Which consoles had the most unrealized potential?

[NotStan]

Jereel Hunter said:

NotStan said:

I thought the original Xbox was pretty good for it's time in regards to the Live integration, on board hard drive storage etc. But agreed Dreamcast was one of a kind, but didn't catch on, even worse so than the original xbox.

I agree. and I feel like the Xbox started to realize it's potential at the end of it's life. Live started becoming popular, and it came out with a few really impressive games, graphically. (I always think of trying Ninja Gaiden.. it looked so good. In fact it was practically comparable to a lot of PS3 launch titles)

And that was only the tip of the iceberg, after the manufacturing was cut , I wonder what would have been the peak for the original Xbox, taking into account that PS2 hasn't peaked at least until FF12, as many people claim. Overall I think 360 is more of a bigger brother of the original Xbox, with the improvements taken into account on the things that the original excelled at.