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I think the best is...

PS1 10 16.67%
 
PS2 22 36.67%
 
PS3 8 13.33%
 
PS4 15 25.00%
 
PS5 5 8.33%
 
PSP 0 0%
 
Vita 0 0%
 
Total:60
mjk45 on 20 March 2025
Leynos said:
Dante9 said:

PS5 of course, because it's the most capable. It's not even a question, is it?
Which of them got the best games relatively speaking, now that's a completely different question.

Games make a console. Otherwise, it's useless.

I agree now tell that to all those clowns who insist the PS2 owed its success to DVD.



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Leynos on 20 March 2025
mjk45 said:
Leynos said:

Games make a console. Otherwise, it's useless.

I agree now tell that to all those clowns who insist the PS2 owed its success to DVD.

I think that was only really true for the launch in Japan. It was cheap for a DVD player and the best selling media with PS2 in Japan wasn't any games but The Matrix on DVD.  As time went on I think the whole DVD thing got overstated. Hell We got our first DVD player in 2001 at 150 bucks. Also Sony brand. Lasted me 11 years.



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mjk45 on 20 March 2025
Signalstar said:

I would say PS4 is the best standalone PS console but it has a massive flaw in that it does not support backwards compatibility (aside from some emulated releases and streaming older games).

Then I would say the PS3 is the best. Best library and access to PS2 and PS1 games (my original model at least).

Now it would make more sense if the PS3 George Foreman model made up most of the sales but between  YLOD and Slim models they are likely to make up less than 10% of the sales.



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Valdney on 20 March 2025

Ps1 by far then comes PS3, PS4. IMO the Ps2 is wildly overrated
PS1 to me is peak Japanese third party developer, specially jrpg.
PS3 is peak Sony exclusives.
PS4 is the triumphant return of Japanese third party developer.
Ps2 to me is the GTA platform. I dislike GTA.



Leynos on 21 March 2025
Valdney said:

Ps1 by far then comes PS3, PS4. IMO the Ps2 is wildly overrated
PS1 to me is peak Japanese third party developer, specially jrpg.
PS3 is peak Sony exclusives.
PS4 is the triumphant return of Japanese third party developer.
Ps2 to me is the GTA platform. I dislike GTA.

Not going to say you're wrong. Just I don't get the PS2 reasoning. I'm not a GTA fan either but the system has over 4000 games and plays PS1 games. You shun it over 2 games in a library of 4000? PS1 had GTA 1-2



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Dante9 on 21 March 2025
curl-6 said:
Dante9 said:

PS5 of course, because it's the most capable. It's not even a question, is it?
Which of them got the best games relatively speaking, now that's a completely different question.

That's not how the question was meant. A gaming system is a means to play games, so for many, perhaps even for most, the best system is the one with the best games.

Yeah, I know. Maybe the question should be worded a bit differently, though.

Also, there's a nostalgia factor to consider. Would your favorite PS1 games really hold up today if you had to play them?



xl-klaudkil on 21 March 2025
Dante9 said:
curl-6 said:

That's not how the question was meant. A gaming system is a means to play games, so for many, perhaps even for most, the best system is the one with the best games.

Yeah, I know. Maybe the question should be worded a bit differently, though.

Also, there's a nostalgia factor to consider. Would your favorite PS1 games really hold up today if you had to play them?

Let me answer that.

Played ff7 again this year(still the greatest game of all time.

Plays diablo1 a lot., still a incredible game.

Played breath of fire 3 last year again, still one of the greatest jrpgs ever.

Played and buiten suikoden last week, incredible game.

Not only do a lot of ps1 games hold up, they are a LOT better then most crap nowadays.

even thou it's just my opinion ofcourse.

Still play kings field a lot(2)

Really liked wild arms last year.



 

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curl-6 on 21 March 2025
Dante9 said:
curl-6 said:

That's not how the question was meant. A gaming system is a means to play games, so for many, perhaps even for most, the best system is the one with the best games.

Yeah, I know. Maybe the question should be worded a bit differently, though.

Also, there's a nostalgia factor to consider. Would your favorite PS1 games really hold up today if you had to play them?

As they're like 30 years old now and technology has moved on by lightyears since, they have of course aged, but I would argue that games like Crash or Spyro are still good today.

The fact that gaming has continued to evolve since also doesn't erase the amazing times I had with them in the day.



Kyuu on 22 March 2025
Valdney said:

Ps1 by far then comes PS3, PS4. IMO the Ps2 is wildly overrated
PS1 to me is peak Japanese third party developer, specially jrpg.
PS3 is peak Sony exclusives.
PS4 is the triumphant return of Japanese third party developer.
Ps2 to me is the GTA platform. I dislike GTA.

I mean if you also dislike GTA like the rest of PS2's insane library, what's the point of mentioning it at all? lol.



rapsuperstar31 on 22 March 2025

I didn't own the PS1, I did own the PS2 but played the Gamecube more. The PS4 is my favorite Sony console by a big margin, although I had a great time with the PS3 as well.