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What is the best Engineered Video Game Console Ever?

Xbox 360 127 13.86%
 
PS4 405 44.21%
 
SNES 123 13.43%
 
Dreamcast 62 6.77%
 
Atari 2600 12 1.31%
 
None of the above 187 20.41%
 
Total:916
DannyDanger89 on 27 April 2015

It scratched my disc and rrod'ed on me.... for that reason i cant agree



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dr3b on 27 April 2015

Have to go with the SNES, twenty years later and mine is still running fine. The same can't or won't likely be said for modern consoles, although I hope my PS3 slim will still work when its that old.



Mandalore76 on 27 April 2015
alabtrosMyster said:


I think the Sega Genesis model 1 was the best console ever made

 - Both graphics and sound capabilities were amazing for the time

 - It's 68000 CPU was fast enough to allow games with nice special effects without the use of special chips!.. games with little to now slow downs, very few flickeing, etc. that was a UGE improvement over anything else available before (and even after to some degree)... the architecture was common so programmers knew how to program for it from the get go!

 - These machines just do not die, compared to them Nintendo consoles are just un-reliable

 - It has a great library

and it has a CD add-on!

Second would be the Dreamcast... PS4 if it was not so noizy!the PC Engine was an amaxing thing to have has well... SNES was a graphics processing powerhouse upon release too.

Maybe the first xbox would fit in a list of well engineered consoles... the 360 missed on HDMI, was probably the least reliable console ever, it had some good benefits, but the downsides are too big to ignore, engineering is about trade offs, trading off reliability to this degree is never a good choice.

Not quite sure what you're saying here, or if joking.  My 1989 NES still works to this day.  I've actually never had a Nintendo console (or handheld) fail on me.  But, I will agree to the Genesis' durability.  The one I bought off a college dorm friend in 1995 (don't know how long he owned it) also still works today as well.



Ruler on 27 April 2015
SpokenTruth said:
Ruler said:

They looked both the same, all what gamecube had was better water effects.

The PS2 couldn't render most of the cut scenes so they used video footage of the GC build.  That really should be all you need to know about that.


So did the PC version, PC < Gamecube?



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Ruler on 27 April 2015
Shackkobe said:
Ruler said:

Not all, there were so many stronger designed consoles for its time like the Neo Geo.

Uhm...at least I justified my viewpoint with a few facts...


The Neo Geo doesnt need facts it survided 14 years. Look at fatal fury 1 and then at garou mark of the wolfs. The xbox 360 never managed to archive such an improvement



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Ruler on 27 April 2015
Miyamotoo said:
Ruler said:
Samus Aran said:

Yeah, no.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkKX-nU9fX4


Yeah great a few wood more on the trees that justifies calling the PS2 port ass? the ps2 version has even better shadow effects on ashley. Both games pretty much look the same. The fact that the ps2 was even able to run this game and it looks almost the same and runs on the same framerate speaks more about the ps2 than the gamecube.

I remember when this game was announced for the ps2 how people and magazines were in disbelieve that this game would even run and look the same on the weaker ps2. But they were proven wrong.

Seems we didnt watch same video, It looks obviously better on Game Cube than on PS2.

Better but almost the same



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wangjingwanjia on 27 April 2015

From a developers point of view, yes. Absolutely one of the best ones. But from a consumers point of view, just no. It was a piece of cheap and faulty hardware, nothing more and nothing less.

The X1 however, that's a great piece of hardware. I have nothing at all to compain about it (after the policy changes).

I went with PS4 in the poll above.





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GameAnalyser on 27 April 2015

I'm surprised X360 had to make it to this list. I know a friend of mine while in UK who had to replace the hardware 5 times.



Miyamotoo on 27 April 2015
Ruler said:
Miyamotoo said:
Ruler said:
Samus Aran said:

Yeah, no.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkKX-nU9fX4


Yeah great a few wood more on the trees that justifies calling the PS2 port ass? the ps2 version has even better shadow effects on ashley. Both games pretty much look the same. The fact that the ps2 was even able to run this game and it looks almost the same and runs on the same framerate speaks more about the ps2 than the gamecube.

I remember when this game was announced for the ps2 how people and magazines were in disbelieve that this game would even run and look the same on the weaker ps2. But they were proven wrong.

Seems we didnt watch same video, It looks obviously better on Game Cube than on PS2.

Better but almost the same

Hardly, GC version looks like a remaster of PS2 version. :)
Difference is bigger than comparison between PS4 and Xbox One games.



Shackkobe on 27 April 2015
alabtrosMyster said:
Shackkobe said:

Atari, Nintendo, Sega, Sony and Microsoft have all released mainstream video game consoles. From the Atari 2600 all the way up to the Xbox One, different consoles have been released, with many different hardware configurations.

Some of the engineering gave rise to great consoles like the Super NES with its unique ability to have hardware upgrades built into the game cartridge itself, and others like the Playstation 3 which was so hard to develop for, developers needed at least one year to learn how to program effectively for the console.

But out of all the engineering choices made, the design choices behind the Xbox 360 stand out to me as probably the best ever.

The tri core CPU, GPU(with unified shaders), 512MB unified RAM, 10MB eDRAM, excellent controller, easy game development and superb online infrastructure made it an almost perfect gaming console.  These design choices were so good, they influenced the development of ALL of the 8th gen consoles. So good was the design, I am led to believe that there was no need for Microsoft to have rushed the manufacturing, which led to the Xbox 360 being released only four years after the original Xbox. This rush to market caused them to incur the now legendary failure rate of the first wave of Xbox 360s.

Yes, Sony messed up the ps3’s launch. But a big reason for their gigantic loss of market share was due to the fact that they had a rival console which was simply one of the best engineered consoles ever. Console sales, software library, game performance and developer praise all support this line of thinking.

 

 

 

Feel free to leave your thoughts below.


I think the Sega Genesis model 1 was the best console ever made

 - Both graphics and sound capabilities were amazing for the time

 - It's 68000 CPU was fast enough to allow games with nice special effects without the use of special chips!.. games with little to now slow downs, very few flickeing, etc. that was a UGE improvement over anything else available before (and even after to some degree)... the architecture was common so programmers knew how to program for it from the get go!

 - These machines just do not die, compared to them Nintendo consoles are just un-reliable

 - It has a great library

and it has a CD add-on!

Second would be the Dreamcast... PS4 if it was not so noizy!the PC Engine was an amaxing thing to have has well... SNES was a graphics processing powerhouse upon release too.

Maybe the first xbox would fit in a list of well engineered consoles... the 360 missed on HDMI, was probably the least reliable console ever, it had some good benefits, but the downsides are too big to ignore, engineering is about trade offs, trading off reliability to this degree is never a good choice.

I understand your points, but the very fact that the SNES could have these upgrades built into the games themselves puts it above the Genesis imo. Street Fighter Alpha 2 could never be possible on the Genesis.