Wii U!

Dreamcast.
Dreamcast laid many technical foundations that we take for granted today and had a ton of amazing titles to play.

OG Xbox.
A technical powerhouse at the time with some of the most technical games of the entire generation.

WiiU.
I mean, some of the best selling Switch games are just WiiU ports which just says it all.

Playstation Vita.
So many PSP and PS1 classic titles that were amazing to play on the go, it's also indie-central, solid hardware for the time rounded out a really good package.

Goes to show regardless of where your allegiance lays, there is always an underrated console that deserved more support in a lineup.

Both Wii U and Gamecube for all those reasons others have already mentioned, but first and foremost because both have amazing game libraries.

NES.

The NES was so good that Nintendo basically had a monopoly with the NES, but people today still love to dump all over it.  The games were so good that it started a ton of amazing franchises: Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Mega Man, Castlevania, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Metal Gear, etc....  It also had a ton of other fun and innovative games: Blaster Master, Dr. Mario, Duck Hunt, Ultima 4, River City Ransom, etc....

A lot of people see this and just see the established franchises that have gradually gotten "better" over the years.  I feel this is entirely the wrong way to look at it.  Every other system lacks originality compared to the NES.  To me it feels like game makers aren't really trying anymore.  There used to be a lot of original games.  Nowadays, it has gotten especially bad with annual franchises, tons of sequels and very few original games.  Originality goes a long way toward making a game fun, and the NES was full of original games that were trying to push the envelope.

Gamecube and n64!

Must be Sega Saturn

And that's just some of them. Panzer Dragoon Zwei, Shining Force III and Saturn Bomberman are also exclusively playable on Saturn. And I think it still clearly has the best versions of Panzer Dragoon I and my favorite video game of all time NiGHTS into Dreams.

While it didn't sell well, there's a lot of love and appreciation for the GameCube. Even the controller has a reputation for being one of the best of all time.

The Wii U, though? Nintendo dropped the ball in a lot of areas and failed to fulfill a lot of promises but when I was chatting on Miiverse, playing Nintendo Land with others, watching a random YouTube video and seeing my Mii appear in their SM 3D World gameplay, or experiencing the pure joy that was Pikmin 3, nothing else mattered. Plus it had the best porn browser on the market. 🙄

everyone who named gamecube is correct, mainly due to the fact its the least trashiest console

Taking the entire history of videogames into account, I choose my first console...

The ColecoVision

It's almost like people forget this console.  It existed in that space between the Atari VCS/2600 and the NES here in America.  It seemed to be popular when I was young, and I even had the Module 1 so I could play Atari 2600 games.  Even then, it was clear to my 5 year old eyes, the ColecoVision graphics were much better.  It was the first place I got to experience Donkey Kong!  It was the pack in game!  That's right, A NINTENDO game was the pack in game for a non Nintendo console!  And it was a great conversion.  The NES version wasn't even much better.  The controllers were pretty good for the time too. I preferred them to the joysticks I had used prior, only to eventually be introduced to the NES game pad and obviously those took the cake.... but this was years prior to the NES taking over the US.

The ColecoVision had great, best of the generation versions of:

Donkey Kong

Frogger

Q Bert

Zaxxon

Smurfs

Jungle Hunt

Popeye

Pitfall

Congo Bongo

Galaxian

and more.

I guess it seems like I lived in some alternate version of videogame history sometimes.  I got into gaming literally DURING the crash.  I remember my poor parents buying me cheap games in discount bargain bins... I didn't know the difference.  I played the hell out of Spiderman and ET for the 2600.  I beat ET.  I don't care what people think in their revisionist history, but there were much worse games than ET.  Heck, Spiderman was worse.  Regardless, when I see the history of videogames being portrayed in media it seems to go from the 2600 to the NES, negating this awesome system and it's nice little run that gave me awesome memories, even if it tends to just be a footnote.

Oh, and BTW.. the ColecoVision had a great version of PacMan!!!  I was spared from the 2600 atrocity.

GameCube.

It’s biggest issues where how the controller functioned differently than the competitors and it looked like a lunchbox. But that’s also where a lot of it’s charm comes from.