10 Most Infamous Unreleased Gaming Consoles

6. GamePark XGP

GamePark XGP
Game Park

In 2001, South Korean Game Park company released the GamePark 32 (GP32 for short), an open source handheld system running Linux. With a reasonable price, it became the darling of the homebrew and emulation communities, especially since it was powerful enough to run emulators for a number of popular classic consoles.

Nowadays that's not a big deal with the type of things you can get done on an Android-powered phone, but in 2001, it was huge. In light of the success of the GP32, Game Park started to plan a follow-up system, the XGP. It was exactly what you'd expect: more features, more horsepower that small developers could utilize, and so on. Before long, though, there was internal strife within the company, and it split into two. The new company, GamePark Holdings, won the war, and as a result, the XGP was never released.

GamePark Holdings stuck around as GPH, and released follow-ups in the form of the GP2X, GP2X Wiz, and most recently the Caanoo. The Caanoo was something of a flop, and GPH has stopped developing hardware, but there's still a strong following for their older portables. Thankfully, though, we didn't really miss out on anything with the XGP becoming vaporware.

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