1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:06,799 before this is over I will be making some Fanboys mad and I'm going to start 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:11,679 with a shot at Big Daddy red You could argue that Nintendo is the most 3 00:00:09,040 --> 00:00:15,599 important console maker of all time originally a trading card and toy 4 00:00:13,599 --> 00:00:20,400 company they found some initial success in gaming in the Midway space but it was 5 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:26,640 the 1 million units of their first Home console the color TV series that locked 6 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:29,320 in their Destiny too bad the thing a d 7 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:34,440 and look I'm sorry but first generation consoles really don't hold up and while 8 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:38,800 our ranking system will account for the lower expectations that Gamers would 9 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:43,559 have had at the time kind of an opinions adjusted for inflation if you will at 10 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:49,000 the end of the day a major consideration has to be historical importance aside 11 00:00:46,160 --> 00:00:52,680 how fun are the games today and the good news is that when we reach Nintendo's 12 00:00:50,879 --> 00:00:57,680 thirdd generation offering the answer becomes very in large part thanks to the 13 00:00:55,320 --> 00:01:03,519 inclusion of Hardware scrolling backgrounds look I know that doesn't 14 00:01:00,239 --> 00:01:05,360 sound like a huge deal but this is what 15 00:01:03,519 --> 00:01:09,520 platforming looks like on the competition start on the left jump over 16 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:18,280 obstacle reach the right side of the screen rinse and repeat woohoo meanwhile 17 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:19,920 on the nest look at him go woohoo and 18 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:25,280 upgraded cartridges would push its capabilities even further changing video 19 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:28,600 games forever the famicom or family computer as it was known in Japan 20 00:01:27,159 --> 00:01:33,479 quickly took the crown for the bestselling console in in history and 21 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:37,920 thanks to Nintendo's Savvy thirdparty publishing negotiations living room 22 00:01:35,399 --> 00:01:42,840 friendly branding and focus on content quality they would continue that success 23 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:47,200 in the challenging North American Market in our minds the NES marks the end of 24 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:52,240 console Gaming's infancy and the beginning of its childhood years it was 25 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:56,719 the start of huge franchises like Final Fantasy The Legend of Zelda Metroid 26 00:01:54,360 --> 00:02:02,439 Mario and more and it was also affordable it's an A and the only reason 27 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:07,640 is that as Innovative as they were most of its best games are essentially 28 00:02:05,039 --> 00:02:11,800 obsolete every franchise that I just mentioned got a bigger sequel on 29 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:15,599 Nintendo's very next console that was better in almost every way and we're 30 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:21,560 going to get to that after this quick message from our sponsor Ridge hey is 31 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:26,400 that a boring old bfold wallet in your pocket are you just happy to see the 32 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:28,720 alternative ridges sleek and highquality 33 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:32,800 wallets well in any case go to the link below and use code lineus to save 10% 34 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:37,080 off your purchase and get free shipping the Super Nintendo 35 00:02:35,239 --> 00:02:42,040 Entertainment System didn't change the formula much but its more refined 36 00:02:39,959 --> 00:02:47,239 technology gave developers a platform to focus on what's most important making 37 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:53,080 great Gams and this was clear right out of the gate with F0 a flashy look at the 38 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:55,840 future using the 3D power of mode 7 and 39 00:02:53,080 --> 00:03:00,560 Super Mario World which is still the best 2D Mario game and the hits just 40 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:06,200 kept coming with a lot library of games that ranges from still playable to 41 00:03:02,920 --> 00:03:08,360 contenders for best ever in the RPG and 42 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:15,560 2D platforming genres there were some turds too of course but Super Nintendo 43 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:18,040 is our first s tier and uh unfortunately 44 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:22,760 Nintendo's last for a while with competition ramping up on all sides and 45 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:28,080 pirate flags flying high Nintendo doubled down on their wal Garden 46 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:30,280 philosophy leading to the big error that 47 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:34,560 along with several others would tank this generation for them choosing 48 00:03:32,239 --> 00:03:39,400 proprietary cartridges over CDs I get it Nintendo's lucrative 49 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:44,640 licensing agreements were easier to control when they ran the production 50 00:03:41,519 --> 00:03:47,159 line but cartridges cost many times as 51 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:51,439 