Answer the Poll: What console relied most on the pedigree of its manufacturer?

Answer the Poll. Explain your reason in a post. Better than ah quality.

Commodore 64 games console

I'm saying Atari Jaguar I owned an Atari ste.

Inviere

The Mega CD, 32X, Saturn, N64, and PS3 spring to mind...

beejee

I'll go with dreamcast, you bought one because of the Sega games and hoped it would take off.

But great support from Sega, from the triple A stuff to mad things like seaman and that game where you play the role of Sega enterprises. Mad. And great!

Tom Mann Centuria

Apologies, but I don't really understand the question.

CiDeRmAn

Not a great poll
None of them had a gaming pedigree at the time of release, including the Atari

beejee

Maybe another way to phrase the question... Which companies console had the most promise from 1st party support?

I was going to say anything Nintendo (no vb), but you were always going to get decent 3rd party support.

But yeah, I'd say the dreamcast, because you could rely on only Sega to produce the goods. 3rd party support was a bonus at that point in Segas life.

Skerries

Commodore 64 games console

finally! a poll with Atari Jaguar as an option again

Lemming

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Not a great poll
None of them had a gaming pedigree at the time of release, including the Atari

Some of them on that list are also not consoles. Forgot about the short-lived C64GS.

Why limit the choice to those three offerings specifically?

Lemming

Commodore 64 games console

Lemming wrote: »

Some of them on that list are also not consoles.

Hope I didn't hurt Sam and Jack Tramiell's feelings too much or Alan Sugar.

Inviere

Inviere wrote: »

The Mega CD, 32X, Saturn, N64, and PS3 spring to mind...

I posted before the poll went up obviously

Commodore 64 games console

Silly me: forgot about Nokia gamer smartphone in 2002.

Strictly not a console but sure milked the bejaysus out of the Nokia brand before it was dropped

CiDeRmAn

By the time the Jag came out the brand was done, given its last successful games machine was the ST years beforehand.
By the time the C64 came out it made the Commodore games brand, with the Vic20 hardly established as a major device before, especially in Europe.
The Amstrad was a wannabe in the 8 bit computer days, with a nice device but way to expensive, and not long after those with those funds were buying STs and Amigas.

Real cash-ins were Sega the likes of the 32x and MegaCD, half baked efforts, and the Saturn died a death being just too complicated to generate good results easily and they were so far behind Sony in how to treat customers, developers and retailers.
By the time they made the genuinely good Dreamcast the world only wanted a Playstation.
Nintendo got very lucky with the Wii, huge seller but little more than a repackaging of the GameCube, all trends should have buried the machine along with Nintendo's reputation but they somehow made pots of cash and many of that generations best games.

eddhorse

Amstrad Games console

I voted C64 but it wasnt a "games console"

Tom Mann Centuria

eddhorse wrote: »

I voted C64 but it wasnt a "games console"

Agree, it was a computer, otherwise how could kids of the era explain that they wanted one to "help with their school work" .

I suppose there was the C64GS, but I presumed he didn't mean that though, or the Amstrad GX4000 come to that

CiDeRmAn

C64, Spectrum, ST and Amiga were computers but were popular as games machines.

o1s1n

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

I suppose there was the C64GS, but I presumed he didn't mean that though, or the Amstrad GX4000 come to that

That's actually what I thought the poll was referring to, companies that released a failed console (IE the GX4000 and C64GS) which relied on the pedigree of what came before.

If it's not then consider me well confused!

Inviere

o1s1n wrote: »

That's actually what I thought the poll was referring to, companies that released a failed console (IE the GX4000 and C64GS) which relied on the pedigree of what came before.

If it's not then consider me well confused!

That's how I understood it anyway

Tom Mann Centuria

o1s1n wrote: »

That's actually what I thought the poll was referring to, companies that released a failed console (IE the GX4000 and C64GS) which relied on the pedigree of what came before.

If it's not then consider me well confused!

Well I did admit to not understanding the question so it was probably me getting the wrong end of the stick!

Commodore 64 games console

I was also going to put the Spectrum Vega plus in, only that Sinclair removed the rights from the "organisation" who "sold" the "console" to put Sinclair on the thing even though they did.

Tom Mann Centuria

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I was also going to put the Spectrum Vega plus in, only that Sinclair removed the rights from the "organisation" who "sold" the "console" to put Sinclair on the thing even though they did.

They put text adventures a plenty on the vega and +. So handy for devices with no keyboard. Money grabbing morons.