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I think the best is...

Wii U 36 56.25%
 
Vita 14 21.88%
 
Xbox One 14 21.88%
 
Total:64
curl-6 said:

Yeah the Wii U has a fair few excellent games now, but actually owning one during its time was constantly frustrating and consisted mostly of sitting around waiting through months of nothing for the next worthwhile release.

The fact that the Xbone had way, way more games makes me hypothesize that it would have been a better primary console. On the other hand, I can think of almost nothing on Xbox One that I'd consider worth playing that's not on PS4/Switch.

Really comes down to exclusives vs third party.

I think it comes down to what else you have to play games with. You can have dozens of shitty games with virtually nothing worth playing. NES and SNES had great games coming one after another, but N64 had serious games droughts, I had N64 and PSX back in the day and despite Playstation having a lot more games (and I had more PS games than N64 games because they were a lot cheaper) it doesn't hold a candle to N64. Later in it's life Playstation had few really good games too, but it was really hard to survive the 5th gen as a gamer without Playstation. It's much easier today with Virtual Console and downloadable games from older systems in general. In retrospect, I even enjoyed Gamecube, despite thinking stopping playing video games, except for the older systems (well, up until Wii was introduced), at the time.

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For me Xbox One, mostly because it wasn't as poorly handled as the Wii U, revived Killer Instinct, and had great third party support. The Wii U gave us Splatoon, but then it killed Star Fox like it almost killed Nintendo. -_-



CaptainExplosion said:

For me Xbox One, mostly because it wasn't as poorly handled as the Wii U, revived Killer Instinct, and had great third party support. The Wii U gave us Splatoon, but then it killed Star Fox like it almost killed Nintendo. -_-

Wii U was in no danger of killing Nintendo. Their war chest alone they could have survived almost 40 years in a row of Wii U financially. I forget where but someone calculated the year Wii U lost Nintendo the most money it would take 38 straight years of that lost to bankrupt them.



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Leynos said:
curl-6 said:

Yeah the Wii U has a fair few excellent games now, but actually owning one during its time was constantly frustrating and consisted mostly of sitting around waiting through months of nothing for the next worthwhile release.

The fact that the Xbone had way, way more games makes me hypothesize that it would have been a better primary console. On the other hand, I can think of almost nothing on Xbox One that I'd consider worth playing that's not on PS4/Switch.

Really comes down to exclusives vs third party.

I would rather spend $300 bucks with some droughts and get 10 amazing games through 4 years than spend $500 in 2013 and, after a full generation, go to a Gamestop and just see a shelf of mediocrity.

I mean, I'd counter that there are quite a few good games on Xbone; Witcher 3, Nier Automata, Doom 2016 and Eternal, Monster Hunter World, Hellblade, It Takes Two, Ori and the Blind Forest/Will of the Wisps, RE7/8/2/3...

The only issue is, you can play those games on other platforms, so if you already owned a PS4, there was little reason to get an Xbone. Hell, even Switch got a lot of those titles.



curl-6 said:
Leynos said:

I would rather spend $300 bucks with some droughts and get 10 amazing games through 4 years than spend $500 in 2013 and, after a full generation, go to a Gamestop and just see a shelf of mediocrity.

I mean, I'd counter that there are quite a few good games on Xbone; Witcher 3, Nier Automata, Doom 2016 and Eternal, Monster Hunter World, Hellblade, It Takes Two, Ori and the Blind Forest/Will of the Wisps, RE7/8/2/3...

The only issue is, you can play those games on other platforms, so if you already owned a PS4, there was little reason to get an Xbone. Hell, even Switch got a lot of those titles.

Some of those I can't own physically on Xbox One but can on PS4 and Switch.



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Leynos said:
curl-6 said:

I mean, I'd counter that there are quite a few good games on Xbone; Witcher 3, Nier Automata, Doom 2016 and Eternal, Monster Hunter World, Hellblade, It Takes Two, Ori and the Blind Forest/Will of the Wisps, RE7/8/2/3...

The only issue is, you can play those games on other platforms, so if you already owned a PS4, there was little reason to get an Xbone. Hell, even Switch got a lot of those titles.

Some of those I can't own physically on Xbox One but can on PS4 and Switch.

To be fair in goes the other way in some cases; Hellblade and Doom Eternal saw wide physical release on Xbox One but not on Switch.

In any case, while I prefer physical myself, digital is valid too.



I played the Vita more than Wii U, and that's something for me because I consider myself a Nintendo fan. The Wii U was just another Wii for me, I barely touched the actual Wii U software outside of Earthbound (SNES port), Xenoblade Chronicles X, and a game called Trine 2. Vita has a lot of my favourite PSX games in portable mode, which easily won it for me.



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For me its a split between the Xbox One and the WiiU. For the Xbox one i own over 200 physical games, far more than for my PS4. For the WiiU only 75.



Jumpin said:

I played the Vita more than Wii U, and that's something for me because I consider myself a Nintendo fan. The Wii U was just another Wii for me, I barely touched the actual Wii U software outside of Earthbound (SNES port), Xenoblade Chronicles X, and a game called Trine 2. Vita has a lot of my favourite PSX games in portable mode, which easily won it for me.

Some Wii U titles, the first two Mother games on Virtual Console, and backwards compatibility with Wii while you had a current console used to be big selling points. Now just buy a Switch and a Wii and you have well over 90% of the Wii U experience. And if you get a standard Wii (most that are out there) you get GameCube game compatibility as well. 

Yeah, Xbox One is very redundant but still has a massive physical and digital library at cheap prices.

And Vita still has its own charms as well that haven't really been replicated on Sony's home consoles like PS4 and PS5.



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PS4: 120 mil (was 100 then 130 million, then 122 million) Xbox One: 51 mil (was 50 then 55 mil)

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