In Your Opinion, the most Overrated game system (console)

Most overrated gaming system?

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It can be any system for any reason.

I personally think that the SNES and N64 are painfully overrated.
For the SNES, I feel like there are very little good games (although the good ones are great) and most of the good ones are just RPGs. The majority of SNES games feel like: Copy > Paste.

And for the N64, I just personally don't like that system outside of Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64.
 
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Gotta be PS5 is you're a multiconsole gamer. If you've got a PS4 Pro, and Xbox and a PC; PS5 gives you nothing. The hardware is great, maybe their best ever compared to the field, but the truly exclusive games are just simply not there. The only use case is if you're dead set on being a one-machine gamer, it's OK, but even then, all the best stuff can be played on your old PS4 Pro.
 
Get that disgusting Google Stadia out of the list as it is a streaming device and not even console worthy.

At least replace it with Ouya or Shield.
 
My vote goes to the Xbox 360. It only had half of a good generation and lost steam once the Kinect pivot happened.

Plus Japanese devs just went through a generation of pain that gen.
Kacho said:
Dreamcast for sure, or any Sega console really.
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March Climber said:
My vote goes to the Xbox 360. It only had half of a good generation and lost steam once the Kinect pivot happened.

Plus Japanese devs just went through a generation of pain that gen.

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Yeah fully agree

First half was great
Blades, Halo 3, Halo Reach, PGR 3/4, Gears 1/2…

Second half was meh
NXE, Kinect, avatars, Halo 4, Gears Judgement…

Capcom, Sega, Konami, Namco and Square all decided to take the generation off too.
 
Plies said:
How so?

Mistwalker, for example, produced some absolute bangers for the 360 like Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon.
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They were stuck between a rock and a hard place.

The story goes (as usual):
  • Xbox was buying up exclusive Japanese I.P.
  • Japanese gamers were not buying Xboxes
  • PS3 was very difficult to develop for
  • Due to the above, sales suffered
  • Most of them fell behind in innovation compared to western devs
  • Most of them mistakenly started making games to 'appeal to the west' because they saw a trend happening outside of Japan
  • They struggled making third person shooters and protagonists (DmC Dante) to appeal to those western audiences
It wasn't all bad news, but it was very clear that gen who was running the show, and it was the west. As much as some JP publishers managed to squeeze out of that gen (because admittedly there was some cool stuff), there were a ton of stinkers or 'old-feeling' budget games that just didn't catch on and bombed.
 
SNES is overrated, and I'm 43 so I had one when it was current. I see it cited as the best console of all time, but it had a lot more bad games than most people realize. If you added maybe ten more spots to the SNES Classic, you'd have pretty much every game worth playing.

However, N64 got my vote. The games have aged like milk and many of the good ones have an element of "you had to be there" because of the multiplayer aspect (Mario Kart 64, Mario Party, Goldeneye although I just played the single player campaign last week and enjoyed it). Super Mario 64 and OOT are sublime, two of the greatest games ever, but I don't enjoy most of Rare's output. Collectathons are made for eight-year-olds who get two games a year.
 
Has to be the n64

360 games in a 6 year time period is a disgraceful

Everybody's library consists of the same 10 excellent titles for the system but nothing else
 
simpatico said:
Gotta be PS5 is you're a multiconsole gamer. If you've got a PS4 Pro, and Xbox and a PC; PS5 gives you nothing.
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Perfect counterpoint: For the person who has none of those, getting their first console or dipping back in after a hiatus, the PS5 gives you BC with PS4. And most major games on Xbox or PC will be cross platform.

I will concede most consoles are overrated most at the height of their popularity, and I've spent less time playing my PS5 than on other PlayStation I've owned previously. At the same time I personally don't feel there is lot of fanfare or overhype this generation that plagued generations prior. Console warring is a dead thing. You could argue this is one of the more boring generations. Overrated, however? I'm not convinced yet.
 
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Plies said:
Do you think Sega should've stayed in the arcade hardware business and nothing else?

Or maybe kept themselves niche like SNK?
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Sega consoles had good games but always played second fiddle to other consoles on the market. They were supplementary devices at best.

SNES > Genesis
PSX > Saturn
PS2 > Dreamcast

The way the Dreamcast is deified in gaming circles has always made me cringe.
 
The Wii. Literally a waggle box for a 83y granny to exercise to while watching CNN. I question the sanity of every actual gamer that bought it, and loved it.
 
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Playstation. Not that it was awful, just my annoyance of history is being rewritten by kids / fanboys doing retro videos / writeups with outright lies about its performance and drawbacks (vs that of its competitors) and no critique of the catalogue outside the of reducing it to its greatest hits; ultimately contributing to ignorance of what actually made it good.
 
Dreamcast had an incredible year and a half, though. Deeper library than N64 in less than a third of the time. Yes, it occupied the same space in the market that the 3DO did (off-cycle generation release that was only temporarily the most powerful console), but it was still great.

Do people really rate the Wii that highly? I feel like it's only a very specific age group that would do that (people who were, like, ten in 2006). They might be really loud on the internet right now, but it's not really that many people.
 
Gamecube and PS2.

The former had great hardware, but so many of Nintendo's games that gen tried to be different just for the sake of being different and lost what made their predecessors on NES/SNES/N64 great.

PS2 was okay, but even at the time, Xbox was more interesting, and there's almost nothing on PS2 I'd ever want to go back to now, whereas I still fire up my OG Xbox from time to time. The controller was also terrible.
 
