I'm from UK so our release was 87 although noted SMS had a hand in the shift as well. Amiga and Atari ST would do well at the time as they were the known brands that's kind of my point as after that time frame is when they began fell off because of the impact of new consoles imo SNES and SMD inherited a position where the market had already shifted to put it in other words the damage was already done as the market was in full transition which is more due to their predecessors but I do see your pov as well.

The late 90s imo was something of a below the radar golden era for PC you are correct that the combination of those genres was what defined PC at the time key games like Warcraft, Starcraft, C&C, System Shock, Baldur's Gate and the rise of the modding scene are examples of key aspects of what gave the platform a new identity even in the early 00s the were titles like Deus Ex and NOLF with the former still being one of the greatest hybrid FPS/RPGs imo. The irony of things is that every time EA writes something off it comes back with a bang they wrote consoles off in the 80s and then they wrote PCs off in the mid 00s and then Steam came along to add convenience to the platform while the GPU market went into overdrive in 2009 causing them to scramble to get Origin out.

Lamenting the low bar of what was considered AAA Playstation-PS2 era titles more than anything.  It really hasn't aged well.

most games don’t age that well, the psx era is my favorite, but saying the the quality of the ps2 games was low is just wrong, I will give you some examples jack and daxter, is one of my favorite 3D platformers, the ps2 also had ratchet and clank, and sly, metal gear 3 is considered the best in the series, ffx ,ffxii, persona 3 and 4 are some of the most beloved jrpgs of all time, devil may cry 3 was the high point until 5, San Andreas was the birth of the modern triple a game, resident evil 4 is still considered was one of the best games ever, and silent hill 2 is considered the best horror game ever, not to mention that 3 is amazing too,I could go on.

so your statement that the expectation for games was low is just wrong, not to mention that other consoles also put up a great competition, if you don’t like the ps2 that’s fine but just don’t go saying that it was a dark age and the expectation from gamers were low.

The 6th gen in general was a dark age in my view, and that's got nothing to do with "Nintendo fans bashing anything that's not Nintendo" cos I'd argue Nintendo's own output that gen was their worst ever.

Sure, there was a lot of quantity in that gen, even some genuine greats like Halo 1 & 2, Metroid Prime 1 & 2, F-Zero GX, Twilight Princess, the original Star War Battlefront, etc, but of all the generations I've lived through (4th-present) feel it had the least amount of genuinely interesting games.

Everyone has their favorite generations that’s Fine, I do agree that the gamecube was a low point for Nintendo but in my opinion the others consoles were great, Xbox had really good exclusives like halo, knights of the old republic, jet set radio, panzer dragoon, ninja gaiden, the Dreamcast had some of my favorite games of all time like crazy taxi , skies of Arcadia, grandia 2 , code Veronica, shenmue, phantasy star online, marvel vs Capcom, street fighter 3, not to mention al, the great games the ps2 had, so not your favorite generation ok that’s fine, but weak generation for gamers no way!!!

Everyone has their favorite generations that’s Fine, I do agree that the gamecube was a low point for Nintendo but in my opinion the others consoles were great, Xbox had really good exclusives like halo, knights of the old republic, jet set radio, panzer dragoon, ninja gaiden, the Dreamcast had some of my favorite games of all time like crazy taxi , skies of Arcadia, grandia 2 , code Veronica, shenmue, phantasy star online, marvel vs Capcom, street fighter 3, not to mention al, the great games the ps2 had, so not your favorite generation ok that’s fine, but weak generation for gamers no way!!!

Well, I wasn't really talking about "for gamers", just "for me". Like I say, there were some games from that era that i really loved. Heck, Resident Evil 4 is my favourite game of all time. It's just I'm pretty sure if I were to make a list of games I loved from each gen (from the 4th onwards) the 6th would have the shortest list. But that's just me, I have weird tastes haha.

that’s totally fine, like I said the psx era was my favorite due to the rpgs, this one is my second favorite but the 6th generation gave me amazing gaming moments, ...I miss silent hill ...😭😭😭

Seriously? How was BOTW not a killer app? It was literally the sole game selling the Switch at launch.