I believe the PS3 was.
Very powerful machine, Sony was losing money on every sale.
Full of features including a web browser (which at the time was very impressive).
Full online functionality without any monthly costs
Upgradable hard drive
Full backwards compatibility (at launch).
It just didn’t sell as much as the ps2
Nahhhh the 360 was better…
At the time, i was all-in onps3, because of the rrod bullshit, but looking back, virtually every single title that was released on both platforms, runs and plays better on 360.
both consoles were and are amazing today!
you can soft-exploit any ps3 in existence with only a usb stick and run all the unsigned code you want.
the 360 is significantly more complicated, there is a soft-mod out there now, but it’s a little finicky. if you are brave and handy with a soldering iron you can put an RHG chip in there and reflash the bios to allow you to run unsigned code. I dropped a 2tb hdd into mine, which is more than i need for any and every game i ever even considered playing.
the ps3 is worth owning and playing for ps3 titles, the xbox360 is better for everything else.
bottom line: seventh gen was best gen
Dreamcast because you could just burn a game to CD and run it on an unmodded console.
Original Xbox because you could slap on a no solder mod chip and boot from the hard drive. Suddenly you could switch up the loader, run modded games, run emulators… Truly ground breaking for the console scene.
Or SNES if you’re the kind of weirdo who buys a console because they like games.
I hope the GabeCube has a handle too
I had a GameCube back in the day no one ever moved it around with the handle. Sure you could move the console but you still had all of the wires and of course the controller to move as well so the handle, and of course you would need TV at the destination so wasn’t really helpful.
I never understood who they handle was aimed at.
In theory you could take it over to your friends house but realistically all you did was just set it up where you wanted it and then never move it.
I think I spent more time trying to get the PSO hack to work than I did playing the actual games.
that’s a lie i played animal crossing and double dash until my eyes were bleeding
mfw someone calls nintendo “based” 🤢
Nintendo64
Going to disagree, the N64 was amazing but there was a lot about controllers and 3D game play that was still getting figured out. By the time the Game Cube came around we had figured out a good controller layout and how to interact with 3D environments. Also Mario Cart Double Dash was peek Mario Cart.
People love the GC controller but I prefer the N64 even considering joystick failure. I never liked the stiff joysticks and mushy l/r buttons on the GC.
I also feel like the N64 was the last Nintendo console made for kids and adults. GC games seem cutesy and infantalized compared to older Nintendo consoles, and they’ve been like that ever since.
Cartridges are superior to discs for game performance and stack nicely without cases. They are also less prone to damage.
Most importantly, the N64 hit my nostalgia prime time where the GC was too late. My younger relatives love the GC.
also feel like the N64 was the last Nintendo console made for kids and adults. GC games seem cutesy and infantalized compared to older Nintendo consoles, and they’ve been like that ever since.
GameCube had more T to M rated games than any other Nintendo console.
Yeah but the main line games like Mario were way more childish.
I think they were going for Game Cube level “child-friendliness” with the 64 but didn’t have the fidelity for it until the Game Cube. I don’t think Mario Kart 64 or Super Smash Bros was any more or less cutesy than Double Dash or Melee.
Wind Waker was definitely more light-hearted than Ocarina or Majora’s Mask, though.
Mario Sunshine is more childish than Mario 64? 🤨
The only Mario game that has a political message is more childish than the one entirely about getting some pie?
I will give you that Wind Waker got slammed for the graphic style being too childish.
Came here to make sure someone had added this. Got mine in '99, it’s still hooked up to my main TV today. I have a spare too.
no dvd or cd capability
Only three shoulder buttons. No select button. Absolute garbage D-pad and right analog sticks.
No bloat! /s
Valve is missing out by not putting a handle on the new steam machine.
Gaben is offering us the chance to start up a handle 3d printing business!
I refused to buy one for two reasons:
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the principle of me not having any money
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it’s not a fucking cube. It’s a cuboid.
2 might seem like pedantry, but it would have cost them almost nothing in terms of plastic to make it a cube without having to redesign the internals, or they had used an honest designer in the first place.
Honestly, it still itches me now. If I had one I’d 3d-print a little extension to fix it.
It sounds like it should have mostly been point 1, but the GC was wildly affordable when it came out.
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GameCube was the first console in the house that was actually MINE and not my sibling’s, and so it will forever be the best to me, especially with games like:
- Super Mario Sunshine
- Animal Crossing
- Mario Kart: Double Dash
- Super Smash Bros Melee
- The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
And others I’m surely forgetting
Metroid Prime, F-Zero GX, Phantasy Star Online, Sonic Adventure 2, Cubivore, Star Fox Adventures, Kirby Air Ride, Pikmin
I’m sorry but when I hear Nintendo gamers talk about all their games it’s like “I play a lot of different games like: ‑ Mario ‑ Mario ‑ Mario with a green hat ‑ Mario with boxing gloves ‑ Mario in a car” 😁
OK, but let’s be real, Nintendo isn’t competing on the strength of their hardware, its that they (used to) have IPs that slap. If I had a choice to play a 3rd party game on a Nintendo console or PC, I’m picking PC.
