/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10810337]

Miyamoto refutes the idea that the Virtual Boy was a failure.

[Anonymous No.10810342]

>>10810337
Ah yes, the classic CDifag cope

[Anonymous No.10810343]

Honestly this just comes across as a massive cope.

[Anonymous No.10810349]

I mean he is kinda right. It was never intended to replace the GameBoy in the way the Color did. Also sounds like it was typical Nintendo gimmicky experimenting and something to release when the 64 was delayed.

[Anonymous No.10810354]

Did you know they were planning a relaunch of the Virtual Boy at some point in 96? There's more canceled games than released ones for the console as a result.

[Anonymous No.10810357]

>>10810337
>If you think of it as garbage, just a hunk of overpriced plastic, it'd be incredibly impressive if it sold even 50,000 units

[Anonymous No.10810369]

Ah yes, I remember the similar "Third Pillar" nonsense they pulled with the DS as well. What utter bullshit.

[Anonymous No.10810372]

>>10810337
He's trying to give it the game & watch approach except it's not a g&w.

[Anonymous No.10810380]

what is the source of this info OP?
Same for >>10810354 because I've not heard of this (plenty of cancelled games though, tragic really)

[Anonymous No.10810381]

>>10810357
If you think of your mom as an overpriced toy...

[Anonymous No.10810387]

>>10810380
Iwata Asks

[Anonymous No.10810391]

ill only say that this is the same videogame company that tried to sell you cardboard years back and the same one that also made the wii and the e-reader so it seems plausible. half of nintendos products are just gimmicks.

[Anonymous No.10810393]

It was Nintendo's 32X.

[Anonymous No.10810402]

>>10810354
It would have been interesting to see a model 2 VB redesigned like the Vectrex. Mini monitor, personal 32bit game player(or whatever VB tech was), 2D mode and an add on visor if you want the 3D effect. Maybe super gameboy code it to colorize all previous releases for 2D. Probably still would flop, but atleast they could use up the hardware.

[Anonymous No.10810408]

>>10810337
I don't know why they need to be so defensive about it still. It was a spectacular failure but it was preceded and followed by spectacular successes and it was really their only turd until the WiiU. And it's easy enough to explain away, just say the technology wasn't quite ready and you were too ambitious. That's mostly true

[Anonymous No.10810881]

>>10810337
Despite this they absolutely refused giving the license to a dev remake VB WL for the 3DS

[Anonymous No.10810889]

I always thought something similar. It's like a really weird unfinished prototype that somehow got released.
All in all it's actually pretty cool IMO, the 3D effect is great, the controller is good, I never had any eye strains, the red vectrex-like graphics are cool, the problem is the ergonomics. Most people (who never played it) will meme about the eye thing, people who actually played it know the problem is neck pain.
Also, it has a small library but there's not really any really bad game in it, and some of them are actually very good games.

[Anonymous No.10810905]

Releasing the Virtual Boy was a humiliation ritual imposed on Nintendo by their Yakuza handlers

[Anonymous No.10810917]

>>10810905
>humiliation ritual
hello zoomer

[Anonymous No.10810949]

>>10810337
It was such a non failure that Nintendo tried to completely hide the fact it exists and killed the creator of it along with not bringing a single Virtual Boy game to another Nintendo console with 3D features.

[Chud Anon No.10810956]

>>10810917
SHUT IT DOWN

[Anonymous No.10811121]

>>10810949
Why would they bring the games to another console when playing them is physically painful?

[Anonymous No.10811138]

>>10810337
Reads like cope, but I get what he means. I'm happy the Virtual Boy exists and had fun with it. It's neat despite having only a handful of games.

[Anonymous No.10811142]

>>10811121
You could just change them to any color you want to avoid the horrible red and black. That's the only reason why it hurts so much to play.

[Anonymous No.10811216]

>>10810343
it absolutely is lol, he's a jap they can't concede to admitting failure

[Anonymous No.10811225]

>>10811121
To filter out the weak.

[Anonymous No.10811227]

>>10810917
I'm 35

[Anonymous No.10811232]

>>10811227
Sad.

[Anonymous No.10811257]

>>10810949
There's been references to the Virtual Boy in other Nintendo games every now and then.

[Anonymous No.10811261]

Nintendo never "fails" officially.

Sadly i didn't save it I remember an interview when Miyamoto was pretending that having few games on the N64 was not only a good thing ("quantity over quality" and "it doesn't matter because most kids only get 2 games a year") but was intended, like it was part of their plan all along when it is well known everyone left because they were long fed up with their practices and finally there was a worthy competitor.

[Anonymous No.10811268]

>>10811261
N64 still got a decent number of games though. More than the Master System, and decidedly more quality.
Look at it however you want, but N64 software sold really good.

[Anonymous No.10811305]

>has the best version of Panic Bomber
virtual boy is alright in my book

[Anonymous No.10811356]

>>10810337
had one when it came out (only had 3 games wario a tennis one and i dont remember the other) and it was cool since it was that or the snes at the time but the choice of powering exclusevly with batteries was kind of shit

yes i was a nintoddleer and my grandma loved me very much and had lots of money

[Anonymous No.10811361]

>>10811356
There was an AC adapter for the VB

[Anonymous No.10811783]

>>10811216
This, if he admitted it was a failure he'd have to commit seppuku.

[Anonymous No.10811791]

Nintendo never fails, they just redefine what a success means

[Anonymous No.10812185]

>>10811257
What I find funny is that Virtual Boy only shows up if you set the game to Japanese, it's actually missing in that room if you have it set to English.

[Anonymous No.10812224]

>>10811261
Whatever Nintendo says officially, the faithful will repeat it as the party line.