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[RetroGamingUK]

Strongly disagree. The Saturn is very much overrated in gaming communities like the Dreamcast is, though less so.


Subjective and many of the games are redundant due to overlap with the PSX library.

The vast majority of Saturn's multiplats were inferior to PlayStation, and there would often be a lag between releases.

There's been a bit of hype of YouTube about how much of a hidden gem the Saturn is and, as someone who owned one back in the day, temper your expectations.

1996 was a great year for Sega's first party (Sega Rally and Virtua Fighter 2 slipped into that year here in the UK), but after that it just died on its arse in terms of game releases in the west.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

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.

All good points, but considering no one's buying them then it doesn't count.

Surely a console has be first be rated before it can be deemed overrated.

 

[DryvBy]

I'm torn between the Wii and Xbox 360. The Wii had Wii Sports and they had some good first party games, but overall, it was a paradise for shovelware. It old sold well because of geezers and Nintendo fans. The entire system was a letdown compared to the hype.

But then the 360 also was a total pile of crap. While it has a super impressive couple of years of great games, the initial few years were played by the crappiest hardware failures I've ever seen and then someone thought gamers wanted to stand up so they made Kinnect. And who got rid of the Blades UI? That UI was amazing. Instead they started making Miis, from the other most over hyped console: the Wii.

Given that the 360 copies the Wii with Miis, I'm going with 360. Thanks, GAF, for letting me talk out my hatred.

 

[p_xavier]

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.

Hence why you need to be my boi toy. No, just no.

 

[FoxMcChief]

PS5 is voted worst PlayStation and now most overrated console

If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. PS5 is such a letdown. Just glad most agree.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

But then the 360 also was a total pile of crap. While it has a super impressive couple of years of great games, the initial few years were played by the crappiest hardware failures I've ever seen and then someone thought gamers wanted to stand up so they made Kinnect. And who got rid of the Blades UI? That UI was amazing. Instead they started making Miis, from the other most over hyped console: the Wii.

Completely agree, 360 went downhill fast after an amazing 2007.

Why on earth they ditched the blades for this trash I'll never know

 

[Kacho]

The vast majority of Saturn's multiplats were inferior to PlayStation, and there would often be a lag between releases.

There's been a bit of hype of YouTube about how much of a hidden gem the Saturn is and, as someone who owned one back in the day, temper your expectations.

1996 was a great year for Sega's first party (Sega Rally and Virtua Fighter 2 slipped into that year here in the UK), but after that it just died on its arse in terms of game releases in the west.

The Saturn was a good console. VF2, Daytona, X-Men Children of the Atom (way before it got ported to PlayStation). I never owned one but I have great memories playing on it in 95/96.

 

[rm082e]

Dreamcast for sure. I bought one at launch, collected more than 20 games for it over the years and felt constantly disappointed through the entire thing. I see people rave about that system now and I just don't get it.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

The Saturn was a good console. VF2, Daytona, X-Men Children of the Atom (way before it got ported to PlayStation). I never owned one but I have great memories playing on it in 95/96.

No great memories of playing it in 97/98 sums it up.

Seriously, 1996 on Saturn is one of my favourite years in gaming of all time, after that I soon tired of it.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Dreamcast for sure. I bought one at launch, collected more than 20 games for it over the years and felt constantly disappointed through the entire thing. I see people rave about that system now and I just don't get it.

Dreamcast is largely about missed potential.

The specs and price were amazing in 1999 and if it weren't for Sega's damaged brand from the 32X/Saturn days I think it could have taken off with the mainstream.

 

[TheGreatMusashi]

19 votes for Playstation 5.

3 votes for Google Stadia.

0 votes for Sega CD.

 

[Kacho]

19 votes for Playstation 5.

3 votes for Google Stadia.

0 votes for Sega CD.

No one glazes the Sega CD so it can't be overrated. Stadia too, hell even the Wii.

 

[DryvBy]

19 votes for Playstation 5.

3 votes for Google Stadia.

0 votes for Sega CD.

Note this is for overrated systems. I think I'm the only person out of all of my childhood friends that ever had one. And the only game we slightly enjoyed was this Sherlock Holmes game.

