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Actually, put my last reply at number 2.

How could I forget the Wii.

It got so much targeted hatred for its unconventional controls, modest graphics, and for daring to appeal to an audience broader than just 10-40 year old males. If you listened to the internet you'd think it was the worst console ever made.

And yet it was amazing.

Playing Wii Sports Resort back in 2009 and using 1:1 motion controls to do kendo felt like playing something from the future. All the dazzling HD graphics of the PS3 and 360 never felt as "next gen" as that. Super Mario Galaxy remains one of the most magical video game experiences of my life, while other titles like its successor Galaxy 2, Xenoblade Chronicles, Metroid Prime 3, Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword, Donkey Kong Country Returns, The Last Story, Fatal Frame 4, Monster Hunter Tri, and many others, plus the sheer tactile joy of motion, all added up to the second best system I've ever had the pleasure of owning after the SNES.

The amount of venom it received for daring to be different was extraordinary, the likes of which I've never seen directed at any other console. Easily the most underrated system of all time, at least among the kind of forum-going gamers who swore up and down that it was a fad that would die out by 2008.