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

Most overrated gaming system?

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rofif said:
why. So many people vote that. WHY
Is it the hardware? the games? what? because it got it all.
how can you say ps5 when xbox series exists lol and it got even less games and so on
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Topic says overrated. I haven't seen much praise for Xbox so it's not overrated in my eyes.
 
rofif said:
why. So many people vote that. WHY
Is it the hardware? the games? what? because it got it all.
how can you say ps5 when xbox series exists lol and it got even less games and so on
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Because this is PCopium community (or Xbot). Or some shit take like "muuuh, sOnY iS wOkE"

Just a bunch of dumbass
 
Gamecube is one of my favorites and has definitely been underrated during its time. But at this point, Gamecube has been so overhyped by nostalgia baiters, Nintendo content creators and so on, it's been completely blown out of proportion. With some of these retro Nintendo fanboys, you would think that thing beat the PS2. Just completely overrated at this point, and it hurts to say.

edit: oh, just saw Switch being quite high up in the poll. Yea, I like that thing as a retro machine, having a handheld with some remastered classics and remakes on my bedside table. But original content was a joke on Switch. It literally peaked with Mario Odyssey in its launch year.
 
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For me it's the Switch. Great idea and concept, but falls apart after just 1-2 years on the market in terms of performance. First party output was bad imho, mind you compared to what Nintendo put out in different gens, not their competition. Hardware feels cheap, especially compared to their home consoles.
 
STARSBarry said:
I dont get why Playstation 5 has so many votes when its literally now just the fucking Xbox Series, WITH EXCLUSIVES.

The fact the Xbox series continues to sell despite it being the second utter disapointment in a row after the One boggles the mind. You can shit on the Playstation 5 remakes all you want, but at least it has games worth remaking.

Xbox really pissed me off this generation with the mishandling of multiple franchises and new IP's and when they do succeed with something interesting they close the studio like with Hi-Fi Rush.

It has promise at the start, but they just wrecked it, its why i traded mine in. The fact people think its better than the Playstation 5 literally proves how overrated it is.
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Look who voted for PS5… Mostly Xbox and Nintendo fanboys.

Xbox fanboys got burned this gen and are looking for vindication, Nintendo fanboys have renewed confidence from their recent Switch 2 wins and are jumping back in the console war.
 
rofif said:
why. So many people vote that. WHY
Is it the hardware? the games? what? because it got it all.
how can you say ps5 when xbox series exists lol and it got even less games and so on
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I also have a Series X and imo it is a better system, so when most games are multiplats, I'd rather go there. I don't much care for PS exclusives, and prefer my Switch over both of the other current systems.
 
I don't see how the Wii was ever overrated. Gamers were shitting on it and memeing the hell out of it before the E3 presentation was even over. 99% of gamers have been shitting on it since, and they still won't admit that some motion controls (which don't equate to waggle) are better than the dual-analogue standard. Sure, it sold a ton, and a lot of it to casuals. But that doesn't make it overrated, and surely not in the dedicated gaming community.

Gamers at large also still won't admit that the Wii's first-party output shits on the GC's from a mountaintop, F-Zero be damned.
 
I guess it somewhat depends on what one means by "over-rated".

If it means a console that is spoke about with incredible fondness in retrospect, despite being a commercial failure, Dreamcast certainly comes top of mind. It's failure in the market led Sega moving to 3rd party, yet the nostalgia for that console is unlike any other.

If it means a console that had massive commercial success despite being, in retrospect, perceived as a poor hardware offering, my vote is for the Wii. I had one, everyone seemed to have one, and there is very little about that platform in retrospect that I have fondness for.
 
It's gotta be the Wii. Sold tons with a stupid gimmick that turned out to be an evolutionary dead end.
Sold so much it convinced the dummies at MS & Sony motion controls was the future.
 
