What console has the best video game library in your opinion?

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#1  Edited By Speeny
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I’d say for me it’s the PS2. All of the Playstation systems have a great range of exclusives though.

If I were to choose a second one I like the Nintendo DS.

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#2 Archangel3371
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I’d say that the SNES has the most of my all time favourite games. Just a treasure trove of some of the greatest games of all time from Nintendo, Capcom, Konami, and Square-Enix.

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#3 Speeny
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@Archangel3371: Nice choice.

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#4  Edited By RSM-HQ
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Considering portables is a valid option, I pick the 3DS-

3DS has the best Monster Hunter game (4G), best version of Ocarina of Time. The list can go on, it's easy to mention personal favorites_

then take into consideration 3DS can play all the DS library (which is already noted to be amazing), as well as Virtual Console giving us some of the best Super Nintendo, Nes, Arcade favorites, and even Gameboy games.

Switch has a long way to top that.

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#6 Speeny
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@RSM-HQ: A very good point.

I really don’t understand why Nintendo won’t release a decent enough virtual console with classic games from pretty much all generations of their catalogue for the Switch. It would easy money. Especially GameCube games. People would actually want to support Nintendo, and with the Switch being portable enough...it’s the perfect opportunity.

They had some decent virtual console games on the Wii U but I didn’t own that console for long at all. I’m just hoping they’ll add more content games-wise to the online service.

Is it just me or has Nintendo gotten worse over the years? They’ve held back their potential so much especially with the Switch. :(

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Definitely PS2. every game genre is available there and many were classics.

Had so much fun playing Ace Combat Zero, Persona 3, KH2, Silent Hill 2, RE4 and GTA San Andreas to name a few

Fat PS3 deserves a mention too. Not only it can play ps3 games, it can play all the games from ps2/ps1 era too.

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#8 Speeny
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@sakaixx: I wish I owned a fat PS3. Probably wouldn’t of sold off my PS1/PS2 games if I had one. Apparently they were unstable at times though?

If only backwards compatibility was still a thing with Sony. Hopefully they bring it back sometime soon.

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Gameboy/C

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#10 Sevenizz
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Original Xbox. Some of my favorite games were on that platform and multiplats were superior on it. Discovering Xbox Live was a memorable experience. The first day I bought one I all but abandoned my ps2. I kept playing my GameCube for some great exclusives as well.

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#11 Shmiity
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Probably the Playstation 2. However, I own like 120 xbox360 games, so I gotta give that gen a mention too. The DS is also great. That backwards compat with GBA, damn.

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#12 Steve5XG
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I think PS2 has the best video games library. However, I really enjoy playing XBox One.

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#13 thehig1
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Ps1 has some of my favourite games of all time.

There was the best of squares jrpgs with Final Fantasy VII and IX, Vagrant Story and chrono cross.

There were the original 3 Resident Evil games, as well as other great survival horror games like dino crisis, parasite Eve, fear effect, alone in the dark and Silent Hill.

Platformers were strong, the likes of Crash, Spyro, Tombi, Pandemonium, Gex Abe's oddyessy/exodus and Klonoa were some of my favourites.

Fighting games had Tekken series, Soul Caliber, Battle Arena toshinden.

WwE smackdown games started on the ps1, at the time the PPV and career modes were un heard of

Racing games like Ridge Racer series were fun, especially type 4.

Gran Tursimo had released on ps1 which in terms of realism and graphics were like nothing ever seen.

Rally games like V Rally and Colin McRae were excellent.

Also lets not forget abiut others like Metal Gear Solid, Syphon Filter, Grand Theft Auto, Driver, Point Blank, Parapa The Rappa, Castlevania SOTN, medevil, the 3 original Tomb Raider games,Tony Hawk games, ISS evolution soccer games

I could easy do a top 100 games for the ps1.

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The Genesis: while it was short on Japanese RPG, it more than made up with PC-like ones, such as Pirates! Gold, Starflight and Star Control II, strategy titles in Populus and Megalomania, your adventure-y Shadowrun, and SEGA CD's Eye of the Beholder. The rest was solid in about every genre.

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#15 Vaidream45
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SNES followed by the GBA for me. Soooo many classic games that I still play to this day. 3rd has to be the PS2.

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#16 Speeny
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@vaidream45: Zombies Ate My Neighbours is a great co-op game for the SNES if you haven’t played it. Definitely worth it. It’s aged very well.

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#17 danielpacheco
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@speeny: I rather PS1. But obiously Play Station.

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#18 Vaidream45
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@speeny: love that game! Snes is just so classic because the whole library aged well. Smooth frame rates and clean graphics. Can’t say that about any other classic console era. Hell even modern consoles have terrible frame rates. Ever played ps2 at 1080 hd via emulator? It’s beautiful.

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#19  Edited By nepu7supastar7
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@speeny:

I'd definitely give it to Xbox 360. Ontop of the multiplats, it had badass exclusives like Gears of War trilogy, Halo 3, 4 and Reach, Alan Wake, Fable 2 etc. Truly a relic of Microsoft's golden age of gaming!

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#20 Sam3231
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GameCube

Also really like PS2, Xbox One and SNES.

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#21 RSM-HQ
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@speeny said:

@RSM-HQ: A very good point.

I really don’t understand why Nintendo won’t release a decent enough virtual console with classic games from pretty much all generations of their catalogue for the Switch. It would easy money.

Sadly the reason is the new Mini Consoles, and they've proven to be more profitable than Wii, 3DS and WIIU Virtual Console combined.

Switch is much like the PS4, it's doing well enough that the company don't see the need to offer previous features. When it's successful at its own thing_

I'm only partly seeing this as a problem because my 3DS still gets more use than the Switch. My Switch is for the new games. But my 3DS Isn't going anywhere because of what it offers me as a Gamer.

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#22  Edited By DaVillain  Moderator
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SNES in my opinion had the best of the best Library of games of it's time, even Sega Genesis also came in second places in terms of a good library of games.

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Genesis. Its library is phenomenal.

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#24 MarkAndExecute
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PS1 had a wealth of amazing classics that redefined their respective genres. Games like FFVII, MGS, Parappa, Tomb Raider, Tony Hawk, Tekken, and so many more. Some of my fondest memories were on that system.

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PS2 or 3DS (considering it can play all DS titles.)

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#26 ToonLonk
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@vaidream45 said:

@speeny: love that game! Snes is just so classic because the whole library aged well. Smooth frame rates and clean graphics. Can’t say that about any other classic console era. Hell even modern consoles have terrible frame rates. Ever played ps2 at 1080 hd via emulator? It’s beautiful.

Speaking visually, there are a ton of SNES games that are absolute eye candy despite being so old. Final Fantasy VI is one such example:

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PS1 exceptional at every level.

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#28  Edited By RSM-HQ
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@thehig1: SoulCalibur was never on the original PlayStation, it was only on Dreamcast and Arcades. Till it got a 360 port decades later.

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#29 Vaidream45
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@toonlonk: absolutely! FF 6 is gorgeous on snes. That’s why when I saw Octopath I fell in love. Others complained about the graphics but I love this kinda art style.

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#30 thehig1
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@RSM-HQ: fuckinell soul blade then

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The SNES has the best list of games in my opinion.

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#34  Edited By hrt_rulz01
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Tough one... probably have to go with Gamecube.

But Switch could overtake it in a couple of years.

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