Least liked console from each of the big 3 and why

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Nintendo: In terms of when I my experience when it was a current gen console, the GameCube. In terms of hindsight, the N64. I bought a Gamecube at launch, and a lot of people seem to forget just how vast the software droughts for the thing were. It’s third party support was scant, and it often got the worst versions of multi platform games despite being more powerful than PS2. Nintendo games were few and far inbetween, and could vary wildly in quality, from game of the year contenders like Metroid Prime, to trashy disasters like Geist. It’s still a damn good console with some amazing games, but it had the worst combination of third party and first party support of all of Nintendo’s consoles. While its controller is great for Nintendo games, it was infamously ill-suited for certain genres, especially fighting games.

N64 is the worst in hindsight. Its controller is awful, and most of its games, being early 3D games, have aged poorly. But for the time, I also can’t deny just how groundbreaking and innovative many of its games were.


Sony: PlayStation TV (HA, LOOP HOLE, I DON’T HAVE TO CHOOSE PS1). I will never understand the thinking behind this thing: let’s make a microconsole out of the Vita that can play MOST Vita and PSP games, but not all, including some pretty major games that should have been functional on it.

Putting that aside, I guess I’d go with PS1, if only because, again, many of its biggest games aged poorly (though it does have more sidescrollers than the N64, which aged better)

Microsoft: I’ve only loved their Xbox consoles, but I guess I’ll go with Xbox One. I love the services on it (Xbox Live and Game Pass) and I enjoy being able to run my cable box through it, which effectively makes the Xbox One my default TV interface. It’s SUPER convenient. But I only got this thing as a Christmas gift to begin with, and while it had superior exclusives to PS4 early on, at this point its hard to recommend the system based on its exclusive software. Unless you want Game Pass, there is simply no reason to own this thing if you already have a PS4 or PC, which have everything the Xbone has plus loads of great exclusives. Soon, even Game Pass won’t be a selling point anymore.

SEGA: Hey, they’ve been in as many console gens as Sony and Microsoft, so I’m gonna include them! Anyway, worst from SEGA was Master System. On top of 8-bit games not really aging great, and much of the library being made up of significantly scaled-down arcade ports, the Master System definitely falls short of SEGA’s other console efforts.