GameCube for me. I'm a big Nintendo fan, but really the console lacked a lot of innovative games from Nintendo. Stand outs are Metroid Prime, Eternal Darkness and Pikmin. I thought RE4 was meh, and to me it's the most overrated game ever. The Zeldas were also messy, I loved the cel-shaded look but the game lacked depth though had a lot of charm.
 
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I don't know how the PS5 can be overrated when literally everyone complains about the lack of exclusive content, and has done so since 2020.

There seems to be genuine consensus that this generation of gaming is just trash all round when compared to last gen and especially gen 6 and 7.
 
snapdragon said:
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
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To be fair there was less absolute shovelware because of the cost of carts, but yeah it was a huge disappointment and PS1 was the king at the time.
 
ShadyAcshuns said:
Why should he respond to you, when I did you didn't reply back because you didn't like my answer.
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I asked few times. nobody gave me an answer why ps5 is do overrated....
Your answer makes no sense at all. ps5 is everything xbox is but better. better for multiplats, better for physical gaming, better for exclusives, for controller and for hardware.
I cannot accept reasons you gave my for preferring xbox.
 
rofif said:
I asked few times. nobody gave me an answer why ps5 is do overrated....
Your answer makes no sense at all. ps5 is everything xbox is but better. better for multiplats, better for physical gaming, better for exclusives, for controller and for hardware.
I cannot accept reasons you gave my for preferring xbox.
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Not on my TV, it isn't. I have a QM7 and Dolby Vision looks much better for gaming than standard HDR10 does. I don't game on PC, so Xbox has games I wouldn't have access to otherwise. Then there's Game Pass, and since I can't find a reasonably priced physical copy of Expedition 33 on PS5, it's better to enjoy it on GP for the time being.

On PS3 I have around 100 physical games, on PS4 I have around 80 physical games, on PS5 I have around 15 physical games. I guess part of the reason is the generation itself is just disappointing to me compared to others.

Everyone is different, so don't stress out on what other people prefer. Just enjoy what you like.
 
rofif said:
why. if it's so easily, give some reasons
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Lowest value proposition. It's overpriced (they actually increased the prices, if you remember), Sony's first-party lineup is still very weak in comparison to previous generations. For the longest while, cross-gen releases were the norm, their digital ecosystem is cumbersome to use (but Nintendo and Microsoft have the same problem). Maybe the situation will get better years from now, but the PS5 is already 5 years old.

AstroBot is pretty cool, though.
 
ShadyAcshuns said:
Not on my TV, it isn't. I have a QM7 and Dolby Vision looks much better for gaming than standard HDR10 does. I don't game on PC, so Xbox has games I wouldn't have access to otherwise. Then there's Game Pass, and since I can't find a reasonably priced physical copy of Expedition 33 on PS5, it's better to enjoy it on GP for the time being.

On PS3 I have around 100 physical games, on PS4 I have around 80 physical games, on PS5 I have around 15 physical games. I guess part of the reason is the generation itself is just disappointing to me compared to others.

Everyone is different, so don't stress out on what other people prefer. Just enjoy what you like.
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Your tv has nothing to do with it. There is not a single game that supports dolby vision lol. even on xbox.
If you are forcing dolby vision, it's just converting from hdr10.
Gamepass doesn't make or break a consoles. ps also got it's shit pass and I got CO33 on disc just fine.
True, there are a bit less exlusives this gen on ps5 than before but the reason you only have 15 physical games is your choice. Most of the games you play, you could've bought physical
 
Hudo said:
Lowest value proposition. It's overpriced (they actually increased the prices, if you remember), Sony's first-party lineup is still very weak in comparison to previous generations. For the longest while, cross-gen releases were the norm, their digital ecosystem is cumbersome to use (but Nintendo and Microsoft have the same problem). Maybe the situation will get better years from now, but the PS5 is already 5 years old.

