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[Danjin44]

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Filthy rat!!

Get fucked i'm off duty right now

 

[Hudo]

Some have already said it and I agree: everyone "won".

People got arguably the best 3D Mario games and therefore 3D platformers of all time with the Galaxy games, Metroid Prime 3, Zelda Twilight Princess (I also liked Skyward Sword), Donkey Kong Country Returns, Kirby's Epic Yarn, Xenoblade Chronicles (one of the best JRPGs around and basically the "start" of Monolith Soft greatness).
Playstation 3, while not as great as PS2, was the last good thing Sony delivered. Their first party might actually have been the strongest in that generation. We got the Motorstorm games, Wipeout, God of War 3 (the last good one), the Killzone games, Resistance 3, Sly, the Uncharted games, The Last of Us, Tokyo Jungle, Demon's Souls and many other great games.
And Xbox360 was obviously the peak of Xbox. Was a third-party powerhouse and it was when Microsoft's first-party delivered banger after banger. Halo 3, Halo Reach, the Gears of War games, Fable 2, Forza Horizon started on 360, Project Gotham Racing (RIP) 3 & 4, Viva Pinata... all great games.

Console ecosystems were still simple and not the service-based overpriced subscription hellholes that Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are trying to trap consumers in.

 

[SpokkX]

It was an exciting generation for sure

Sonys worst, until PS5 beat it

Xbox best still.

Nintendos was just crazy - but also interesting

Personally I probably played most 360 overall - so many third party games were way superior there

 

[Stuart360]

360 - PS3 - Wii.

It was a good boxing match between 360 and PS3 in terms of exclusives, but i feel PS3 just edges out 360 there. As for multiplatform games, which make up like 95% of the generation, 360 almost always had the better versions, sometimes by quite a margin, so 360 wins for me.

Wii is last because i dont give a shit about it.

 

[German Shocks]

Sonys worst, until PS5 beat it.

PlayStation 5 is objectively Sony's best console to date.
The existence of the PS5 Pro shows how strong the platform has gotten.

 

[uncreativename]

Also handhelds too. Any console gamers on the go had DS and PSP to choose from as well.

Nintendo definitely won/is still winning the handheld war. DS and then 3ds were awesome, and then Switch Lite. PSP deserved better, and then the Vita was just a failure mostly.

Even buying games on 3ds eshop was awesome. Your downloaded games were presents waiting for you to unwrap :]

I guess the Steam Deck's kind of a competitor too, but I don't think it's a serious threat to Nintendo yet?

 

[rodrigolfp]

What did Xbox actually win? Asking as a former 360 owner myself.

Most explosive console.

 

[Cakeboxer]

Clear winner: the Wii.
Second place: the Xbox 360, because it came from around 25 million and performed really well with 85 million.
Third place: the PS3, because it came from 150+ million and droped to 85 million. They were lucky to have the Blu-ray drive while Microsoft didn't. Otherwise, that could have turned out really badly.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

360/PS3 tied for me.

Loathe the Wii.

 

[Varteras]

I have a hard time looking back on that generation and identifying an actual winner. The Wii sold the most consoles and brought Nintendo back into the console space as a contender. Though they went right back into being thrashed with the Wii U. The thing is, Wii didn't have a commanding mindshare over the console space. Both 360 and PS3 were highly competitive at higher price points and missing the boat on the motion gaming fad that made Wii so successful for a few years.

360 put Xbox on the map and it was the only time the brand was truly competitive. It didn't introduce online console gaming but it opened the floodgates for it. PS3 managed to come from behind and ultimately surpass 360 in console sales while being the device that made Blu-ray a success and the default physical medium since. All consoles had fantastic games and none of them felt behind or really all that ahead. Early victories were eaten away.

If you ask me, that generation was the end of the golden age of console gaming. And it was a quite a crescendo. For probably the first time ever, all the major players were a success. They were all competitive. Picking a winner feels like a disservice to how special that time period was.

 

[German Shocks]

They were lucky to have the Blu-ray drive while Microsoft didn't. Otherwise, that could have turned out really badly.

Not really.

If the PlayStation 3 didn't have Blu-ray, it would've cost $200 less, therefore making it more affordable for more gamers.

The Blu-ray drive in fact hindered Sony's sales during the 7th generation.

