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

[Mnementh]

Lawlight said:

Shadow1980 said:

The console market crashed in the U.S. only because the U.S. essentially was the console market in the early 80s. Consoles were irrelevant in Europe until PlayStation came along, and that first generation of cartridge-based consoles didn't arrive in Japan until 1982 (the Atari 2800, the 2600's Japanese counterpart, was actually launched after the NES was).

And it wasn't just a glut of bad video games (largely a consequence of a lack of publishing control by the console makers, though Atari-published 2600 titles like E.T. and Pac-Man contributed to the mess) that triggered the Crash of '83. It was a glut of hardware as well. But regardless of the causes, it showed that console games, a market still in its infancy, was something consumers could easily sour on and reject entirely en masse. At the time, one could easily characterize consoles as a fad, and many did just that (arcade revenues were declining rapidly at the time as well).

Another reason why the PS is the most significant console in history - busted open that PC stronghold that was Europe and the rest... well, Europe is not called Sonyland for nothing.

We already had Sega here, and Nintendo was resolving it's lawsuits with Atari which held them back conquering europe. It's not like the two ignored europe. They would've come without PS. But Sony was faster and used their established channels for other entertainment electronics like TV and walkmen.