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What's the best gaming console and why?
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The one you like and because you like it.
The steam deck is a portable pc that looks like a handheld console.
i'm gonna get downvoted for this, but the one i already have handy all the time: my phone.
Everyone in the replies here is sleeping on the raw emulation power of most people's phone, doubly so if you're willing to bt sync a controller to it. I've got a significant percentage of the SNES and PS1 libraries playable on mine.
Boo hiss :P
Ahh, a Diablo enthusiast, I see.
What kind of games do you like and play, I'm not gonna judge :p
I mean, with GamePass, Steam, and the Razer Kishi, I feel like my phone is basically a Steam Deck, so I tend to agree.
The Ouya, obviously.
Its spelled Ouija
Luigi?
Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time.
Super Nintendo because it's super.
Still mad they never made a mega nintendo
Yet
That’s why Mega Drive was always superior
Given the trend to make "Super" variants of games for the Super Nintendo, we could have seen "Mega Mega Man".
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Sega Dreamcast. It was ahead of its time, at the time. GD-ROM (1.2Gigs of data in an era of CD), Dual pressure sensitive triggers, modem, ethernet adapter. Even the memory card was a portable minigame device.
I was very sad when they discontinued it. I seem to recall that they did that just after someone in charge of it died.
It was the last console of extremely unique games, most of which were absolute bangers. Rez is still one of my absolute favorite games of all time. Space channel 5, crazy taxi, jet set radio, shenmue, seaman, chu chu rocket, power stone, techromancer, and many many many others.
Still have my original one!
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For me it is the Gamecube, it was the first console I bought new and got invested in.
Mario Kart Double Dash is also the best Mario Kart.
I sold mine way too early, but a decade later I bought a good used one with MK:DD and Bomberman
GameCube. Because I have fond memories of it in my childhood. I prefer it over PS2 because it properly supports 4 player games (without any extra gadgets).
Smash Bros. Mario Kart. TimeSplitters. All excellent couch multiplayer games. Even Metroid Prime 2 had quite fun multiplayer.
And Soul Calibur 2 got Link.
I think I'm in the minority, but PS3. It was the most powerful console of its time, it released The Last of Us, Uncharted, Gran Turismo and a ton of other classics and the PSN was free to use.
It also had my favorite game of all time on it - Littlebigplanet 2. The custom levels people made were insane.
The SNES. Why? Because it was the best console.
I mean, you can't neglect the prior 2 PlayStation generations. Gran Turismo started on ps1 with the first two, and the next two on PS2. Besides that, great entries like the first three Spyro games, Jak and Dexter, Ratchet and Clank... And let's not forget just home much freaking staying power the PS2 had! Was still getting new games alongside Wii, Xbox 360, even the PS3
That's fair about the staying power, but I prefer playing Multiplayer so the PS2 and 1 never hit the same (I did play them a lot as well though - I had the OG Gran Turismo, Tenchu: Stealth Assassins, Duke Nukem: Time to Kill, Metal Gear Solid and a bunch of others for PS1, and I had NFS: Underground 2, Gran Turismo: A-Spec, Medal of Honor: Frontline and a bunch of others for PS2 as well). I do respect how well they did, but I really enjoy multiplayer (and the PS2 multiplayer didn't do it for me)
Intellivision because the controller has an insert with labels for what the buttons do for each game.
pc
You got it backwards. Is a portable pc that’s like a console.
I would say the Xbox 360, tho I never really owned one. I feel it was maybe the most polished modern console, the most friendliest, worked offline (obviously), was easy to hack and MS didn't really made a fuss about it. an x360 was accessible for everyone, even for the less fortunate peeps around here central-eastern and eastern europe. hacked or not, ms had a nice market here and the xbox brand was pretty stable.
The PS2, the og Xbox (though it really was a PC), the Game Cube, Wii, Wii U, and of course the 8 and 16 bit era consoles are also great candidates one by one.
Really depends on your definition of best. I think the PS2 and the Xbox 360 were the last great consoles, they're the best in my book but they obviously aren't too common anymore.
The only one I ever had for myself was the Wii U. Awesome idea that was never fleshed out.
I had a DVD player and some DVDs came with playable games it was the best.
Actually, the most realistic gaming console is this universe
Retro pi
Really like my switch. Love Mario, Zelda, retro games, many others, and the portability.
The gaming console is one you own or the one with the games you want to play. PC is also a good option.
Take your pick between PS2, OG Xbox, GameCube, Dreamcast, or SNES. I just think those are the consoles with the strongest libraries.
PlayStation 2 due to it's game library.
NES. Zelda, Mario, Final Fantasy, Metal Gear (kind of), Dragon Quest, etc.; it was the beginning of many great franchises.
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