So looking back, what was the best console last gen?

[elprincipe]

pearljammer said:

elprincipe said:

pearljammer said:

highwaystar101 said:

MontanaHatchet said:
The Playstation 2 was easily the best.

Any other choice is absurd.

How so?

 

I would have to agree with Montana. A RolStoppable mentioned, objetively, PS2 is the obvious choice ue to its sheer amount of great games that cover every genre. Simply put, while the GC had some great high quality games, the PS2 had MANY great high quality games.

Quantity + Quality > Quality

 

@those who are suprised by the results here: There are a lot of de-hard Nintendo fans here on VGchartz. Not being a huge Nin fan myself, I find it a somewhat refreshing escape from the chest beating comparisons between PS/XBox fanboys. Heh, i it weren't for this site. I'd probably never have given the Wii a second chance.

But there is no way of being objective when you talk about the "best" console. It is all opinion.

Fact: PS2 had the most games out of PS2/GCN/XBOX.

Fact: PS2 had the top-selling games out of PS2/GCN/XBOX.

Opinion: The best PS2 game is Adventures of Cookie & Cream.

Opinion: The best game of the last generation is Super Smash Bros. Melee.

Opinion: GameCube has more good games than PS2 or Xbox.

Opinion: GameCube is a better-designed console that offered more for the money than PS2 or Xbox.

Opinion: GameCube has a better controller than PS2/Xbox.

Opinion: GameCube is the best console last generation.

See what I mean?

Yes, I understand. Perhaps I should rephrase. If we were to see which console had the greatest amount of high accumulated scores we'd see that the PS2 would be the lead, by a large margin. I know, we could argue that reviews are inherently biased as no one is completely objective, but taking the larger sample helps remedy that. I really wasn't trying to say anyone who hasn't chosen the PS2 made an illogical choice. Maybe if I change my original comment to have quotations around the word 'objective'. No offense to any of the defiant ones

Oh,  none taken, of course.  I do take exception to a post above calling me and others insane for personal tastes in games, but that's not you.  I'm sure that person would also call me insane for prefering RC Pro Am to Gran Turismo whatever, but again that's neither here nor there.

Obviously I think we could all concede that PS2 was not only the best-selling console of the generation with the most highly reviewed games, but that most people would probably name PS2 as their favorite console of last generation.  That said, it seems a lot of people here, myself included, are not "most people."  Which is fine (great actually).