AstroBot is pretty cool, though.
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But there are still some exclusives or time limited multiplat releases.
And ps5 is cheaper than xsx.... let alone the pro is much better value proposition
 
rofif said:
Your tv has nothing to do with it. There is not a single game that supports dolby vision lol. even on xbox.
If you are forcing dolby vision, it's just converting from hdr10.
Gamepass doesn't make or break a consoles. ps also got it's shit pass and I got CO33 on disc just fine.
True, there are a bit less exlusives this gen on ps5 than before but the reason you only have 15 physical games is your choice. Most of the games you play, you could've bought physical
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Most games I have on Series X, not bc stuff, fully supports Dolby Vision.
 
I think the WiiU gets praised so much by loyalists. The console was shit. Handful of excellent games for sure, but it is by no means this under appreciated darling of a console. Far from it. I think that sentiment has died down in recent years as people have moved on, but at the time I just didn't understand the WiiU hype.
 
ShadyAcshuns said:
Most games I have on Series X, not bc stuff, fully supports Dolby Vision.
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That's absolutely not true. It's just a container.
There are no native dolby vision games except halo


it's like people who say clair obscur looks great in hdr.... but they just run sdr in hdr container because the game does not have a proper flag for settings on ps5 "enable hdr nly when supported"
 
Almost opted for the PS2 - given the lack of RAM and HDD/storage unfulfilling the hardware's potential as it would be today -but went for the Switch in the end, and not because the joycon size and build quality is questionable, but because without all the WiiU ports - and moved WiiU games to Switch exclusive - the console's main library of first party games would be very barren IMO without even factoring that it was replacing the 3DS + WiiU consoles.

We also regularly see the comparison of Switch sales to PS2 sales, yet the if the Switch was considered as the best handheld sales for any Nintendo console + the best of any home console sales for Nintendo its sales would come up massively short.

It was old hardware when it launched with a primary CPU core less impressive than the WiiU for switching workloads at 60fps and it provided zero route for backwards compatibility with the WiiU, even for digital purchases and then put many of those emulated back catalogue WiiU sold games in a recurring Switch Sub. The storage solution even by pre-PS5 standards was dog slow in docked and never comes close to maxing out a broadband download speed - so hides the numbers, even the SW2 still has this issue AFAIK- and it is the only Nintendo home console since MK began that never even got its own MK game.

All in all, a massively overrated system IMO, that even saw Nintendo start charging for online multiplayer - which is probably peer to peer.
 
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rofif said:
let alone the pro is much better value proposition
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I would actually argue that the pro has the lowest value proposition, tbh. Overpriced as hell (and disc drive sold separately) with barely any full utilization by games, since they need to target the base PS5. It's really only for the super enthusiast people who have a lot of money to spend. That's fine, the strategy obviously works for Sony. But I don't think it's good value. But enthusiast items rarely are.

Regarding the XSX...yes. Playstation 5 is a better value proposition, you are right. But that's a low bar at this point.
I think the current generation is the weakest across the board. Costs more money for less value you get in return. But hey, Sony and Nintendo still make mad bank, so apparently it works.
 
Hudo said:
I would actually argue that the pro has the lowest value proposition, tbh. Overpriced as hell (and disc drive sold separately) with barely any full utilization by games, since they need to target the base PS5. It's really only for the super enthusiast people who have a lot of money to spend. That's fine, the strategy obviously works for Sony. But I don't think it's good value. But enthusiast items rarely are.

Regarding the XSX...yes. Playstation 5 is a better value proposition, you are right. But that's a low bar at this point.
I think the current generation is the weakest across the board. Costs more money for less value you get in return. But hey, Sony and Nintendo still make mad bank, so apparently it works.
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no. 2tb xbox is more expensive than pro. The prices have changed remember?
and normal xbox series x is not a fair comparison to ps5 pro... because it's weaker and got half the size of ssd. of course.
and the drive prices came down. Not scalped anymore.
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N64 and ps5.

Like others have said n64 had an extremely top heavy game line up. It was incredibly disappointing at the time coming from snes which had a ton of great games besides what the lunch thief said.

