New products that have been a complete flop

IvaBigWun

The Nintendo 3DS comes to mind. It was pitched as the most ground breaking hand held gadget ever but sales have been poor by Nintendo standards.

Others;

Dasani; The finest tap water that Coca-Cola could sell you.

The Apple Cube

HDDVD

New Coca Cola. Though I personally think this was the best marketing ever. Give people a crap new product, get them talking and then bring back the classic one.

Windows Vista.

Google Buzz/Circles/whatever they're calling it today


What else?

James__10

This thread

foxyboxer

The Eamon Dunphy Show.

PapaQuebec

IvaBigWun wrote: »

The Nintendo 3DS comes to mind. It was pitched as the most ground breaking hand held gadget ever but sales have been poor by Nintendo standards.

Others;

Dasani; The finest tap water that Coca-Cola could sell you.

The Apple Cube

HDDVD

New Coca Cola. Though I personally think this was the best marketing ever. Give people a crap new product, get them talking and then bring back the classic one.

Windows Vista.

Google Buzz/Circles/whatever they're calling it today


What else?

Windows ME

ChunkyLover_53

The Delorean DMC-12

It was useless.

Whenever I reached 88mph I ended up in 1955 where I had to fight off advances from my own mother!

I really should stop hanging around with that old guy down the road.

Bluefoam

IvaBigWun wrote: »

The Nintendo 3DS comes to mind. It was pitched as the most ground breaking hand held gadget ever but sales have been poor by Nintendo standards.

Others;

Dasani; The finest tap water that Coca-Cola could sell you.

The Apple Cube

HDDVD

New Coca Cola. Though I personally think this was the best marketing ever. Give people a crap new product, get them talking and then bring back the classic one.

Windows Vista.

Google Buzz/Circles/whatever they're calling it today


What else?

Others;

Dasani was tap water with added carcenagens...

Son Of A Vidic

MiniDisc players wiped out by MP3.

ChunkyLover_53

Laser Discs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserdisc

Also INB4 Atari Jaguar

Tom Russell

Dab radio

Tea_Bag

The Internet.

It was created to educate people by helping Universities share data.

Now its used to numb our mind and be less productive at work. oh and its 99% pron.

foxyboxer

Tea_Bag wrote: »

The Internet.

It was created to educate people by helping Universities share data.

Now its used to numb our mind and be less productive at work. oh and its 99% pron.

By jove I think you're spot on.

Riesen_Meal

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

MiniDisc players wiped out by MP3.

Not for me, I still use them for portable recording, far superior than any mp3 player tbh...

MidlandsM

Tea_Bag wrote: »

The Internet.

It was created to educate people by helping Universities share data.

Now its used to numb our mind and be less productive at work. oh and its 99% pron.

...whats pron?;)

I would say the minicall pager yokes

jonevin

The Nintendo virtual boy was their first 3d attempt as far as I can remember and was a total flop

foxyboxer

3.5 inch Floppy disc.

Riesen_Meal

jonevin wrote: »

The Nintendo virtual boy was their first 3d attempt as far as I can remember and was a total flop

Watching Pawn Stars the other day?

It had one on it, they aren't all that rare anymore though, a container full of em was found in Dubai a few year ago...

ChunkyLover_53

There's potential for a Viagra joke in this thread somewhere.

jonevin

No lol just have a keen interest in that type of stuff lol was it featured on a programme

ejmaztec

USB 3.0

Son Of A Vidic

Fieldog wrote: »

Not for me, I still use them for portable recording, far superior than any mp3 player tbh...

Totally agree with you, they are much superior sound quality wise. But they just lost out in the all important marketing war.

touts

Google+
Nokia Windows Phones
iTV (poor Apple really went through hell after Jobs died)
Saorsat
The Euro


oh wait..... Fogot to change the time on the DMC last weekend....

Mr. Incognito

Guiness Light and Guiness Beo.

The "new" tasting Coca Cola

ejmaztec

foxyboxer wrote: »

3.5 inch Floppy.

ChunkyLover_53 wrote: »

There's potential for a Viagra joke in this thread somewhere.

You missed it.

Rowley Birkin QC

bahahahahaha....

Wikipedia wrote:

Early advertisements referred to Dasani as "bottled spunk" or featured the tagline "can't live without spunk". These slogans were used seemingly oblivious to the fact that spunk is slang for semen in the UK

ChunkyLover_53

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

Guiness Light and Guiness Beo.

The "new" tasting Coca Cola

Hudson Blue Cider

Downlinz

Too early to call the 3DS a flop, many game systems start slowly.

Celly Smunt

what's all this new tasting coca cola?

Sticky_Fingers

Tea_Bag wrote: »

Now its used to numb our mind and be less productive at work. oh and its 99% pron.

