The stratospheric success of the Nintendo Switch, carried over into its successor, is such that the failure of the Wii U feels like a distant memory. It was, however, far from the Japanese company's biggest disaster. That honour goes to the Virtual Boy, a portable console released in 1995 for Japan and North America, but it was so panned that it was discontinued in less than a year, with a paltry 22 games released.
Yet like most failures, there's a mythic allure, especially given that it never actually released in PAL territories, and second-hand units on eBay fetch the same prices you could be spending on the best current VR headsets with actual 3D graphics rather than the extremely primitive red-and-black sprites being displayed through the Virtual Boy's stereoscopic lenses to create the illusion of 3D.
