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Linus Tech Tips ranks almost every game console released
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It was the perfect storm of games looking so much better and blockbuster trilogy of games still capable of being made within a single generation. 3 mass effects, 4 gears of war, 4 dragon ages, FOUR Bethesda RPGs, mid sized games still existed with gems like alpha protocol and a zillion others. The list goes on.
The generation was unusually long, but still. Goddamn. That 120GB I spent my entire Christmas budget on in 10th grade or whatever was probably the best accessory purchase I've ever made
Not agree with you, Xbox 360 was a massive hit, It had the games, It had the players, Xbox Live consolidation, Xbox Live Arcade games and even the first Kinect was a success xD.
And had RROD and was sold without HDD and had issues with disc format requiring multiple discs and tried to shove the biggest flop of history HD-DVD into our faces as an extra and so on and so on and also that gen in particular was far from being the best gen to start with without forgetting that it didn't even sell as much as the PS3 which had a catastrophic launch that lastsed for years so defintely not with the grandeur of the others in the S rank which have neraly perfect ratio even sales wise.
Also Kinect XD.
360 not S tier??? Y'all crazy.
It standardized online console multiplayer.
Brought smaller and cheaper games on Live arcade, which even just 1 person could make and be successful.
Had some of the best exclusive games.
Gave us achievements.
360 was amazing.
It standardized online console multiplayer.
Brought smaller and cheaper games on Live arcade, which even just 1 person could make and be successful.
Had some of the best exclusive games.
Gave us achievements.
360 was amazing.
The only comment I have is that the sheer pervasiveness of hardware faults with the Xbox 360 line mean it has no business being anywhere near top tier. Absolutely garbage design
nope. and he backed up dbrand doing some racist shit recently too
Don't pretend like y'all didn't have your PlayStations upside down or propped up somewhere to stop games from crashing. 😛
Plus they fixed RRoD for everyone for free.
Plus they fixed RRoD for everyone for free.
Yeah, it wasn't perfect but Xbox 360 was much more than Microsoft expected, I think. They didn't even need to sell more consoles than ps3, I believe ps3 surpassed Xbox 360 in sales when the generation was already defined.
Then Microsoft ruined everything with Xbox One but that's a different story xd.
I'm listening to a wrestling podcast a d they got off topic about being Playstation boys, but saying the XBox 360 was legendary, even though they moved away from XBox. It's easily S tier.
Only product I ever waited outside over night for.
Was worth it despite 6 rrod's. A heavy cost, I paid it gladly.
People always talk about the 360 vs. PS3 sales without taking things into context. Sony was coming off of the PS2 which outsold it's competitors by a SIGNIFICANT margin. Like, it's not even a close race. For both Microsoft and Nintendo to gain as much market share as they did with the 360 and Wii is nothing short of a loss for the PS3.
Also, Zhuge posted this a few years ago regarding the sales numbers. The last reported numbers are not the final numbers.
RROD is obviously a notable mark against the 360, but they at least had the decency to front the bill for replacements (see also Switch joycons). PS1 disc drives failed everybody and you were just left to deal with it. And let's not even get started on NES carts (relative to say SMS). Clearly build quality isn't factored all that highly in determining the console's placement.
Also bringing up stuff like the HD-DVD drive which pretty much nobody actually bought is pointless, and if you did it wasn't like you got suckered into it for gaming purposes like say a Mega/Sega CD or 32X. There are worse peripherals situations on other consoles in the S tier. PS2 specifically had expensive tiny capacity memory cards, optional HDD and modem expansions that were under-supported, etc. Hell, BluRay won against HD-DVD largely because you actually WERE forced to pay for it along with the console, causing it to arrive a year later for $200 more expensive.
Kinect isn't being counted against Xbox 360, because there it was reasonably well supported and a late-gen boost to the console in general, and appealed to much of the same type of audience as the Wii. If Kinect is supposed to count against Xbox 360... then Move should logically count worse against PS3. Kinect on the other hand is justifiably one of the driving reasons for the Xbox One being lowest out of all Xbox consoles.
360 may not have outsold the other consoles of that generation... but like with the Genesis/Mega Drive you have to take their relative position at the start of the generation into account. Sony went from outselling OG Xbox 6:1 with the PS2, to barely edging out the 360 1:1 by the close of the PS3 generation (whilst losing the entire profits of the prior 2 generations along the way). That's a relative swing that's comparable to what the Xbox One would do to MS afterwards, or for Sega with the Saturn.
Even though I moved off of it and switched to PS3, I would say it is an S tier.
Using this instead of giving Linus a view because fuck himits not a bad list tbh. very reasonable
he didnt rank the vectrex but we all know its s tier tho
PS4 should drop down a tier, maybe even PS1.
PS5 should drop down a tier, and N64 and Gamecube should go up one.
