The X-Box 360 takes it for me as an overall winner. It had a great and expansive library of games, and aside the red ring of death (I never got one) it just worked.
I’d almost put the N64 as a second place contender because it has so many great games, but that controller has never been good. It might be visually iconic but it’s so clunky. 3rd part controllers exist now that are more shaped for human hands and I am baffled why Nintendo didn’t do that from the start.
In their defense, it was 1996 and nobody before had done what they were doing with their controller. The PlayStation didn’t even have analogue sticks in the first instance. Just took a bit of refinement, that’s all.
The X-Box 360 takes it for me as an overall winner. It had a great and expansive library of games, and aside the red ring of death (I never got one) it just worked.
I’d almost put the N64 as a second place contender because it has so many great games, but that controller has never been good. It might be visually iconic but it’s so clunky. 3rd part controllers exist now that are more shaped for human hands and I am baffled why Nintendo didn’t do that from the start.
In their defense, it was 1996 and nobody before had done what they were doing with their controller. The PlayStation didn’t even have analogue sticks in the first instance. Just took a bit of refinement, that’s all.