thaddius' Console Roast 2014 Edition - Round 9

Worst Console of the Sixth Generation

  • The Sega Dreamcast

    Votes: 166 32.3%
  • The Sony Playstation 2

    Votes: 31 6.0%
  • The Nintendo Gamecube

    Votes: 60 11.7%
  • The Microsoft Xbox

    Votes: 257 50.0%

  • Total voters
    514
  • Poll closed .

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My vote went to the dream cast for being the most forgettable System on the list.
That being said, as huge of an Xbox fan as I am, I can understand the votes for the system. Was Bulky as hell, and my very first one literally caught fire...

There was a common issue in the original power cord that caused it to overheat and smoke, and in some cases even catch freaking fire. Which happened to me.
So uh... Understandable.
 

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A very tough call over here. The only one to be easily scrapped is the PS2. It launched as the cheapest DVD player and ended with a MASSIVE library (and that's not even taking the backward compatibility with PSX into account).

Never owned any of them, but I played enough gamecube games on my wii to know that it had some VERY fun games. So that one kind of scrapped as well.

It sort of leaves two choices. Since the dreamcast meant the end of sega, I sort of have to vote for it. But from what I've seen on youtube, I really understand why it is still popular to this day. This wasn't a bad console in any way. It was just bad timing/management. :(
 

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Wow, this one's hard because it's my favorite console generation and there aren't any random obscure consoles to vote on :(

Gonna have to go with Xbox even though Halo 2 is one of my favorite multiplayer FPS's of all time just because of the controller and the way the rest of the library holds up, I'm so sorry ;_;
 

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I saw 4 of those along with tennis, baseball, and bowling games NIB at a thrift store this past year. It took them months to unload them on unsuspecting folks. :lol:
 

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Hmm, the PlayStation 2 doesn't have any votes yet; let's hope it stays that way. And just because developers ignored the GameCube for the PlayStation 2 doesn't mean it was the worst console ever. I mean, the only thing I think about when I hear about the original Xbox is Halo and Xbox Live. I used to think that developers made games for the PlayStation 2 and then ported them to the GameCube and Xbox. Poor Dreamcast; it had more to offer...
 

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Wow all four systems where awesome.... Finally a poll where you couldn't go wrong no matter what one you purchased.

Super hard choice here, but the Xbox one in my mind just barely beating out the GameCube for having an ever so slightly weaker library.

Ironically the one that lasted the least amount of time (the Dreamcast) had a more compelling library to me than either the Xbox or GameCube.

The PS2 had the best library out of any of the systems bar none, while having I think the least reliable hardware of them all.

It's a tough poll and for once there is no clear "Shitty" system. Even though I voted Xbox it had a lot of games I enjoyed on it and I wouldn't have felt bad owning one if it was my only system back in the day.
 

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I can't choose! I love them all! :'D

This is the toughest round yet to choose from, as there aren't any glaringly-obvious stinkers like the previous rounds!
 

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The Dreamcast was a godsend with without a doubt the single best console launch lineup in history. Before and since, it used to be launch games were recognized as terrible, or starters to what the system could do. The dreamcast came blasting out of the gate with such a tremedous library from 9/9/99 that I wouldn't be surprised if a few fans chose to tattoo that date on their bodies to mark how impressive it was. It was a fantastic system. It was a fun system. And it more than anything else, enabled me to play and discover titles that I otherwise would have never known existed. It was the birthing place of the Sega 2K series of games that would become the ESPN 2k games and continue to be the perennial thorn in EA's side. My first and original one may have died after 6.5 years, but it was also the system I confess to treating the roughest. And for it to take that kind of abuse, I can't be mad. I'm just grateful I was able to find a replacement so cheap in the second-hand market... and now with some tools, it is the system I would go through the trouble to repair. It really was that fantastic. About the only depressing bit is the fact that I still can't find a broadband adaptor for a decent price. Fuck you ebay for charging $250+ for something that only retailed for $30 new. :gun:

The gamecube was... weird. its controller at first glance made even less sense than the N64 layout, and many multiplatform games suffered as a result of Nintendo's stupid business decisions. this was supposed to be the console that brought Nintendo online. And it did... with all of three games made by Sega, while everyone else was begging and pleading for the netcode to actually work with their adaptor. That said, it was the system that I first tried upgrading the cables for... and realizing how much of a difference in video quality I had been missing for all these years. :yaysp:

The Xbox was a system I still wish I could have got back then. Sadly the one I had to get at the time was second-hand off ebay. Big surprise it didn't last very long at all. Mostly was still too broke-ass to get a proper one though. :(

