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curl-6 on 11 May 2026
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Chrkeller said:
curl-6 said:

Part of why those consoles were so dominant was that they didn't face the same level of entrenched competition or economic pressures we have today.

It's pretty much impossible for a console in the 2010s or 2020s to dominate the way say the NES did in the 80s, we just live in a completely different world today.

I think that is true with the atari and nes, but not ps2.  The ps2 had, in theory, competition.  But the ps2 simply decimated the GC and xbox.  The S1 has won it's generation, but it did not dominate the competition.  

My answer is still the ps2.  I think what the ps2 actually was, gets undersold here on VG.  

I'm not trying to change your mind or argue the PS2 didn't dominate.

Market circumstances were just different; take the PS4 for example, it had pretty much everything going for it, and both its main competitors shot themselves in the foot before the race even started, but it wasn't able to dominate to the extent that the PS2 did.

Between mobile gaming, the growing popularity of PC, people being increasingly tied to their chosen ecosystem, and later the economic turmoil of the 2020s, modern systems just generally have more to contend with older consoles did.