much and hold only a fraction of the amount of data this resulted in 52 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:56,879 developers making serious compromises to run on Nintendo's 64-bit machine which 53 00:03:54,680 --> 00:04:01,840 is a shame because the raw performance of the N64 was actually at the top of it 54 00:03:59,959 --> 00:04:06,239 generation it just wouldn't be fully unlocked until decades later by 55 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:11,159 Community modders sometimes limitations breed creativity though and the N64 56 00:04:08,599 --> 00:04:16,639 ended up with a very strong library at least if you focus on its goats oakarina 57 00:04:13,959 --> 00:04:21,519 of time and Mario 64 still come up in those conversations and most first party 58 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:27,120 titles on the system are or at least were outstanding even if Yoshi got done 59 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:33,360 kind of dirty the problem is that the good third party games for the console 60 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:35,639 were rare get it and we'd need to see a 61 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:40,400 deeper library for a higher placement it's going to be a b the good news is 62 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:44,479 that Nintendo learned for the GameCube they worked on their relationships 63 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:49,919 ensuring that it was easy to develop for and they even chose Optical media albeit 64 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:54,400 at a silly smaller size so the old purple lunchbox would end up with a more 65 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:59,320 complete library with some entries in Long running franchise even considered 66 00:04:56,440 --> 00:05:04,199 their best like smash melee Metroid Prime and Resident Evil 4 okay the 67 00:05:02,199 --> 00:05:08,280 controller sucked Donkey Kong for pretty much any game that wasn't specifically 68 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:14,880 designed for it but at least it wasn't as alien or flaccid as its older sibling 69 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:17,560 B it's a b it's just too bad that nobody 70 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:22,680 cared at the time leading Nintendo to a major shift in strategy that persists 71 00:05:19,840 --> 00:05:28,720 today to avoid competing head-to-head with Microsoft and Sony's HD systems 72 00:05:25,919 --> 00:05:33,280 Nintendo basically repackaged the cube into an overclock rectangle with some 73 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:39,000 extra RAM and launched it alongside a motion controller that by the way also 74 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:41,240 was originally designed for the GameCube 75 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:46,560 at the time the Wii felt a little bit disappointing considering its revolution 76 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:51,800 code name but if you felt that way you were probably a real gamer because for 77 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:57,759 everyone else it was something else it was fun it would be easy to dismiss the 78 00:05:54,960 --> 00:06:02,400 console based on the mountain of wiggle wiggle shovelware that was published for 79 00:05:59,639 --> 00:06:07,080 for it but it was Nintendo's first backwards compatible home system and its 80 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:11,680 early lead in sales incentivized thirdparty developers to put in the work 81 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:16,800 to build out its Library even if the ports weren't the best ones available 82 00:06:14,319 --> 00:06:21,080 now sadly for emulation and eShop enthusiasts many of its most interesting 83 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:26,000 titles are trapped there because of the novel control scheme but we are still 84 00:06:23,280 --> 00:06:30,680 putting the Wii on the a tier for all the retirement homes that are still 85 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:34,919 bowling and golfing unfortunately like the people in those 86 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:40,160 homes the wi gimmicks did get kind of old and its successor was probably 87 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:42,120 Nintendo's lowest point it had more 88 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:47,440 power than the Aging 7th gen Hardware that Nintendo launched it against but it 89 00:06:44,199 --> 00:06:50,479 also had confusing branding and a quasi 90 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:52,800 portable controller screen gimmick that 91 00:06:50,479 --> 00:06:57,520 most games completely failed to take advantage of not helping matters new 92 00:06:55,280 --> 00:07:02,000 first party games were slow to show up due to a focus on HD remastered 93 00:07:00,039 --> 00:07:08,199 which led to slow sales which led to poor thirdparty support again it did get 94 00:07:05,319 --> 00:07:12,280 some unironically great games including kicking off Mario Kart 8's decade of 95 00:07:10,759 --> 00:07:18,360 Nintendo refusing to give us another Mario Kart but today there are fewer and 96 00:07:15,639 --> 00:07:23,560 fewer reasons to leave an unmodded Wii U plugged in other than its ability to 97 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:27,599 Output older Wii games via HDMI we're 98 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:30,720 going to give it a c luckily the switch 99 00:07:27,599 --> 00:07:32,840 immediately switched up the conversation 100 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:37,800 delivering on the hybrid handheld Promises of the Wii U and putting 101 00:07:34,599 --> 00:07:40,319 Nintendo back on top it launched with 102 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:45,159 