Gaming What is the greatest video game console of all time?

[tentan]

Has to be the PS2 right? That console changed gaming forever and still remains the best selling console ever. Revolutionary and iconic.

But do you agree? Sure the later consoles are more powerful and has more features than the PS2 but I don't think it impacted the gaming world as much as the Playstation 2 did. Or would you go back even more further and say the Super Nintendo or Dreamcast were better.

 

[Deery]

Sega Master System.

 

[dumbo]

TheNintendo Entertainment System because I have one (two). It has Mario. And it has Super Mario Bros 3.

 

[The Cat]

Original PS.

Megadrive was also a game changer.

 

[tenpoless]

Playstation One. But Im biased since PS 1 has so many great RPGs and the best Crash Bandicoots

 

[AaronRedDevil]

Playstation 2.

Or Playstation 4, it had so many incredible games

 

[nimic]

More of a computer than a console, but the Amiga. The music it was able to generate was something else.







So many great games too. Super Cars 2, Moonstone, Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe, International Karate+, etc. It's a shame that there's no good emulator for Amiga and Amiga games. There have been a few attempts to make some kind of Amiga Classic/Mini thing, but unfortunately the Amiga rights ownership are all kinds of fecked up, so that's probably never happening. Make a SNES Classic-esque small Amiga, with a decent emulator inside it, some games and a couple of joysticks, and I'd buy it immediately. For almost any price.

 

[Moby]

Are you trying to start a world war?

 

[tenpoless]

PS2 was great and quite revolutionary. The graphical capability of PS2 when it first came out blew my mind but I could never forgive what it did to Digimon World and Suikoden series where they were focusing more into improving the graphics but the overall gameplay and stories were total garbage.

 

[Ainu]

For me it has to be the OG PlayStation. Metal gear solid, Silent Hill 1, Resident Evil 1-3, Final Fantasy 7-9, Dino Crisis 1-2, Tekken 1-3, Tony Hawk 1-2, Driver, Tomb Raider etc. It's either that or the SNES I think. I've missed all of the Sega systems, I'm afraid.

 

[Cheimoon]

MSX. Just because it's the only console-like computer we ever had.

 

[Green_Red]

Isn't commodore 64 still the biggest selling?

 

[Reditus]

Super Nintendo

 

[RedTiger]

I've owned:

Atari Pong
C64
Sega Master System
Amiga
Sega Megadrive
PS1
N64
Xbox
360
Wii.

The Megadrive for most playability.

 

[Ramshock]

I've owned:

Atari Pong
C64
Sega Master System
Amiga
Sega Megadrive
PS1
N64
Xbox
360
Wii.

The Megadrive for most playability.

You never owned a SNES?

 

[Denis79]

Atari 2600

 

[P-Nut]

PS1 for me, loved the megadrive back in the day as well. Likely have them as...

PS1
Megadrive
PS2

And then a massive gap to the rest.

 

[RedTiger]

You never owned a SNES?

No I really wanted one at the time for their version of street fighter and Mario. Unfortunately money was tight at the time.

 

[Eendracht maakt macht]

No love for the Nintendo 64?

 

[Desert Eagle]

Between the Ps1, Sega genesis and NES for me.

 

[George Owen]

Super Nintendo for me. Gave me several years of quality games.

 

[Sky1981]

Psx 1

For the first time ever good games are affordable thanks to piracy.

 

[esmufc07]

Xbox 360

 

[rcoobc]

PS3 onwards is basically one generation. There really isn't those huge leaps in what the console can do, the games are the same just better.

PS2 for me

 

[Jev]

I think it's pretty unbelievable how much PS2 games looked like today's games. It's been evolution from then, while PS2 was a revolution. Gaming took a gigantic leap when it came out. Granted, I'm not old enough to take anything earlier than PS1 into account.

 

[golden_blunder]

No love for the Nintendo 64?

Yes! Goldeneye and Mario Kart are 2 of the best multiplayer games ever made

 

[golden_blunder]

I've owned:

Atari Pong
C64
Sega Master System
Amiga
Sega Megadrive
PS1
N64
Xbox
360
Wii.