And ps5....if you can't understand why it's a failure in tons of Sony fans then go search this forum. There's a ton of info and opinions out there.

Ps5 sucks. Gaas brain rot. Canceling bangers like tlou factions 2. Barely any 1st party games (thank the gods ds2 and ghosts is coming out this year). Continously talking down to their fans.
 
N64. All downhill after Mario 64.

PS5 may be suffering from the Covid hangover and Microsoft buying out and then shutting down half the industry in order to boast a "first party" line-up, but is genuinely good hardware.

As to being overrated... Overrated by whom? Sony weren't the ones bragging about having the most powerful hardware at the start of the gen, and it seems like daily occurrence that people whinge about the software line-up despite no other console manufacturer doing fuck-all of note either!
 
nkarafo said:
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.
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kunonabi said:
GC is third most overrated for me. When it comes to Nintendo it's either the the Switch or the GC that takes the bottom spot when I rank them. GC for the most part only has some good multiplayer games and Capcom's output. The first party stuff was pretty poor outside of a couple games and the other third party stuff worth a damn was minimal.
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I grew up with the Gamecube. I love the Gamecube...but I agree with it being overrated. Nintendo was too stingy (sound familier?) to have DVD and CD playback on the device, even though that had become the standard. And it was out when online play was becoming the standard, but Nintendo didn't care for that either.
 
Plies said:
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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I disagree with the SNES, that was in my opinion a great system, a great controller, visible progress from the previous system, with great games.

But I voted for the Nintendo 64. The problem with that console is that it introduced the 3D trend way to early. With games like Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64 you can see the problem quite clearly, since they had to use 2D elements to fake 3D artwork. These games blown up on a emulator with higher resolutions do not hold up. The next generation games however, with Mario and Mario Kart games on the GameCube, do ace that test. You can look at Starfox 64 and notice that the 3D only works performance wise (mostly it actually doesn't with those dips towards 12 fps) since most surfaces remain untextured. All these games feel and look like yank on original hardware.

It would have been better if games on the N64 had stayed 2D. Now you could try to argue that 3D on PC does also not hold up either, but that's not even true. The original Quake does work in higher resolutions on PC, even without additional high resolution artwork.
 
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The Wii is the only correct answer. Garbage hardware, garbage gimmick, garbage games. Sold 100 million and was all over the news as some amazing thing everyone had to have.

Worst 3D console Zelda, worst Mario Kart, mid Mario games that are extremely overrated, bad Smash Bros, shit even managed to make a boring Metroid Prime game.

I hate it!

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PS5 for me. I know, I know I'm a horrible person.

I have owned every PS, and the handhelds and didn't own an Xbox One. This gen was so bad, so fast that I permanently abandoned the ecosystem. Similar thing happened at the tail end of Xbox 360 for me with the TV, TV, TV stuff so I never got an Xbox One, and that is definitely not ever overrated (took Gamepass and Series S for me to even try Xbox again). PS5 is still talked about like one of the greatest systems ever. The services are not as good as the competition, the games are not as good as expected, the sales are not as good as last gen, the system itself is horrifically huge and ugly with that ridiculous stand.

No other systems are really rated incorrectly in my opinion and most people are usually rational about pros and cons for things like Gamecube, Wii, Dreamcast, etc. I do think Series systems are slightly underrated though.
 
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PS5 for me by a wide margin. It's good hardware, looks cool(to me) great controller, easy UI, PSVR2 is a great accessory, but the exclusive lineup on PS5 is the worst of all Sony consoles... by far. I used to trash the ps3, but this is completely insane. 5 years in with promises of a "better future" lmao.

I would literally rather have kept ps4 with no ps5 release if the level of exclusives kept coming. I honestly don't think the upgrade was worth it at all.

Give me more games on the level of Horizon, God of War, UC4, etc, better than essentially nothing by comparison.

And that's considering ps4 wasn't legendary or even great, but it was very solid and looks God tier compared to ps5 exclusives. Sad. No excuse or spin can validate it either.
 
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