Odd to see a list without the PS2 (I know PS1 did set the Sony stall out, but heck the PS2 is the daddy of all consoles so far) also, wouldn't it be more accurate to put the Xbox with regards to online? It really started there, the 360 just saw the evolution of the service but the online console revolution really started with the Xbox I'd say and Halo 2.

I disagree with the list

Odessy did nouthing really. It was first yes, But it didn't make games a big hit.If I'm correct it sold less than a million. Remeber "it does not matter who did it first its the one who did it first right"

360 put online on the map though aside from that it did nouthing else. Also online was on PCs before. So nouthing special really

So N64 should replace odessy. Though I don't know what to replace the 360 with

IMHO, by order of appearance:

NES>GB>SNES>PSX>PS2>WII

I would also add DS.

I'd make it into a top 6 and take wii and 360 out.

If you get rid of the 360 I'd agree with the list.

They should mad it 5 Most Important Consoles anyway. 5 is a better number than 6. Everyone knows that.

I think the list fails without the GameBoy and the Nintendo DS..

People never read the criteria of a selection in a list, its more fun to just blast it without thinking why they came to those conclusions.

I'd agree with putting Xbox over 360, as it basically set the stage for a lot of industry shifts and changes.  Chiefly among them being the focus on online play and services (XBL), internal rewritable storage (HDD), and I think you can credit 360 with really being the starting point for the PC development community starting their shift to console support (Valve, Bioware, etc).  360's significantly advanced most of that, but Xbox more pioneered it.

I would also be fine with Genesis being the 6th console instead of 360.  Sega basically wrote the rulebook in terms of marketing and positioning that Sony and Microsoft later took up, and Genesis was really the first "secondary" console to manage great success (and prove there was enough room in the growing market for more than just one mainstream console).

The top reply to the article is strange:

dannymc18 - 1 day 12 hours ago
Wii my arse, it's a one-off flash in the pan and sales figures have shown it. People got bored of it a long time ago. Bring on PS4 and Xbox 720.

^Yeah the comments in the article are rediculous, i think people should read them and realise just how good we have it here!