The Megadrive for most playability.

Between us as a family;

Atari
commodore vic20
Spectrum 128k
Amiga 1mb
Sega megadrive
Nintendo 64
Dreamcast
Philips CDI
PS1
PS2
PS3
PS4
Xbox 360
Xbox One
Just bought Xbox Series X
Nintendo Wii
Nintendo Switch

 

[Volumiza]

More of a computer than a console, but the Amiga. The music it was able to generate was something else.







So many great games too. Super Cars 2, Moonstone, Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe, International Karate+, etc. It's a shame that there's no good emulator for Amiga and Amiga games. There have been a few attempts to make some kind of Amiga Classic/Mini thing, but unfortunately the Amiga rights ownership are all kinds of fecked up, so that's probably never happening. Make a SNES Classic-esque small Amiga, with a decent emulator inside it, some games and a couple of joysticks, and I'd buy it immediately. For almost any price.

100% agree. You missed this one though …


The Amiga was such a leap forward at the time and some of my most revered games were on this machine.

Xenon 2
Silkworm
Lotus challenge
Speedball 2
Alien Breed
Super cars 2
Street Rod
Rick dangerous

The list could literally go on an on. I still have my machine too.

 

[DavelinaJolie]

Toss up between the SNES and 360 for me.

 

[JPRouve]

Sega Megadrive 2, Game Gear or N64.

 

[Zlatan 7]

I thought PS1 was the game changer, playing tomb raider actually running around a ‘free’ map with loads of buttons to use and those pyramid pointy tits.

isn’t that the biggest step in quality and actions?

 

[DannyDee]

Genesis/Mega Drive has the most nostalgia for me. PS2 and PS4 had incredible runs (with PS4's still somewhat going). A lot of the great PS2 games I loved eventually got ported over to X Box though (GTA III, Vice City, San Andreas were revolutionary, MGS II and III were also huge). I stopped gaming as hard as I got older, but the pandemic brought me right back. I have to say catching up on PS4 exclusives and other games I'd never played was a great time during a pretty terrible time overall. Enough to prompt me to buy a PS5 as quickly as I could get one that was sold at MSRP.

 

[Salt Bailly]

Leaning towards the SNES for local multiplayer shenanigans (Street Fighter 2, Mario Kart) and the PS1 for opening my eyes to unimaginable new single player experiences (FFVII, RE, MGS, GTA).

 

[DannyDee]

I thought PS1 was the game changer, playing tomb raider actually running around a ‘free’ map with loads of buttons to use and those pyramid pointy tits.

isn’t that the biggest step in quality and actions?

We will never see jumps like we did between generations like we used to. 16 bit to 32 bit was massive (alongside the jump to CDs for cutscenes) 3D was huge, but PS1 still didn't have it quite down for fluid of movement. Duel Shock 2 was really a game changer in allowing fluid 360 degree movement console wise. We are at the point of diminishing returns. I mean eventually well get to 8k 120fps consoles, but how much of the human eye will really notice the difference between that and 4k 60fps.

 

[horsechoker]

Xbox 360

I knew you were Bojan all along

 

[Volumiza]

I thought PS1 was the game changer, playing tomb raider actually running around a ‘free’ map with loads of buttons to use and those pyramid pointy tits.

isn’t that the biggest step in quality and actions?

Probably yeah. Loved the ps1 and tomb raider was something else (although going back it, it play awfully).

 

[Eendracht maakt macht]

Yes! Goldeneye and Mario Kart are 2 of the best multiplayer games ever made

Mario Party too!

 

[Dan_F]

Hard to define greatest. I’d put the PS3 over the PS4 despite obviously being a worse console. The online capability and jump in quality of games was huge from the PS2. Mad to think that GTA V was originally on the PS3.

 

[FrankDrebin]

PS2. A huge upgrade from its predecessor.

 

[Massive Spanner]

I'd say the PS1 for games and the PS2 for influence on the industry. It really took gaming to a whole new level of popularity. Crazy how much it sold.

Loved the Megadrive and N64 too.