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What is your favorite Nintendo home console?

NES 11 6.59%
 
SNES 59 35.33%
 
N64 32 19.16%
 
Nintendo GameCube 34 20.36%
 
Nintendo Wii 22 13.17%
 
Nintendo Xbox 9 5.39%
 
Total:167

Gamecube, by far the best for me. Really, the Gamecube sold me on Nintendo. I preferred playstation to N64, but the gamecube made me a nintendo fan for life.


Second up is the SNES, really a fantastic library.

Then probably the N64, I honestly didn't like it that much, but it was better than the Wii.




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BasilZero said:

Gaming Wise (Both First and Third Party)
SNES > GameCube > NES > N64 > Wii

Controller Wise
GameCube > SNES > NES > Wii > N64

Hardware Wise (Appearance)
Wii > SNES > N64 > NES > GameCube

 

Overall experience for me
SNES > N64 > GameCube > NES > Wii

As much as I love the Gamecube, I have no idea what they were thinking with the hardware design. Whoever decided an obese lunchbox looked sexy needs a kick in the teeth.



the big cube



My first console was a PS, so never experienced NES, or SNES. I played N64 over my friend's house and when I eventually got one, all I played on it was Pokemon Stadium. Gamecube was my favorite in terms of controller, games, and fun with friends. I did like the Wii a lot, but I entered into high school and I finally got a 360... Wii took to the closet because I felt it was "too kiddy". Glad I got out of that stage. Wii U's too soon to tell.

NES & SNES- N/A
GC > Wii
I expect to like the Wii U more than the Wii, probably not the GC though.



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SNES. It ruled the first party world and the third party world. It also had a slew of Square RPG's when Square was still good. It had Super Metroid, A Link to the Past, Super Mario World, Yoshi's Island, DKC, Mario RPG, FF VI, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana and so many others I can't even think of right now.

The thing ruled my childhood, and to this day is still my favorite Christmas present ever. I even remember knowing the size of the box from going to stores with my parents and knowing exactly what was under the tree. Tears to my eyes for SNES.

I'm old enough to love the NES too, but SNES brought it home for me. Damn being old.



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1. SNES - Pure gaming perfection. A wide and diverse library full of AAA games of all genres, control schemes that were easy enough for the novice gamer but allowed for enough complexity for more hardcore games.

2. Wii - Hard to deny its impact on gaming, even if you didn't support what it stood for. Playing Wii Sports for the first time felt like I was experiencing gaming again for the first time again, reminiscent of the first time I picked up an NES controller.

3. N64 - I have a soft spot for this console because it was the console I "grew up on". While it's library wasn't the largest, the games that were great on this console, were REALLY great. Mario Kart, Mario 64, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, etc.. All amazing games. The multiplayer really shines on this console too, and I still sometimes relive the endless fun of Mario Kart and Goldeneye with friends and faimly. This console also had Rare at its finest, who was second in quality only to Nintendo at the time.

4. NES - While I recognise that this console is probably techincally the "better" and more revolutionary console than the N64, most its lifespan occured before my time, with the exception of the stuff at the tail end of it like Mario 3 and Bubble Bobble 2, so I don't hold as much of that nostalgic experience to give it that bias. However, like the Wii, you can't deny its impact.. And its library, like the SNES, was just insanely good and diverse.

5. Gamecube - While still a great console in its own right (hell, I used it as part of my username), it was largely an obscure console, in terms of its actual appearance, odd controller, and its niche library of games. The games that were normally Nintendo's biggest franchises (Mario, Zelda, Kart) either had weak installments on the Cube or were missing alltogether.. with the exception of Metroid and Smash, which, strangely enough, had their BEST iterations on the Cube. The only other really great titles seemed to be niche games that weren't even created by Nintendo themselves, or else they seemed out of place (Tales of Symphonia, Eternal Darkness, Resident Evil 4, Pikmin).

Jury is still out on Wii U for me, as I have only put a few hours of play time into only Nintendoland and NSMB U, so I feel I have nowhere near enough time to give an accurate analysis yet, but I have a hunch that it will end up between the NES and Gamecube, based on my first impressions.



1 Wii U
2 Wii
3 SNES
4 N64
5 GameCube



SNES, what an incredible library of games.



Sigs are dumb. And so are you!

I thought I would have gotten a reply for my comment about the N64.



snes by a country mile. It aint even close



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