Best console from 2023

[Shtinamin_]

Pinkie_pie said:

Shtinamin_ said:

calm down. why are you putting words in smroadkill15's mouth. that isnt what was said.

This thread is to vote for the best console of 2023.
This is NOT a popularity contest and if you thought it was you are wrong.
People have preferences, and I want to understand why, but when the facts arrive, there is no denying. That doesnt mean a company is garbage, no it just means they had a slump year in their video game career.

If you want it to be about 1st Party games, then you think it is. But we are trying to look at the year as a whole, 1st Party, 3rd Party, exclusives, numbers, better designed console iteration, most active users, most awards, better trailers, etc... Hopefully you get the picture. I dont know why you are so confused about this thread, the title says it all. What was the best? And why?

Videogames preference is subjective and that is why there are the Game Awards, the Japan Game Awards, DICE awards, Game Developers Choice awards, british academy games awards, and why VGChartz is publishing "Best ______ game" articles. Preferences have subjectivity but to determine the best game requires objectivity, the same logic applies to the best console of 2023.

And that's totally fine that Nintendo games aren't your "cup of tea". I personally dont like FPS, most cause I'm bad at them and get wrecked like a noob lol. But I see that there were some highly accredited FPS games, Counter-Strike 2 on Steam Deck, Quake II on all major systems, etc. And I also heard that COD had trouble and wasn't the best of the series.

Ok, so you choose PS5, why? Is the only reason because of the 3rd party games, and the 7 Sony published games. Or were you also viewing that they released the most consoles this year, PS5 Slim, PS5 Slim Digital. or were you looking at the most subscription users. or something else I missed.

Try reading my previous post again. I only play on PS5 and Switch and PS5 for me had more games I liked and enjoyed more last year. Not all Nintendo's 1st party games interest me. Only played TotK, Mario RPG and Wonder. I enjoyed all of them but there were also more games on PS5 I enjoyed just as much last year. I don't play much 3rd party games on switch. Only one I remember playing last year was cassette beasts. I mainly only play 3rd party games on PS5 because most of them don't come to switch, get delayed or just inferior. I wasn't putting words into his mouth. He didn't play any games on switch. He voted for switch because of that the critic reception. I just find it weird since he played all his games on Xbox 

Cool, honestly I dont care what you play on or what anyone plays on. I dont care what games you've played or games you havent played. It does help to see which console did better when you are able to look at all of them with an unbiased opinion.
I'm glad you enjoyed the PS5 this year and got lots of enjoyment in their 1st party and 3rd party. 

What critic reception are you talking about?
One of the reason he voted for it because he said "I think it [the decision to vote for Switch being the being console of 2023] was the best based on 1st party output. I don't need to play those games to see the reception they received. I follow gaming news regularly so I don't think it's weird to consider something I don't play to be objectively the best".
He is a well educated person in the gaming community, and knows when something is good. He can take facts and weigh them without bias (at least that how I understand from his response he gave you).

I think it's awesome that he plays on Xbox, I personally think they have the better subscription plan out of the three major consoles, but I have been out of the loop for subscriptions plans for over a couple years so my opinion might not be accurate.