Bradtemple87 wrote:This poll is pointless, ps2 is clearly the top dog because of the monster library and backwards compatibility. You can keep the other two choices.
Speak for yourself.
I may be in a very small minority but for me the PS2 is almost exclusively a very large paperweight or tv ornament. Other than Kingdom Hearts and a few PS1 games like Poy Poy and Oddworld it just sits there playing with the dust bunnies and otherwise looking lonely. If it had a better DVD player it may get used more often. Xbox has better games, for me, and is a much better DVD player and even than it doesn't get played much. Best of the three is the Gamecube and the one I'd partner with the Xbox.
Game Systems Owned:
NES, NES 2 (AV mod), SNES, SNES 2, N64 (Pikachu), N64 original (boxed), Gamecube (Orange, Silver, Purple), Wii, Wii U (Zelda), GB Pocket, GBA (2x-Arctic & Indigo), GBA SP (3x), DS Lite (Crimson/Black), 3DS (Aqua Blue), Sega Genesis and 32X, Game Gear, Lynx, PSP (2x), Vita, and Gold PS4.
GameCube manages to offer the most compelling exclusives for me and the smaller overall number of mature titles will be quickly offset by either other system. So for me it comes down to PS2 vs XBox as the complimentary flavor.
If XBox servers were still up for online play, that might tilt things in favor of Microsoft. After all, there is a smaller controller available and XBox managed to field some excellent exclusive games. Unfortunately my understanding is that online gaming is dead for that console... really hurting the appeal of the console.*
PS2 uses the standard Sony controller design that I abhor... but mostly atones for it by offering a massive library that includes very recent updates when compared to XBox. In the end that swings my vote, even though I think that XBox might've been the more attractive console to me when they were both active.
*Which also makes me wonder: What will retro-gaming look like in 10 years? With online gaming being so important to the current gen experience (except Wii, which is essentially stand-alone) will the appeal of these games still draw us back for more?
IMO Xbox had better exclusives than PS2. I know most people would disagree but that's because most people had PS2s and not Xboxs so they are biased towards it. I chose GC and Xbox. The Game Cube was/is very underrated. It prob had the most unique games of all three consoles of that generation and prob the best exclusives, how little there may have been.
darthmunky wrote:IMO Xbox had better exclusives than PS2. I know most people would disagree but that's because most people had PS2s and not Xboxs so they are biased towards it.
I didn't have either until recently. Got an Xbox first. Ran out of high quality exclusives pretty quickly. I can't even begin to imagine when I'll run out of worthwhile PS2 exclusives.
Maybe I missed some worthy Xbox exclusives? What games are you thinking of exactly?
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Hmm...I chose PS2 and Xbox, as I thought the GC was pretty much worthless except for Eternal Darkness. I had all three when they were out and I think I got the most use out of my Xbox personally.
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PS2 and GC for me, the Xbox was the growing lesson for MS - hate the over-sized 1st controller, some games just looked slightly better than on PC... but they did get it right with Xbox live, too bad they pulled the plug on it (should've release Halo Trilogy HD remix to appease).
