Game Console Tier List

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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
Video Link:    • [Electro] - Laszlo - Supernova [Monst...  
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Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High
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Intro animation by MBarek Abdelwassaa www.instagram.com/mbarek_abdel/
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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

All Comments (21)
  • @tylerbakken7516
    Being told the PS5 is already four years old was the worst part of this video.
  • @salad19
    My parents got us a PS2 for Christmas in 2000. I was 8 years old and our PS1 had been my best friend for the 4 years prior. I remember being so blown away by it. Fast forward to today, I still have it, and every few years I pull it out, dust it off and play some old favorites.
  • @vinesauce
    Kinda cool for some of my videos to be featured as clips on this here channel. Thank you for asking!
  • @KenLinx
    This is literally one of the best console tier lists I've ever seen. I was not expecting that..
  • Former technician for chuck e cheese here, can confirm an F is the deserved ranking. Don't let your kids touch anything that isn't meant to be handled while playing the games. The amount of half assed repairs, botched jury rigs or just flat out ignored safety concerns is completely inexcusable bordering on down right malicious. Seeing as how corporate wants 100 hours of work done in 45 hours per week, its not completely the fault of the techs, unless they do the previously mentioned half assed botch work. I had another tech come to my store for the day to help me out, and when they left, the last game they worked on was literally smoking. Didn't say a word to me, I had to follow my nose to figure out what was burning. On a different note, if you substitute the marinara sauce for the garlic butter, the pizza actually come out pretty damn good.
  • @janjansen8623
    this is one of those gems where the ltt writers scripters and editors really outdone theirselves.
  • @user-ko8qg7tg4d
    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
  • 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.
  • @mkaleborn
    Great video! I’m an old school Colecovision boy, so I might have placed it one tier up. But really looks like you nailed this one. Fun to watch and very informative!
  • @dimensionless99
    I actually still love the Gamecube controller to this day. Especially for the placement and shape of the A, B, X and Y buttons, which made it easy to switch the thumb over from one to another, or press two buttons together. Much more ergonomic than the Playstation's equivalent 4 buttons.
  • @Mayurpaj
    PlayStation start-up sound is a memory trigger for me.

    Just ran thru a flashback of my childhood from that one sound.
  • @nodak81
    Sega Genesis and PS1 were the most influential consoles in my life. PS1 had so so many amazing games.
  • @USMCbrantley
    N64, Game Cube, PS1, PS2, Xbox, and Xbox 360 plus Nintendo's GameBoy and DS era are my favorite times.
  • @LBSiUK
    Someone's gonna be irritated about that GameCube controller comment.
  • @a2d
    That PS1 boot nose gave me chills of nostalgia when it played. That's an S tier startup sound.
  • @alienJIZ1990
    Gamecube was so underrated for the time and imo it still holds up with the right setup - it just had so much charm and games ran flawlessly.

    Fighting games like Soul Calibur II or Bloody Roar all ran at 60fps compared to frame drop among the Xbox/PS2 competition, introduced asymmetric multiplayer with Pacman Vs & Four Swords Adventures, and most of all, it gave us Super Smash Bros. Melee... That alone should put it in S-Tier for life haha
  • The Genesis was an S-tier system IMO. Yeah, the SEGA-CD and the 32X were a bit weird (the 32X more so), but the Genesis shouldn't get a knock from its peripherals that didn't match up to it. Even when the SNES took the No.1 slot a while later during the 16-bit era, the Genesis still had many killer games coming out for it. It was SEGA's best system, and offered up a lot of fantastic games and franchises during its life. The SEGA Master System would be a B-tier for me, as while Nintendo was doing all it could to suffocate it via licensing shenanigans, the SMS still got a good number of fantastic games (including some unexpectedly good 16-bit ports from the Genesis). Plus, the Genesis could play basically all of the Master System games with the Power Base Converter (including the 3D ones), which was a nice bonus.

    Also, can't let the 8-bit line of computers from Atari go without a mention. The 400/800 computers were basically consoles with some extra capabilities, as they had cart slots to plug in games with. And those carts carried some pretty damn good ports of various arcade games at the time, including some Nintendo IPs. They also had a pretty wide selection of original titles for the carts. The Atari XEGS basically continued the line, with its own line up of carts that featured arcade ports and original titles, and it had backward compatibility with a lot of the 400/800 carts. This made for a pretty big library of stuff to enjoy with the XEGS... including a fantastic port of Mario Bros.

    But, that's just my take on it all.