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Keywords: games
1. Create an awful gaming handheld that is a worse phone.

2. Claim you sold 400,000 copies in two weeks when you sold, um, 5,800.

3. Release a new version and add insane DRM that only allows a game to be played on a single device, ever, so that players have to buy all their games again if they upgrade their system.

4. Profit!
More like a even bigger failure. Ultra-restrictive DRM only hurts the legitimate buyers.
Weird, I was talking with some friends today about some Game Systems that fail. The two ones we came up with that are more recent are:
1. Game Boy Micro
Launched and then you never heard about it.
2. N-Gage
Basically all you stated.
Don't forget the best handheld failure of all time, involving organized crime, Enzo Ferraris, mysterious disappearing German drivers, and more!
You know, I used to want an N-Gage for the TES Game that came out for it.

But now that they're remaking Oblivion for the PSP, there's no need for the N-Gage anymore.