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MS - Original Xbox: This was when I was still pretty much exclusively Nintendo with a bit of PC and Sega so I'm probably a bit biased there, but even in hindsight the console never had many redeemable qualities to me. It's big and bulky, as is its original controller. There weren't a ton of games on it that interested me, especially in the exclusives department. And the Xbox line's coup de gras, XBL, had yet to be really fleshed out anyway. MS boasted having the most powerful console for the time, but the GameCube's power was actually somewhat comparable and the graphics were similar. 

Sony - PS3: Never much of a Sony fan in general but the PS3 is probably the height of the bombastic cinematic style of games which aren't typically my cup of tea. Not that it's a bad console, but most of its notable games for me I was able to play on Xbox 360 anyway. It also came with a rough pricetag for the majority of its life. 

Nintendo - Wii U: Console tried to hinge on the success of the Wii with the branding but its library contained a lot of obscure games that were more reminiscent of the GameCube library, many of which were just tough to get into. I was never fond of the bulky, cheap looking and feeling gamepad controller and the "miiverse" thing, which just made getting to your game unnecessarily long and cumbersome. It had very few games that interested me and most of the good ones are now on Switch in some form anyway.



 

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Rafie said:
curl-6 said:

In the US sure, but there's a whole wide world outside the United States. The majority of the world's population and the console market is outside the US.

Sir I said the US. Quite a few times in my last statement. That was my point about popularity. Even when Koreans and Japanese played their fighting games...it was on the 360. The marketshare in the US is just as large as Japan. It's what helped the 360 beat the PS3 for many years. I'm not trying to a stand for the 360. I'm just pointing out that in one of the 3 largest gaming marketshares...the 360 was top dog. I'm well aware of the world's population being larger outside of the US. No need to take a silent jab at me there.

No jab was intended, my apologies if one was perceived. Yeah, 360 did come out on top in America last gen. But as has been an ongoing problem for the Xbox brand, that's about the only region where it can really challenge the competition, with both Wii and PS3 having a stronger presence in Europe, Japan, and the rest of the world.



Chris Hu said:
Pok87 said:
Wii - poor graphics
PS3 - first years was bad (high price, online, DualShock 2, exclusives)
Xbox One - weaker than ps4, few good exclusives games

I think you mean the Sixaxis the DualShock 2 was the default and only official controller for the PS2.

Yes, you're right.



I think for me it's been...

For Microsoft: The original Xbox. There were very few games, and even fewer exclusives, that I found appealing released for it.

For Nintendo: The Wii. I didn't much care for the Wii U either, but the Wii in particular was clearly a system mainly for more casual gamers, which I am not. Despite its large volume of system exclusive releases, I revisit only the smallest handful of Wii games today.

For Sony: This is a tough one because I've actually really liked all of Sony's PlayStation home consoles. While part of me wants to penalize the PlayStation 3 for the initial few years wherein it cost $600, had almost no exclusive games, and boasted a horribly unaesthetic standard controller that didn't even have a rumble feature (which had become standard by then), at the end of the day I feel like they made up the difference from 2009-13 with a price cut, the revival of the Dual Shock controller design, and quite a lot of system-exclusive releases that included a number of my all-time favorite games (such as The Last of Us and Heavy Rain). THEREFORE, I will have to narrowly conclude that the original PlayStation is the Sony home console I like the least, if only because it has the smallest number of games that I revisit today. But that's still a lot.



If I was to include Sega as one of the past "big 3" as others have done, I guess I'd go with the Master System; I've never even played one but like the NES it comes from an era that I don't think has aged well.



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I'd have to put the Master System as my least favorite Sega console. A lot of its games looked prettier than the NES, but they weren't anywhere near as memorable. Even Phantasy Star, the best Master System game I've played, I didn't enjoy as much as Dragon (Quest) Warrior III and IV on NES.



CaptainExplosion said:

Microsoft: Xbox 360, because it killed Perfect Dark and Banjo-Kazooie.

Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts was my first Banjo game. I thought it was pretty good.



CaptainExplosion said:

Microsoft: Xbox 360, because it killed Perfect Dark and Banjo-Kazooie.

Sony: PS2, because it's the most overrated PlayStation system.

Nintendo: Wii U, because it had so much potential and threw it all out.

I try not to think about what the 360 did to Banjo. :( At the end of the day though, it had so many excellent games that I can overlook this one atrocity, kinda like how I overlook Metroid Other M when it comes to my love for the Wii.

And yeah, PS2 never did anything for me either.