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Ultimate console
I remember when I was kid and the absolute fucking HYPE around the gameboy color. It was gonna revolutionize gaming. Lol, it it was teased for years before it finally came out.
Mmm pokemon pinball yum
lol, this would’ve been years before pokemon even existed.
I think they were teasing us with a color metroid.🤔
The Gameboy color came out a month after pokemon red and blue in the US. Development for the Gameboy color began in 1997, after pokemon had been out in Japan for about a year.
They were teasing a color Gameboy in Nintendo Power in the early 90’s. Before the Gameboy Pocket was even a thing.
That’s probably because Nintendo Power had a lot of leeway to bullshit. Adding a color screen to the Gameboy was the most obviously going to happen upgrade whenever one did happen, but Nintendo wasn’t working on one until 97.
The development of the Game Boy Color was spurred by news in October 1997 that Bandai, with the help of former Nintendo engineers including the late Gunpei Yokoi, was planning a new handheld console called the WonderSwan. Leveraging an earlier color prototype from 1992, Nintendo was able to accelerate development of Game Boy Color. Critically, the Game Boy Color maintained backward compatibility with all existing Game Boy games.
I guess that’s sorrrrt of working on it, but only kinda.
I think they were teasing us with a color metroid.
I’d like to imagine a Metroid 2 DX that has changes like Link’s Awakening DX lol
Wii U easily, if you jailbreak it you can play every generation before it
switch can’t emulate Wii and GameCube games, and on top of that half of its good games are Wii U ports anyway
Wii U gamepad is horrific tho
I’ll also add that it’s a woefully underpowered system for the generation it was in and that is where my dislike of it comes from mostly (I did have one)
I loathe Nintendo’s business practices and internal culture and miserliness and legal-threat bullshit. But damn if they didn’t nail the Switch’s design and portability.
It’s not required for hardly any functionality beyond navigating the start up menu. Most games that support it don’t require it.
I spent hundreds of hours playing monster hunter 3U in bed on the gamepad and never had a problem with it. I found it pretty comfy and the steam deck basically copied its ergonomics so they must have been doing something right
but regardless the pro controller exists which can be used in like 95% of Wii U games and has an abominably long battery life
Thank you nerds for emulation
Steam deck lol
GBA cos i spent most of my childhood playing on one. It had teeth marks in after trying to complete rayman 3 and mario kart
Switch. I really appreciate that they let a console generation last a decade, because I’m not a consumerist paypig. The biggest indie games all ended up on it. And Nintendo has really been killing it with their first-party games, lots of them that hold up really well even against ancient stuff that I might be giving the benefit of nostalgia.
I really like my Switch tbh. I’m a very casual gamer though.
The New 2/3DS XL are goated, the emulation support on CFW is great and you can take it anywhere you want.
N64 fight me (goldeneye, complex, golden gun)
Square dumped the N64 limitation for Playstation when doing FF7
The Wii U was my first true love and I will always be its strongest warrior
The system that was practically built for a Pokemon Snap sequel, and yet…
The feel of the n64 thumb stick making a permanent dent in my thumb as i cross hyrule field for the nth time will likely be with me forever but honestly it’s the DS. The first wireless ad-hoc connected handheld console that my group of friends all owned and we would line the halls playing Mario Kart or tetris in school
In terms of system function and practicality, hacked, probably gonna be Wii U because it can play most other Bintendo systems. Function unhacked is probably a DS phat or Lite, because DS/GBA libraries are pretty good.
I also wanna ask if this includes fan translations, because at that point SNES/SFC is a system that has FF6, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Earthbound etc but also Front Mission, Seiken Densetsu 3, Tactics Ogre, Bahamut Lagoon, all six 2D Dragon Quest games, so on. Also if you factor Super Gameboy/2 in, SNES probably wins.
In terms of the native NTSC/PAL libraries it has to be a dead heat between Super Nintendo and DS. Gamecube is a shit system, N64 is a shitter system, Wii has a loooot of shovelware(although the virtual console was rad), Switch goes in the trash, the NES, GBA and Game Boy were cool but I think the DS probably had the most variety of genres. Plus it has ports and remakes of a lot of classics, so at gunpoint I’d go DS.
100% the switch and updating my answer to switch 2 whenever that happens
What do you think it’s gonna be like?
That’s the thing right, does it need to anything more than a more powerful switch? There are things I’d like for them to do, like allow more abilities to communicate in online games, add more apps, ship joycons that work. Outside of that tho, I’m not sure what else I’d want? iirc it’s confirmed no oled screen as a default which sucks
If there’s anything I want it’s for a subscription service not to be required to play online games, though that’s nothing a new model requires.
No GameCube? I guess Wii then, assuming it’s the backwards compatible model.
Don’t worry I added the gamecube
Virtual Boy fans ate outraged. Game and Watch fans are sobbing and shaking
SNES.
The fact that all the retro indie games try to mimic the SNES style shows how big that era of gaming was.
GBA era is a close second, but that was basically a portable, higher powered SNES.
SNES was an outstanding follow-up to the NES.
1980 - 2010
it was a good 30 year run
