Which is the most significant (important) console in history?

[PAOerfulone]

Conina said:

PAOerfulone said:

No NES? Guess what:

No Mario.
No Zelda.
No Final Fantasy.
No Dragon Quest.
No Castlevania.
No Metroid.
No Sonic.
No Crash.
No Pokemon.
No Halo.
No Call of Duty.
No Uncharted.
No Last of Us.

Why no Mario without NES? The Mario series was started in 1983 on Arcade, not on the NES. And as almost any popular Arcade franchise, it was ported to a lot of home systems, f.e. Atari 2600 in 1983 and Apple 2 in 1984. And the same goes for Donkey Kong.

So even if Nintendo had decided to not enter the home console hardware business, they probably still would have made a lot of games for Arcades and later for other home systems.

Why no Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest without NES? Most RPG games weren't suited to Arcades due to their longer playtime and more complex gameplay... but if Nintendo had decided to not enter the home console hardware business, Square + Enix would have released these games on other popular systems, f.e. MSX, FM-7, C-64 and home consoles which would have filled the vacuum instead of the NES.

Why no Call of Duty and Halo? These genres were born on powerful PCs. The first CoD was launched for PC and Halo was planned for Mac.

Just a few examples... most games would have been developed even without the NES.

Mario would not have been anywhere near as big if there were no NES. And if Nintendo weren't making any hardware, no SNES, no N64, no GameCube, no Wii, no GameBoy (and no Pokemon), no DS, nada. Which goes back to my main point the gaming landscape as you know it would not be here. 

And the NES is directly responsible for leading the birth and growth of the video game console market in Japan. And guess where Finan Fantasy and Dragon Quest found their popularity and established their presense? Japan. No NES, I don't think that happens. And those franchises wouldn't be around. 

A lot of what we have today, , the NES is responsible for opening the door to make those things a possibility.