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The Wii. Literally a waggle box for a 83y granny to exercise to while watching CNN. I question the sanity of every actual gamer that bought it, and loved it.
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The Wii towards the end of its life cycle enjoyed some awesome titles.

Xenoblade and Sin & Punishment both gave me fond memories thanks to the Wii, amongst a few others.
 
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PS5....The hype....All the sales....and its just a superpowered PS4 Super Pro with a completely mid and uninteresting game catalog, PSVR2 is lamer than the SEGA CD...for all the fanboys is it better than XBOX series? yeah but thats all its better than....worst PS console ever
 
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Plies said:
The Wii towards the end of its life cycle enjoyed some awesome titles.

Xenoblade and Sin & Punishment both gave me fond memories thanks to the Wii, amongst a few others.
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Even if it did, which i don't agree much, especially when compared to what the ps3 and the 360 had at that time, the games on the Wii ran so poorly by the end of it's life cycle that it doesn't matter what it had, the only way of playing those games were through emulation.
 
Plies said:
The Wii towards the end of its life cycle enjoyed some awesome titles.

Xenoblade and Sin & Punishment both gave me fond memories thanks to the Wii, amongst a few others.
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I'd actually go so far as to say the Wii is underrated.

It had a bunch of good stuff including quite a few hidden gems that flew under the radar.
 
N64. There were just a handful of good games. Gamecube wasnt much better. Pretty much any Nintendo home console after the SNES was overrated. NDS and 3ds were excellent though.
 
PS5 overrated around here? Look at the poll.

I voted Dreamcast. It's romanticized but in reality I haven't had a reason to hook one up in so long that I realized I had lost track of them. There's just not that many games and much less when you count the ones where you get a good version on ps2.

Still pissed about losing those things though lol. I had two. I haven't seen a controller or anything in a minute, either which suggests a whole box lost. Not the only one. :< I can keep them much safer these days but it wasn't always the case.
 
Overrated is tough. I think on these forums we rate them all pretty proper. A lot of us have insane nostalgia hype for Dreamcast. Maybe that's the only one that fits in my head. I loved it.
 
tommyleelynn said:
Perfect counterpoint: For the person who has none of those, getting their first console or dipping back in after a hiatus, the PS5 gives you BC with PS4. And most major games on Xbox or PC will be cross platform.

I will concede most consoles are overrated most at the height of their popularity, and I've spent less time playing my PS5 than on other PlayStation I've owned previously. At the same time I personally don't feel there is lot of fanfare or overhype this generation that plagued generations prior. Console warring is a dead thing. You could argue this is one of the more boring generations. Overrated, however? I'm not convinced yet.
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There are a lot of playable games, what I'm missing are the big timeless classics. It's like there's some kind of weird, widespread filter stopping really primo stuff from making it to the marketplace. Not just for Sony. This is the only gen I can think of that hasn't had those widely adored greats. What would even be the borderline ones? I hear Death Stranding 2 really delivered. I don't have to rattle off what we got last gen. It seems to good to be true now. Hell we're winding down and looking forward to PS6 and we still haven't even seen gameplay from a Naughty Dog release. Insomniac has only released some new content for Spider-Man. Looks like Sucker Punch made the same game again. The juggernauts haven't shown up. If Intergalactic doesn't end up being cross-gen, it's because the economy isn't good enough to support a new console release. Because in terms of time passed, we will be there. Does Wolverine even still exist?

As a machine for a non-hobbyist guy? Sure he's gonna have stuff to play. But what's out that to pull him away from COD, Madden and ESports titles? Last gen we had Sekiro for that job.
 
Kacho said:
Dreamcast for sure, or any Sega console really.
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I can see the DC being overrated, its lifespan was way too short, Sega's best 6th gen games were not on the DC IMO (outrun 2, Virtua Fighter 4, PD orta, JSRF, supermonkey ball 1/2, I don't play sports games but nfl2k5 etc)

The Saturn, no, it is objectively the most underrated game system of all time, 1200 games, the highest attachment rate of any home console ever, and it completely tanked in the west, many of its games were not ported to anything else the saturn also had a far superior library to the n64

Genesis fairly rated, I think most people consider it a great console but not quite as good as the SNES which I agree with

SMS, Dont know what the common consensus about this machine is tbh
 
Saturn (more of a recent phenomenon), Dreamcast, PS2 (fantastic console, but showing up at those GOAT lists with the same tired shit like GTA and Silent Hill? Fuck off), PS3 and Switch are all up there.
Xbox 360 definitely takes the crown, lol forever at that thing.
Also, the Wii is underrated these days. Anyone thinking that the Switch is better than the Wii is someone to simply ignore.
 
The original Xbox. Have friends that thought it was the best thing since sliced bread but I could not see the appeal whatsoever. Already had PC and several consoles that had everything so was wondering why it was even needed.
 
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Between N64 and DC. Chose DC. Good system if you like Sega games, but missing a ton of third party games, system only lasted maybe 3 years, no DVD drive either. Also, Sega's last system as it killed the company making them go third party.
 
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Switch and Switch 2 get my vote and it's not even close. Nintendo and their archaic hardware is so depressing for me. I used to love their systems and games as a kid but they've fallen off
 
I voted Xbox series.

Series S just gimped the gen for devs having to design with it in mind.

Series X touted as most powerful console and it never outshined the ps5 by a significant margin once on any game I recall. Plus it's got no exclusives lol.

There was no reason for the Series S/X to exist.
 
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