Nowadays, I am not a Nintendo fan. I don’t like their practices and either the IPs aren’t as good anymore or maybe I’ve aged out of the demographic, so I don’t really have a horse in the fight. But the point is, if you’re gaming on a Nintendo console, its probably because you’re playing a Nintendo IP.
Haha so true.
Although looking at all the game announcements last week it felt like a lot of them were the same game, so a similar situation these days I think.
Sunshine fucked so hard, I’m looking directly into your soul with that at the top of the list and let me tell you, I fucking see you dude.
And I love it.
My brother!
The Metroid Prime games were incredible. Also shout-out to Chibi Robo, I loved that game.
Metroid Prime was one of the most memorable games I played in my childhood, up there with ocarina of time and super Mario bros, imo.
Especially now with the new metroid shit show
God that’s so disappointing.
Dread was some of their finest work of all time and actually had me pretty excited for Prime 4. I haven’t played it yet, but reactions to MP4 have been… quite poor.
Is it really that bad? I know critics are prone to hyperbole, but even the regular people YouTube reviews have been pretty scathing.
Honestly haven’t played it. I guess I will stick to the GameCube era, lol.
2 > 1
and I’m not apologizing. Magmoor caverns drags P1 down for me.
I also strongly preferred 2 over 1. Way more variety and interesting areas. And those suits were SO COOL
- Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem
Holy shit, I totally forgot about this game. Such a mind fuck.
I have been looking for this game for at least a decade and I finally got a copy over the summer.
Roms exist
I know, but it was my white whale and I wanted to play it on the original hardware.
Fair enough, it is definitely nice to have the original authentic experience.
Wind Waker but no Twilight Princess? :o
- Luigi’s Mansion
Sorry for forgetting your namesake! I never had this one.
Wasn’t the Wii objectively better since it could also play GameCube games?
Yeah, the original Wii revision with the ports for GC controllers and memory cards had legit GameCube hardware right on the motherboard, much like the OG “fat” PS2 had built-in PS1 hardware.
In fact, some custom Gamecube builds eschew the GC motherboard altogether in favor of a cut-down Wii motherboard, modified to boot directly into GC mode. It’s pretty cool.
I’m surprised they aren’t just desoldering chips off the Wii at this point. It wouldn’t be any less nerve-wracking.
By that logic, PC is objectively better because it can emulate almost any console.
Maybe, but the GameCube was really riding a particular techno aesthetic, both externally and in the menu design. It was really the very tail-end of the “just because we can!” breed of design.
The Wii went all nice and soft white, rounded buttons, happy and family-friendly, which was absolutely the correct move for Nintendo commercially to make it mass-market, but it lost something at the same time.
No n64 was
n64 was trash tho. literally the only 90s console i never emulate, because nothing on it is worth playing.
Yea, Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask, 007, Wave Racer, Pilot Wings, Tetrisphere, Banjo Kazooie, Diddy Kong Racing. All garbage.
i’m glad we can agree.
I was obviously being sarcastic, but why do you think those games were trash? They were all really quite revolutionary for their time. Compared to modern games they suck, but for that generation of games, they were unmatched in graphics and mechanics.
zero of them held my interest back then, and zero of them hold my interest today. it didn’t help that the machine was janky and the controller was a shitshow. just an all around wreck of a console. every single game was ugly as sin and many of them i literally can’t watch without getting sick.
I guess you have the attention span of a gnat to not hold the interest of a single one of those games, especially since they span a wide range of genres. I would also be curious to know what games released during that generation looked better. My first step into those 3d worlds blew my mind, and captivated me at the potential future of gaming. If there was something else during that time that looked as good, I would love to hear it.
the controller though
The controller was perfectly fine. The concept was slightly ridiculous and I don’t think I ever played a game that actually used the left side, but ergonomically it was fine.
Ahead of its time, for the future when man would be blessed by genetic technology to bestow 3 hands upon themselves
I know, how are you supposed to lower yourself to anything else when you’ve already held perfection.
No ps1 was
I’d argue PS2 is objectively better since it’s also a PS1 too
Technically, PS2 was better. But PS2 was also the beginning of the end for proper single player narrative games like the Final Fantasy Series, Chrono Trigger/Cross, Colony Wars, Wing Commander, etc…
The PS2 kept those going early on, but I feel like later into it’s life cycle it started to move down the “everything has to be multiplayer now” route.
Which is why, for me, my list of emulated games skews FAR heavier to old PS1 classics.
Just my opinion though. Don’t shoot me, please.
No PC Engine was.
Listen to this and I fucking dare you to type that again
No it was the 4.77 MHz 8086. It beeped and it hummed, providing much needed warm air to my room - the only insulation of which was nkotb posters.
I miss ROM-Hacking Luigi’s Mansion. Had some huge drama on some forums and crashed out. I’ve never recovered since.
I need details about this.
Man I would love to read about a bunch of luigis mansion romhacking drama
Dreamcast.
Gotta give some of its still exclusive games a go, like Napple Tale
