Rank each company's consoles/systems

PeenusWeenusCaim said:
Backwards compatibility/hackability/piracy does not count.

Keep handhelds and home consoles seperate.

Nintendo:
SNES > Gamecube > N64 > NES > Wii U > Wii
DS > Gameboy Color > Gameboy Advance > Gameboy > 3DS

Sony:
PS2 > PS3 > PS4 > PS1
Vita > PSP

Microsoft:
Xbox 360 > Xbox > Xbone

Windows:
7 > XP > 10 > 98 > 8 > Vista

15poundfish said:
I don't see the point of rating consoles because every new console is better than the one that came out before it in terms of specifications.

Seiya said:


What? Specifications mean absolutely nothing. It's the games that matter.

15poundfish said:


The quality of games doesn't have much to do with the console but the developers making the games. If we are talking about the greatest number of good games on a platform it is by far Microsoft Windows. No console can compete with thirty years of good exclusives.

Seiya said:

Lol, then why are all my favorite games console exclusives? I don't care for online games, and while there were a small number of decent games back in the MS-DOS era(Scorched Earth, Zeliard), contemporary PC games are mostly of no interest to me at all.

15poundfish said:

Your taste is irrelevant, I was just pointing out the discussion of rating a console platform based on its exclusives is stupid. The reason been is people have different taste in games like if you enjoy RTS you can only get them on the pc. Likewise, if you like bullet hell shootemups you would have skipped the ps3 and bought a japanese xbox 360. But ps3 had better hardware!, well that is irrelevant when I want to play japanese shootemup games!

Even comparing consoles of the same generation there is no objectively better choice when the games you want to play are locked to that platform. The only thing you can discuss with comparing consoles is the quality of services they provide, the hardware, multi platform support(Nintendo is the worst), etc. Even taking all those factors into account it doesn't really matter.

Also, rating a console by its company is pointless because every new console generation objectively is better than the previous one in terms of performance. I think the Nintendo Switch, for example is a horrible console because its two generations behind other gaming consoles in performance. That is going to piss off the third party AAA devs because that means a ton of time wasted to optimize for crappy hardware making the investment not worth it. When players see how awful the ports are they are just going to buy a different console that is not only cheaper but two generations better than the nintendo switch. The person that wants portability will notice that the switch has 3 hours of battery life, giant thing that doesn't fit in your pocket well and just get the Vita or the 3DS instead. Someone could retort easily say but I want Zelda, but the person could reply I have a Wii U or I don't want a terrible console just for Zelda or maybe I don't like Zelda.

Seiya said:

I don't care for RTS games or Bullet Hell. Most people today don't have just one console. There are plenty of people who have all 3 current generation consoles.

As for me, I'm more into older 8/16-bit games that I grew up with, and I only rarely play newer consoles.

The reason we are rating a company's consoles, is because some consoles have better libraries than others. For example, the Super Famicom has far more RPGs than the N64, so for RPG fans, they're more likely to rate the SFC ahead of the N64.

15poundfish said:


Most people do not own all three consoles in each generation. Consoles are quite expensive when you add up all the hidden costs and subscriptions. Why would you compare different generation consoles to each other, it really says nothing about the consoles themselves but more about the developers. The reason there were not many RPGs on the N64 is because Jrpg devs wanted the cd-rom as their storage medium for the type of games they were making. It was a inevitable thing to happen when they wanted to make their games more cinematic with cutscenes and use real instruments for their music. The n64 was just the beginning of nintendo's stupid decisions of scaring third party devs away. They continued this trend with the mini dvd on the gamecube, motion controls on the wii, and the gimmicky outdated hardware the wii u.