novasonic said:
Thought you guys might find this interesting. I left out the super fail consoles. I did this off memory, so correct me if there's any mistakes. Each gen is ordered from weakest to strongest.
| 1st Gen |
I'm not sure about the exact specs |
| 2nd Gen |
2600 |
Atari |
Highest Selling |
| |
Intellivision |
Mattel |
|
| |
ColecoVision |
Coleco |
|
| |
5200 |
Atari |
Lowest Selling (I think) |
| 3rd Gen |
NES |
Nintendo |
Highest Selling |
| |
7800 |
Atari |
Lowest Selling |
| |
Master System |
Sega |
|
| 4th Gen |
TurboGrafx 16 |
NEC |
|
| |
Genesis |
Sega |
|
| |
SNES |
Nintendo |
Highest Selling |
| |
Neo Geo |
SNK |
Lowest Selling |
| 5th Gen |
Jaguar |
Atari |
Lowest Selling |
| |
3DO |
3DO Company |
|
| |
Playstation |
Sony |
Highest Selling |
| |
Saturn |
Sega |
|
| |
N64 |
Nintendo |
|
| 6th Gen |
Dreamcast |
Sega |
Lowest Selling |
| |
PS2 |
Sony |
Highest Selling |
| |
Gamecube |
Nintendo |
|
| |
Xbox |
Microsoft |
|
| 7th Gen |
Wii |
Nintendo |
Highest Selling |
| |
Xbox 360 |
Microsoft |
Lowest Selling |
| |
PS3 |
Sony |
|
| 8th Gen |
Ouyu |
? Some guy |
Lowest Selling (yup) |
| |
WiiU |
Nintendo |
|
| |
Xbox One |
Microsoft |
|
| |
PS4 |
Sony |
|
Number of times the strongest console was the highest selling - 0
Number of times the weakest console was the highest selling - 3
Number of times the strongest console was the lowest selling - 2
Number of times the weakest console was the lowest selling - 3
Number of times the best selling console was somewhere in the middle - 3
I guess the moral of the story is that the power of the console has very little to do with how well it does.
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I'm a little unclear on which is which but my best guess would be:
Weakest console/highest selling - Atari 2600, NES, Wii
Strongest console/lowest selling - 5200, Neo Geo
Weakest console/lowest selling - Jaguar, Dreamcast, Ouya
intermediate/highest selling - SNES, PS1, PS2
If I'm wrong, could you clear up what you meant by the strongest/weakest consoles of each gen? I'm not sure if the 5200 should be considered a 2nd gen console either, but then again, I'd have no idea who it'd be between the other three. And I'm pretty sure the 7800 wouldn't have been able to deliver anything on an SMB3 scale.
