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Personally, the PS3 is my favourite. The OG backwards compatible one. And the emulation capabilities are still awesome to me.
PS3 was the last revolutionary console imo. It's my favorite as well. It was focused on gaming but I could watch porn on it too! Plus it had blue ray!
Steam deck. Does it count? Plays everything you see here and more.
Consoles are kinda meh. Can't do much with them.
That said I think the ps2 with network and hardrive, then the ps3, then the wii. I like them all for what they could be made to do and have one of each.
But really: all superceded by the steam deck. (Ended up selling my PSP, no need for it anymore).
Yeah I agree with this 100%
I grew up with consoles. The PS1, N64, GBC, GameCube, PS2, GBA. As an adult I played the PS3 a lot and I ownd a Wii for parties, and went through a DS and 3DS for Pokémon. I was a late owner of a PS4, Switch, and eventually a PS5. I dabbled in PC gaming, both on a desktop with M+KB , with a controller, eventually streaming to my living room for couch gaming.
The Steam Deck blows it all out of the water. It can do everything, anywhere, usually more ergonomically than the original. The only real drawback is the resolution, but that's a perfectly fine trade-off most of the time.
Looking at it just purely because of the console capabilities itself, the Wii was the best console.
Most of what the Wii did, no other system console or PC replicates well even to this day. They did this while undercutting other consoles on price, still putting out solid entries to their core IPs, and broadening gaming to new gamers.
All of the other consoles I would want to put at number 1 really are only great because of the library of games they had. Most of those libraries would have been better off if they were not forced to be on proprietary hardware.
SNES or GameCube. Both were fantastic systems with tons of great games.
I'm too young for it, but I found it in my dads stuff and fell in love with it, but the dreamcast haha
The original Xbox is so good it has earned a permanent spot hooked up to my TV. The PS3 has that honor too, but the Xbox is my favorite.
I’ll always have a 360 laying around ready to be played, so probably that if I had to choose. Every other console has come and gone, and now I don’t have time for games anymore, though I do have a pc and a ps5 (ps5 is mostly for BD/DVD these days), but I still have my 360 plugged in and off, just needs to be turned on and hdmi connected.
I recently found out that you can soft hack them really easily, literally drag and drop onto a flashdrive and plug it in. If you ever find the time you should definitely try.
My wife still has her 360 too, so we’ve got two at home, just one is put away but I know exactly where it is. Maybe I’ll give it a go one of these days.
Personally it's been incredibly refreshing to go back and play all the games I couldn't afford as a teen. There's something comfortable about an era of self contained games meant for fun instead of profit.
Playing games as an adult that you couldn’t as a kid/teen is one of the great joys of adulthood.
The 360 feels like the last era of games for fun over games for profit, at least to me. It was also the last console generation where you could just insert a disc and play the game, no downloading required. That’s huge, at least to me. I’m totally fine with the smaller game files, that’s a trade off I’m willing to make for the convenience of plug and play (or insert and play, I guess).
Same, and there's something satisfying to see the files are all less than 10GB. I don't think I own any games on pc that don't at least ask for 50GB.
I beat portal 2 for the first time last week and when that song rolled at the end I felt again what it was to truely finish a good game. I'd forgotten that feeling entirely and even teared up.
With the rising cost of storage I wouldn’t be surprised to see a boom in smaller games. Something doesn’t need to be 100GB to be fun. Skyrim was once small enough to fit on a 360 disc and I’ve managed to pour thousands of hours into it.
I’m so jealous you got to experience Portal 2 for the first time recently. That’s an all-time favourite for me.
Real hard to beat the Sega in my book. Not only was it an amazing console on its own, but you could attach other consoles to it. Slap that 32x on top. Slide the Sega CD on the side. Who could beat that? Plus the Sega Channel? I mean come on.
Without factoring in nostalgia I think I'll have to go with the Switch. Its library including rerelease of older systems' titles is hard to match. I played so many cool games on it that I still think about a lot years later.
Xenoblade 1, 2, 3, X
Dragon Quest XI
Shin Megami Tensei V
Monster Hunter Rise
Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate
Smash Ultimate
Breath of the Wilds
Mario Odyssey
Mario Kart 8
New Horizons
and countless others. Then there's the whole handheld/console hybrid aspect of it. For years I would exclusively play it handheld because I didn't even have a TV. Crazy good system, just a shame it marked the beginning of Nintendo leaning heavy into their anti-consumer and profit maximization BS. Not planning on getting a Switch 2 for a long time.
The ones that don't connect to the goddamn internet. I also still use my ipod. Tracking sucks.
Ngl I love the wii
The Wii was the only system me and my husband bought. It was delightful because it was the only system he could play with his cerebral palsy! (Some older systems like pong worked, but I'm only mentioning slightly modern) He was really good at the bowling! I wish ours still worked. Alas!
I still have fond memories with my old family Wii growing up. It got given to charity but will always remember raging on MK.
PS1 or Gameboy
Probably because they were the ones I had as a kid, but they both have great libraries of games from an era when it seemed like anything goes. Also the hardware limitations of each give the games a charming character
Steam Deck. 100%. That thing rocks.
As for retro consoles. My Dreamcast was always my favorite. That thing was way ahead of its time.
Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Playstation 1
Sega Saturn and PlayStation Vita are honestly my favorites
My favorite is SNES, very closely followed by the Playstation. I never owned a Gamecube and Playstation 2 and missed some of the greatest games ever made of its time.
I have to admit I love playing games on pc they do so much more. But the Dreamcast and the Genesis have a special place in my heart. I would love to have a gamepad with 6 facing buttons but I brought one of those hitbox thingies that has keys and is the fucking shit I tell ya and gone for half the price...