Nows there's a 99% I have no problem protesting to protect

ChunkyLover_53

Sinclair C5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5

Oh and Tracker Mortgages (for the banks obviously)

Tea_Bag

Sticky_Fingers wrote: »

Nows there's a 99% I have no problem protesting to protect

being free though, noone is profiting from it, so technically still a flop. a beautiful flop.

fap... fap... fapfapfapfapfap.

ejmaztec

This

Eric Cartman

just on some of the flops that have/may come up

minidisc - still used in professional broadcasting as it was superior for recording.
laserdisc - had a huge run in the US and was used by many studios for pre-releases
betamax - far better than VHS , still used in professional broadcasting and its the only reason movies could be re-done for DVD/ high def
firewire - used by almost everyone in broadcast for disk drives , cameras and audio interfaces, superior to USB in every way.

now for my own -

electric cars
windows phones

Riesen_Meal

jonevin wrote: »

No lol just have a keen interest in that type of stuff lol was it featured on a programme

Yup, on History channel there a week or two ago, if you have sky player you could watch it again, or just download it... :P

I dunno why I love that show, I just do...

Oranage2

The internet -

patwicklow

The pub trade..

Herb Powell

Tea_Bag wrote: »

The Internet.

It was created to educate people by helping Universities share data.

Now its used to numb our mind and be less productive at work. oh and its 99% pron.

The internet isn't a product. And it's not new either.

ejmaztec

The Herb Powell Book of Jokes.








:pac:

ringadingding

I think the 3DS will bounce back quickly, it's dropped in price, they've put a parental lock on the 3d of which the bad publicity was slowing sales.

And I think they've kept the DS price artificially high so people will buy the 3ds.

Benicetomonty

Duff Zero

nitromaster

IvaBigWun wrote: »

The Nintendo 3DS comes to mind. It was pitched as the most ground breaking hand held gadget ever but sales have been poor by Nintendo standards.

The 3DS sold at the same rate or (possibly better?) then it's predecessor did in the same period. both with pretty **** lineups, and that problem being solved for the 3ds now.


rest of your points are pretty valid though.

Biggins

Downlinz wrote: »

Too early to call the 3DS a flop, many game systems start slowly.

http://ds.gamespy.com/articles/117/1172578p1.html

Great graphic! :pac:

DEFTLEFTHAND

The DeLorean.

t1mm

USB 3.0

Its new technology. Did you expect your computer to sprout a new set of USB ports as soon as it was designed? The next computer you buy will more than likely support it. Also, it is not a product, but a standard.

Saila

Originally Posted by IvaBigWun ]
The Nintendo 3DS comes to mind. It was pitched as the most ground breaking hand held gadget ever but sales have been poor by Nintendo standards.

Others;

Dasani; The finest tap water that Coca-Cola could sell you.

The Apple Cube

HDDVD

New Coca Cola. Though I personally think this was the best marketing ever. Give people a crap new product, get them talking and then bring back the classic one.

Windows Vista.

Google Buzz/Circles/whatever they're calling it today


What else?

why? what was wrong with it?

Logical Fallacy

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

MiniDisc players wiped out by MP3.

I still have my Mini-Disc player...great for field recordings...other than that...useless.

44leto

I might be speaking to soon, but I don't fancy 3D teles with the current technology taking off.

My brother got one and I think he only seen 1 thing in 3D and he wasn't to impressed.

Besides I don't imagine a family viewing tele all wearing the stupid looking and expensive glasses.

yoyo

t1mm wrote: »

Its new technology. Did you expect your computer to sprout a new set of USB ports as soon as it was designed? The next computer you buy will more than likely support it. Also, it is not a product, but a standard.

Exactly, USB 2.0 did have quicker catching on to though from memory, USB 3.0 will deffo be more successful than Thunderbolt I'm sure, just basing this off Firewire-better than USB but still no way widely as used due to Apples proprietry licensing bullsh!t

Nick

Rhys Essien

Bulmers Pear

wildefalcon

yoyo wrote: »

Exactly, USB 2.0 did have quicker catching on to though from memory, USB 3.0 will deffo be more successful than Thunderbolt I'm sure, just basing this off Firewire-better than USB but still no way widely as used due to Apples proprietry licensing bullsh!t

Nick

USB 1 was very slow to take off. It was years before I started seeing USB printers and all.

Anyway, back on topic - how about the HP webos Slate/tablet thing? The Touchpad? Or the Microsoft "kin"? As in fu "kin" 'ell, they sold none of them! And, just to keep the fanbois happy, remember the Apple Newton?

jockeyboard

Does anyone else not have a clue what 99% of these products are??

psychward

ejmaztec wrote: »

This

That bike rocks. The oil companies conspired to ban us from having proper roads like below in this vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgbWu8zJubo