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.

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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