Best console that didn't win it's generation

[S.Peelman]

At the last dozen or so posts;

I took this thread question as relative to a gen’s winner; so which non-winner was best relative to it’s winner. That means that more people found GameCube better than PS2 than people found N64 better than PS1. This wouldn’t say anything about whether or not they’d find GameCube better than N64, because they can think that PS1 is better than PS2.

But curl is the thread started so maybe his idea with this question was a little more absolute after all, in which case I’d say yeah N64 no contest.