First half was great, second half of the 360's life was pretty eh. Too much kinect focus.
its not a bad list tbh. very reasonable
he didnt rank the vectrex but we all know its s tier tho
PS4 down a tier to A
PS3 down a tier to B
Gamecube up a tier to A
Master System up a tier to B
PC Engine/TurboGrafx is S tier what the hell
Rest is somewhat fine but they hate all old consoles
Intellivision a C? Too low, solid B maybe an A. Loved that console the thing was a beast too my original one is still working in 2024.
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Shark Shark!
ADV. D&D: Cloudy Mountain
Night Stalker
Microsurgeon
Burger Time
Thin Ice
Beauty & the Beast
Frog Bog
B-17 Baumer
Shark Shark!
ADV. D&D: Cloudy Mountain
Night Stalker
Microsurgeon
Burger Time
Thin Ice
Beauty & the Beast
Frog Bog
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It has one of the top 5 best games of all times so yeah, probably too low.
Won't even say what the game is, it's so obvious
Ranking the Xbox 360 S-tier probably for its games, but the actual console sucked so much. Must've gone through like 4 of those things with how common the red ring of death was.
The Dreamcast is too low. The Switch is too high (and it's a handheld ;-)). And I see no reason why the PS5 should be in a different tier to the Xbox Series X. I own both and they are equally great or mediocre depending on your view of the current generation.
It was also the blueprint for modern console gaming. Every Sony / Microsoft console after the 360s release is pretty derivative and every console before it seems archaic. It's critically important to understanding the evolution of home consoles. Doesn't hurt that it had an excellent library of games also.
It was also the blueprint for modern console gaming. Every Sony / Microsoft console after the 360s release is pretty derivative and every console before it seems archaic. It's critically important to understanding the evolution of home consoles. Doesn't hurt that it had an excellent library of games also.
PS4 in S just seems undeserved given the other consoles up there. Both PS and Xbox have gotten so standardized that gen that they feel closer to choosing between different phones or PC parts than a game console.
The generations earlier to that had more unique architecture, quirks, features and genre focus.
The generations earlier to that had more unique architecture, quirks, features and genre focus.
Anybody who doesn't think the 360 is comfortably in the S tier has no fucking idea what they are talking about. It had one of the craziest release timelines in gaming history.
Bioshock, Skate, Halo 3, The Orange Box, COD4, Assassins Creed, Mass Effect came out in like a 3 month span of each other.
Further on you then Had Dead Space, Saints Row 2, Farcry 2, Fable 2, Fallout 3, Gears of War 2 and Left 4 Dead in the space of a month and a half.
Even further on? Modern Warfare 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Assassins Creed 2, Mass Effect 2, Bioshock 2 in the space of 3 months.
To finish I hear you ask? Just Gears 3, Dark Souls, Battlefield 3 and Oblivion in a month and a half of each other.
We might never see anything like it ever again.
Bioshock, Skate, Halo 3, The Orange Box, COD4, Assassins Creed, Mass Effect came out in like a 3 month span of each other.
Further on you then Had Dead Space, Saints Row 2, Farcry 2, Fable 2, Fallout 3, Gears of War 2 and Left 4 Dead in the space of a month and a half.
Even further on? Modern Warfare 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Assassins Creed 2, Mass Effect 2, Bioshock 2 in the space of 3 months.
To finish I hear you ask? Just Gears 3, Dark Souls, Battlefield 3 and Oblivion in a month and a half of each other.
We might never see anything like it ever again.
... virtually all of those are multiplatform titles that showed up on PS3 or PC at the same time? This is a rather bizarre argument.
Yep. That's largely the same set of games I remember basically building Steam.
Is he a known Sega hater or am I just a Sega zealot? Dreamcast was / is a better console than OG Xbox and they both had short life cycles.
The original Xbox was vastly superior to the Dreamcast in any way that's possible to measure.
Third party support, online access, first party support, longevity of the system, multimedia capability, technical capability vs it's competition, overall volume of library....
And the OG Xbox was officially supported in the west from 2001 to 2006. The DC was 1999 to 2000. It was on shelves 5 times as long at retail.
I think 360 is able to be argued to be up there, it absolutely put Microsoft on the map to the point where it seemed to be the UKs defacto console vs its PS history. It did a lot, it was a revelation in services and took things beyond "just being online" and offering a marketplace pretty much kickstarted the indie digital revolution.
It did fall off towards the end, but in terms of impact, it did a big shift.
360 def isn't in S tier for me cause I had to replace it so many times before MS even had a proper warranty scheme in place for how turbofucked busted it was
Shit machine, don't care how good the library is if it breaks all the time
As an aside fuck this Linus dude, thanks whoever posted the screengrab lol
Shit machine, don't care how good the library is if it breaks all the time
As an aside fuck this Linus dude, thanks whoever posted the screengrab lol
