't really play videogames until i bought an N64 when i was in my 20s.

I was a gen-x free-range kid that wasn't really allowed in the house until it got dark outside.

I guess the PS3?

I felt like I begrudgingly bought it, out of spite. Like I HAD to buy it, or I was no longer a modern gamer.

And then it just fell flat for me. I played GTA, and maybe a handfull of other games, but mostly GTA.

I guess the PS4 is actually the same story, except I just never played it. To this day I have a PS4 that I never really used. But I also had no excitement for it.

And I guess the same for PS5. I bought it to play GTA 6, thinking it was coming soon. That was 4 years ago. I've watched dvds more than I've played games on it.

But with PS3, I actually had excitement brewing. I expected big things. It just never materialized.

I've already decided I'm not buying a PS6, and I'm not buying GTA6.