than that of The Phantom, a console developed by Infinium labs that, other than a brief showing at E3 2004, has since disappeared from the industry without so much as a trace. Arriving at E3 in 2004, the idea behind The Phantom was certainly ambitious. For under $399, it was to be a PC that hooked up to your TV like a console, letting you download and install games directly to the device via the internet. It was essentially a Steam Machine before Steam was even a thing, but release dates came and went as the machine's projected launch window ended up pushed beyond 2005, before finally being removed from Phantom Entertainment's website in 2006. Perhaps the world just wasn't quite ready for a living room PC solution,but at least there's a silver lining to this story: Phantom Entertainment still exists, and continues to sell PC lapboards - a couch-based keyboard originally designed for the The Phantom console.

Fable Legends (revealed: 2013)

First announced at Gamescom in 2013, Fable Legends made its gameplay debut during Microsoft's press conference at E3 2014 - and it couldn't be further from what series fans were expecting. Rather than using the power of the Xbox One or Microsoft's cloud servers to create a fully-realized, next-gen version of Albion, Fable Legends scaled way back, transforming the action-RPG into a condensed four-on-one multiplayer game. Fable Legends went into closed beta later that year, and by all accounts the game was fine, but neither the fans nor even its own publisher appeared to be