The first video game home console ever and it isn't even listed in the poll?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnavox_Odyssey

Wait, what?  You can say the PS1 or PS2 is your all time favorite console.  That's fine and dandy.  But, you can't just make up some revisionist history about Play Station saving the gaming market.  Saved it from what?  Home Console sales had risen in Gen 4 from Gen 3.  So, what was saved?  An already growing market?  You're entitled to your choice of answer to the OP's question, but when you follow it with ridiculously unsubstantiated claims it makes said choice seem to be purely based on personal bias than any grounding in reality.  When someone says the NES saved the gaming market, it's a well documented and proven fact that in North America it did just that.  There was an actual video game market crash.  There was no market crash at the end of the fourth generation that Sony swooped in and repaired.  Was PS1 the highest selling console of its time?  Was the PS2 the highest selling console of all time?  Yes.  No one is disputing that.  But the video game market was not stagnant or in decline when the Play Station brand debuted.  It was growing.  Therefore, you can't just arbitrarily declare that Sony saved gaming. 

By the way, 3rd party devs were doing just fine before Play Station.  If you think SquareSoft, Capcom, Konami & Activision etc. would have somehow mysteriously gone belly up without Sony entering the video game market, then you have some pretty heavy blinders on and I don't know what to tell you.   

NES without a doubt.
2nd place...deffinately ps1...

The one that single-handedly brought a whole industry back from the dead.

The Nintendo Entertainment System.

Mega disagree with the Wii 

first wnd foremost the Wii topped at 100 million.....

secoundly the ps1 was the one to change how we view gaming, as it was the system to draw in a mature audience to gaming.... games stopped being for 5-9 year olds who wante mario.

1. Nes 

2. Ps1 definitely 

If there was no NES. There would be no market for PlayStation to enter in the first place.
The PS1 was above and beyond the best selling system of all-time at that point, but it didn't save the market from anything.
The numbers you provided just proves my point that the market was already as big and as popular as it had been at that point, and still growing when Sony decided to throw their hat in the ring.

Yeah, cause no games older gamers could enjoy showed up on the SNES.  Other than Street Fighter.  And Mortal Kombat.  And Chrono Trigger.  And Final Fantasy IV through VI.  And Secret of Mana.  And Super Castlevania IV.  And many, many others.  Gaming had already begun offering games for all ages, including older ones, in the 4th gen.  All that changed with the PS1 was it pulled in some more people and those who had gamed before had gotten older cause that's how time works.  And it's not like it was super hard core adult gaming times with the PS1, lest we forget some of its young audience oriented pillars like Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon.  And it's not like the N64 didn't also have games oriented towards adults, like Golden Eye, Perfect Dark, even freaking Doom.  PS1 didn't raise the gamer age, that was mostly just the passage of time and developers choosing to go that route.

Oh and the Wii not outselling the PS2 doesn't mean that it didn't reach millions outside the traditional market.  Lest you forget the market exploded from 202 million in Gen 6 to 260 million in Gen 7 and that's just home consoles.  The Wii pulled in millions who had never gamed seriously before or hadn't in decades.  DS did the same thing.

PS1 topped at 100 million as well! What's your point? You can't deny the Wii was one of the consoles that changed the gaming industry the most. It brought us motion controls, which is used in a variety of games until today, including VR. With the PS1 games stopped being for kids, with the Wii gaming stopped being for male teenagers and was suddenly something your mom and grandma cared about and all the other non-gamers. A lot of these are still playing games today, primarily on their smart-devices.

Simple:

The largest contrast in home console gaming was Pre-NES and Post-NES

The largest contrast in handheld console gaming was Pre-Game Boy and Post-Game Boy

The largest contrast in computer gaming was Pre-Windows and Post-Windows

The largest contrast in cellphone gaming was Pre-iPhone and Post-iPhone

Each easily the most influential in their respective platform arenas, causing the most change, causing the most contrast of before they existed and after they existed.

It did save gaming in terms of where it was headed and it would have died with nintendo running the ship eventually. People did not realize how much video games could sell until playstation consoles came around. The market was stagnant in comparison to what it could do. Alot of 3rd party sales were generated from playstation console sales. You damn well know that no nintendo console can push the kind of 3rd party game sales a playstation console can. Nintendo carries no weight with 3rd parties because they know that most of their games won't sell that well.

What would happened to a lot of 3rd party devs if they never had those kind of sales? Would they have created some of the games they did? Who really knows but to act like it would have been business as usual without playstation consoles around. lol That's absurd. More than likely, the bulk of third party devs would have went to the pc market and told nintendo to eat it's shorts. If ms still entered the market when it did, the devs would have put games on that console along with pc. 

If you disagree with me, by all means have at it.  This is nintendo fan forum and I never expected anything different from a nintendo console being the favorite choice or that I would catch some flak for saying something opposed to the  group think. I don't really give a shit what nintendo fans think of the best console or best games or what is the most influential console is. We're going to agree to disagree on that stuff and that's that.