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What is the Golden Age of Gaming??

1st Gen 6 1.09%
 
2nd Gen 11 2.00%
 
3rd Gen 26 4.73%
 
4th Gen 161 29.27%
 
5th Gen 137 24.91%
 
6th Gen 133 24.18%
 
7th Gen 58 10.55%
 
8th Gen 13 2.36%
 
Total:545
CleggaZ on 20 June 2014
ghettoglamour said:
I'm sure 8th gen will have the best games ever made. People voting for old ass gens are delusional. Don't tell me you'd rather pick a SNES over a PS3 for example, if you could only choose one.

 I'd take a SNES or any Nintendo, Sony or Sega console from the 4th, 5th or 6th generations over a PS3 any day of the week.



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Teeqoz on 20 June 2014
CleggaZ said:
BraveNewWorld said:
A few decades down the road it will be the 7th gen. I don't think we'll ever see those kinds of sales again.

HW - System (SW)

155 - DS (816)
101 - Wii (920)
83 - PS3 (830)
83 - 360 (893)
81 - PSP (962)

4,421,000,000 (software)
503,000,000 (hardware)

And the numbers are still climbing.

I think this generation will struggle to sell anywhere near 250,000,000+  in total console hardware.


Really? I'm willing to bet that this gen will be over 250 million in total hardware sales. It's already at like 75 million.



CleggaZ on 20 June 2014
Teeqoz said:
CleggaZ said:
BraveNewWorld said:
A few decades down the road it will be the 7th gen. I don't think we'll ever see those kinds of sales again.

HW - System (SW)

155 - DS (816)
101 - Wii (920)
83 - PS3 (830)
83 - 360 (893)
81 - PSP (962)

4,421,000,000 (software)
503,000,000 (hardware)

And the numbers are still climbing.

I think this generation will struggle to sell anywhere near 250,000,000+  in total console hardware.


Really? I'm willing to bet that this gen will be over 250 million in total hardware sales. It's already at like 75 million.

Didn’t realise we had reached those sort of hardware numbers this gen already  70.7 according to the homepage and that is probably under tracked and nearer to your 75 million......with another 4+ years of sales for the PS4 /Xbox one I’m going to retract my previous comment .





CladInShadows on 20 June 2014

3rd and 4th gens, with honourable mentions going towards 6th.



Teeqoz on 20 June 2014
aikohualda said:
i wonder if the answer would shift to 6th gen 10 years from now


That would be interesting to see. Remind me to make a thread like this in 10 years!



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S.T.A.G.E. on 20 June 2014
aikohualda said:
i wonder if the answer would shift to 6th gen 10 years from now


Milennials will never know about the golden age of gaming. The greatest companies who survived the arcade era existed back then and the non-pc games were still doing very well during the golden era. Sega and Nintendo were duking it out, MS wasnt here and Sony was just entering the industry.



Teeqoz on 20 June 2014
S.T.A.G.E. said:
aikohualda said:
i wonder if the answer would shift to 6th gen 10 years from now


Milennials will never know about the golden age of gaming. The greatest companies who survived the arcade era existed back then and the non-pc games were still doing very well during the golden era. Sega and Nintendo were duking it out, MS wasnt here and Sony was just entering the industry.


Given that this is very much a opinionated question (unless you are looking at sales and stuff), then you can't say that they will never know the golden age of gaming.



S.T.A.G.E. on 20 June 2014
Teeqoz said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
aikohualda said:
i wonder if the answer would shift to 6th gen 10 years from now


Milennials will never know about the golden age of gaming. The greatest companies who survived the arcade era existed back then and the non-pc games were still doing very well during the golden era. Sega and Nintendo were duking it out, MS wasnt here and Sony was just entering the industry.


Given that this is very much a opinionated question (unless you are looking at sales and stuff), then you can't say that they will never know the golden age of gaming.

 

Seriously, during the golden age of gaming all types of gaming were doing well. Arcades were thriving, Consoles were growing in popularity and PC gaming was in its own world. I started gaming during the 90's but the spark seem to have started in the 80's into the 90's. Japan was doing extremely well as well.



toot1231 on 20 June 2014

N64/ps1 revolutionized games they brought the best games of all time.



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Teeqoz on 20 June 2014
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Teeqoz said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
aikohualda said:
i wonder if the answer would shift to 6th gen 10 years from now


Milennials will never know about the golden age of gaming. The greatest companies who survived the arcade era existed back then and the non-pc games were still doing very well during the golden era. Sega and Nintendo were duking it out, MS wasnt here and Sony was just entering the industry.


Given that this is very much a opinionated question (unless you are looking at sales and stuff), then you can't say that they will never know the golden age of gaming.

 

Seriously, during the golden age of gaming all types of gaming were doing well. Arcades were thriving, Consoles were growing in popularity and PC gaming was in its own world. I started gaming during the 90's but the spark seem to have started in the 80's into the 90's. Japan was doing extremely well as well.

so, you actually mean that the 7th gen was the golden age of gaming? I mean, sure arcades weren't thriving during the 7th gen, but as it has been pointed out earlier in this thread, litterally every system sold massive numbers during the 7th gen. 

Just to remind you of the incredible sales:

DS: ~150 million sold

Wii:~100 million sold

PS3~82 million sold

Xbox 360~82 million sold

PSP~80 million sold

PS: Nice stealth edit, but I saw that you wrote "was the bronze age an opinion?" like seriously? What kind of question is that? It's not even remotely comparable with this!