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Most under-utilized consoles? (sh.itjust.works)
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Is there any retro consoles that you never lived up to their potential? where the games fell short of the hardware?.

Personally I feel that the NDS was under-utilized, as it was a fully 3d capable console, that was used mostly for 2d pixel art games, and platformers. When it was able to support full 3d platformers and even a fan remake of portal.

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[–] LaserdiscTurtle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The Sega Mega CD and the 32x were genuinely great pieces of hardware...but nearly all the games were awful. I love the Mega CD in particular, and I say that as a Nintendo kid.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

Lunar 1&2 were originally released on the Sega CD, as was shining force CD.

There were a few decent games on it, but agreed, not many.

[–] Redkey@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Ha! I was a Mega Drive fan as a teen, and I got really angered by this... until I realized that you were speaking about the Mega CD and 32x specifically. Yep, there really weren't many good games for either of them.