GameCube. Incredibly small and portable controllers, handle makes the GameCube easy to move around, smaller discs allow for a smaller device, ability to attach Gameboy reader on the bottom to play those games on the big screen, the best buttons I've ever pushed on a console (so smooth and they had that satisfying soft click sound after pushing them).

IT'S FUCKING BEAUTIFUL!

The Wii is the only console I've just sat and watched for a long period of time because something about the blue light entertained me

and I was high.

SNES

The Switch if you go for functionality, versatility. For durability though, it has to be the SNES, that thing was unkillable.

Not true. Mine was partially destroyed by a magma explosion in my cottage on the main crater of Mt. Etna. After we recovered it from the lava flows the on lever didn't quite work as well.

Pretty much summed up all I was going to say.

But I have to give a honourable mention to my close second the Gameboy Advance SP I found to have such great build quality with a small sleek design that fit well into your pocket which is everything I wanted on a Handheld and I don't think any other Handheld has gone close to it since.

I think NES, MMC chips aside, doesn't get the credit it deserves for devs squeezing an awful lot of power out of hardware that technically released in 1983. I think the SNES was a bit of a powerhouse in its day, even without things like the FX chip.

But I think, for its gen, the N64 was actually quite powerful hardware. For its time, it was capable of things Saturn and PS1 just couldn't do, which is why you say games on it like OoT, Banjo-Kazooie, Turok 2, etc. doing things the competition couldn't really match. It was merely the cart format that held the system back. And mind you, I liked that they stuck with carts at the time: low loading times, more durable format, nostalgia of growing up with carts. I liked, in a way, that it was the last home cartridge based system. That was pretty neat. But, at the same time, I also realize that, to a very large degree, not going with CDs cost Nintendo too. If N64 had been a CD based console, in my mind there's a strong chance it could have been the #1 system of its gen again. As it is, N64 still had some of the top, most popular games of any system that gen, especially when it came to multiplayer. And it isn't as if, especially early on, as if the PS1 took off because of first party Sony games. PS1 rose to power on the strength of games like Symphony of the Night, Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Tekken, Ridge Racer, Need For Speed, Final Fantasy VII, ports of Capcom arcade fighters, etc. Many of which certainly would have been ported N64, some even possibly exclusive, if not for the cart format. Alas. Still a great system for its day.

Switch is my main favorite Nintendo system of all time, i can't describe much, this little hybrid device does have multiple DNAs from the old Nintendo consoles, like... man, it's too much talk about in my opinion, i'll give you one thing about myself. Remember when you play Super Mario Odyssey and HD rumble helped you to find secrets? This actually reminded me of Stone of Agony from Ocarina of Time when the rumble pak for the N64 reacts to nearby secrets. Ahh good old days.

It sort of would have to be the Switch wouldn't it? It does basically everything Nintendo's older consoles can do, with the exception of some of the Wii U's stuff (at least not without the use of multiple switch's), the 3DS's 3D mode, and some of the more niche features (microphone on DS and cameras on DSi/3DS/WiiU). It also has the best graphics of the lot so I can't really see an argument for anything else.

Pretty much all of the stuff the Switch can’t do are unimportant features... except for proper IR aiming, that’s missed in some games. If RE4 would have had motion aiming on Switch, I’d have replaced my Wii version with that one.