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dunno001 on 08 May 2010
Siko1989 said:
dirkd2323 said:
Hell no I disagree, No PS2 the first console to bring DVD format to really take off, first console to run a 10 year life span, The top sales of any console, most games, This is simply MADNESS, PS2 has to be on this list, take the 360 off, put PS2 in, 360 should be in there , also take that magnavox off,

1- Atari 2600
2- NES reg nintendo
3-Super Nintendo
4- PS1
5- PS2
6- 360 and PS3

PS3 brought another top disc out to great sales, and take off, Blu ray.
360 for bringing the best online play out first.

This is a real list.

acturally the Atari 2600 was the first to run at a 10 year lifespan... Atari 2600 had the longest lifespan then any video game console

While true that the 2600 was the first to break 10 years (Oct. 1977-Jan 1992 according to Wikipedia), it was not the longest. That record goes to the Japanese Famicom, at a touch over 20 years (July 1983-Sept. 2003).



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RareglovE on 08 May 2010

this should have been one of the six



AngelosL on 08 May 2010

SNES should be on that list.... So many AAA titles in that console.



Stefl1504 on 08 May 2010

I can't disagree with the list if I don't want to be fanboy... but since I am one just put the XBox 360 of the list and add the Dreamcast - for beeing the first console with online support at all! I don't really know about any SEGA consoles because I only owned the Saturn... so I can't say if any other SEGA console was more influential.



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Grey21 on 08 May 2010

I think the PS2 deserves some place aswell for being the first console to really appeal to mainstream consumers and with that open up a new market that the Wii could succesfully expand.

The 360 defintly deserves its spot aswell, Microsoft's present had its impact on both Sony and Nintendo and with that gaming in general. It brought FPS and WRPG to the consoles and with it different kind of gamers that normally played on the PC. Add Xbox Live and small things like gamerscores and bringing RTS gaming to consoles and I'd say it definatly changed the platform nature that consolegaming had before the xbox.



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kiefer23 on 08 May 2010
Bamboleo said:
I agree with the list but I'd put Commodore64 instead of magnavox and Xbox1 instead of X360.


Why the Xbox 1?

The Xbox 360 has done everything bigger and better.



ImJustBayuum on 08 May 2010

Wii - without a question
360 - online gaming is a huge feature of current gens

PS3 didnt have anything significant that impacts the gaming industry.

dunno001 on 08 May 2010
Stefl1504 said:
I can't disagree with the list if I don't want to be fanboy... but since I am one just put the XBox 360 of the list and add the Dreamcast - for beeing the first console with online support at all! I don't really know about any SEGA consoles because I only owned the Saturn... so I can't say if any other SEGA console was more influential.

Not quite. I knew there were modem-type devices for the NES and SNES, but a bit of digging revealed others, including the Genesis Sega Channel (which later was bought by AT&T, and led to their broadband access network), the Intellivision's PlayCable, or the Atari 2600's GameLine. All of these predate the Dreamcast, though none of them did online gaming. The winner for online gaming goes to the unlicensed TelePlay Modem from 1992. I do believe that Dreamcast was the first to have the modem built in to the system, though...



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Stefl1504 on 08 May 2010
dunno001 said:
Stefl1504 said:
I can't disagree with the list if I don't want to be fanboy... but since I am one just put the XBox 360 of the list and add the Dreamcast - for beeing the first console with online support at all! I don't really know about any SEGA consoles because I only owned the Saturn... so I can't say if any other SEGA console was more influential.

Not quite. I knew there were modem-type devices for the NES and SNES, but a bit of digging revealed others, including the Genesis Sega Channel (which later was bought by AT&T, and led to their broadband access network), the Intellivision's PlayCable, or the Atari 2600's GameLine. All of these predate the Dreamcast, though none of them did online gaming. The winner for online gaming goes to the unlicensed TelePlay Modem from 1992. I do believe that Dreamcast was the first to have the modem built in to the system, though...

Like I said... I did not own it and I often heard that it was the first console to implement online gaming, sorry for the mistake. I knew there were System Links before (like Gameboy) so I thought that what was available for NES and SNES also was System Link like. As Ataris are way before my Generation (1993 I played Console games for the first time), I don't know much about them and sometimes I ignore them without wanting.



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FF_Fanatic on 08 May 2010

my list goes as follows
1.ps1
2.ps3
3.ps2
4.wii
5.n64
6.dreamcast