 

[rofif]

Wow. Ps5 is a perfect system. Whisper quiet, great controller, power.
And somehow it's overrated lol

 

[rm082e]

Note this is for overrated systems. I think I'm the only person out of all of my childhood friends that ever had one. And the only game we slightly enjoyed was this Sherlock Holmes game.

Yeah, I had a Sega CD and it sucked balls. But everyone knows it sucked, so it's not overrated.

I did enjoy The Adventures of Willie Beamish on it. That's about the only positive thing I can say.

 

[Parazels]

PS2. Never liked its muddy graphics.

 

[Parazels]

Where are 3DO, Jaguar, TurboGrafx?

 

[billthomas696969]

Sega's early third-party output is such a "what might have been" for the Dreamcast. You know those games started as Dreamcast projects. If only it had done better during the Christmas holiday in 2000.

 

[TheGreatMusashi]

Dreamcast for sure. I bought one at launch, collected more than 20 games for it over the years and felt constantly disappointed through the entire thing. I see people rave about that system now and I just don't get it.

I enjoyed the graphical boost and the arcade offerings. Coming off the Playstation, it felt like a breath of fresh air. Fighting games and great RPGs to shorter, score based arcade experiences and even more figting games. Again, the graphics were awesome and the VMU was fun, even if I had to buy five for storage.

I wish the foam microphone slip-cover would recover from the spit spewn while screaming obscenity at Seaman.

It got all crusty hard.

Maybe it will soften with more Seaman.

Start screaming again, you know?

Let it all out, bro.

 

[rofif]

What's a single overrated feature in ps5 ?
It is technically solid and quiet, you can add ssd and Blu-ray drive. Controller is like the best ever. Multiplats run the best on it.

Could have more any exclusive but that's every console this gen. If that's your judgement, the. Xbox series is way worse when it comes to that lol.

 

[billthomas696969]

Saturn's library is amazing if you're willing to play imports. Many games have fan translations and/or don't need Japanese reading skills to be enjoyed. I've even played some games with really bad reputations that I came to find oddly compelling (Virtual Hydlide is a mess but I had a really good time with it, for example).

 

[Games Bookstore]

If by overrated you mean people speak about it in such high regard then I'm gonna say PS2 for a number of reasons.

I really enjoyed PS1 but I felt PS2 was no where near as enjoyable. It wasn't even my favourite console of that generation. GameCube was far more enjoyable.

Whilst ps2 may still hold the record of most consoles sold (for now), I would not consider it the best playstation either.

Go ahead throw your rocks

 

[TheGreatMusashi]

No one glazes the Sega CD so it can't be overrated. Stadia too, hell even the Wii.

Note this is for overrated systems. I think I'm the only person out of all of my childhood friends that ever had one. And the only game we slightly enjoyed was this Sherlock Holmes game.

Come on guys, grow up.

 

[MiguelItUp]

PlayStation 5. I feel like PlayStation exclusives watered down more and more with each new console. On PS5 I own Demon's Souls Remake, Death Stranding 2, and Returnal. That's it. I don't know what my next must have PS5 title will be. But it's wild to me that there aren't more considering how long the system has been out.

PS1 and PS2 were amazing. 3 fell off a bit for me, 4 even more so, and then 5 even more so.

Obviously my opinion and all.

 

[djjinx2]

19 votes for Playstation 5.

3 votes for Google Stadia.

0 votes for Sega CD.

Stadia shouldn't even be included and no one bought a Sega CD to even rate it.

PS5 is currently in people's minds with millions sold, so it's an easy answer given the lack of exclusives and overpriced games.

 

[kremiso]

PS2
won the generation war without merit
liked PS1 a lot more

 

[rofif]

PS2
won the generation war without merit
liked PS1 a lot more

saying ps2 is overrated is pure retardation.
I didn't even had one and I know it's probably the best system ever

 

[vaibhavpisal]

Not sure if its overrated, but Wii is only system where I ran out of something interesting to play.

 

[Baemono]

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.

It's probably the answer, yes

 

[Crayon]

Saturn is my most-used old console, easily. It's the secret best neo-geo.

 

[Black_Stride]

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.