what is arguably the best game from one of the strongest gaming franchises ever 103 00:07:42,919 --> 00:07:49,879 and has followed it up with Banger after Banger after Banger the enormous install 104 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:54,080 base has prompted developers to move Heaven and Earth to shrink their games 105 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:59,000 to work on it resulting in sometimes a pretty good experience 106 00:07:57,479 --> 00:08:03,879 especially if you consider that the console is little more than an NVIDIA 107 00:08:01,319 --> 00:08:09,000 Shield tablet with custom firmware and controllers it is underpowered compared 108 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:13,520 to the machines of today and even the machines of its time but it is a great 109 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:17,879 way to pack Mario and the Gang into the screen safe slot of your LTT backpack 110 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:23,000 LTT Store.com we are giving the switch our second s for revitalizing the 111 00:08:20,599 --> 00:08:26,479 handheld gaming Market as for the future it remains to be seen whether Nintendo 112 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:30,720 can retain the switch's momentum against the rise of PC handhelds and the rumors 113 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:36,039 of Sony's return not to mention Microsoft's entry but I'm hopeful surely 114 00:08:33,599 --> 00:08:41,200 the good bad good bad pattern can't continue speaking of things that 115 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:43,039 couldn't continue Sega and oh boy do 116 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:49,480 they ever have weirder Origins than I realized the Japanese giant was founded 117 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:52,040 by Americans who sold slot machines to 118 00:08:49,480 --> 00:09:00,160 US Army bases which is why they were at one point called s irvis 119 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:01,959 g weird forado by the way but okay 120 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:06,680 sega's first Home console like Nintendo's was designed to play stripped 121 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:11,519 down arcade ports and the sg1000 was in that sense better than the color TV with 122 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:17,440 interchangeable cartridges and a fair bit more power which is neat but the MK3 123 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:23,200 or as you might know it in the west the Master System is where sega's sales went 124 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:25,000 parabolic we are giving the sg1000 a d 125 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:29,560 which won't surprise anyone and we're giving the Master System a c which will 126 00:09:27,959 --> 00:09:34,839 surprise folks in the regions where it would go on to have an exceptionally 127 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:36,959 long life with some kind of impressive 128 00:09:34,839 --> 00:09:41,920 peripherals everywhere else though it suffered from its focus on arcade style 129 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:47,079 games and sega's notoriously bad habit of supplanting their systems a little 130 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:49,399 too quickly just 3 years after the 131 00:09:47,079 --> 00:09:55,120 Master System Sega launched the mega drive or Genesis for us yanker Doodles 132 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:59,399 powered by the Motorola 68,000 a familiar 16-bit chip that powered 133 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:05,079 countless other arcade games and home computers Sega brought blast processing 134 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:10,279 to the party which is a real thing we think no one is 100% sure what it was 135 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:14,640 but most likely it referred to dma or the ability to directly drive a CRT 136 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:19,519 through Brute Force regardless of the vdps pallet limitations it also had a 137 00:10:17,519 --> 00:10:24,200 more powerful CPU than the Super Nintendo which arrived two whole years 138 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:28,880 later and thanks to some clever design choices it even had backwards 139 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:33,680 compatibility with Master System games not that it needed it the Genesis has a 140 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:38,600 phenomenal library that is undeniably sega's best even beyond the Blue Blur 141 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:42,560 there's a huge variety of games designed to appeal to a slightly more mature 142 00:10:40,519 --> 00:10:47,560 audience thanks to sega's looser thirdparty ecosystem and many Genesis 143 00:10:45,399 --> 00:10:54,040 games just straight up play better than their SNES competition even if they 144 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:56,880 usually look a little worse I wanted so 145 00:10:54,040 --> 00:11:01,120 badly to put it in the S tier but before we can rank it we need to talk about 146 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:06,639 some of the truly baffling moves that Sega made late on in its life cycle 147 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:11,320 first they launched a CD add-on that was actually a mild success allowing its 148 00:11:08,839 --> 00:11:16,519 aging 80s Hardware to push past the newer SNES in some key ways like 149 00:11:14,079 --> 00:11:21,200 improved Sprite scaling as well as CD quality audio and the ability to play 150 00:11:18,839 --> 00:11:27,560 interactive FMV video games if you're into those but then as this sort of 151 00:11:24,519 --> 00:11:31,720 nextg