Hey guys, what is your favorite gaming console? Playstation, Xbox, Nintendo switch???
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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, consoles 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 paper and some quite good games, but the controller sucked balls and there was only 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 generation, 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 were available on other platforms anyway, and the first controller lineup was too big 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 packed 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 something. 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 sticks to play Dreamcast games via an emulator is a game changer.


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Hey guys, what is your favorite gaming console? Playstation, Xbox, Nintendo switch???

None of the above.




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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???

Playstation 1 and 2, the playstation 1 (that I still have) I modified it so it would play copied CD's so I only played the copies and kept the originals near mint condition.
The grand kids now play with the playstation 2.

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Re: game consoles
By: Arelor to Morningstarr on Mon Dec 15 2025 08:22 am

I think consoles were only worth it up to the 6th generation... afterwards, consoles became glorified computers with all the issues that brings.

I often felt like consoles were simplified computers, at least in the early days of consoles.. though in the 80s, consoles often had better graphics & sound capabilities than desktop computers did.

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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 play PC games most often. I still have a Nintendo Wii, and that's the newest game console I have. I liked the older game consoles, such as the original NES, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Nintendo 64, TurboGrafX-16, etc..

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Re: game consoles
By: Morningstarr to All on Sun Dec 14 2025 21:46:09

Hey guys, what is your favorite gaming console? Playstation, Xbox, Nintendo switch???

Tbh, either the PS2 or Xbox 360.

My only other favorite doesn't really classify as a console, but the Commodore 64 is amazing, and super capable for its age!

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Re: game consoles
By: Nightfox to Arelor on Mon Dec 15 2025 09:48 am

I often felt like consoles were simplified computers, at least in the early days of consoles.. though in the 80s, consoles often had better graphics & sound capabilities than desktop computers did.

The really early consoles (think 2nd generation and before) didn't feel like computers at all. 1st generation were wired logic toys.

Onwards... they were computers in a sense, but they weren't user programable (at least on purpose). They were machines into which you inserted your "toy of the day" to have fun with and it pretty much worked out of the gate, as opposed to PC games (in which you had to configure your hardware, or have the proper accessories or proper memory extensions or whatever).

Later machines (think 7th generation aka PS3 and onward) are designed to run applications from vendors, feature networking as a basic characteristic, and no longer work as a fire and forget solution. This is, playing games in some consoles takes more than inserting a cartridge in them and powering the console on.


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