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Which is the most important console ever?

Atari 2600 119 6.86%
 
NES 806 46.48%
 
SNES 109 6.29%
 
Sega Genesis 25 1.44%
 
N64 54 3.11%
 
PSX 303 17.47%
 
XBox 14 0.81%
 
PS2 225 12.98%
 
XB360 20 1.15%
 
Other - please explain 59 3.40%
 
Total:1,734
superchunk on 12 July 2017
nanarchy said:
superchunk said:
Anyone not voting NES has no clue about the history of gaming.
Anyone voting PS(anything) is clearly aging themselves on when they started gaming.

Even other game devs point to one company and one specific point / console.

 

anyone that thinks in absolute terms of it being a specific console with no other possible answers has no idea about gaming history as you could easily argue for any of the 3 consoles. the Magnavox, the Atari 2600 and the NES (I had them all), of those I would put the Atari 2600 first and the NES 3rd simply because without the Atari 2600 success their may not have even been a NES and while the Magnavox was revolutionarily it didn't have the mass market success of the 2600. I will agree on anyone voting for PS(anything) or Xbox (anything) obviously has zero knowledge of console history

lol I thought you were going to make a sith joke out of hte absolute terms comment.

The simplicity that NES literally resurrected and is the foundation of modern console gaming is the clear reason it is the most significant. I would suggest Magnavox wasn't anywhere near revolutionary. Yes it was the first "console" but I'd argue NES's resurrection and definition of what a console really should be/have and be controlled by is greater. Atari 2600, while commercially successfull, also brought upon the distruction of console gaming.



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lombrico on 12 July 2017

there isn't Wii, this list is not serious 

the most significant console don't exist, all generetation is importat, excpet the last one (PS4,XO, and 3DS, Switch, Vita)



Pyro as Bill on 12 July 2017

PS1 (Europe) - 37m

Game Boy (Europe) - 40m

The only systems that brought people in from outside the typical gamer demographic were Wii and DS.



Nov 2016 - NES outsells PS1 (JP)

Don't Play Stationary 4 ever. Switch!

Seventizz on 12 July 2017

Xbox. No console prior to its debut was as feature rich and consumer focused than the OG Xbox. I own every console up there except the Sega Genesis and a PS1, but the Xbox allowed me to make a soundtrack of anything I had on CD, do away with pesky memory cards/battery backup, and introduced me to online gaming which is still my choice of how I game.

Oh, and the software including superior multiplats made it my favourite console of all time.



dahuman on 12 July 2017

NES, or Famicon, whichever, no contest.



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Wyrdness on 13 July 2017
Kai_Mao said:
Ruler said:

Those are Handhelds

That doesn't mean that they didn't have an influence for the future. Plus handhelds are consoles regardless, even if they aren't "home consoles."

You know I kind of agree, with the Switch having a hybrid form factor Game and Watch and Gameboy would have to factor in now as the market has influence a home system which in future have an effect on console history from now on.



Chris Hu on 13 July 2017
Aeolus451 said:
Chris Hu said:

Nope none of the games you listed are first party.  Also Captain Planet is not even a Genesis game its a NES game.

Who gives a shit whether it's first party or third party games, It doesn't matter which one it is in the context of our disagreement.  The games are still on the console either way and are considered a part of the console's library. 

As for Captian Planet...

Looks like you're wrong again.

So what that game must be super rare since that version isn't mentioned on the games wiki page.  Anyway all the games you mentioned where obscure and like I said before all of them are third party and none of them had any kind of sigificant marketing.  Like I said before the only game that actually sold well and had a lot of marketing aimed at kids was Sonic The Hedgehog but the majority of all Genesis first party games where marked at teens and older folks not kids.  The SNES on the other hand had a lot more games aimed at kids and a ton of first party games for kids and most of the advertising by Nintendo was actually aimed at kids.  And even if all that weren't true the PS1 was still not the first console mainly aimed at adults that would be the NEO GEO none of its games where aimed at kids and with a launch price of $649.99 and games going for over $100 dollars pretty much no kid could afford one unless they where born with a silver spoon in their mouth.



S.T.A.G.E. on 13 July 2017

nes.... PlayStation is responsible for the scope of the industry in the new millennia.



Aeolus451 on 13 July 2017
Chris Hu said:
Aeolus451 said:

Who gives a shit whether it's first party or third party games, It doesn't matter which one it is in the context of our disagreement.  The games are still on the console either way and are considered a part of the console's library. 

As for Captian Planet...

Looks like you're wrong again.

So what that game must be super rare since that version isn't mentioned on the games wiki page.  Anyway all the games you mentioned where obscure and like I said before all of them are third party and none of them had any kind of sigificant marketing.  Like I said before the only game that actually sold well and had a lot of marketing aimed at kids was Sonic The Hedgehog but the majority of all Genesis first party games where marked at teens and older folks not kids.  The SNES on the other hand had a lot more games aimed at kids and a ton of first party games for kids and most of the advertising by Nintendo was actually aimed at kids.  And even if all that weren't true the PS1 was still not the first console mainly aimed at adults that would be the NEO GEO none of its games where aimed at kids and with a launch price of $649.99 and games going for over $100 dollars pretty much no kid could afford one unless they where born with a silver spoon in their mouth.

This is basically what you're doing.



Chris Hu on 13 July 2017
Aeolus451 said:
Chris Hu said:

So what that game must be super rare since that version isn't mentioned on the games wiki page.  Anyway all the games you mentioned where obscure and like I said before all of them are third party and none of them had any kind of sigificant marketing.  Like I said before the only game that actually sold well and had a lot of marketing aimed at kids was Sonic The Hedgehog but the majority of all Genesis first party games where marked at teens and older folks not kids.  The SNES on the other hand had a lot more games aimed at kids and a ton of first party games for kids and most of the advertising by Nintendo was actually aimed at kids.  And even if all that weren't true the PS1 was still not the first console mainly aimed at adults that would be the NEO GEO none of its games where aimed at kids and with a launch price of $649.99 and games going for over $100 dollars pretty much no kid could afford one unless they where born with a silver spoon in their mouth.

This is basically what you're doing.

Nope I'm just telling it like it is.