stop Gap Sega designed and 152 00:11:27,560 --> 00:11:34,720 launched the 32 X add-on around the same 153 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:37,760 time that their completely nextg full 154 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:41,519 32-bit console the Saturn would launch 155 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:43,800 in Japan making matters much worse Sega 156 00:11:41,519 --> 00:11:48,360 surprise launched the console 4 months early in North America only for Sony to 157 00:11:46,560 --> 00:11:53,760 immediately counter by announcing the PlayStation would be just 158 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:57,839 299999 so if you're confused trying to follow exactly what I'm talking about 159 00:11:55,440 --> 00:12:05,040 here imagine how consumers felt at the time what did did I just buy and what is 160 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:06,920 this new thing Sega in one stroke burnt 161 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:15,199 the Goodwill that they had fought so hard to claim from Nintendo and suddenly 162 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:17,959 they were behind by a lot Genesis a as 163 00:12:15,199 --> 00:12:22,000 for the Saturn it was a complete bust everywhere but Japan which I guess is 164 00:12:20,279 --> 00:12:27,959 what happens when you go from we're going to make the best darn 2D system 165 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:29,760 for True arcade 2 oh my God here comes 166 00:12:27,959 --> 00:12:35,000 Sony and they've got 3D now in hindsight the Saturn has a 167 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:39,440 pretty incredible library of hidden gems that I would highly recommend that you 168 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:44,079 check out but in the 9s when 3D was the new hotness developers just couldn't be 169 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:48,120 ared to learn its eccentric for chip architecture and sega's penultimate 170 00:12:46,639 --> 00:12:54,399 effort would pave the way for the company's overall exit from the console 171 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:57,120 Hardware space we're giving it a c for 172 00:12:54,399 --> 00:13:03,279 come on it at least deserved a chance the Saturn is the most under ated system 173 00:12:59,839 --> 00:13:05,560 that Sega has ever made maybe even by us 174 00:13:03,279 --> 00:13:10,240 and I'm saying that knowing that most people would think that award goes to 175 00:13:07,279 --> 00:13:15,720 sega's final effort the Dreamcast with a modem for Network play built right in 176 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:18,760 and a highquality VGA capable output it 177 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:20,800 was truly ahead of its time and between 178 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:25,480 great ports to the system not to mention a slew of phenomenal new games the 179 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:32,440 Dreamcast would get off to the strongest start yet NVIDIA game history that is 180 00:13:29,279 --> 00:13:33,639 until a big old black DVD player that 181 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:39,680 we're going to get to in a bit don't worry arrived holding its pink slip Less 182 00:13:37,199 --> 00:13:43,839 Than 3 years after its launch Sega announced that Not only was the 183 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:49,120 Dreamcast headed out behind the barn their entire console business was going 184 00:13:46,079 --> 00:13:51,320 with it Sega we salute you for your 185 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:56,440 service and we're giving the Dreamcast a strong B for being something that is 186 00:13:53,480 --> 00:14:01,040 still worth dusting off to this day the good news is that in the same year that 187 00:13:58,279 --> 00:14:05,360 Sega admitted defeat a new Contender would pick up their torch Microsoft was 188 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:09,920 looking to make a little gaming machine of their own and what's cool is you can 189 00:14:07,639 --> 00:14:16,199 still see some of that Sega DNA in the original Windows 2000 light machine six 190 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:20,839 face buttons a focus on network play and even rumored Dreamcast compatibility 191 00:14:18,680 --> 00:14:25,120 though that never came to fruition in spite of the fact that it used similar 192 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:30,279 Windows CE and directex development tools I mean sure the Xbox compared to 193 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:35,440 the full custom chips that the competition was using was basically a 194 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:41,040 glorified Pentium 3 computer with a big controller like what were they thinking 195 00:14:37,839 --> 00:14:42,959 big but it was the most powerful system 196 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:48,440 of its time meaning that it often had the best version of multiplatform titles 197 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:50,759 not to mention a solid library of 198 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:57,040 exclusives this is before Microsoft settled into their safe spaces of Halo 199 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:59,880 gears and Forza and they pushed weird 200 00:14:57,040 --> 00:15:04,680 character Platformers and Epic RPGs that competing machines just couldn't even 201 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:09,079 hope to run the Xbox was off to a 202 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:11,720 rocking start a tier and that was just 203 00:15:09,079 --> 00:15:18,880 the beginning Just 4 years later came the Xbox 2 sorry 360 with easily the 204 00:15:16,759 --> 00:15:24,079 best online service and Games Delivery of that generation a modest entry