It took more than two decades, but Nintendo has finally got fans to care about the Virtual Boy, as it's somehow managed to sell out in the US.
Although Nintendo has been on a major winning streak over the past two console generations, it's not like everything it does is a guaranteed success. The Wii U (which I loved because I have good taste) is perhaps the most well-known Nintendo miss, but there's an even bigger flop further back in the company's history.
I am, of course, talking about the Virtual Boy, Nintendo's strange red-and-black headset that almost instantly failed and ended up only having 22 games worldwide. The Virtual Boy has been a bit of an embarrassment for Nintendo over the years, but it recently decided to embrace its past by announcing a Virtual Boy accessory for Switch 2 to go alongside it joining the Nintendo Classics library.
The Virtual Boy went up for sale on the Nintendo Store back in December, and although many fans said that $99 for a joke was simply too much, it seems like a lot of them ended up caving. As pointed out by Nintendeal on Twitter, the Virtual Boy...
