So I’m reassessing my entertainment center since seeing the Video Game History Foundation’s report. Since the study it’s got me thinking, if you could pick any 4 consoles to have hooked up to your TV (4 becuase I’ve got 4 inputs to my TV) which would you pick and why? I will accept modded consoles as answers too.

  • hamiltonicity@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Quite a boring answer from me:

    • Steam deck, which gives access to a large subset of PC games and also just about every console up to the PS2/Gamecube/Xbox era plus the Wii via emulation (no jailbreaking required).
    • Switch, which gives access to a lot of the best WiiU games as expanded ports plus some spruced up versions of Nintendo’s back catalogue.
    • PS5, which gives access to most of the best PS3 and PS4 games via PS+.
    • Xbox Series S/X, which has backwards compatibility with the Xbox One and Xbox 360 for some (most?) games.

    There will be some slight gaps in backwards compatibility/emulator compatibility for some games, but I suspect the biggest remaining gap will be PC games not capable of running on the Steam deck.