Re: game consoles
By: Morningstarr to All on Sun Dec 14 2025 09:46 pm
> Hey guys, what is your favorite gaming console? Playstation, Xbox, Nintendo
> switch???
>
I think consoles were only worth it up to the 6th generation... afterwards, cons
oles became glorified computers with all the issues that brings.
My best console of All Times has to be the Playstation. It was the first console
that did CD games right, and despite all of its multiple issues, it managed to
get very good games released on it. The Nintendo 64 had a lot of horsepower on p
aper and some quite good games, but the controller sucked balls and there was on
ly so much data you could shove into a N64 cartridge compared to a CD. The Sega
Saturn was out of the game very much from the start.
The second best console, for me, would be the Playstation 2. It is easy to tell
it struggled competing in horsepower against the other consoles in its generatio
n, but once again, it managed to get a BIG library that included most good games
. Meanwhile, XBOX had a limited number of heavy hitters (such as HALO) which wer
e available on other platforms anyway, and the first controller lineup was too b
ig for so many people. Its games looked awesome and a bit next gen but under the
good they were upscaled PS2 ports quite often.
I have a special mention for the Sega Dreamcast. It didn't last long but it pack
ed a nice punch with some arcade conversions that were quite good. Games such as
Hydro Thunder are best played on Dreamcast if you don't have an arcade cabinet,
and the Dreamcast port is arguably better than the PC port, which is saying som
ething. The controller was godawful, and many shooting heavy titles such as MDK2
were very meh to play on it... these days using a controller with two analog st
icks to play Dreamcast games via an emulator is a game changer.
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