What is Nintendo's worst console? [Poll]

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[QUOTE="blackace"] I think initially when they were creating it they wanted it to be a handheld, but that changed before it was marketed. They were also working on the N64 at the same time. I think the Virtual Boy was suppose to be put on your head, but it was way to heavy, which is why the tripods were created and it became a game console. It was never marketed as a handheld system though. "The Virtual Boy ( Bcharu Bi?) was a table-top video game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It was the first video game console that was supposed to be capable of displaying "true 3D graphics" out of the box, in a form of virtual reality. "KingsofQueens

No, it definitley was marketed more as a handheld. That's what everyone thought of it back in the 90's, I can attest to that.  No one viewed it as a console, even the people at the stores when you asked to try it out. I mean if you want to get technical about it, you can label it as a portable console, but it's not a console in the traditional sense.

Yep, I can attest to that as well. It was sold as a handheld. I remember I was at a Toys R Us, and there was a kiosk for it. It felt horridly awkward and uncomfortable......you literally needed a table to hold the damn "binocular" portion and then lean forward into it.

It was held by a tripod for that portability use.

Yeah, I used to play on those Toy R Us kiosks too, and horribly awkward to play is exactly how I remember it. You had to uncomfortably lean into them, and then after a few minutes of play, my eyes used to water lol.

Why is the N64 getting the least votes? Play on one TODAY and say it isnt the worst.Kaszilla

Today most of those games suck, no question, but back then they were awesome. In that era, the N64 was a great console to own.

Why is the N64 getting the least votes? Play on one TODAY and say it isnt the worst.Kaszilla

Why is the N64 getting the least votes? Play on one TODAY and say it isnt the worst.Kaszilla

[QUOTE="Kaszilla"]Why is the N64 getting the least votes? Play on one TODAY and say it isnt the worst.CleanPlayer

Gamecube. I only really liked Metroid Prime, Pikmin 2, and Melee. All the other Nintendo games on the system were really weak.

DS had Advance Wars Dual Strike and Advance Wars "Godly" Days of Ruin.......GD I loved Days of Ruin!!!!

Ballroompirate

This was meant to be a handheld?

 

Christ almighty what the hell were they smoking?

Goyoshi12

Apparantly I'm one of the only people here who aren't crazy about the NES and N64. The NES, for it's time, was amazing, although I find it diffcult to go back to many of its games outside of SMB3, megaman 1-6, Super C, or the Star Tropics games.

For me though it's the N64. I ended up having a smaller library for it than I had for the GC and Wii, though to be fair it was also harder to get games back then when I was younger. That said, the only games I can think of that I missed out on on the N64 on the top of my head are the Banjo games and Donkey Kong 64. The N64 didn't have a Metroid title, wihch is kind of lame. It also doesn't help that the n64 controller is a load of crap. It's because of teh controller I can't get back into Goldeneye 64 and probably Perfect Dark and enjoy them as much.

Apparantly I'm one of the only people here who aren't crazy about the NES and N64. The NES, for it's time, was amazing, although I find it diffcult to go back to many of its games outside of SMB3, megaman 1-6, Super C, or the Star Tropics games.

For me though it's the N64. I ended up having a smaller library for it than I had for the GC and Wii, though to be fair it was also harder to get games back then when I was younger. That said, the only games I can think of that I missed out on on the N64 on the top of my head are the Banjo games and Donkey Kong 64. The N64 didn't have a Metroid title, wihch is kind of lame. It also doesn't help that the n64 controller is a load of crap. It's because of teh controller I can't get back into Goldeneye 64 and probably Perfect Dark and enjoy them as much.

DJ-Lafleur

The Wii U as of right now. Mostly for the library.

Anyone who doesn't say Virtual Boy is wrong. JML897

Where is the choice "all of the above"?  Lol.

The Virtual Boy.

Out of those choices, the Wii U obviously since it just launched and has a very small library as of now.  But if we're talking about all of Nintendo's systems, then the Virtual Boy.

The Wii would have been more awesome if its controls were better.

Being so inaccurate is what caused so many games to not live up to their potential; not necessarily that they were motion controls. Because the Wii actually did have a ton of games, but too many of them were just "almost" good, or "almost" awesome.

Like DKC Returns. If you can manage to land every control perfectly then you'll realize just how awesome the platforming in that game is, but making such a tight platformer with loose waggle controls just means the game can't be as good as it can be. That's why I'm really looking forward to the 3DS version. It'll be nice to play the whole game with buttons.

