They began as simple entertainment devices for uber-nerd hobbyists—remember the Atari 2600? Since then, gaming has ballooned into a mainstream, multi-billion dollar industry featuring graphical powerhouses like the Sony PlayStation 3, which can render millions of polygons per second. Systems have come and gone in meanwhile, and I thought it would be worth taking a look back to rank the all-time greatest.
One modder produced an unofficial, modern-day take on the Game Gear.
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Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
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people are going to go ape-shit over the author's opinions pretty soon.
I don't think the iPhone qualifies as a "game console". Game consoles play games firstly - the iPhone is a phone/portable internet device that ALSO plays games.
PC Engine was an inspired choice since it had little success outside Japan. I discovered it via emulation, and it really could have gone neck and neck with SNES & Genesis in the U.S. if it was marketed better. Despite technically being an 8-bit system with a 16-bit graphics chip, PC Engine really had some stellar games. PC Engine is a perfect example of why a console needs U.S. success to be considered a sucess overall. Japan is not enough.
The rest of the list will cause the usual arguments. PS2 should have been there. I can relate to NES being number one - it did resurrect a dying hobby. Neo-Geo is an extremely hardcore console with a rabid cult following - I can understand it's inclusion if the author is an SNK fan from the mid 90's.
I'll disagree with the ipod making top 10 of ALL TIME. But he is on the money with Dreamcast. Truly a great system for fighters and adventure games. And the online capability was ahead of its time.
I think the 360 was a little high, but it does deserve to be on the list since its online service is top notch.
Other than that-I dug it man.
PS2 should have been on the list WTF ??? Honestly last generation there were so many amazing games for the PS2. It brought so many amazing franchises last generation wow.
PS2 is number one. This article is written by staelth fanboy, he actually wanted to praise x360, by dumping PS2, PS3 out and putting PS on 6th place. Jerk.