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Having been watching Bad Game Hall of Fame's streams, a question that has been bugging me for weeks now, which console group has the worse games, avoiding obvious failures like 3DO, Phillips CDI and Atari, were just focusing on the big four, Sega, Nintendo, PlayStation and XBox.
Sega
We'll start with the group no longer making consoles Sega, having not been around for 20 plus years now, there isn't much to work with and Dreamcast's library has hardly any bad titles, however with the Genesis going on so long it produced some quite bad titles, Mega CD and 32X being particularly bad with games, surprisingly the Saturn has very few truly bad titles but doesn't have the best track record adapting it's Sega arcade catalogue.
XBox
I've heard this a million times now, achievement hunters only play bad games, I've seen your profile; look almost everything Xbox has ever had is available on the other consoles, in fact alot of companies try and avoid porting to Xbox entirely as it's proven to be harder to port on xbox especially the more recent ones.
PlayStation
With PlayStation having a relatively good track record between all it's consoles, it's hard to imagine it having a bad game catalogue, however it's because of it's over whelming success that everyone tried to port on to it for a quick buck with very little push back from Sony themselves not to mention it has xbox's so called cheap achievement games.
Nintendo
You'd think Nintendo wouldn't have this burden with it's immaculate record on it's first party titles but that's the thing, it's first party record may be immaculate but it has a porting problem, Nintendo is so keen to go it's own way that anyone wanting to port on it has to jump through more hoops more than Xbox, it's not like Nintendo isn't capable of making something better, Gamecube is proof of that but also like the PlayStation, something too popular can create an endless supply of shovelware titles which were still feeling now thanks to the Wii.
Final Verdict
Sega have been out the game too long to really have a bad catalogue with the majority coming from it's attempts at keeping the Genesis alive.
Xbox's catalogue is available on other consoles, if anything it's redundant in the grand scheme of things.
PlayStation has no quality control when it comes to it's catalogue and it has no excuses for allowing it to be that way.
Nintendo has a porting problem as it won't make something that caters for anything other than it's first party games.
Really it's between PlayStation and Nintendo, but I'll give it to PlayStation for one major reason. Corcord. Critical failures are a part of a consoles life cycle but only PlayStation has failed so badly that it has lost more money than all it's previous bad games combined.
The console wars started back in the 90s when at gamings peak, Sega unleashed Sonic the Hedgehog, throughout the 90s with increasingly catty callouts between Nintendo and Sega through commercials, it would become a three way battle when PlayStation joined, Sega would bow out and XBox would take it's place and the current battlefield has been fought by Nintendo, PlayStation and Xbox since but at this moment in time, who is winning?
Let's review.
Nintendo Switch
Nintendo's surprise success with the Wii gave it more than enough momentum to survive the WiiU era and jump into the perfected Switch console at the cost of losing the Gameboy/DS line.
Nintendo has always had a strong IP line up which the other two don't have.
It's also very easy to develop for sometimes getting indie titles even before Steam, it's also the only console to still allow adult games, Sony outright abandoned them, more on that later while Xbox feels they don't need them.
Nintendo however has plateaued for a while, Pokemon being the indicator that the games are really not getting better technical wise with demands that Nintendo release a Switch 2 so it can even stand a chance, it's online gaming history still isn't any better either, but Nintendo can afford to bide it's time as the weaknesses of it's rivals are so much more prevalent than the Switch being underpowered.
PlayStation 5
Sony has had a weird track record since the PS2 became the best seller of all time, PS3 was underpowered and kinda just there compared to 360, PS4 was the best console of the last generation but then PS5 has literally screwed Sony over.
It's a white elephant of over priced hi-tech machinery that is becoming as absurd as a minimalist hyper car, the release of the Pro being the first nail in the coffin, the second being no exclusive games as everything it runs can be played on other consoles and steam, the third nail being the nine figure disaster that is Concord, anymore disasters and PlayStation are just going to crash out of the wars, the sad thing is, it's technically the best console through performance and despite sharing a library with every other console, they run much better on Sony's behemoth, losing the adult otaku crowd to Nintendo hasn't made it any easier either; they dropped easy million sellers like Senran Kagura in favour of Concord an expensive disaster.
Sony, are you okay? I can't tell if this is self sabotage or not because this isn't the PlayStation I know.
Xbox X-Series
Knowing that it needed a different approach, Microsoft decided it was easier to buy game companies to give it more games to play with along with a closer relationship with PC, this also allows it's only asset, Gamepass to thrive.
Technically it's the worse console, many of it's ports of games have a bad track record of not being able to even start and the transition between Xbone and X-series has been a little mishandled. It remains a solid middle ground between it's rivals.
Conclusion
Nintendo has the best IPs but lags heavily in the power department and badly needs an upgrade.
PlayStation is ultra powerful but there's nothing to play on it.
Xbox is pretty much gaming Netflix but is on a fine balance in terms of tech as well as games not feeling comfortable operating on the xbox.
It's easy for me to turn around and say, just get Steam but maintaining a gaming PC is astronomically expensive compared to the consoles.
Time will tell if things really do change as the next great shift in the market will come with GTA6's arrival.
Today we return to fact hunt and we go all video game trivia.
1. Sims has it's own language
Creator Will Wright in order to avoid repetitive dialogue, created his own language for the Sims to speak in game called Simlish, there's a long list of phrases that get repeated frequently and are easily translated into basic dialogue like hello and how are you.
2. Sega made an acronym out of Eggman
Not that long ago, Sonic's official page showcased the picture above.
Evil Genius Getting Mad At Nature.
Makes way too much sense.
3. Sega had a dirty secret
The Sega game Dynamite Dux likely has the dirtiest secret in gaming history, hidden for 30 years, it's only accessible through a hex editor replacing a piece a code with the word dirty to get an R-rated opening sequence, it's too raunchy here but Youtuber Larry Bundy Jr has quite a long video on it.
4. Craziest Castle
Crazy Castle has more licenses for it's game than pretty much any other game.
Looney Tunes, Ghostbusters, Woody Woodpecker, Mickey Mouse, Garfield, Hugo the Troll, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Universal Studios.
5. Creepy Console Sounds
When the original PlayStation couldn't load a disc, it would let you know with two different jingles called Personified Fear and Fearful Harmony, the sounds were built in a way to ward off hackers from using fake discs.
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