Which is the greater console? | |||
| SNES | 22 | 45.83% | |
| PS1 | 26 | 54.17% | |
| Total: | 48 | ||
I consider the Snes to be the best console there ever was, and its game library to be the very best game library that ever was. It got bot quality and quantity. And as a bonus, most of those games aged fantastically well, as 16bit graphic design still looks solids, whereas early 3D consoles aged badly very quickly.
| JackHandy said: PS1 gave birth to the modern industry. It was revolutionary. SNES was great, but it was evolutionary. My pick is for PS1. |
I would say the PS1, N64, and Saturn all did that. Mario 64 was the most revolutionary game that generation. Golden Eye really brought the fps movement to consoles and it took off from there. Body Harvest gave way for the Grand Theft Auto games. I'd say the PS1 biggest contribution was story telling/fmv.
PS1 by a landslide for me personally.
Crash, Spyro, Gran Turismo, Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, Ridge Racer, Need for Speed. It's a beast.
rapsuperstar31 said:
I would say the PS1, N64, and Saturn all did that. Mario 64 was the most revolutionary game that generation. Golden Eye really brought the fps movement to consoles and it took off from there. Body Harvest gave way for the Grand Theft Auto games. I'd say the PS1 biggest contribution was story telling/fmv. |
PS1's contribution was creating an entirely new market: the adult market. Before, gaming was considered a child/teenage pastime. Adults that gamed were looked down upon by other adults. A grown man in his late twenties in the US could not go to a dinner party and when asked what he liked to do in his spare time, say that he was a gamer. He would be ridiculed and considered immature and ostracized. The PS1 changed all that. It gave birth to the idea that gaming was like every other form of entertainment. It brought the industry out of the dark, nerdy bedrooms, day-care centers and elementary-school playgrounds and into mainstream (adult) society. It gave gaming respect. It birthed its legitimacy. And that's why I would rank it the console of the 90's. Without hesitation.
PS1 is my favorite console of all time. I'd rank SNES 3rd.
But SNES games generally aged better, and it's the P4P king ("pounds" being sales lol).
Also FF6 > FF7 and Chrono Trigger.
| JackHandy said: PS1 gave birth to the modern industry. It was revolutionary. SNES was great, but it was evolutionary. My pick is for PS1. |
well the snes gave birth to super metroid
JackHandy said:
PS1's contribution was creating an entirely new market: the adult market. Before, gaming was considered a child/teenage pastime. Adults that gamed were looked down upon by other adults. A grown man in his late twenties in the US could not go to a dinner party and when asked what he liked to do in his spare time, say that he was a gamer. He would be ridiculed and considered immature and ostracized. The PS1 changed all that. It gave birth to the idea that gaming was like every other form of entertainment. It brought the industry out of the dark, nerdy bedrooms, day-care centers and elementary-school playgrounds and into mainstream (adult) society. It gave gaming respect. It birthed its legitimacy. And that's why I would rank it the console of the 90's. Without hesitation. |
The snes gave birth to super mario world and a link to the past
angrypoolman said:
The snes gave birth to super mario world and a link to the past |
Yes, it certainly did. And as great as those games are, they were evolutions of massively popular franchises that already existed on the NES. Further more, neither did anything to expand the demographic of gaming as a whole. The PS1 did that. The SNES did not.
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