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

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Arminillo said:

Chris Hu said:

Yes they did.  2D fighting games first became popular during the 4th generation those wheren't meant for kids.  Also the Genesis popularised sports games on consoles those wheren't meant for kids.  Also during the 4h generation you saw the introduction of the Videogame Rating Council which would have been completely unecessary if all the games during that period where kid friendly and aimed at kids.  Plus the the two attachments for the Genesis the Sega CD and 32X wheren't aimed at kids.

I think it is more proper to say that the PS1 was the first console to have the consumer mindshare consider it to be more than a toy. Which is more a marketing change than any actual change in the industry.

i strongly believe that was just a natural progression of where the market was already heading and had little to do with PS1 itself.

Kids who gamed on NES in the 80s were becoming teens/young adults in the 90s so naturally developers/publishers were going to create games to appeal to these age groups.