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Best Console Ever?

NES 34 4.41%
 
SNES 134 17.38%
 
N64 80 10.38%
 
GC 52 6.74%
 
Wii 45 5.84%
 
PS1 63 8.17%
 
PS2 259 33.59%
 
PS3/360 72 9.34%
 
Xbox 17 2.20%
 
Genesis 15 1.95%
 
Total:771

Ps2
Ps1
S.Nes
Ps3
Saturn

I don't list ps4 because gen is not end.



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fory77 said:
Moyu said:
1.PS2
2.PS1
3.PS3
4.PS4
5.COLECOVISION


@Italic -

Are you trying to make me your enemy, m89? (ง ͠° ͟ل͜ ͡°)ง

But how exactly m8? :^)



RubberWhistleHistle said:
Angelv577 said:
For me, it looks like this:

1. PS2: the greatest console of all time.
2. PS3/xbox 360: I would have chosen xbox 360 as my second console if it wasn't for the horrible failure rate. Mine broke in 4 months.
3. SNES: the system where most of my childhood gaming took place. Mario kart SNES, donkey kong country 1 and 2. Multiple third party games like street fighter 2, MK1 and 2 and a lot more that I don't remember.
4. PS1/N64: both share the same amount of gaming time that gen.
5. NES: the one that started it all.

IMO For me Wii is the worst console ever. It has good games but the third parties selection weren't good. The Wii motes and I never got along. Too expensive for what it offered. Poor online infrastructure.


i just want to focus on the last thing you said. about the wii. why would you judge it based on how much third party support it has? does the company that made the game really matter? if it has x amount of good games, it has x amount of good games. 

if the wii has 50 games that are great, i dont care if all 50 are made by nintendo, or if 35 were made by nintendo, and 15 were made by 3rd parties, or if 15 were made by nintendo, and 35 were made by third parties. good games are good games. judge the system based on how many quality titles are on it. and ill tell you right now, it has a ton.

I judged Wii based on how much third party it has because in my case, I'm a multiplatform gamer.  I ended up last gen with 75%-80% on multiplatform games.  Heck my reason to buy a console is for multiplatform games so any console that have third parties support are going to be a better console in my view.  Now if you combine a good third party support with good first party games, you have the recipe for one of the best library, in other words, there is a high chance you will find something new to play because if the first party offering failed, just moved your view to a third party game and vice versa.  When you don't have good third party support, you are limited to first party, add to that that if you don't like every first party offered, there is a chance you will find yourself replaying older games because you don't have something to play yet based on your preferences.

This is obviously my personal feeling and my personal experience only and how I felt during the 7th gen era.



RubberWhistleHistle said:
Angelv577 said:

This.  PS2 at the least should be in the top 5.  It was the last console where third party exclusives were important.

ugh..

honestly, i knew this was going to come up, and i honestly dont have an answer. it would be #6, but unfortunately, this is a top 5 list. i couldnt see putting ps2 above any of the other consoles. maybe it could take the wii's spot at #5. that would be fair. but i feel like the wii is better. i can totally see how people would think ps2 is, but the difference for me is that the wii offers a multiplayer experience that the ps2 cannot match. its just impossible. i can go into detail about this, but ill leave it at that for now.

the ps2 is a great console, but i couldnt put it past the ps1, which has better games and had more of a hand of shaping this industry, the NES which started gaming as we know it, the N64 which has 2 to 3 of the top 10 games ever made, or the SNES which is simply the best console of all time. 

it was a dilemma for me, and i know it doesnt seem right.. but i dont see how i could put it past those four consoles i just named. i just cant do it. it makes #5 at best.

That's okay, I just find it odd that you chose Wii over ps2 because it has a better multiplayer experience but you have ps1 above Wii that also didn't have a multiplayer experience.  Anyway it's hard to think of it objectively as much as we want to because your reasons to be in your top 5 aren't my reasons to be in my top 5.