And near no one rates them highly here.....how they overrated?

 

[Zathalus]

Dreamcast. Good system, but you'd think it was the second coming of Christ the way some go on about it.

 

[Hero_Select]

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.

I know you said personally but.. I would be remiss if I didnt say.. "wat"

A Link to the Past
Super Metroid
Castlevania 4
Megaman X
Donkey Kong Country
Final Fantasy 6
Chrono Trigger
Street Fighter 2
Super Punch Out
Turtles in Time
Earthbound
Super Mario World

Like.. that's just off the top of my head without trying too hard not to name a game in the same genre unless Chrono Trigger and FF6 both being RPGs is somehow a detriment.

SNES will never be overrated, it's library is too damn awesome.

 

[March Climber]

OP you should have made this thread with hard mode on, by removing all current gen consoles (especially since their generation isn't even done yet).

 

[Ovek]

The Switch and by extension the Switch 2, especially the Switch 2. They have shit hardware and mediocre battery life yet everyone acts like they are the second coming.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

My vote goes to the Xbox 360. It only had half of a good generation and lost steam once the Kinect pivot happened.

Pretty much that and 50% rate of failure (RROD).

 

[HYDE]

N64

You can count the amount of games that hold up on there with 1 hand.

I only need 3 fingers…but want them all to get completely remade.

Ocarina of Time
Majora's Mask
Super Mario 64

 

[Ar¢tos]

Depends on the perspective. Overrated by who. The makers? The users?

Xbox One is easily the most overrated console by the makers, the whole TV TV Sports Watercooler bizarre presentation and weak specs showed a completely delusional company out of touch with reality.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

I'm curious if people are voting based on game library, or other reasons.

For example, the N64's library is what it is. But, considering that its games were expensive and that I had to rely on my parents to buy games, thus getting a new one every three or four months (and even more, because I had a PS1 as well), the N64 was basically an endless streak of bangers for me, even if in the end I only owned a dozen games or so.

For me, it's the GameCube, bar none. I still struggle to see what people worship about its library, or its controller. It has by far the worst Mario and the worst Zelda when it comes to gameplay and design. Luigi's Mansion was always a 7/10 game at best, same for Eternal Darkness. Star Fox Adventures is hot garbage in a shiny fur-shaded dress. The system was literally saved for me by the Metroid Prime games first, and by RE4 later. The other exclusives from Nintendo are barely even remembered by the system's hardest stans, except for MK Double Dash. And the rest was pretty much games you could get on other systems. Most cash-grabby Nintendo system ever, too: remember how you needed up to 4 GBAs and link cables to play some games? You could get 4 Wiimotes for the price of a GBA.

 

[Crayon]

I'm curious if people are voting based on game library, or other reasons.

For example, the N64's library is what it is. But, considering that its games were expensive and that I had to rely on my parents to buy games, thus getting a new one every three or four months, the N64 was basically and endless streak of bangers for me, even if in the end I only owned a dozen games or so.

For me, it's the GameCube, bar none. I still struggle to see what people worship about its library, or its controller. It has by far the worst Mario and the worst Zelda when it comes to gameplay and design. Luigi's Mansion was always a 7/10 game at best, same for Eternal Darkness. Star Fox Adventures is hot garbage in a shiny fur-shaded dress. The system was literally saved for me by the Metroid Prime games first, and by RE4 later. The other exclusives from Nintendo are barely even remembered by the system's hardest stans, except for MK Double Dash. And the rest was pretty much games you could get on other systems. Most cash-grabby Nintendo system ever, too: remember how you needed up to 4 GBAs and link cables to play some games? You could get 4 Wiimotes for the price of a GBA.

It's hard to come up with even a personal standard to judge older stuff by and I think about this all the time because I'm often touring old games. I'm sort of basing it on what I value in the system now, and that's two-sided. One side is how I enjoy playing the games and the selection, the other is sort of a appreciation of historical game trends. So I judge retro stuff on a mix of what it's like today and what it was like back then.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

saying ps2 is overrated is pure retardation.
I didn't even had one and I know it's probably the best system ever

PS2 has the best library. If that's your metric, then it was unquestionably the best of its time.

