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Android Tablets Not Even Selling as Well as These Forgotten Game Systems?

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Remember Panasonic’s 3DO game system back in the mid ’90s? Not surprised if you don’t; it failed miserably and was discontinued after three years, despite being packed with promise and cutting-edge technology. But the three-year sales record of this flop have thus far still managed to handily beat that of Android tablets — all of them. Combined.

Marco Arment, developer of popular read-it-later app (and service) Instapaper, threw together the handy bar graph above to display just how desperate a battle it’s become for iPad challengers. Check out the Blackberry Playbook — it’s struggling against sales of the Philips CD-i, a game system I’d never even heard of (and I worked at a software/video game store in high school).

Says Amrent on his original post: “I didn’t include the iPad’s approximately 30 million units on here because it distorted the graph’s scale too much.” Funny.

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