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Cerebralbore101 on 09 March 2021
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Wman1996 said:
Cerebralbore101 said:

This is coming from the standpoint of a collector.

PS2, SNES, and Genesis are all S tier consoles for having large libraries that hold up well today. You can easily build a 75+ game collection on any of these three consoles, using only games that have aged well.Backwards compatibility on the PS2 earns it bonus points.

A lot of people underestimate the Genesis/Megadrive, but that system has more "hidden gems" than most people know. I say hidden gems with quotation marks, because the retro gaming community knows about these games already. They are only hidden to modern gamers. Gaiares, Crusader of Centy, MUSHA, Bloodlines, Vapor Trail, X-Men 2, etc. are all amazing Genesis games that few people talk about outside of retro gaming circles. Genesis games are fairly easy to find CIB, so it gets bonus points for that.

Next up we have the NES sitting firmly in the A tier. I'd say there's about 50 worthwhile games on the NES. PS4 and Switch are both potential S tier consoles, but both are too new to tell at the moment. Maybe after another 5 to 10 years these systems will join the S tier ranks.

PS3, Wii, and Gamecube all sit in the B tier. Wii and Gamecube are both good systems with small but unique libraries. PS3 would be A tier, but far too many games run poorly on it. In fact, 360/PS3 both run somewhat modern games terribly. PS3/360 games are constantly getting remasters, and remakes. A lot of them wind up on the Switch to boot. Since Switch is cart based, and already a much better console than PS3/360, it is starting to eat away at the library of worthwhile PS3/360 games.

PS1, N64, and Xbox have all been rendered completely obsolete by much better consoles. PS1 is irrelevant thanks to PS2's backwards compatibility The only games that aged well on PS1 were 2D games and RPGs. Most N64 games have much better versions on other systems. N64 Zelda games play better on 3DS for example. And no, I'm not talking about a simple resolution bump. Most OG Xbox games are played better somewhere else, and the OG Xbox has very few exclusives even for its heyday.

Saturn, Dreamcast, and Master system all get ranks of D for being systems with very small and expensive libraries.

XB1 and Wii U both get a grade of F for being completely irrelevant from a collector's standpoint. Virtually every good XB1 game is on PS4. Same goes for Wii U's games being on Switch. With the D tier, I could at least find 10 worthwhile games, that are unique to the system. These two stinkers though? Both are best left to the dustbin of history.

Interesting choices. So do you think Series S/X are F-tier if you were to play them? There doesn't look like they'll be any exclusives. Every game on it is also available on Windows, and some will still be on Xbox One for the foreseeable future as well. 

And do you think Wii U used to be C or D tier? Pikmin 3, Super Mario 3D World and some other first-party games were still exclusive to the Wii U for 2 or more years after the Switch launched.

I own a PC, so I don't think playing Series S/X will change my opinion of them. PS5 also has potential to be F tier. That depends on whether or not Sony will release all PS5 exclusives to PC or not. I buy consoles based on whether or not I need them to play games on the hardware they were intended for. If Sony and MS put all their games on PC, then there's no need for me to buy their consoles, which puts them in F tier. I do feel like there should be an additional tier below F though. Something like E tier. That would be reserved for consoles that absolutely bombed, like Jaguar, or 3DO. Now, someone might ask why I just don't move everything else up a tier? After all, that would make room for Jaguar and 3DO at the bottom right? Well then, I'd have to move NES, Switch, and PS4 up to S tier to make room. But I don't believe those consoles are the best of the best. At least not yet. And then I'd have to take everything from B tier and move it up to A tier to make room too. Et Cetera.

Yeah, I think Wii U used to be C tier (and even that is pushing it). I could see somebody ranking Wii U as D tier back in its heyday. That would be a very rational ranking for Wii U.