Voted N64

The quality of the N64 always beat the quantity of the earlier Playstations. And the PS3 doesn't even have the kind of quantity that they did.

That is just an insult to everybody who preferred the Games on SONY PlayStation back then I myself was on of them I loved the NES and the SNES but the N64 for me was a let down. no JRPGs to speak of no MGS no Policenauts  and so on. 

Edit: the only games on the N64 that I really liked were Zelda OOT, MM, Goldeneye 007 and Perfect Dark.  

The Playstation may have done well, but it's big contribution to gaming was the introduction of optical media which allowed for far bigger file sizes and brought in FMV and large amounts of voice acting to console games. PS1 had some great games, but I don't think it's system exclusives did as much for gaming as the N64 did, or hold up today as well the N64 games do. The fact that people are excited to have Zelda:OOT re-released on the 3DS speaks volumes.

What's more this thread has nothing to do with PS1, it's about N64 vs PS3, of which the N64 line up clearly did more for gaming than the PS3 line up.

I'm not sure how true that is. Each of them did bring in new things into gaming (or at least the console scene), but I don't think they were particularly influential.

And I guess FF7 hd remake would not get people excited? I also don't understand what did the N64 do what PC's and PS1 did not do back then?

Of course a Final Fantasy 7 remake would get people excited. But FFVII held more people due to it's story and characters than it did due to it's gameplay.

The impact of games like Mario 64, Zelda and Goldeneye were down to the major leap forward the gameplay took. The N64 successfully took console gaming into the 3rd dimension and brought about changes that have laid the foundations for games since then.

Nearly every 3D platform game is compared to Mario 64, which says an awful lot considering it was released well over a decade ago. It's camera system and gameplay still stand up today. The same is true of Zelda on the N64. These games had a massive impact and saw analogue control become an industry standard.

But as I said, this isn't about the PS1, it's about the PS3. The PS3 has seen gaming evolve, the games have better graphics, bigger environments and have more going on onscreen, but that's an evolution of last generation. The N64 was revolutionary, it took beloved franchises into the 3rd dimension and did it in such a way that those titles are still the bench marks for today's games.

N64, baby. Consoles that have come after have yet to match it. And honestly, it has little to do with nostalgia.

Sure, it has a handful of "best ever" single player games on its belt, but what really made the system for me is its amazing local multiplayer games. Its ability to support 4 players out of the box (stressing this advantage) led to many of the best party games ever.

There still isn't a console that has it beat in this department, not even the Wii. It's why I still keep the N64 around to this day - many of its best titles aren't yet on the Wii VC!

If we talk about best games, N64 is just to above to be compared with ps3, about quantity of good games Ps3 wins as always. Also considering that I never owned an N64 but I played on it about three times more than on my Ps3 (that I got in 2007), the winner is clear.

So you are comparing games that arent out yet with games that are out.

PS3 easily. No contest.