Now, the PS2? Let's see what it brought me... oh yea.
  • Disc read error
  • Sony's forced memory card famines making 8mb of memory card go for as much as $100 a piece on ebay
  • A useless DVD player that only killed the system faster for using it as such
  • A notoriously waxy/glazed over look on literally all the textures
  • My first one refused to read any discs at all
  • Unable to continue suffering through replacing games, I was forced to buy a pre-modchipped model for my second...
  • ... whose disc drive shattered to pieces.
  • It took a fresh one, and replacing all the capacitors and resistors on the board to finally have a reliable unit.
  • It still looked like ass in 480p, and there was no uniform way to enable it on games.
  • It took polyphony over 6 years to finally bring something that could do more than 480p on the system...
  • ... and unlike Naughty dog, refused to share the tricks necessary, so that nobody else could do it.
  • The official sony demo disc that wiped memory cards everywhere, not unlike their rootkit-enabled music CD's.
  • The god-awful Final Fantasy X, a.k.a. so on-rails it made Starfox look like Grand Theft Auto 5
  • MGS2, which I am convinced was Kojima trying to troll the hell out of us. Either that or an early sign that he didn't want to make games anymore.
  • An official Linux kit that was supported for all ofa week before being pulled from their site.
  • An official Hard drive kit that was inextricably sold with the even more awful Final Fantasy XI, and supported for all of a month.
  • The ching-chong-y PStwo slim, whose build quality would falter simply by looking at it funny.
  • The awful, and lacking, online "experience" they played up to hell and back.
PS2 wins my vote decisively.
 

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PS2 wins my vote decisively.
Don't you think you're being unfair here? Initial batches of Xboxes were fully capable of cooking themselves, the PSU was confirmed to be a fire hazard. As far as games are concerned, the PS2 easily had the most out of be bunch, and possibly the most memorable ones at that. As far as PS2 Slim is concerned, I find its built quality rather solid, but I suppose it could be a regional matter, same as with the DS Lite. In any case, it's definitely not "the worst"... but hey! It's your opinion. :)
 
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Don't you think you're being unfair here? Initial batches of Xboxes were fully capable of cooking themselves, the PSU was confirmed to be a fire hazard. As far as games are concerned, the PS2 easily had the most out of be bunch, and possibly the most memorable ones at that. As far as PS2 Slim is concerned, I find its built quality rather solid, but I suppose it could be a regional matter, same as with the DS Lite. In any case, it's definitely not "the worst"... but hey! It's your opinion. :)
I think he is just trying to make up enough reasons to hate Sony.

A lot of things he said were either false or based on his own opinion. The memory card pricing for example, were simply due to high demands and low supply during PS2 launch. It is basic law of supply and law of demand.
 

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I think he is just trying to make up enough reasons to hate Sony.

A lot of things he said were either false or based on his own opinion. The memory card pricing for example, were simply due to high demands and low supply during PS2 launch. It is basic law of supply and law of demand.
Not opinion. Experience.

There was no reason for memory cards to be that heinously overpriced, and then to write games that basically demand taking it over, like how SOCOM used half the damn card at a time for its save data. Or how many launch games had to be beaten in one sitting because nobody could afford a memory card to stop halfway.

Let's not forget the PS2 also received not one, but two class action lawsuits regarding the hardware faults, and another for blatantly stealing Immersion's patents and claiming them as their own. It took these to finally get them to up their non-existent warranty to one year as opposed to 90 days, because the hardware always died on day 91.
 

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There was no reason for memory cards to be that heinously overpriced, and then to write games that basically demand taking it over, like how SOCOM used half the damn card at a time for its save data. Or how many launch games had to be beaten in one sitting because nobody could afford a memory card to stop halfway.
Did you even read what I wrote? It is priced very high because of limited supply during PS2 launch. At that time both the system and the memory card were scarce (Sony couldn't make enough to deal with the demand). Retailers sold memory cards much higher than MSRP because of low supply. This is basic Economic stuff, which you should've been taught in high school.

Not every PS2 games writes large save file (most don't), and if you like the game I don't see how this is a problem.

Let's not forget the PS2 also received not one, but two class action lawsuits regarding the hardware faults, and another for blatantly stealing Immersion's patents and claiming them as their own. It took these to finally get them to up their non-existent warranty to one year as opposed to 90 days, because the hardware always died on day 91.
So, other consoles also had its fair share of hardware problem. Why aren't you complaining about them?

For the record I owned three PS2s: a Japanese launch model and two PS2 Slim. Till this day I never had any issue with it. In fact you are the only one who claimed that your PS2 experience were so bad that you had to replace capacitors and resistors. I beginning to wonder if they failed because of other reasons.
 
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Don't you think you're being unfair here? Initial batches of Xboxes were fully capable of cooking themselves, the PSU was confirmed to be a fire hazard. As far as games are concerned, the PS2 easily had the most out of be bunch, and possibly the most memorable ones at that. As far as PS2 Slim is concerned, I find its built quality rather solid, but I suppose it could be a regional matter, same as with the DS Lite. In any case, it's definitely not "the worst"... but hey! It's your opinion. :)
I find it surprising to see you defending the weakest console of the generation while your pick for the worst console was the most powerful one. If only there was a modern parallel of powerful hardware vs. uniqueness... :)
 

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