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

[Nuvendil]

Ganoncrotch said:

Nuvendil said:

The 360 was the mkre successful one, but it was Halo 2 and the CoDs on Xbox that started it, with pro tournaments showing up and such.  I mean, despite losing the console war by a huge margin, it took a novelty idea in console gaming and made it into a standard come Gen 7.  

You must know that the dreamcast shipped with a modem installed from day 1? The Xbox was not the first platform to start online play.

Being first doesn't always equate to being the most influential in am area.  As I said in the very next sentence, online gaming was a novelty type concept on consoles, not much used or talked about except in a small handful of games.  And the Dreamcast wasn't the first attempt either.  The Famicom modem, the Sega Net Work System, the Sega Channel, the Xband, the Sega Net Link, the Apple Pippin, the N64DD, all these were attempts dating back to the 3rd Gen to bring online gaming of some form to consoles.  And all failed, all forgotten, all merely novel ideas.  It was the Xbox that changed that, that made online gaming a necessity.  The clearist indicator is the behavior of the market.  The Dreamcast launched before the GC or PS2 with its online functionality, yet neither of those two competitors bothered to have online functionality at launch.   The Xbox comes along with its online functionality and the games that take advantage of it and very shortly afterwards both competitors are playing catch up to them in that area and the next generation comes along and all consoles have built in online functionality.