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Nuvendil on 10 July 2017
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leo-j said:
Vinther1991 said:

1. NES (Basicly shaping the industry as we know it, both on a business level and technology level)
2. Wii (Introduced gaming to a whole new market, changed gaming from being for nerds, to being for everybody. Gaming on smart devices might not exist to the extent it does today, had it not been for the Wii and DS. Introduced new types of experiences for gaming)
3. Gameboy (Created the handheld market)
4. Nintendo DS (Did the same as the Wii. Introduced touch screen for handheld gaming)
5. Sony Playstation (Had a big influence on the industry as a whole and the types of games we see today)
6. Atari 2600 (Introduced a lot of things to the gaming industry, though I don't think it's impact was as lasting as for some of the others)
7. Microsoft Xbox (Set the blueprint for the hardware architechture we see in current consoles, attracted PC-only developers to consoles and made the first truly successful online service)
8. Sega Genesis (Influenced the marketing stragegies of the industry a lot)
9. Nintendo 64 (Introduced a lot of assets of the modern controller and had some of the most influential 3D games)
10. Sony Playstation 2 (Was the first to push consoles as a multimedia device)

Mega disagree with the Wii 

 

first wnd foremost the Wii topped at 100 million.....

 

secoundly the ps1 was the one to change how we view gaming, as it was the system to draw in a mature audience to gaming.... games stopped being for 5-9 year olds who wante mario.

 

1. Nes 

2. Ps1 definitely 

Yeah, cause no games older gamers could enjoy showed up on the SNES.  Other than Street Fighter.  And Mortal Kombat.  And Chrono Trigger.  And Final Fantasy IV through VI.  And Secret of Mana.  And Super Castlevania IV.  And many, many others.  Gaming had already begun offering games for all ages, including older ones, in the 4th gen.  All that changed with the PS1 was it pulled in some more people and those who had gamed before had gotten older cause that's how time works.  And it's not like it was super hard core adult gaming times with the PS1, lest we forget some of its young audience oriented pillars like Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon.  And it's not like the N64 didn't also have games oriented towards adults, like Golden Eye, Perfect Dark, even freaking Doom.  PS1 didn't raise the gamer age, that was mostly just the passage of time and developers choosing to go that route.

 

Oh and the Wii not outselling the PS2 doesn't mean that it didn't reach millions outside the traditional market.  Lest you forget the market exploded from 202 million in Gen 6 to 260 million in Gen 7 and that's just home consoles.  The Wii pulled in millions who had never gamed seriously before or hadn't in decades.  DS did the same thing.