Best All Time Gaming Platforms!

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Best All Time Gaming Platforms  

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  1. 1. Next Generation

    • Microsoft Xbox 360
      268
    • Sony PS3
      207
    • Nintendo Wii
      139
    • Personal Computer
      313
    • Other (Specify Below)
      18

  2. 2. Current Generation

    • Microsoft Xbox
      138
    • Sony PS2
      279
    • Nintendo Gamecube
      46
    • Personal Computer
      393
    • Nintendo DS
      60
    • Sony PSP
      17
    • Other (Specify Below)
      12

  3. 3. Previous Generation(s)

    • Sega Dreamcast
      64
    • Sony Playstation
      169
    • Nintendo 64
      157
    • Game Boy Advance & SP
      11
    • Personal Computer
      196
    • Game Boy (Orig / Pocket / Color / Original Adv) (Specify Below)
      21
    • Nintendo NES
      65
    • Super Nintendo
      215
    • Sega Saturn / Genesis (Specify Below)
      31
    • Other (Specify Below)
      16

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chrispinto

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The XMB is very clean, lean and highly streamlined as compared to the cluttery, crammed up and a very AVERAGE interface of the 360 which also is not as productive for me. The PS3's xbo is so much smoother and less jittery when compared to the 360s interface. Put it simply: The PS3 feel likes driving a BMW, while the 360 feels like a modified ricer.

I'm no fanboy of any particular console brand. If i could be bothered to search over the last few years on neowin, i've posted about the GC the Panasonic Q (the magical gamecube with dvd drive) Xbox, 360, Wii, and PS3 and i just simply have to agree that as far as UI's go, the PS3 rules them all. Clean simplistic and skinnable to the hilt. Beauty defined.

Of course, given Sony's aims of an all encompassing media centre in a box, they had to make it like that. Who'd want a media centre that looked like a "My First Console" UI

So in support of that, my second fave console UI would have to be the Wii Menu

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Could anyone help a gal out? I want to put music files on my new Nintendo DSi the simplest and most efficient. O and does reception get better? for going on the browser when your not surrounded by small woods and hills?

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antsy

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With the power of an upgraded forum system, I have expanded version 2.0 of the the All Time Gaming Platform poll to include a couple of new options and three different areas of choice!

I have made modifications to the poll options, and removed the Commodore 64 and Atari Jaguar as they were not popular options on the last poll. I was tempted to remove the Game Boy line from the poll considering it had less than ten votes on the previous poll, but it's a big item in the portable world.

Once again, vote away!

DC was "current" gen and the SNES was 4 gen and why is a hand held in there?

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Grand Master

Ayepecks

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I'm probably going to sound like a fanboy here, but I think the Xbox 360 is my new all-time favorite gaming console. I've got far more games for it than I have any other system, and it just works flawlessly for me. I was waiting on a experience akin to the PC on consoles, and this is it.

Still unsure if I'd put it ahead of the PC, but it's definitely my favorite console now. Just decided. :p

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Dead_Monkey

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Re: Saturn being a piece of crap

I disagree.

Indeed. The Saturn hardware was a mess that didn't meet with the approval of the mass market, but the SOFTWARE on that system was excellent, and remains playable today.

Then again, I'm hurt that the PC Engine/TG16 and Neo Geo aren't listed :/

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Emily_June

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Xbox 360, Xbox, and Sega Genesis (though I was tempted to choose Nintendo NES).

PC is great, and Nintendo Wii is great, but the others have my heart :wub:.

Also: what about Intellivision and Colecovision? Those were tops. The cat's pajamas, even.

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