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Forums - Gaming - IGN Top 25 Consoles -- TOP 5......SHOCKING WINNER! (Atari 2600 > PS2)!!

sugarEXpress on 04 September 2009

I am shocked. I was expecting the "Brown Box" to win.



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Khuutra on 04 September 2009
darthdevidem01 said:
EXACTLY as Wii_Master said

IGN's basis for the list is to be frank, muddled, confuzzled & random

this has led to me being disappointed by it.

Atari 2600 is so high as it changed the world....fine

Then why is the fastest selling home console of all time Wii.....in 10th.

why is the console that has brought in more newcomers to gaming than even PS1, PS2, NES even in 10th

They don't like its library or what it stands for?



stika on 04 September 2009
Stats87 said:
Well, let's put it this way, if somebody were to make a list of the "Top 25 Best Cars" would the Model T be on the list? No it wouldn't.

The list says "Top" consoles, not "influential" or "important".

" IGN has forged a list of the Top 25 Videogame Consoles of All Time, where we have selected and ranked the most influential systems in the history of gaming"

 

http://www.ign.com/top-25-consoles/

 

 

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stika on 04 September 2009
darthdevidem01 said:
EXACTLY as Wii_Master said

IGN's basis for the list is to be frank, muddled, confuzzled & random

this has led to me being disappointed by it.

Atari 2600 is so high as it changed the world....fine

Then why is the fastest selling home console of all time Wii.....in 10th.

why is the console that has brought in more newcomers to gaming than even PS1, PS2, NES even in 10th

Because none of them would be playing if Atari never existed



Fame_Mcswagg on 04 September 2009

stats87 has it exactly right. Nobody thinks red grande is a top 25 football player of all time.. but he came before a lot of people. the list is incoherent and makes no sense just like every other list that ign releases.



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Stats87 on 04 September 2009
stika said:
Stats87 said:
Well, let's put it this way, if somebody were to make a list of the "Top 25 Best Cars" would the Model T be on the list? No it wouldn't.

The list says "Top" consoles, not "influential" or "important".

" IGN has forged a list of the Top 25 Videogame Consoles of All Time, where we have selected and ranked the most influential systems in the history of gaming"

 

http://www.ign.com/top-25-consoles/

 

 

reading is fun

Ok, I see they did put that. I just looked at the rankings here.



darthdevidem01 on 04 September 2009

@Stika

Fine as you posted that link thingy, atari 2600 deserves its position

now my new gripe with the list

why the hell is SEGA genesis int he top 5, while Ps1 & Wii aren't

if the list is based on "influential titles & influence of the console.......why are wii & PS1 not in the top 5

IGN contradicts themselves



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Ronster316 on 04 September 2009

No complaints whatsoever from me regarding the top 2.

I would have switched them around though.

without the Atari VCS we would not be anywhere near where we are today in the gaming world.

It was my first videogames console and it still holds a special place in my heart to this day (got mine in 1981 with combat)

And sony fans................ get over it, sony were 17 years late to this party.



stika on 04 September 2009
darthdevidem01 said:
@Stika

Fine as you posted that link thingy, atari 2600 deserves its position

now my new gripe with the list

why the hell is SEGA genesis int he top 5, while Ps1 & Wii aren't

if the list is based on "influential titles & influence of the console.......why are wii & PS1 not in the top 5

IGN contradicts themselves

Most likely because it started the first true console war, one which 10 years later people still remember it fondly and sometimes quite agressively



Kasz216 on 04 September 2009
darthdevidem01 said:
Kasz216 said:
darthdevidem01 said:
Kasz216 said:
darthdevidem01 said:
@kas

without a PS1 there wouldn't be an xbox 360 or PS2

so should it be ranked higher than them?

according to your logic yes

Why wouldn't there have been a PS2 or 360?

Sure there would of been.  They just wouldn't of been made by Sony or Microsoft.

They would of had different names.  The Sega Dreamcast could of just as eaisly took on the role the PS2 took on had the PS2 not existed.

the market won't have grown that much

SEGA would still be there

Micrsoft entered BECAUSE PLAYSTATION was dominating

so why is PS1 below them?

Why wouldn't the market have grown that much?

What did the PS2 do that expanded the market?

Can you even name one thing?

I doubt it.  It didn't do anything except be the most popular system at the right time.

The market would of expanded just as much.  The 360 and PS2 didn't bring anything new to the table that wouldn't of been added on anyway.  They didn't disrupt the scene in any way and bring in something new.

No, but it DID expand it......can you deny that? (I myself never got it till a year before Ps3 came out)

If I have to name 1 thing I'll say, it made the sanbox genre with GTA.

@2nd bolded

Then why the hell is PS1 BEHIND xbox 360 & PS2........my problem is with IGN's basis of ranking this list......it seems very random

As you agree 360 & PS2 did not dirupt the market or expand it......you must also agree then that PS1 should be in front of both?

Ask yourself.  What would of happened had the PS2 not been around?

Would Grand Theft Auto 3 never been released?  Or would it of been on the Dreamcast.

 

As for why the PS1 is behind the PS2?

3D was an eventuallity.  All the next gen systems had 3D in mind and went 3D.  The playstation took that same revolutionary jump with every other console that generation.

Furthermore while it was more successfull and had more good games... it was the N64 that had the best few games that topped the PS1 when it came to 3D innovation.

 

Playstation also expanded the market but it didn't really do anything special to expand it... the market expands every generation.  It's got nothing to do with the individual consoles so much as that videogames are being more accetped as people who played them grow up.