price 205 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:29,480 and developer friendly Hardware the 360 was a noons gaming machine for gamers 206 00:15:27,639 --> 00:15:34,959 where pretty much any mult platform title would arrive either first or 207 00:15:31,279 --> 00:15:37,639 better or both even franchises that had 208 00:15:34,959 --> 00:15:43,000 been Sony exclusive started uh showing up on the Microsoft machine I mean sure 209 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:47,680 it doesn't have a huge list of its own exclusives but there are some doozies in 210 00:15:45,519 --> 00:15:54,120 there and Microsoft's big push in Japan gave the 360 the best Japanese library 211 00:15:50,839 --> 00:15:56,079 of any Xbox system can someone please 212 00:15:54,120 --> 00:16:02,000 remaster Lost Odyssey For Crying Out Loud reliability issues aside the three 213 00:15:58,959 --> 00:16:04,040 360 is Microsoft's finest and is an easy 214 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:09,360 s for the countless nights of Halo 3 that kept Millions from proper rest 215 00:16:06,959 --> 00:16:16,040 sadly though Microsoft would pull a big dumb and try to make their nextg Xbox 216 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:19,120 one the one device for everything it had 217 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:21,480 HDMI input for cable box pass through 218 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:26,040 mandatory connect integration for voice and motion controls and worst of all 219 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:31,639 they angered Gamers right out of the gate by simultaneously announcing an 220 00:16:28,519 --> 00:16:33,680 always online DRM scheme that in 221 00:16:31,639 --> 00:16:38,759 hindsight seems pretty similar to where we ended up but I guess people weren't 222 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:44,040 ready to hear it this poor messaging combined with underpowered hardware and 223 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:47,040 a higher price contributed to a major 224 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:50,399 loss to the PS4 which had outsold it 2 225 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:52,319 to one by the end of 2017 and with Sony 226 00:16:50,399 --> 00:16:57,920 on solid footing again after their early PS3 symbols PlayStation exclusives 227 00:16:55,160 --> 00:17:02,399 started taking a laps around Microsoft's struggling Xbox franchises to 228 00:17:00,199 --> 00:17:08,959 Microsoft's credit the Xbox team started dialing back the cable box connect of 229 00:17:06,079 --> 00:17:14,880 the machine and did a much better job of supporting their Windows friends but 230 00:17:11,799 --> 00:17:17,640 outside of gears and Forza it was kind 231 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:21,880 of a wasteland Microsoft clearly understood their advantage though in 232 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:26,400 building cloud and data center services and followed up their successful Xbox 233 00:17:23,679 --> 00:17:31,559 Live subscription with game pass an all you can eat gaming subscription that 234 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:34,520 frankly Just Smokes the competition for 235 00:17:31,559 --> 00:17:40,520 Value unfortunately this was too late in the cycle and they knew it the one gets 236 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:43,840 a c for I wish I was playing as Master 237 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:48,039 Chief not Jameson lock which brings us 238 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:50,840 to the ninth generation Xbox or boxes 239 00:17:48,039 --> 00:17:54,760 for the first time we got two versions with wildly different performance 240 00:17:52,440 --> 00:18:00,080 characteristics and for the second time we got to focus on Services rather than 241 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:02,320 games the series is continue Microsoft's 242 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:08,159 trend of crossplatform play and backwards compatibility which is great 243 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:12,559 but also continue Microsoft's trend of especially the latter being kind of 244 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:17,440 spotty Microsoft has gone on an aggressive game Studio gobling spree 245 00:18:14,679 --> 00:18:22,400 which theoretically should lead to some really exciting box mover titles but 246 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:27,440 we're kind of still waiting to see them and apparently so are Microsoft's 247 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:33,080 customers with combined sales of the two Xbox serieses falling well behind the 248 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:37,880 PS5 now it's still a bit early to give the Xbox series a definitive rank but in 249 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:45,240 spite of its poor sales we're actually leaning towards a B for best darn gaming 250 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:47,280 PC that you can buy for 300 or 500 bucks 251 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:50,880 or sometimes even less on sale we'll have links below for the serieses and 252 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:55,720 the other consoles that you can still buy but before we rank the rest of those 253 00:18:53,640 --> 00:19:02,320 I want to go back in time to some things that you can't buy in 1977 Nolan 254 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:04,919 Bushnell started Chuck E cheeses that 255 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:09,799 franchise gets an F for its crappy pizza and its creepy rat I promise I'm going 256 00:19:06,799 --> 00:19:13,960 somewhere with this 5 years earlier he 257 00:19:09,799 --> 00:19:17,600 also co-founded Atari maker of pong C 258 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:20,679 