Mechanically, no 3D game comes even close to aging as well as Crash Team Racing.

What? Mario 64 controls like butter.

PS1 had over 6000 (edit: actually... 7000) more games, and shovelware is irrelevant and misleading. Let's say:

Console A has a library of 5 games, all of them masterpieces. 100% masterpieces.

Console B has a library of 100 games, 15 of them masteepieces, 25 are very good, 60 are shovelware. 15% masterpieces.

Console B is objectively the superior platform by a wide margin. Successful platforms will always have more shovelware, Playstation, Xbox, Wii, Switch, and most of all... PC. But the shovelware don't detract from the quality of the existing great games, and are in fact a nice bonus, because there are plenty of gems hidden underneath the rubble and when you find them, you're in for a treat. Exploring that is pretty fun and definitely adds value. I'm actually willing to explore Saturn because it apparenly has more games released exclusively in Japan than N64's entire game library!

Your comparison is an odd one. Why use Syphon Filter to make a point when FF7 is one of your favorite games of all time? Syphon Filter doesn't even make the top 100 in so many people's favorite PS1 games. N64 has quality. PS1 has quality, quantity, diversity, and more games that have aged well, because it covers genres and styles that don't require precise control over the character and camera movement. Golden Eye aged poorly, as have the controls of most N64 classics. Maybe not as poorly as PS1's platformers/3rd person games, but pootly nevertheless. 2D didn't age at all... if anything, old 2D is arguably superior to modern 2D. Fighting games and RPG's are two genres that aged well... PS1 and Saturn excelled there.

And I wish you would answer my simple question, but it doesn't look like you want to. You're trying to pass an entirely subjective take (that is probably based on a very limited PS1 experience) as an objective point. The fact of the matter is... once you're done playing the few N64 must have, you're left with nothing great to play. PS1 didn't have that issue. There is something there for everyone.

Again, you're entitled to your opinion, but it's a VERY subjective one. Objectively, PS1 had quality AND quantity.

"Mostly"? 

*Stares at my Dreamcast collection*

No free time to type all Dreamcast games lol......

They didn't ask you to name all Dreamcast games.  You said:

"Funny thing is the Dreamcast is still getting games unofficially in modern days, they're mostly indies and fan-made games though but interesting."

So the question is, what games is Dreamcast still getting that are not indies or fan made?  The "mostly" implies that there are other games that would be by big developers.

I'm going to cheat here.

Have we had this conversation before? Yes. The Wii had the most hollow victory in the history of gaming. This is the basis here. The third place finisher in the 7th gen, the Xbox 360, had a library so ridiculously far ahead of the "winner" that the very idea that it "lost" to the Wii, makes me want to fight you in a parking lot. To say nothing for the actual winner, the PS3, which pulled out a relatively narrow victory over the 360. I literally hate Microsoft by the way. If a comet just big enough to destroy their headquarters and nothing else, hit their headquarters and destroyed nothing else, I would do a little dance.

Of course, I understand that you are using hard units sold as your defining metric, as is VGC tradition, but the disparity in actual quality is so pronounced, that, as I have said before, my personal PS3 library, handicapping myself to third party only games, is better than the sum total of the entire Wii library. Easy. If I included PS3 exclusives in the comparison, it might be considered a violation of the Geneva Conventions.

I mean, there's no disputing the numbers, but if there's ever been a more clear-cut case of a generational sales leader also being the obvious worst console in any given gen, ( yet, still a decent console. It doesn't suck outright ) I'd like someone to tell me about it. But, the Wii deserves the ignominious classification I am giving it.

I'll go with the Genesis, slightly ahead of the Xbox and the Dreamcast, as the best console that didn't win it's generation.

Bash on the Wii library all you want, but I will say this:

I own more Wii games than I do for any other console.  I'm talking every generation.  The Wii library has a surprising number of gems.  If the used market ever gets back to normal, pre-pandemic prices, I am probably going to pick up even more games for it.

You can't determine the quality of something you didn't try (the software). Not having much interest in certain genres or games is of course fine (as long as the underlying cause isn't brand-worship/hate, which it very often is against massively supported systems like the PS1), but it doesn't make them low quality or shovelware. I would never give an opinion on a game I never played, that's just fucking weird!

The question I asked was "how many games did you play/own on N64 and PS1 each?"

Your opinion on PS1 is limited to your experience and is no reflection of the actual quality of the console (This applies to all of us. I talk about how incredible the PS1 is and yet I barely played over 150 games on it out of almost 8000 games. Didn't have the time or the money to play every highly regarded game and hidden gem. The internet didn't exist so my knowledge was quite limited too). I was curious how many games you played/owned on PS1 in particular, because 15 different people could have played 15 different sets of games (barring Gran Turismo, FF, Crash, MGS, RE, and Tekken re-appearing a number of times), so each of those 15 experienced a largely different platform, hence even the best selling game (the revolutionary Gran Turismo) had an attach rate of barely over 10%. There was more to the PS1 than just the top 10 or 20 most popular titles.

Which is still a vague answer but at least you tried.

There are tons of great games that didn't catch my attention, many of them are from Nintendo, but I can't judge what I haven't played, simple as that. I used the internet long enough to know that the majority of PS1 downplaying comes from core Nintendo fans and angry Sega fans who played less than a dozen of games on the system and passed judgement on the rest of the library as if the 8000 games are created by a singular mediocre mind lol. If you're not one of those then good on you.

Which is still a vague answer but at least you tried.

There are tons of great games that didn't catch my attention, many of them are from Nintendo, but I can't judge what I haven't played, simple as that. I used the internet long enough to know that the majority of PS1 downplaying comes from core Nintendo fans and angry Sega fans who played less than a dozen of games on the system and passed judgement on the rest of the library as if the 8000 games are created by a singular mediocre mind lol. If you're not one of those then good on you.