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Personally, the PS3 is my favourite. The OG backwards compatible one. And the emulation capabilities are still awesome to me.
Very fond of the PS1 as it was my primary console during childhood, especially the many JRPGs of the era but also other games like Ape Escape, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Syphon Filter, Soul Reaver 1, I go back to these every now and then.
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.
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.
The OG Playstation had, by far, the biggest collection of games that I consider my favourites.
Sega Saturn and PlayStation Vita are honestly my favorites
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 Dreamcast is probably the most underrated console of all time. Soul Calibur, Dead or Alive 2, Sonic Adventure, Shenmue 1&2 (I'm European), the fantastic VMU, first console with Internet (first game I played on Internet was Chu Chu Rocket), Crazy Taxi... man this console was a banger. And I just learned the joysticks on the Dreamcast gamepad use magnetic system to prevent joystick drift. Not quiet the same as Hall-Effect as I understand, but still way ahead of its time!
SNES or GameCube. Both were fantastic systems with tons of great games.
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!
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.
All of them, they had their draw backs and benefits but allowed me to enjoy a hobby I loved.
For me, I think it's the Megadrive/Genesis.
I was a Nintendo kid, originally. We had a NES and a Gameboy in our house, and I loved them. But during a visit to the US in the summer of 1993, I got to spend pretty much the whole of the 4th of July at a family friend's house in Massachusetts, playing Genesis games with a bunch of American kids. That cemented it in a special place in my mind.
PS1, I had the original gray box and later the small white boy. Both modded to accept any CD from the get go (yay for Brazilian piracy!), which brought me great joy once broadband internet reached my home in late 2003.
xbox 360 in its prime
then ps2
then wii
I feel like my steamdeck would be a cop out a bit but it is my favorite at the moment. It has all the consoles and my steam library of more than a decade. Plus I can switch between my laptop and my steamdeck without issues.
But if I were to guess off the top, it would probably be a toss up between Gameboy or GBA. So many good games and distractions from my early childhood.
Console-wise it's the PS1.
I grew up a Nintendo kid but the PS1 was the first console I bought with my own money, bought and installed a mod chip myself, and played everything I could get my smelly teen hands on. That library of burned discs was a huge influence on my gaming tastes and is packed full of nostalgia for me.
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SNES ALttP is still the best game ever made though.
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.
I love the Steam Deck, but wouldn't count it as a console.
It’s not a console in the traditional sense, where it has its own way of making games and has exclusive games, but it’s definitely meant to be a console like experience. In that regard, I would say it’s a non-traditional console.
I am aware of the issues categorizing these devices and I actually agree with you. I like saying its a Console like Handheld PC. It is a PC in handheld form factor, with an operating system optimized and build for Console like experience. This gets even more complicated if we put a Linux operating system on the Playstation 5 and just play Steam games on it, as the hardware itself is basically a PC.
I just don't think the Steam Deck (and Steam Machine even more) belongs to a discussion about favorite game console in example. This is purely my personal opinion and don't mean that everyone has to believe and think I what I do, so don't get me wrong.
Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Playstation 1
I still have fond memories with my old family Wii growing up. It got given to charity but will always remember raging on MK.
I grew up with gamecube and xbox 360. Im partial to the wii because it can do both gamecube/wii nintendo games but there are very few wii games that i like that much that arent available on xbox
PS Vita or PS2.
PS2 mainly for the games, so many fantastic ones I still play and replay decades later. Keeping track per platform the owned-played ratio and how many liked games in absolute numbers each has for me, the PS2 is still king in both. Even lesser known games I generally have a blast with.
On the Vita, its library isn't as strong as the PS2's, even if many of my favorite games were found through the Vita. But it compensates at being a fantastic console to mod. While I know people modding consoles do it for playing ilegitimate copies of games, if you ignore that, its mods still give you a lot to use the console for, possibly risking seeing the console dying in your hands while you read an ebook on it, try some homebrew ROM from Itchio, play with PSP homebrews, etc. Also it's a bit of a learning curve and technical information on it is sparse, but learning how it ticks makes tinkering second nature (...unlike the PS3 =.=").
I would have to go with either the Steam Deck or the Oculus Quest. But realistically I've spent orders of magnitude more time on the Steam Deck so I'll go with that. But both were revolutionary in a way that no other console approached. Sure, the PS2 was great, but it was just a PlayStation with better graphics, and the PlayStation was AMAZING, but in my mind it was a Nintendo with better graphics.
In no particular order: and NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, PS3.
I mean. in some ways its the odyssey because it has games that were so much better than other systems at the time despite it being black and white