and the VCS or as many Now call it the 259 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:22,520 2600 it was one of the most important 260 00:19:20,679 --> 00:19:28,000 machines for getting games into people's homes even if the software feels 261 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:33,039 painfully primitive now we almost gave it an a for arguably most important 262 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:38,960 console of all time but we're going with a B for best not play this unless you 263 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:44,480 have an academic interest as for the 5200 it came 5 years later with barely 264 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:49,720 any Tech Improvement and a non-existent game Library meaning that we've got our 265 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:52,400 first F tier here folks quite you as for 266 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:57,600 the 7800 it gets a c and that's thanks only to its backwards compatibility with 267 00:19:54,320 --> 00:20:00,440 the 2600 as for the Jaguar hard to 268 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:05,080 program for expens Ive and once again no game Library that's another F and that 269 00:20:03,120 --> 00:20:09,720 was the end of their console making days sorry Atari I'll see you later now for 270 00:20:07,799 --> 00:20:15,559 some of atari's competitors like the channel f is it for fun or is it for its 271 00:20:12,679 --> 00:20:19,960 ranking it was the first proper Home console with a real processor and ROM 272 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:24,280 carts but other than that there's not much else to say about it we're going to 273 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:29,159 go with a d Magnavox Odyssey that thing came out in 1972 good Lord that's 5 274 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:33,919 years before the 26 for that alone it gets a c most Odyssey 275 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:39,240 2 games have exclamation points in their titles so d uh the intellivision 276 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:43,600 Mattel's only console other than one built around scanning rfad cards we're 277 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:49,320 going to give that one a c and uh the Connecticut leather company yes that is 278 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:50,960 what kico stands for kico vision was a 279 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:55,640 technical Juggernaut compared to its contemporaries and uh it gets a c as 280 00:20:54,039 --> 00:21:01,320 well enough of that though let's jump forward a decade the PC engine SLT Turbo 281 00:20:58,799 --> 00:21:06,840 Graphics 16 was mostly ignored in the west but in Japan outsold the Mega Drive 282 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:12,360 and had a robust library of games that make good use of the CD add-on we're 283 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:14,720 giving it a b the Neo Geo was super cool 284 00:21:12,360 --> 00:21:20,240 it literally brought an arcade machines power into your house and all it cost 285 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:24,080 you was nearly the same as an arcade 286 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:25,919 machine be anyway as for the Philips CDI 287 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:32,400 that cost over $2,000 in today's money it's yours my 288 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:36,400 friend as long as you have enough rubies 289 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:39,640 f f f f f f f after for the Amiga 290 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:41,640 cd32 this one I don't know it's possible 291 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:48,720 it's amazing but at these kinds of prices for working units I'm just never 292 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:51,159 going to know um f for get collectors 293 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:55,600 finally rounding out our others list we've got the 3dio and it's going to 294 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:59,760 crawl into a d for having a few decent games and ports even though it was a 295 00:21:58,120 --> 00:22:05,600 huge uge waste of money for both consumers and for its creators talk 296 00:22:02,159 --> 00:22:08,480 about PlayStation all right I was almost 297 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:14,080 there anyway pcfx D there the origin of the PlayStation is truly a wild tale of 298 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:19,279 corporate backstabber and poor business sense through its early years Sony was a 299 00:22:17,039 --> 00:22:23,080 big player in electronics and music and had become one of Japan's biggest 300 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:27,679 exporters their collaboration with Phillips on the invention of the compact 301 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:33,279 disc was revolutionizing the media world but it would take Maverick engineer Ken 302 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:38,240 karagi to finally turn its R&D engine toward video gaming by forging a 303 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:44,640 backroom deal to manufacture the super Nintendo's sound chip this sound chip 304 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:50,080 led to a second much more important deal with Nintendo one for Sony to produce a 305 00:22:47,279 --> 00:22:56,159 cdrom version of the super famicom called the PlayStation now as you may 306 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:59,840 already know that deal did not go as planned and depending on who you ask 307 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:05,600 you'll get a very different answer to the question of