10 Worst Gaming Failures Of All Time

6. Apple Bandai Pippin

Likely an aspect of Apple's history that they would prefer to forget, their teaming up with Bandai to create the Pippin is a far cry from the seemingly unstoppable gravy train the company seems to be riding these days. Pitched as an all-purpose gaming system and personal computer, the Pippin was priced at an (at the time) modest $599, a decent sum to pay for a combination of those two devices. However, it was really a half-assed smattering of both, lacking software support and, well, software full stop. Only 100,000 units were manufactured in the end, which sounds bad, but when you consider that only 42,000 were actually sold, it sounds trainwreck-awful. And the kicker? They actually ended up making more accessories for the console (keyboards etc) than the actual units themselves. Embarrassing...
 
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