Ouya Console

The Ouya Console, a 2013 Kickstarter phenomenon that raised $8.5 million promising an Android-based micro-console, failed spectacularly at launch with a controller featuring mushy buttons and stuck triggers, flaws that outpaced even the cheapness of the average smartphone gamepad. Its storefront offered mobile-quality games, and input lag was so severe that action games became unplayable, a problem far worse than the Wii U GamePad's lag. By 2015, the console was discontinued, proving that crowdfunding hype cannot overcome fundamental hardware failures. The Ouya stands as a cautionary tale in gaming history.