who screwed over who on 308 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:09,880 the one hand Sony was the bigger company and had been using its muscle to impose 309 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:14,080 very unfavorable contract terms including sole International rights to 310 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:18,760 every game developed for the system and full control of Licensing for every 311 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:23,760 music and film deal on the other hand Nintendo had a history of tight and 312 00:23:21,279 --> 00:23:28,520 exclusive control over their consoles they were worried about Sony using them 313 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:33,279 as the stepping stone to a dominant position NVIDIA games so they secretly 314 00:23:31,120 --> 00:23:39,120 sent emissaries to negotiate a more favorable Arrangement elsewhere one 315 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:44,720 single day then after Sony publicly announced their joint console at CES 316 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:47,520 1991 Nintendo slapped them in the face 317 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:52,120 by abandoning both the contract and the years of co-development they announced a 318 00:23:50,120 --> 00:23:57,799 partnership with Sony's collaborator on the CD format Phillips and Sony was 319 00:23:55,000 --> 00:24:01,520 split on what to do next some of the old guard were looking for an excuse to 320 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:05,720 retreat from the video game Space anyway While others favored just bending the 321 00:24:03,679 --> 00:24:09,960 knee to Nintendo and trying to salvage something from the original deal there 322 00:24:07,799 --> 00:24:14,400 were even talks with Sega of America about developing a console together with 323 00:24:11,919 --> 00:24:18,559 them but that idea was killed when the CEO of Sega apparently said that's a 324 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:21,799 stupid idea Sony doesn't know how to make Hardware they don't know how to 325 00:24:19,919 --> 00:24:28,000 make software either why would we want to do this hindsight really is a hell of 326 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:30,480 a drug folks as for karagi I think we 327 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:34,600 all know where he stood on this he was still seeing red from his fresh 328 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:41,320 embarrassment at CES and wanted to build it himself importantly he had a key Ally 329 00:24:39,120 --> 00:24:45,600 the president of Sony partially obfuscated what he was doing from the 330 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:50,600 Sony board by moving his team from headquarters to Sony Music Entertainment 331 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:55,399 Japan and while they worked some key things happened the success of Virtua 332 00:24:53,039 --> 00:25:00,559 Fighter confirmed that 3D Graphics was the way forward and the failure of the 333 00:24:57,919 --> 00:25:05,640 3D and the Jaguar proved that their console would either live or die by 334 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:10,679 third- Party Support so a team from Sony's record label was sent to hundreds 335 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:16,679 of Studios to Garner support and their pitch it was simple but it was effective 336 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:23,919 they promised easy development and fair promotion of first party and thirdparty 337 00:25:19,159 --> 00:25:27,520 games over 250 teams showed interest and 338 00:25:23,919 --> 00:25:27,520 the rest is history 339 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:39,200 just 2 days after their North American launch Sony had outsold the Sega 340 00:25:35,159 --> 00:25:42,120 Saturn's entire 5mon run in the UK it 341 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:47,360 out sold sega's console 3 to one and by the end of their first year Sony had 342 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:49,840 taken a whopping 20% of the American 343 00:25:47,360 --> 00:25:55,600 video game Market they were selling so many games that they co-inventor of the 344 00:25:52,919 --> 00:25:59,840 CD needed to build new CD printing facilities to keep up with the 345 00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:04,240 outrageous demand and even when Nintendo's fifth gen competitor showed 346 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:10,760 up 2 years later powered by Superior 3D horsepower not to mention iconic IPS the 347 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:12,960 Playstation only picked up more steam by 348 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:18,279 the end of its life in 2006 the PlayStation had sold over 102 million 349 00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:23,960 units more than double the sales of the N64 and the Saturn combined and a huge 350 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:29,080 part of that success is its enormous library of games it's got more games 351 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:33,480 than any console that came before or any console that came since reaching a final 352 00:26:31,159 --> 00:26:39,039 count of 7,918 titles and it wasn't just quantity 353 00:26:36,919 --> 00:26:43,320 either I mean it's easy to find knocks against the PS1 like the atrocious 354 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:48,200 loading times but what you cannot argue with is the depth of its Library not to 355 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:53,480 mention its appeal to Gamers who were some of them growing out of Nintendo's 356 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:58,640 stubbornly familyfriendly approach it's an S tier for two reasons one because we 357 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:02,399 