1- SNES
2- PS1
3- PS2
4- Dreamcast
5- GameCube



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Angelv577 said:
RubberWhistleHistle said:


i just want to focus on the last thing you said. about the wii. why would you judge it based on how much third party support it has? does the company that made the game really matter? if it has x amount of good games, it has x amount of good games. 

if the wii has 50 games that are great, i dont care if all 50 are made by nintendo, or if 35 were made by nintendo, and 15 were made by 3rd parties, or if 15 were made by nintendo, and 35 were made by third parties. good games are good games. judge the system based on how many quality titles are on it. and ill tell you right now, it has a ton.

I judged Wii based on how much third party it has because in my case, I'm a multiplatform gamer.  I ended up last gen with 75%-80% on multiplatform games.  Heck my reason to buy a console is for multiplatform games so any console that have third parties support are going to be a better console in my view.  Now if you combine a good third party support with good first party games, you have the recipe for one of the best library, in other words, there is a high chance you will find something new to play because if the first party offering failed, just moved your view to a third party game and vice versa.  When you don't have good third party support, you are limited to first party, add to that that if you don't like every first party offered, there is a chance you will find yourself replaying older games because you don't have something to play yet based on your preferences.

This is obviously my personal feeling and my personal experience only and how I felt during the 7th gen era.

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if you have other consoles, then what good is it if the wii has the same games that your other systems do? i still dont get it.

if during the sixth gen i had all three systems, why would i care if my gamecube had call of duty or medal of honor if i liked playing those games on my xbox? it doesnt make any difference.



1, PS2 (Without a doubt the best ever)
2. PS3
3. Nintendo 64
4. PS1
5. Xbox



Angelv577 said:
RubberWhistleHistle said:
Angelv577 said:

This.  PS2 at the least should be in the top 5.  It was the last console where third party exclusives were important.

ugh..

honestly, i knew this was going to come up, and i honestly dont have an answer. it would be #6, but unfortunately, this is a top 5 list. i couldnt see putting ps2 above any of the other consoles. maybe it could take the wii's spot at #5. that would be fair. but i feel like the wii is better. i can totally see how people would think ps2 is, but the difference for me is that the wii offers a multiplayer experience that the ps2 cannot match. its just impossible. i can go into detail about this, but ill leave it at that for now.

the ps2 is a great console, but i couldnt put it past the ps1, which has better games and had more of a hand of shaping this industry, the NES which started gaming as we know it, the N64 which has 2 to 3 of the top 10 games ever made, or the SNES which is simply the best console of all time. 

it was a dilemma for me, and i know it doesnt seem right.. but i dont see how i could put it past those four consoles i just named. i just cant do it. it makes #5 at best.

That's okay, I just find it odd that you chose Wii over ps2 because it has a better multiplayer experience but you have ps1 above Wii that also didn't have a multiplayer experience.  Anyway it's hard to think of it objectively as much as we want to because your reasons to be in your top 5 aren't my reasons to be in my top 5.

well there are different things to consider. multiplayer experience and single player experience are two things that i think are important. in my view, the playstation has good enough single player experience to overtake the wii's multiplayer experience and single player experience. the both the ps1 and wii had a huge impact on the industry, however, the ps1's impact was longer lasting and more meaningful than the wii's. taking all this into consideration, the ps1 beats out the wii. thats kind of how i judge it.



RubberWhistleHistle said:

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if you have other consoles, then what good is it if the wii has the same games that your other systems do? i still dont get it.

if during the sixth gen i had all three systems, why would i care if my gamecube had call of duty or medal of honor if i liked playing those games on my xbox? it doesnt make any difference.


Xbox 360 exclusives according to Wikapedia

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PS3 exclusive game according to wikapedia


chocoloco said:


i really dont see what those lists have to do with what i said.

if youre trying to show that ps3 and 360 have completely different libraries, then your argument still fails, because the simple fact is that a lot of those games on that list are irrelevant to whether or not somebody is going to place one of those consoles in their top five. nobody is looking at xbl arcade games, ddr games, or whatever sports games ended up being exclusive. theyre going to look at the critically acclaimed first party titles, RPGs, or things like that.

why dont you show a list of all the games that the systems have in common? maybe itll show that 70% of the games are the same on both platforms, which still doesnt differentaite the two very much in terms of games still.