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That was probably my favorite overall generation. It offered great variety and, in the end, all three experienced success. Heck, even handhelds were wonderful with the DS and PSP.

In my ideal world that's how every gen would go.

And in response to ofrm1, the NES succeeded for reasons outside of just 3rd party dominance... They had a few "killer apps" in first party games as well. Any kid who saw Super Mario Bros in 1985 immediately wanted the system... You're certainly selling nintendo short.