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Which system surprised you the most after initially being a dud in your eyes?

Wii U 50 17.61%
 
PS3 129 45.42%
 
X1 35 12.32%
 
Vita 2 0.70%
 
3DS 44 15.49%
 
Other, post below 4 1.41%
 
None 4 1.41%
 
See results 15 5.28%
 
Total:283

3DS it's already a leader on the market so it just a slower start from the beginning but we already know where it will going and the Vita is not on Market so yeah it's not.

Xbox One, the new one comes with different type of focus, it comes with new exclusives, and it comes with new price, but the sales tells differently and their competitor is not even on 30% of their potential, so to soon for the party

Wii U, they still don't have 3rd party games on their consoles, they still loosing casual market to Apple and others mobile phone company, and heck even they loose the hardcore Nintendo fans.

Vita, the same with Wii u, is satisfying for some fans but not the greatest come back, heck i would not call that come back, it has a lot of Japanese games and a lot of support from third party games , but it still lack some originality and it's own exclusive games, and the sales across US and Europe is bad.

PS3, almost the same with 3DS for what they did with PS2 (even better ), but it comes late, far more expensive, the other competitor stole their exclusives (Tekken, Final Fantasy, Star Ocean, and more and more JRPG games come to their competitor) , and difficult to develop on their games. But in the end it end on the second even better the success of PS3 become the foundation of the PS4 success without depending solely on 3rd party games.

So yeah PS3 the king of resurrection and who refuse to die and able to turn the table of consoles war



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Easily PS3 then 3DS.



I think PS3 is the only Console which made a great comeback.

   Temporary boost because of free games and huge temporary price cut in only one territory for a short time(XOne) is not indicative of any comeback, like someone would like to suggest here... we have to wait at least the end of 2015.

So I voted PS3.



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Harriet Tubman.

Definitely the 3DS for me. I got that thing on launch day and I was very annoyed by it for the first 6 months or so really. Then at some undefinable point it evolved from being an expensive paperweight that played my DS library, to a console that I considered my favourite for quite some time. It's probably not my favourite anymore, but it's still a great console that I wouldn't be without.



DigitalDevilSummoner said:
spurgeonryan said:

PS3- Distant third place to commanding second place last gen. Nuff said.

Care to remind me what competing HD console the PS3 is second to ?

Oh wow. Grow up.



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PS3 all the way, the PS3 was up against it from the start with an arrogant leadership, a high price, late launch in Europe, an inferior network and unfriendly developer architecture it suffered hardware and software removals a massive hack and a number of inferior multi plat games.

And yet it kept on in there eventually overtaking the 360 in WW sales. At the end of it all though imo it was the games, the exclusives quality, quantity and variety, PS3 owners ended up being spoilt for choice while the competition dried up. The PS3 remains so far my favourite console of all time, maybe this is because the bad times were bad but the good times were fantastic.