Gaming Consoles You Didn't know Existed

If you didn’t know, gaming has been around for a while. The advent of 3D graphics and the ensuing transition into modern gaming only describes around 25 years of the medium’s history. As you might expect, countless consoles have been made and released by countless manufacturers. Most of them, judging by the numbers, don’t do so well, so it wouldn’t be hard to pick five consoles out of the air you aren’t familiar with. This is why we’re sticking to recent history, and barring one of the five, which came out in the 1990s, all of the consoles we’re going to talk about came out in the last decade.

Just who are our five illustrious listicle contenders? Glad you asked. We’ve got the Phillips CD-i; the Nintendo Wii Mini; the famed Ouya; the Sony PlayStation TV; and the GPD Win. If you don’t know much about these, don’t worry. If you do, worry a little bit, but still watch. Definitely.

Now, even if you have heard of some of these consoles, in passing, once or twice, make no mistake: We’re going to get into what these consoles did right, wrong, and ultimately, why they didn’t make it in the market. You didn’t click on BuzzFeed Gaming, we promise. You will come away having learned something, or your money back! Now that we have our Satisfaction Guarantee out of the way, make sure to remember if you like this video to subscribe to us here at TheGamer and ring the notification bell to stay up-to-date with all our latest videos!

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:00 Phillips CD-i
02:32 Nintendo Wii Mini
03:52 Ouya
05:15 PlayStation TV
06:32 GPD Win

Written by: Ruben Circelli
Narrated by: Joseph Delaney
Edited by: Jean Bernard

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[EsmeAmelia]

I think most people who are into gaming know about the CD-I and the Ouya.

[maacMac]

I bet you don’t know the sausage console.

[shylastar]

Me: an ageless immortal and knower of all things: noted

[seliphsnom]

I feel sorry for the people that never have heard of the Phillips CD-I we got the best zelda game ever the wand of gamalon

[goodboynetwork]

The Philips CD-i was not a game console. It was a multimedia platform.

[ShaeBaeButter]

Imagine how different it would be now if nintendo and sony did collaborate, would the playstation consoles still exist? How different would've the future nintendo consoles be, or would they be the same?

[arjunpathak]

Out of the 5 consoles featured in this video...i knew 3 of them existed

[craigb]

"Bet you didn't know this existed..."
Looks over at Playstation TV sitting on my desk.

[SkitBitProduction]

Ouya wasn't game streaming I'm confused. It was just a digital console.

[agentburningbutters]

Didn't expect this come out at this time lol

[Nightmarri]

I have been notified by this god-awful channel thinks the cd-i is an unknown console. Are you actually serious???

[acehan]

Alternative history their. Nintendo first partnered with Sony but got cold feet when they realized the deal would give Sony too much control and profit from the partnership. So they reneged on the deal during the announcement of the system by Sony. Announcing their plans with Phillips instead. This is how the PlayStation came to be.

[LittleToyBonnie]

I am sure everyone has heard of these consoles

[K.J.Schmutz]

I love my GPD Win... can't wait for 3

[Dremag_Gaming]

Most of these I knew of already but the last one.
(and to this day, its still funny how Nintendo made their own rival in Sony)

[RandyB-qowf]

Sony and Nintendo also made a perfect gameboy but the price was too high to make worldwide

[SassySlayer]

They ain't lying. I have the ROG Ally, and it delivered everything and more that the GPD promised. So do yourself a favor and just get the ROG.. its amazing

[GeordieChrisF]

What? Nintendo had nothing to do with the CDi… the Nintendo games that appeared on it were down to them being licensed as part of the deal for Phillips to develop the SNES CD drive, which was a completely separate endeavour.

[shun]

actually the verry first portable and home gaming handheld was the gamegear back in 1994 or 1995 and sony did adapt the technology on their sony PSP 2000 series and aded a dock with the psp go
plus GPD is not the only company developing PC gaming handheld

[lukewellman]

Me who watches AVGN : that title is wrong