 

[nush]

And Xbox360 was obviously the peak of Xbox. Was a third-party powerhouse and it was when Microsoft's first-party delivered banger after banger. Halo 3, Halo Reach, the Gears of War games, Fable 2, Forza Horizon started on 360, Project Gotham Racing (RIP) 3 & 4, Viva Pinata... all great games.

Xbox Live Arcade was massive in filling out the library. I wish console storefronts showed that much curation again instead of scrolling through indie slop, cat jump, horse, jump, hamster jump, cake jump so on and so forth.

 

[Banjo64]

Probably all being real. Wii did insane hardware numbers but pretty crap software numbers from what I understand. That being said, that's significant penetration in to normie brains for Nintendo.

360, disaster from a hardware perspective but great software in the first half of the gen. Second half tanked the Xbox One though.

PS3, great hardware worth the money but crap software for 3 years after launch. Came back very strong after that though.

 

[Parazels]

- Sony: PS3 + PSP + PS Vita + PS Move
- Nintendo: Wii + DSi + 3DS
- Microsoft: Xbox + Kinect

The winner is either Sony or Nintendo

 

[uncreativename]

and then PC gaming roared back to life towards the end of that gen and has been on top ever since

 

[Witchilich]

Second place: the Xbox 360
Third place: the PS3

You know you can't put Xbox on 1st, so instead put PS3 on 3rd. Let me remind you, in no way the PS3 lost to the Xbox 360.

 

[Hudo]

Xbox Live Arcade was massive in filling out the library. I wish console storefronts showed that much curation again instead of scrolling through indie slop, cat jump, horse, jump, hamster jump, cake jump so on and so forth.

You are right. That specific incarnation of Xbox Live Arcade was probably the least shitty. And it was a massive thing for Microsoft, if I remember correctly. They marketed the hell out of it, at least.

 

[nush]

Not really.

If the PlayStation 3 didn't have Blu-ray, it would've cost $200 less, therefore making it more affordable for more gamers.

The Blu-ray drive in fact hindered Sony's sales during the 7th generation.

It was the cheapest Blu Ray player on the market which not only got a lot of consoles under non gamers TVs that would eventually buy games because they had the console anyway, but help drive Blu Ray as a media format.

 

[BennyBlanco]

360 despite being a piece of overheating shit was a great console. Ps3 I bought at the end of the gen and it was also good for different reasons. I picked 360 because I liked the games better but both were valid.

 

[Cakeboxer]

Not really.

If the PlayStation 3 didn't have Blu-ray, it would've cost $200 less, therefore making it more affordable for more gamers.

The Blu-ray drive in fact hindered Sony's sales during the 7th generation.

They reduced the price by 200 euros shortly after launch with the 40GB version. At one point, the PS3 was actually cheaper than the cheapest Blu-ray player on the market, which made it very popular among movie enthusiasts.

You know you can't put Xbox on 1st, so instead put PS3 on 3rd. Let me remind you, in no way the PS3 lost to the Xbox 360.

 

[DEAD ORIGINAL]

You had to own all 3 consoles, Wii was great but it was a novelty, PS3 had great exclusives but was a terrible system, 360 was the place to be especially 2005 to 2010, Halo 3 was as big deal and that system had the best online community going, 1 Vs 100 with you're mates against the rest of the Xbox community and it was a live show with everyone's avatars pissing about the best time in gaming, and I've not even mentioned all the best cods we're on that system.

 

[nush]

and I've not even mentioned all the best cods we're on that system.

Multiplats were often better on 360 generally.

 

[Holammer]

But they were all of them deceived, for another platform was made.
In the land of Washington, in the fires of Mount St. Helens, Lord Gaben openly forged a master Store, to control all others.

 

[PaintTinJr]

Favorite: PS3

I ended up getting a PS3 about a week after launch and that was only because I knew people. I missed the preorder window that was like... maybe an hour. I worked in Seattle at the time. Every day after launch I went to about 3-4 stores daily. Before the job I had during the preorder window, I worked at an EB Games and knew a few of the managers. I remember going in to a store 6 days after launch and a 360 fanboy was telling me that every PS3 game would also be on 360 so I may as well buy a 360. Had I not known.... had I been a casual gamer, I would have taken his idiotic word as truth cause he's the one working at the game store. Luckily, I've been a gamer probably since before he was born. I laughed at him and came back the next day. I saw the same moron was there and immediately left. I was going up an escalator and a friend of mine was coming down the escalator. Came to find out he was now the manager of that store and he had a PS3 in the store he wasn't supposed to sell till Black Friday, but he would sell it too me if I wanted it. I came back down to the store and bought it with Resistance and an extra controller. The moron behind the counter tried to interject that they weren't supposed to sell it but he couldn't cut off the manager's decision. It was fantastic.

