If you could only play on one console for the rest of your life, which console would it be?

[DarkCrisis]

Shamelessly stole from ResetEra…

 

if you could only play on one console for the rest of your life, which console would it be?

 

The only rule is, the games you play on the console have to be native to that console ie No PS4 games on PS5, no backwards compatibility on Xbox Series for Xbox One/360/OG.

 

Mine would either be PS4 or Switch as they both have fantastic libraries with a fair number of remakes from older consoles, if I had my arm twisted it would be the PS4.

[Uzi]

PC 💋

[Darwock]

PS2. Plenty of ‘infinite’ games that I will never tire of, and most of my all time favourites.

 

GF/DM, Lumines, DMC3, MGS3, Ace Combat 4/5/0, Gran Turismo 3, Outrun 2 SP, FFX & FFXII, would never need anything else.

[ZOK]

Stadia.

[bradigor]

Steam Deck. Covers me for pretty much everything up to and including Switch. Plus tons of wonderful indie titles and the best range of games.

[partious]

 I’d go with PS1. Good mix of classic 3d and 2d arcade ports with a lot of replayability and a massive library of interesting "hidden gems”, experimental stuff and niche games so you’d still be finding interesting games you’d never heard of for a very long time.

[Darwock]

7 minutes ago, bradigor said:

Steam Deck. Covers me for pretty much everything up to and including Switch. Plus tons of wonderful indie titles and the best range of games.

Doesn’t that break the ‘everything must be native’ rule?

[amorenod]

I need the Soulsbornekiro games more than anything else, so PS5, the only place where you can play all of them:

 

-Demon's Souls

-Dark Souls

-Dark Souls 2

-Dark Souls 3

-Bloodborne

-Sekiro

-Elden Ring

 

Either that or PC, where you can add vanilla DS2 and emulated PS3 Demon's, but you loose Bloodborne.

 

 

[dizogg]

PS5 or Xbox Series X because they are the best consoles you can buy.

[Darwock]

3 minutes ago, amorenod said:

I need the Soulsbornekiro games more than anything else, so PS5, the only place where you can play all of them:

 

-Demon's Souls

-Dark Souls

-Dark Souls 2

-Dark Souls 3

-Bloodborne

-Sekiro

-Elden Ring

 

Either that or PC, where you can add vanilla DS2 and emulated PS3 Demon's, but you loose Bloodborne.

 

 

No PS4 games on PS5 or I would have picked it too probably.

[amorenod]

12 minutes ago, Darwock said:

No PS4 games on PS5 or I would have picked it too probably.

 

Ah, my bad, sorry

 

PC then, for the aforementioned reasons, but I'm not sure how this no BC rule applies to the BC machine for excellence (or the Deck).

 

If PC is not allowed, PS4, which runs 6 games out of the magnificent 7

[Loik V credern]

Do we get 3 other humans forced to play multiplayer whenever we want to, or just single player?

[gossi the dog]

PS4

[Dig Dug]

The Nintendo Switch’s ever growing library means I already do this almost entirely by default. 

[bradigor]

25 minutes ago, Darwock said:

Doesn’t that break the ‘everything must be native’ rule?

 

It's 2923 I don't need drummers

[Ninja Doctor]

Snes. Anyone answers otherwise is wrong. 

[Popo]

A lot of head picks up in here, and trying to game the system. 
 

I’ll take my beloved Sega Saturn. 

[Hawklord]

I was predominately a PC gamer but had most "modern" consoles since PS1 except XBone. The cost of GPU's has put me off upgrading my PC any further so I'd have to say 100% say Steam Deck. Still a PC and most exclusives are either PS5 & PC or XSX & PC. As much as I like the "older" stuff, I've either already played or can't be arsed with and SD is a console

[LowCostMonkey]

Amiga 500. 

[partious]

PC and steam deck are such bad faith responses to the question in the OP

[dumpster]

360, no question about it. I'd take the Series X if I was allowed to use BC and emulation because the Series X is surely the best console of all time, beating the PS5 by a mile and having emulators for arcade, PS1, PS2, Wii etc,  as well as BC for 360 and OG Xbox games makes it a must buy. 

 

Seeing as how we are not allowed this I have to look at what games I'm actually playing and many of my favourite games are not Xbox Series X native, so I'd take the 360 instead, with the proviso that it comes with an unlimited exchange warranty.

[JoeK]

1 hour ago, partious said:

PC and steam deck are such bad faith responses to the question in the OP

 

Probably, but it has been my main gaming outlet since  the mid 90s . 

 

If I couldn't take that, then I'd probably go for something like the Series X - the back compatibility isn't a patch on a PC, but it is considerably better than anything else in the console stakes, plus with dev mode I could bung on loads of emulators and have a whale of a time with it. 

[dumpster]

5 hours ago, DarkCrisis said:

The only rule is, the games you play on the console have to be native to that console ie No PS4 games on PS5, no backwards compatibility on Xbox Series for Xbox One/360/OG.

Please can the OP be changed so this paragraph is in bold, it appears no-one can see it judging from the responses.

[SuperFamiTom]

My username probably gives it away. 
 

Super Famicom / SNES

[FalconGR]

Definitely the GameCube - I think the holy trinity of Metroid Prime, Resi 4 and F Zero GX is still the strongest available to play today on any console (including current ones). Viewtiful Joe and Wind Waker round out a stellar top 5, and then you have all the launch titles (Blue Storm, Monkey Ball etc) which are very nostalgic. I still feel games somewhat peaked around this era. 

[Sarlaccfood]

Edit: So PS5 and Series X still get cross gen stuff like Elden Ring, Cyberpunk, God of War Ragnarok etc?

 

Hmm I dunno, that’s still pretty good even if the quantity isn’t there, it’s still the culmination of stuff that has come before.

[Sarlaccfood]

Anyone choosing PC or Steam deck is saying the Best of the Beatles. 

[Siri]

If I had an untapped internet connection, it would be PC, strictly for PC games alone - no need for emulation to have a good time on it. I'd be cooked with Path of Exile by itself.

 

Otherwise, I'd probably go with either PS2 or the XBox 360.

 

PS2 for Gran Turismo 4, Virtua Fighter 4, the Street Fighter collections, Katamari, FFXII, Disgaea, Persona 3 & 4, SMT Nocturne, Yakuza 1 & 2, and whatever Capcom/Sega ports they threw at it during that time.

 

X360 for Forza 2 through 4, Horizon 1 & 2, Dragon's Dogma, Virtua Fighter 5, Tekken Tag 2, Fallout 3 and New Vegas, Oblivion and Skyrim, Modern Warfare, Halo Reach, ODST and the amazing XBox Live Arcade selection, featuring all those lovely ports of Ikaruga, Garou, Third Strike, SotN, Virtual On and Virtua Fighter 2.

 

I think I'd be happy with either, PS2 might squeak it out in a true desert island scenario.

[JoeK]

Fuck it then.

 

ZX Spectrum easily.

 

It formed the whole basis for my love of gaming, and still has games that I'm quite happy to play through 40+ years later.

[Qazimod]

PC seems like the “obvious” choice - even without emulation, it’s been around for longer than any console and benefits from a big library.

 

Alternatively, the PS2. Its library has so many classics that it seems like the best all-rounder.