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

[monocle_layton]

RJ_Sizzle said:

monocle_layton said:
NES

any other console wouldn't even exist if it didn't save the gaming industry.

There were other consoles around at the time. Even Atari was still around after the great "crash". it's just the Famicom was imported, repurposed and came in at the right time to take off internationally. 

I'll say the most important console is the one that escewed cartridges as a format for discs, saving a ton of costs for devs who could put that money back into their games. The dawn of AAA development if you will. The second most important is the one that established online gaming to the masses as a norm.

NES+PS1 were both huge contributions. Nes for saving the US industry and PS1 for bringing a market in Europe and proving games can be mature too.