What is your favourite gaming console you have played?
2026-06-24 22:03 UTC
Replies (25)
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@ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 2026-06-25 03:19
The SNES. Hands down.
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@Kolanaki@pawb.social 2026-06-24 22:38
The Dreamcast and Wii are what comes to my mind. The DC was ahead of its time and has a kick ass library. It also had a sweet gimmick with the VMUs. If SEGA had supported the fuckin’ thing, it could have been even better. Perhaps even gotten further iterations. And if the VMUs came with it, they possibly could have figured out a console/handheld hybrid like the WiiU and Switch before Nintendo. The Wii is really just for its gimmick and Miis and the music. The motion controls were super well done, especially after Wii Motion Plus. Even tho the only games these days I would go back and play are all the Wii Sports games and maybe uh… Forgot the name, but the samurai FPS game. Just the first one tho. The second one kinda sucked.
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@funkajunk@lemmy.world 2026-06-25 03:38
The OG Xbox was so good. Modding it was surprisingly easy, all you needed was a memory card (or a DIY adapter for plugging in a USB drive into a controller port) and a copy of Splinter Cell. Not only would this allow you to rip games and play them directly from your hard drive, but it also opened up the world of emulators and homebrew apps & games. Shoutout to the xbins IRC channel. XBMC was amazing, it allowed me to watch all my legally obtained media without having to burn DVDs. Crazy to think that would eventually lead to Plex, which I still use to this day. I also played around with Damn Small Linux on the Xbox, which is what got me interested in Linux in the first place. Now that I think about it, tinkering around with that console ultimately led to my love of homelabbing and Linux - I now run 9 servers in my utility room, and only use Linux on all my machines. Thanks Microslop!
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@villainy@lemmy.world 2026-06-24 23:35
Console-wise it’s the PS1. I grew up a Nintendo kid but the PS1 was the first console I bought with my own money, bought and installed a mod chip myself, and played everything I could get my smelly teen hands on. That library of burned discs was a huge influence on my gaming tastes and is packed full of nostalgia for me. spoiler SNES ALttP is still the best game ever made though.
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@BigTurkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-06-25 03:33
Not a console but the psp, it was so hackable and customizable and one of the first handhelds that did 3d and emulation well. As a console, probably the n64, mostly cause the game changing factor compared to its predecessors and sick ass titles. Nintendo sucks balls now and I dont buy any of their shit but it was cool back then.
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2026-06-25 04:05
My favorite is SNES, very closely followed by the Playstation. I never owned a Gamecube and Playstation 2 and missed some of the greatest games ever made of its time.
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@bubblybubbles@lemmy.ml 2026-06-24 22:54
I’m too young for it, but I found it in my dads stuff and fell in love with it, but the dreamcast haha
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@datavoid@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-25 04:14
Poor N64 and its fucked up joystick get no love
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@RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 2026-06-25 04:28
The Wii was the only system me and my husband bought. It was delightful because it was the only system he could play with his cerebral palsy! (Some older systems like pong worked, but I’m only mentioning slightly modern) He was really good at the bowling! I wish ours still worked. Alas!
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@Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 2026-06-25 04:30
Real hard to beat the Sega in my book. Not only was it an amazing console on its own, but you could attach other consoles to it. Slap that 32x on top. Slide the Sega CD on the side. Who could beat that? Plus the Sega Channel? I mean come on.
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@NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2026-06-25 04:34
Steam deck. Does it count? Plays everything you see here and more. Consoles are kinda meh. Can’t do much with them.
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@SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 2026-06-25 02:48
I recently modded a Wii and I must say it’s starting to become one of my favorite.
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@ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-06-25 05:20
PC
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@Meatwagon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-06-25 05:39
N64. Such a solid lineup of games.
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@SlothMama@lemmy.world 2026-06-25 05:46
Sega Saturn and PlayStation Vita are honestly my favorites
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@Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2026-06-25 07:22
I would have to go with either the Steam Deck or the Oculus Quest. But realistically I’ve spent orders of magnitude more time on the Steam Deck so I’ll go with that. But both were revolutionary in a way that no other console approached. Sure, the PS2 was great, but it was just a PlayStation with better graphics, and the PlayStation was AMAZING, but in my mind it was a Nintendo with better graphics.
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@Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world 2026-06-26 03:05
Sega master system
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@jimp@feddit.uk 2026-06-26 03:39
GameCube. Just because it was the console I played most with my daughter. Mario Sunshine, Double Dash, Metroid Prime, Windwaker and Twilight Princess. Such fun! And the game discs were cute
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@LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2026-06-26 03:50
The venerable Atari 2600.
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@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-06-26 04:59
This picture has a crominal lack of DS and 3DS…
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@Kitchel@sopuli.xyz 2026-06-26 05:08
PS2, you never forget your first love.
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@joranm1@lemmy.zip 2026-06-26 05:37
SEGA Megadrive
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@JackbyDev@programming.dev 2026-06-26 05:45
Honestly, taking off my nostalgia goggles here, I’m gonna say the Switch. Handheld and TV usage in one device was amazing. It’s got its problems, yeah, and Nintendo is not really an admirable company, but it was nice. With my nostalgia goggles on, PS2, no question. Because it was a PS2 AND a PS1. Never played PS3, barely played 360. By that time I was basically a full PC gamer. My original one broke (don’t remember how), so I got the slim one. it’s crazy durable, I think because it has a lot less moving parts. I tried to do some hot swap disk stuff with it, so I had to use clamps to hold it shut lol, but it still worked. Never could get the disk swap to work. If we include handhelds, then I think it’s the Gameboy Advance SP. Rechargeable and backlit was a crazy innovation. (Yes yes, I know in Japan there was a version of a Gameboy that was backlit.) The OG Gameboy pocket I had was shit. It was my first gaming thing ever though. So hard to see. Gameboy color was fine. Just not really as amazing as Advance. GBA loses to SP though. As for DS, I don’t know, I never had a beef with it, but I feel like the jump from color to advance wasn’t quite as big to me as advance to DS. Plus, the DS was sort of the beginning of Nintendo’s weird gimmick era. I’d call the Wii U the end. So many motion controls… I had a PS4, but didn’t play too much on it. Basically just Ratchet, God of War 2018 and Ragnarok, and Death Stranding. It didn’t feel any better than a computer to me. At least the Switch is unique in that it can be portable.
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@Datz@szmer.info 2026-06-25 12:35
3DS, no contest. Even factoring in PCs, Steam Deck is a bit behind. I’m past the phase of daily playing it, but still don’t usually leave home without it, and I feel I’m only halfway through games I might be interested in after almost a decade. I just found Professor Layton this year.
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@BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 2026-06-26 14:17
Pegasus. You most likely never heard of it. It was super cheap Chinese clone of famicom downclocked to run with PAL TV standard. All cartriges in distribution were pirate. All of them. The unique property of downclocking was that all games ran around 20% slower than NES