Game Console Tier List

Console Wars never change.. and we want to enlist on the side of Gamers. Tier Lists are a great way to rate gaming machines and there are PLENTY of rankings to go around. What PlayStation is the greatest of all time? What Xbox sits atop of the rest? Why is Nintendo always changing their naming?

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High

CHAPTERS
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0:00 Nintendo
8:38 Sega
13:57 Xbox
18:56 Atari and "Friends"
22:08 Playstation
31:31 Outro

[tylerbakken]

Being told the PS5 is already four years old was the worst part of this video.

[FarmerEnvoyXtreme]

"Opinions adjusted for inflation" That is a nice metric to have

[vinesauce]

Kinda cool for some of my videos to be featured as clips on this here channel. Thank you for asking!

[Corvilux]

That’s one of the hardest moments in gaming history, Sega’s guy trying to hype up the Saturn and then Sony’s guy just walking up on stage and saying “299” and walking off stage. That’s the moment that killed Sega lmao.

[KenLinx]

This is literally one of the best console tier lists I've ever seen. I was not expecting that..

[helicopterharry]

Still remember how blown away my family and i were when we started the PS2 on Christmas morning and played Ratchet and Clank for the first time.

[LBSiUK]

Someone's gonna be irritated about that GameCube controller comment.

[TheZincgriffin]

I'm 58 yr old gamer. I've been playing and I currently own every system that came to North America. I agree with your ranking except Colecovision. I was there when it was released and at the time arcades where in their hay day. That was the first system to truly give you that arcade experience at home. With Donkey Kong, Zaxxon, Lady Bug, Time Piolet, Pacman, Ms Pacman ect. It will always be a S tier console to me.

[aldoushuxleysghost]

I remember as the PlayStation and Saturn were launching, a Sony marketer was quoted as saying, "if you're thinking of getting a Saturn, then you're head is in Uranus"

[ArcanisUltra]

The reason for the XBox Original "Duke" controller being so big is quite a story. They made a deal with a chip manufacturer that they'd use their chips in their controllers, but when the chips showed up, they were massive. But they were contractually obligated to use them, so they developed this behemoth controller that they knew wouldn't do well, but just enough to honor the contract, then immediately made an improved, smaller version.

[lazorpie]

The part where the video itself played inside the CRT Monitor was really cool and a great touch. Love to see such great effort being put into such a relatively small segment!

[winwinogaming]

Sorry Linus, it's clear you've not played a lot of these and put them into tiers based on one factor that you do know like price. One example, the Colecovision- it was AMAZING for its day and every kid who owned the system had friends that were extremely jealous. Arcade ports were so close to the original. Would be an S except a relatively small games catalog makes it an A.

[Cody-kt]

the thing that saved the ps3 is the fact that multiplayer online video games were free to play with no subscriptions needed, all you had to do was provide your own internet

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That PS1 boot nose gave me chills of nostalgia when it played. That's an S tier startup sound.

[Mayurpaj]

PlayStation start-up sound is a memory trigger for me.

Just ran thru a flashback of my childhood from that one sound.

[KryptedKnight]

Aint no way they forgot about the Apple Pippin

[TheGameCapsule]

If Nintendo doesn't launch the Switch 2 with Mario Kart 9 they're missing out on 100 million units sold in 3 days lol

[themelbornememer]

Slight correction. You quoted Tom Kalinske for calling the partnership with sony stupid, but it was actually him quoting Sega of Japans CEO. Kalinske was on board with the partnership with Sony.

[bnnybox]

Closing the front of an NES without depressing the cartridge makes my skin crawl like a nail on a chalkboard.

[theofficialgreenkane]

*N64 and PS2 are the All-Time GOATS*

The cultural impact was revolutionary. The Super Nintendo & PS1 were in the infancy stages of gaming & not as expansive.