But it was slow, the UI was ugly, the design was meh (and the Slim redesign even more meh), it had only 2 controller ports.
And graphically speaking, it was obviously inferior to any competitor, including the Dreamcast. Several games that released on both systems look better on the Dreamcast, that's known.

It was also plagued by distribution and technical issues in Europe, with a lot of games releasing much later or simply never releasing, and unoptimized games (the vast majority) running visibly slower that their NTSC versions. Plus Sony nickel and diming the hell out of the system, making you pay for a fucking plastic stand and official video cables costing as much as a new game.

 

[Radical_3d]

It's Dreamcast. Only 10 million units sold an all of them seem to be to obnoxious internet users.

Somehow PS5 is winning but to be overrated you need to be positively rated, and even a fanboy like me hates it.

 

[PendekarRajawali]

Dreamcast for sure, or any Sega console really.

Agreed, if people loved Sega so much, why most of their consoles were failed?

 

[PlayStaytion]

The PS4, basically a console for 3rd party titles and an easy target for sales topics. 6th & 7th gen wasn't about sales more than talking about the games themselves, that's more respectful in my opinion.

 

[Neff]

PS2

Yes

SNES

No

 

[nkarafo]

It has to be the Saturn and Dreamcast. But not because of the consoles themselves but because of the way old Sega fans behave and post about them. Feels like every single post is full of butthurt and resentment as they desperately try to convince you both of these consoles were the best thing humanity created while the competing consoles at the time were junk that got everyone else fooled.

 

[kremiso]

lovely to see all the hate splitted
i feel better now

 

[rofif]

PS2 has the best library. If that's your metric, then it was unquestionably the best of its time.

But it was slow, the UI was ugly, the design was meh (and the Slim redesign even more meh), it had only 2 controller ports.
And graphically speaking, it was obviously inferior to any competitor, including the Dreamcast. Several games that released on both systems look better on the Dreamcast, that's known.

It was also plagued by distribution and technical issues in Europe, with a lot of games releasing much later or simply never releasing, and unoptimized games (the vast majority) running visibly slower that their NTSC versions. Plus Sony nickel and diming the hell out of the system, making you pay for a fucking plastic stand and official video cables costing as much as a new game.

Slow, sure. but ui is legendary. console design also! Both the fat and the slim.

 

[nkarafo]

I'm curious if people are voting based on game library, or other reasons.

For example, the N64's library is what it is. But, considering that its games were expensive and that I had to rely on my parents to buy games, thus getting a new one every three or four months (and even more, because I had a PS1 as well), the N64 was basically an endless streak of bangers for me, even if in the end I only owned a dozen games or so.

For me, it's the GameCube, bar none. I still struggle to see what people worship about its library, or its controller. It has by far the worst Mario and the worst Zelda when it comes to gameplay and design. Luigi's Mansion was always a 7/10 game at best, same for Eternal Darkness. Star Fox Adventures is hot garbage in a shiny fur-shaded dress. The system was literally saved for me by the Metroid Prime games first, and by RE4 later. The other exclusives from Nintendo are barely even remembered by the system's hardest stans, except for MK Double Dash. And the rest was pretty much games you could get on other systems. Most cash-grabby Nintendo system ever, too: remember how you needed up to 4 GBAs and link cables to play some games? You could get 4 Wiimotes for the price of a GBA.

I actually agree about the Gamecube.

I consider it the weakest of Nintendo consoles when it comes to first party support, especially since they gave so many of their franchises to third parties. Like Starfox, F-Zero and Metroid.

And it will always rub me the wrong way how F-Zero GX has become the golden child of the franchise. I say X is superior in every single way other than graphics. But apparently those graphics were so good, they managed to completely overshadow a superior game. Ugh.

Metroid Prime, Rogue Leader and REmake were the only things i liked about Gamecube. Not a huge fan of RE4 though because of how it pushed the franchise to more dumb action sequels like RE5 and RE6.

 

[Drew1440]

Nintendo 64 - Sticking with cartridges showed how out of touch Nintendo was with the market, and it lost them a lot of third party support in the process. The few exclusive games are generally overrated also, with many concepts being done better on the PC/PSX instead.