SNES was great, probably the best Nintendo system or close to that.

PS1 on the other hand is the best gaming system of all time, undisputed.

So really easy pick.

This is a close call for me. Agree with some of the other comments about how PS1 was more revolutionary and SNES evolutionary.

I have to say that the SNES game catalogue has aged better and with my Nintendo bias I personally prefer its games to the PS1s so it's a comfortable choice for me. PS1 is still legendary though.

Let's see this:
Street Fighter Alpha 2 (SNES) vs Street Fighter Alpha 2 (PS1)
Chrono Trigger (SNES) vs Chrono Trigger (PS1)
FF 4,5,6,Mystic Quest (SNES) vs FF 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, Tactics... (PS1)
Super Mario Kart (SNES) vs Gran Turismo 2 (PS1)
...

When you put it like that, no brainer Super Mario Kart over GT.

Series that started with Playstation 1:

Resident Evil
Tomb Raider
Metal Gear Solid
Gran Turismo
Crash Bandicoot
Spyro the Dragon
Tekken
Silent Hill
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
Grand Theft Auto
Final Fantasy VII rebooted series with cd-rom capacity and large sales
Medal of Honor
Need for Speed
Oddworld Series
Broken Sword Series
Dozens of JRPGs

Pretty sure Metal Gear and Final Fantasy existed prior to the Playstation lol. But if you want to apply that logic you could also say the Super NES (16-bit era) birthed

Super Mario Kart

Star Fox

Donkey Kong Country

F-Zero

Pilotwings

Sim City  (on consoles)

Madden NFL Football

FIFA Soccer

NHL series

NBA Live series

NBA Jam series

DOOM

Yoshi's Island

Killer Instinct

Mortal Kombat

Chrono Trigger

Mana series

Super Mario RPG series

Megaman X

Pc didn't really become a hotbed for 3d experiences until several years into the ps1's life when hardware acceleration was really becoming a thing. Not that it matters when the ps1 was an order of magnitude more popular than games like quake. ps1 set the tone and revealed europe to in fact be the largest gaming market when it never seemed that way before. if you want to give credit to star fox then you can't start saying ps1 games aged poorly when starfox can baarely be considered playable.

And you really don't want to bring the n64 into the conversation. despite how it is baffling ly becoming the singular target for 90s nostalgia it mroe than any other platform has the games that aged poorly. It is certainly not winning the games comparison when the ps1 had more good games than the n64 had games total. n64 is the console of blurry visuals and sub-20fps framerates even on marquee titles like perfect dark. and minimal variety. it had a dearth of notable 2d games almost no rpg titles

I wrote only series that are still active.

I remove Doom, Sim City , Sports games because lol..., I also remove Chrono Trigger because it isn't active series (and also exists on ps1).

The rest of the list is kiddy Nintendo games that most of them existed also on Nes Era.

Absolutely false. We had 3D games, before the PS1 existed.

We had Wolfenstein in May 1992 which revolutionized 3D gaming.
We had Doom in December 1993 which revolutionized 3D gaming.

We had Flight Simulator, Strike Commander (Texture mapped 3d graphics), StarWars X-Wing.


And before 3dfx Voodoo burst onto the scene, we had 3D accelerators, such as the S3 Vision.
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By the time 1994 rolled around for PC... And before the PS1 launched we had amazing 3D games like:
* System Shock. (September 1994)


* Doom 2. (October 1994)



In December around the PS1's release we had:
* Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger. 

* Heretic.
* Rise of the Triad.

And how was this possible? CPU's. The PC x86 processors were orders of magnitude faster than anything else on the market.

Now because the PS1 wasn't really widely available until 1995... The PC underwent a revolution, we got Windows 95, we got Direct X... We got 3DFX Voodoo, Rendition Verite, Matrox Millenium, ATI Mach 64, S3 Virge (I had one of these) and more... And came with it the games.

We got:
* Mechwarrior 2.
* Descent.
* Terminal velocity.



Once the PS1 started to get heavy hitters like Crash Bandicoot in 1996... The PC rolled out games like Quake, which was a pivotal moment in 3D graphics rendering and literally laid the foundations for all 3D graphics rendering going forwards... It was a fully 3D world, fully textured, lighting, particles, 3D models.


But we also got Elder Scrolls Daggerfall, Duke Nukem 3D, Tomb Raider, Descent 2 and more.

We also got Final Fantasy 7 and 8 that were heavy hitters on the PS1.

I don't think you realize how redundant the PS1 was to a PC gamer, the SNES and Nintendo 64 did offer something unique and compelling at the time... As did Sega with the Saturn. (I.E. Panzer Dragoon.)
And the great thing? We actually didn't need a expensive 3D graphics card at the time, our CPU's were much much much faster, so we could do it in software most of the time... But once we had access to competent 3D accelerators we had fully texture filtered worlds at high resolutions that consoles couldn't match... And often those older games could take advantage of that.

It was a great time to be a PC gamer back then.

Sony fans really live in their own reality where they think gaming started in 1995, lol. Even all "marketed to older teens!!!!" shit was already being done by Sega for years by that point. They just mixed the marketing of Sega with Nintendo's third party support.