Best Year Ever: Nintendo vs. PlayStation vs. Xbox

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Veknoid_Outcast on 08 June 2016

Yesterday I created three threads that asked members to vote on their favorite individual years for the Nintendo, PlayStation, and Xbox ecosystems.

Best Year Ever: Nintendo
Best Year Ever: PlayStation
Best Year Ever: Xbox

JamaicameCRAZY had a great idea to put the three winning years in a head-to-head-to-head match-up. So that's what I've done.

The three contending years are...

Nintendo 1998
PlayStation 1998
Xbox 2007

Some marquee games from all three years are listed below. Note that console and portable titles both count. Also note: these are N. American release dates.

Nintendo\|1998	PlayStation\|1998	Xbox\|2007
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time	Metal Gear Solid	Halo 3
Banjo-Kazooie	Final Fantasy Tactics	Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Pokemon Red & Blue	Gran Turismo	The Orange Box
F-Zero X	Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped	Mass Effect
1080° Snowboarding	Tekken 3	BioShock
Tetris DX	Xenogears	Blue Dragon
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron	Resident Evil 2	Crackdown
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil	Tenchu: Stealth Assassins	Forza Motorsport 2
Body Harvest	MediEvil	Eternal Sonata
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX	Spyro the Dragon	Project Gotham Racing 4

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CosmicSex on 08 June 2016

Did Xbox not exist in 1998?

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Darwinianevolution on 08 June 2016

CosmicSex said:
Did Xbox not exist in 1998?

The OG XBox was released in 2001-2002.

You know it deserves the GOTY.

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KLXVER on 08 June 2016

CosmicSex said:
Did Xbox not exist in 1998?

Nope. Started in 2001.

Anyway, I went for Xbox 2007.

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Mgs, xenogears, re and tenchu.. PS.

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Neodegenerate on 08 June 2016

Bioshock and Mass Effect make xbox my choice here

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Ultrashroomz on 08 June 2016

PS1 1998 wins for me.

"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."

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S.Peelman on 08 June 2016

Well 1998 that's for sure.

I think PlayStation actually has more of my all-time favorite games released that year, but Nintendo, Nintendo has a couple giant arguments there. The two best Zeldas ever, Banjo and Pokemon, with Rogue Squadron, F-Zero and Turok as a bonus? Yeah, Nintendo 1998.

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Low78wagon on 08 June 2016

All great games on all of those platforms. Gotta go with ps1 though. Was resi 2 not on n64 in 1998?

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Veknoid_Outcast on 08 June 2016

Low78wagon said:
All great games on all of those platforms. Gotta go with ps1 though. Was resi 2 not on n64 in 1998?

Arrived the following year on N64.


Best Year Ever?
Nintendo\|1998	51	33.55%
PlayStation\|1998	65	42.76%
Xbox\|2007	25	16.45%
See results	11	7.24%
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