didn't have a higher rank and two two because if we ranked anything else I 358 00:27:00,399 --> 00:27:06,600 would first be murdered by my staff and then dragged through the street by the 359 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:12,080 rest of you now Sony knew the secret to the ps2's early success was going to be 360 00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:16,840 its Great Value it offered backwards compatibility with the PS1 thanks to 361 00:27:14,399 --> 00:27:21,840 using its older brother's CPU as an IO controller and more importantly it was 362 00:27:19,559 --> 00:27:26,399 one of the cheapest DVD players available so even though the ps2's 363 00:27:24,559 --> 00:27:30,679 library might have taken a few years to fill out due to its somewhat EX exotic 364 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:36,720 architecture there were strong reasons to buy it from day one and buy it we did 365 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:41,760 the PS2 sales almost immediately choked out the Dreamcast and would come close 366 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:47,240 to tripling the sales of sega's machine the GameCube and the original Xbox 367 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:51,600 combined the PS2 is still the most selling EST game console of all time 368 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:56,960 though the switch is nipping at its heels and by the end of its decade plus 369 00:27:53,919 --> 00:27:59,640 of support it had over 2500 games to 370 00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:05,039 play with more in the goat conversation than probably any other machine the PS2 371 00:28:02,679 --> 00:28:10,039 is an easy s tier and based on our rating system is the number one console 372 00:28:07,519 --> 00:28:14,880 of all time oh so that means it's downhill from here then right that's 373 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:17,480 right here comes Sony's first speed bump 374 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:23,000 in their efforts to replicate the ps2's success by making it once again a trojan 375 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:27,200 horse for the latest Optical media and fullon backwards compatibility by 376 00:28:24,919 --> 00:28:32,360 stuffing a PS2 into it not to mention the fact that they used a hard to 377 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:34,960 develop for supercomputer chip the PS3's 378 00:28:32,360 --> 00:28:39,840 initial asking price ended up being a major friction point for consumers 379 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:44,960 making matters worse the launch title lineup was weak and ports to the system 380 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:51,120 were generally inferior to those on the Xbox 360 so for years the PS3 looked 381 00:28:48,919 --> 00:28:56,919 like it was the clear loser of the Seventh Generation a first for Sony 382 00:28:54,480 --> 00:29:00,679 however eventually Sony Studios would figure out how to max maximize the 383 00:28:58,679 --> 00:29:05,440 performance of its unusual cell processor and would produce some 384 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:10,760 impressive exclusives helping to undo at least some of that damage actually a lot 385 00:29:09,039 --> 00:29:14,960 of it I mean if I was told that I could never play a video game again unless it 386 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:21,799 was on a PS3 I would still have plenty to play much of which is pretty goated 387 00:29:17,519 --> 00:29:23,720 but it can't be an S let's call it an a 388 00:29:21,799 --> 00:29:29,600 luckily though Sony would learn from some of its mistakes and the PS4 would 389 00:29:26,159 --> 00:29:33,240 be a non-nonsense gaming first Oasis in 390 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:36,720 Microsoft's weird always watching cable 391 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:39,880 TV World Sony Studios immediately got to 392 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:42,840 work and there wasn't a year in maybe 393 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:47,760 2013 and 2019 that didn't have several games that made Gamers sit up and go 394 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:53,960 shoot I'm going to need a PS4 now eventually we got a lot of those titles 395 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:57,760 on PC but if N64 is a b and PS3 is an a 396 00:29:53,960 --> 00:30:00,000 PS4 has got to be an S and this is a 397 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:06,240 special highlighted by the perception or maybe it's just us that Sony's 9th gen 398 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:09,360 white monolith feels more like a PS4 399 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:12,279 more prer I mean it's a more powerful 400 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:16,760 but still x86 gaming focused computer it's got full compatibility with PS4 401 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:22,120 games which is great and we're only in year four with a pretty strong library 402 00:30:18,679 --> 00:30:24,159 of titles but we can't help feeling a 403 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:29,159 little desperate for some risk taking here instead of just more rehashing of 404 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:32,399 the working formulas I also don't love the direction they've taken their 405 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:36,159 subscription Services backwards compatibility not only is severely 406 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:41,559 lacking but it's locked behind reoccurring payments and Cloud saves 407 00:30:39,279 --> 00:30:48,600 really you guys who do you think you are Nintendo you wish a tier that is 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