My favorite series, Uncharted, was born on the PS3. I also loved the Infamous games, RE5, Tomb Raider (2013), Mass Effect 2 and 3, and tons of others. It was an incredible generation.

Neutral: X360

I didn't bother owning one but I had a few friends that had it. It was ok but didn't really have the games I wanted to play outside of third party releases that I could also play on PS3.

Loathe: Wii

Don't get me wrong, many Nintendo specific games still had a tinge of fun in them, but I found out with this system that I ABSOLUTELY HATE motion controls. I almost instantly regretted getting rid of my Gamecube. Luckily, my Wii could play Gamecube games so that's basically what it became. Skyward Sword was the nail in the coffin for me and it ruined me on Nintendo as a whole until the Switch advertising came out stating "Play how you want" and showed the Pro controller. After the Wii-U heavily advertised continued use of the Wii-motes, the system was DOA for me.

The only game of note for me was, Xenoblade.

It is hard to say. Kinect being the vehicle that kept Microsoft financially in the console space for the last two/three years of that gen and cost them the whole of next-gen sort of rules them out, despite gaining tangible market share that gen, and held onto 20% of the gain by the end of the following gen even in spite of them failing to understand where they were at, and what power they had to bring about their negative Xbox One changes to the market.

Wii, well it truly showed that great games sell hardware, even if just a single solitary game. Love it - as it is now in Switch sports - or not, Wii Sports was more than a gimmick, and something I appreciated more last weekend after replacing all those lithium ion batteries in my move controllers and navigator and trying the tennis in (PS Move)Sports Champion - and playing a bit of KZ3 on the shapshooter.
Like Space Invaders, Lunar Lander, Pacman, Marble Madness, Super Mario Bros, Space harrier, Out Run, Afterburner, Virtua Fighter/Tekken 2, ISS Pro Evo, etc, Wii Sports brought something completely new to gaming as the best of its moment - despite the Switch version being the finished article - and on that basis, the Wii is arguably a contender. If not for the huge subsequent failure of the Wii U causing Nintendo to exit full power consoles and combine 3DS and Wii U to make a hybrid: Switch it could have been seen as the victor IMO.

The PS3 lost market share, nearly put PlayStation and Sony in the crapper, cost them ownership of prestigious New York HQ real-estate IIRC and out the gate was late meaning the simple two thread - single core - system with a Nvidia Cg programmable Hdr (10bit) GPU system Sweeney still wrongly gets meme'ed about struggled to convince early adopters with default hdmi playing ports against an Xbox 360 six thread - three core - system with unified memory in its third year - beyond its egregious stutter/tearing 12months luanch on component/DSUB15 launch without hdmi - that this was a premium system worth 3 times the price of the Xbox 360 arcade playing the same games - with the exception of true HDR Assassin Creed 1 at ~20fps on PS3 - that this was the future of gaming.

Naturally the complexity of PS3 meant lazy devs like Valve and most of the industry produced superior frame rates - even with small tearing- on the 360 at nearly 720p res, at close enough visuals, that without PlayStation's first party knocking it out of the park for 5years straight at native 720p lock 30fps/60fps or Wipeout/GT5/GT6 efforts at 1080p vertical the generation could have been completely chalked up as a lost disaster financially and creatively, and in fairness by the end of the gen with MGSV cross gen on PC/360/X1/PS3/PS4 that might have been true, but you only need look at how the first party efforts on PS3 set the narrative for PS4, and how it completely dominated at its launch and is even still used by enough gamers today to only now be losing cross-gen access to GaaS/esports games, that the PS3 like the Wii could be considered the winner even back then, and only confirmed at the winner these years on when the follow up trajectories are factually confirmed.

So, it was PS3 IMO, although I still love Switch Sports and would have traded the whole gen to preserve its invention; especially when you unlock the ability to play the best AI players Reggie/Eliza (IIRC) where blocking their smash winners by cushioned reflex shot is like deflecting a sabre hit from Vader and gaming at its very finest IMHO....maybe it was Wii