N64>PSX

[Jumpman]

I was always right on this point.

Deal with it.

[Paul2]

welcome back jumpman.

oh yeah, psx > n64.  just my opinion.

[§ôµÏG®ïñD]

I was always right on this point.

Deal with it.

you sir.. are a liar!!

[Living-In-Clip]

.....eh?  Not sure about this one.

I will say this though.

Wii u > PS4
Easily.

PS4 is a steaming pile of crap.

[Jumpman]

What guys would you honestly want to sit down on a Psx today?

With the 30 second load times in every game?

Compared to Mario 64, Banjo Kazooie, Smash Bros, two GOAT Zelda's?

[Paul2]

30 seconds loading?  i think its much less than that for most games.  around 12 seconds for some games, and some are less than 12 seconds.  some games only take around 5 seconds to load.

12 seconds is still long, but not as long as 30 seconds like you claim.  beside PSX CD games cost only $50 when it first comes out compare to $70 n64 cartridges.

[Kurt Angle]

Both have there pros and cons and being very different in the types of games they play. I never had either machine but I appreciate that both had their fair share of very good games. Emulation is a wonderful thing now as all the back catalogue can be played on a PC without the need of the console. 

[GmanJoe]

Final Fantasy 7.

[Paul2]

hey gmanjoe, i posted a birthday thread for you about a week ago.  would be nice if you can visit and chime in.

[Bobs_Hardware]

I usually say the PSX was the best console of all-time. Though when I have this discussion with my gaming friends, they tend to gravitate toward the PS2.

Anyway, I would normally point toward the sheer variety and number of titles as evidence for the console's greatness. In a conversation with most of my gaming friends I feel as though if I were to ask 50 people for their favourite PSX title, I will likely hear back 40 different answers, and often they will recite the names of games I had previously never heard of.

A quick look on gamerankings.com (not analyzing duplicate or multi-console releases) reveals about double the number of games with an aggregate review score of 80%+.

Just the last few months I have played through FF7 again. I just finished Resident Evil 2 again, and am half way through RE3 (that fucking Nemesis gets the heart pumping) and am being thoroughly entertained by Crash Team Racing (which I never played at the time of released, but enjoy more than MK64 but probably about equal to how I remember Diddy Kong Racing). After RE3 I will play through Dino Crisis and Vagrant Story (I never did finish Vagrant Story all those years ago).

No doubt N64 has amazing games, and the argument could of course be made that the great N64 games are better than the great PSX games (I disagree, but whatever), but the sheer volume and variety of great games on PSX are undeniable.

[Titan]

I usually say the PSX was the best console of all-time. Though when I have this discussion with my gaming friends, they tend to gravitate toward the PS2.

Anyway, I would normally point toward the sheer variety and number of titles as evidence for the console's greatness. In a conversation with most of my gaming friends I feel as though if I were to ask 50 people for their favourite PSX title, I will likely hear back 40 different answers, and often they will recite the names of games I had previously never heard of.

A quick look on gamerankings.com (not analyzing duplicate or multi-console releases) reveals about double the number of games with an aggregate review score of 80%+.

Just the last few months I have played through FF7 again. I just finished Resident Evil 2 again, and am half way through RE3 (that fucking Nemesis gets the heart pumping) and am being thoroughly entertained by Crash Team Racing (which I never played at the time of released, but enjoy more than MK64 but probably about equal to how I remember Diddy Kong Racing). After RE3 I will play through Dino Crisis and Vagrant Story (I never did finish Vagrant Story all those years ago).

No doubt N64 has amazing games, and the argument could of course be made that the great N64 games are better than the great PSX games (I disagree, but whatever), but the sheer volume and variety of great games on PSX are undeniable.

I can't really disagree with you on this one. Though I do agree with your friends and say that PS2 was IMO the best console of all time. PSX definitely got it going but the PS2 I feel pumped out the most games, was more widely adopted by gamers (as evidenced as being the most sold console of all time) and it's long life with the plug being pulled just months before PS4 came out. PS2 was also still having games made for it up until a year or so ago.

Though I feel the sheer advances in graphics and technology is what's choking the amount of games that are being released. Back in the PSX and PS2 games, there were numerous publishers and developers out there. Games were also a lot cheaper to make than today because the technology was simpler to make a game. Consoles today are so advanced, it can take years to make one game, which adds to the developing costs and the costs of the talent to make the game. Not only that, but the amount of publishers and developing companies has dwindled in the last 10 years to only a few major players publishing games and more developers are being absorbed into the bigger studios. As a result, less games are being made and they're being made with a bigger budget. So naturally the amount of games to great game ratios would naturally shrink.