I don’t think I could choose between these two. They are both consoles I still play games from… although, I play them on more updates hardware… now pretty much all on Switch, aside from Chrono Trigger which I still have the Wii U around for (Wii version, I was just one of the idiots who pushed their Wii library to their Wii U…)

When you bring this up you also have to remember snes games frequently didn't age all that well either. Huge swathes of its library have massive slowdown problems in ways the sega genesis and even pc engine didn't. And looking back at games shared between the consoles the genesis is absolutely the better platform for  action and arcade experiences. and one of the best case studies is merely comparing Contra III to Contra: Hard Corps. Now thankfully there is the romhacking scene out there attempting to fix slowdown in snes games much like the romhacks to fix the colors in gba games.

Now overall the ps1 is just the far more important and significant product. It really changed everything around it. Snes was just another console that managed to have a better than normal quality game ratio because the 16 bit era was the sweet spot of console games getting close enough to the arcade experience.

16bits vs 32bits... PS1 win

Quite hard for me to choose.

I grew up with the SNES, so that would be my choice. But the PS1 had Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, Final Fantasy, Medievil, Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories, Digimon... Games that also made part of my childhood. I wanted a Playstation because of a lot of titles. And the 3D impressed me back in the days.

I personally think the SNES is really overrated, so PS1. PS1 had started so many franchises that we play today.

Coming from someone who owns neither, I dont think SNES is Nintendos best system, thats NS1. However, I think PS1 is PS best system.

I mean by that logic, N64 is superior to both.

If we also follow the logic that power determines quality, then every console post-6th gen is better than PS2/Gamecube/PS1/SNES/etc.

I was a teenager when SNES released and gaming in general was considered for kids or nerds at school at the time. It wasn't until PS1 released years later that console gaming broke through to us older kids. We were playing on Amiga 500 and PC before the PS1. It was seeing the thing running in night clubs playing Gran Turismo that got us interested. My only experience with SNES is playing it at my much younger nephew's and nieces house.

We all got the PS1 to play GT and Micro Machines after clubbing lol. Taking turns messing around in Driver or trying to beat each other's lap times in V-Rally.

PS1 all the way for the 90s, I was too old and too young to appreciate the SNES in the 90s.

The people that were kids on 90's know that the big breakthrough was playstation 1.
3D games blew our minds like resident evil, Gran Turismo and modern football 3D games Fifa and Konami's Pro.
Even in 2d games playstation was better ofcourse as a newer console.Abe's Odyssey, Castlevania SOTN , Broken Sword and many more.

I was PAL, so the 50hz CRT kinda' obfuscated any perceivable slowdowns to the point where framerates weren't an issue, period.


Games like Lufia 2, Final Fantasy 6, Chrono Trigger, Mario Kart, Pilotwings showcased Mode 7 brilliantly.

Games like StarFox was a unique experience not on any other competing consoles at the time, it was new a fresh.

RARE turned the entire gaming industry upside down with it's pre-rendered visuals with the Donkey Kong Country series and Killer Instinct, forcing competitors to bring an answer to the table, most notable was Sega with Vectorman.

The SNES also had some of the best games of all time... Zelda: A link to the past, Super Metroid, Super Mario World, Chrono Trigger, Yoshi's Island, Breath of Fire and more.

The PC had the PS1 experience. Arguably the PC was a more unique and mature experience anyway.
..And by the time the PS1 hit it's stride, I would argue the N64 had better games anyway with Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Banjo, Donkey Kong, Ocarina of Time, Conker and more.

The PS1 isn't an important stepping stone for gaming, because the PC existed... Games like Final Fantasy 7? On PC. 
..It however was a stupidly important stepping stone for Sony as a company to lay the foundations for the Playstation 2, which was arguably more influential... Heck the most influential console of all time.

The irony here is... a 16bit PC could be more powerful than the 32bit PS1 or 64bit Nintendo 64... And a 16bit PC GPU could display more colours than the PS1 32bit graphics processor.

Or... The OG Xbox despite being a 32bit device, was more powerful than the 64bit Nintendo 64.

The PS1 due to memory limitations was limited to around 153,000 colours on screen, which is dependent on resolution that games ran at... And textures were often 4-bit (16 colours) or 8-bit (256 colours) which meant that a 16bit PC could display more colours at once. 
PC with a 3dfx Voodoo? Could do 16-bit textures which meant that 65,536 colours could be showcased in a single texture.

Bits, just like flops doesn't tell the entire story. People grab an advertised aspect and run with it, without any context or understanding.

This is very close.  As far as initial impact, I think PS1 slightly wins.  However, SNES games have aged far better.  On top of that, several of the best PS1 games are actually 2D games: Suikoden games, SotN, FF Tactics, etc....  To me this just highlights how good 2D gaming is.  The PS1 did allow much larger RPG's.  But in the end I'll have to give it to the SNES.