Consoles & Handhelds
Game consoles and handhelds that went out of production, from the Jaguar to the Vita, with the dates their stores and servers followed.
16 projects
Wii U
13.5 million sold, and the ideas all survived it
2012–2024
Consoles & Handhelds
Ouya
The $99 console Kickstarter wanted to exist
2013–2019
Consoles & Handhelds
PlayStation Vita
The best handheld nobody supported
2011–2019
Consoles & Handhelds
Nintendo DSi
The DS with two cameras, an SD slot and its own download shop, which Nintendo closed in 2017 and took DSiWare with it
2008–2017
Consoles & Handhelds
PlayStation Portable
Sony's first handheld, 80 million sold, the UMD disc, the PSP Go that nobody bought, and a store that closed twice
2004–2014
Consoles & Handhelds
N-Gage
Nokia's taco phone: a Symbian handset that was also a games console, sold sideways, then a games service that closed in 2010
2003–2010
Consoles & Handhelds
Gizmondo
The handheld with GPS, a camera and adverts, sold by a company run by Swedish gangsters, gone in a year
2005–2006
Consoles & Handhelds
WonderSwan
Gunpei Yokoi's last handheld, Bandai's Japan-only Game Boy rival with Final Fantasy remakes and a 30-hour battery
1999–2003
Consoles & Handhelds
Sega Dreamcast
The console that killed its own company
1998–2001
Consoles & Handhelds
Sega Saturn
Sega's 32-bit console, launched early by surprise, undercut by PlayStation and abandoned in America after three years
1994–2000
Consoles & Handhelds
Game Gear
Sega's colour handheld, better than the Game Boy on paper and out of batteries in three hours
1990–1997
Consoles & Handhelds
Virtual Boy
Nintendo's red 3D headset, on sale for about a year
1995–1996
Consoles & Handhelds
Atari Jaguar
"Do the math": Atari's 64-bit console, the last one it ever made, dead within three years
1993–1996
Consoles & Handhelds
Sega CD
The CD-ROM drive that bolted onto the Genesis, full-motion video, Night Trap and 2.24 million sold
1991–1996
Consoles & Handhelds
3DO Interactive Multiplayer
Trip Hawkins' $699 licensed console, built by Panasonic and Goldstar, out of the hardware business within three years
1993–1996
Consoles & Handhelds
Atari Lynx
The first colour handheld, designed at Epyx and sold by Atari, beaten by a monochrome Game Boy
1989–1995
Consoles & Handhelds