Was never fond of the N64.

GameCube was beast. Many of my favorite games stem from it (Wind Waker, Melee, Metroid Prime, Tales of Symphonia).

Wii I don't have much experience with. I've toyed with the idea of buying a cheap used one for a handful of the titles but considering what the HD twins have had by comparison... not much of a system.

Wii U just came out, far too early to say something.

I want to say Gamecube, but that system had some beast games.

I want to say Wii, but that system had some beast games.

Wii U has yet to get beast games.  So it's Wii U by default. I hate that I have to put this here though, I don't even own one.

I vote none of the above.

going with N64 after finding out it's library sucks compared to Wii and cube

Incredibly unfair to include the Wii-U.

going with N64 after finding out it's library sucks compared to Wii and cube

LegatoSkyheart

lolwut

Wii > N64?  :lol:

Goldeneye 64, Perfect Dark 64, Mario Kart 64, Smash Bros 64, Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Banjo Kazooie, Banjo Tooie, Paper Mario, And so many more I just cant think of right now.   N64 may not have the most games, but it has some of the best games in their respective series, with many classics that will be remembered as the best games of all time.

The Wii because it was less competitive with the current generation than any other Nintendo system before. 

The Gamecube, N64, Super Nintendo, NES, all had games that at the time of release, made people say "Wow"

That didn't really happen with the wii. Maybe for like 2 weeks because of WiiSports but nothing on a technical or practical videogame level. It didn't compare with anything else that was coming out at the time. THere were great games, but it could have been so much better if it was stronger, more feature rich.. or basically, what the WiiU is now. 

You need a slap for even putting N64 in that poll.:evil:

[QUOTE="LegatoSkyheart"]

going with N64 after finding out it's library sucks compared to Wii and cube

NaveedLife

lolwut

Wii > N64?  :lol:

Goldeneye 64, Perfect Dark 64, Mario Kart 64, Smash Bros 64, Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Banjo Kazooie, Banjo Tooie, Paper Mario, And so many more I just cant think of right now.   N64 may not have the most games, but it has some of the best games in their respective series, with many classics that will be remembered as the best games of all time.

So many 1st party it hurts.

Yeah N64 had an amazing First Party Line Up.

Golden Eye 64 was a third party Licenese, but at the time it was being made by a 1st party Studio Rareware and at the Time RareWare had pretty good original IPs Banjo Kazooie, Perfect Dark, and Conker's Bad Furday.

but look at Wii and Gamecube compared to N64.

The N64 got Resident Evil 2, The Cube got ALL of the current Resident Evils at the Time and even 1 exclusive game and a Full Blown Remake, and Speaking of Capcom they were notoriously missing in the N64 era, only Megaman 64 and Resident Evil 2 made it to the system, when Cube came out OH HEY LOOK WHO'S BACK AND WITH CAPCOM VS SNK 2 AND MORE MEGAMAN TO BOOT!

When Gamecube took the scene it was like "Oh hey guys check it out, There's a Nintendo console." N64 just doesn't have that.

Also look at the Wii Library versus the N64 library, It's pretty intense to see that even what many consider to be the Weakest Nintendo console ever made (Wii) beats the system that birthed Ocarina of Time.

inb4differenttimesdifferentsystemsdebate.

Please, Look at the PS1 everyone jumped the N64 ship and moved to that console and it had a lot better games to boot.

inb4nintendo1stpartyisallyouneed

It's all there was on the N64.

NES.  Unless you want to count virtual boy.

NES.  Unless you want to count virtual boy.

Chozofication

How is the System that practically started it all The Worst?

[QUOTE="Chozofication"]

NES.  Unless you want to count virtual boy.

LegatoSkyheart

How is the System that practically started it all The Worst?

It's the only console out of 5 that I wouldn't want to go back in play.

SNES aged beautifully, NES aged terribly.

You saying N64 is just stupid, by the way.

Hm... Hard question. All of their consoles have be terrible. But the WiiU definitely takes the cake.

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[QUOTE="Chozofication"]

NES.  Unless you want to count virtual boy.

Chozofication

How is the System that practically started it all The Worst?

It's the only console out of 5 that I wouldn't want to go back in play.

SNES aged beautifully, NES aged terribly.

You saying N64 is just stupid, by the way.

NES has Castlevania, Megaman, Ninja Gaiden, Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy, Super Mario, Metroid, Zelda, Contra and other great classics that I'd say are still playable to this day. I have no idea what you're saying that those games have aged terribly.

N64 had a terrible Game Lineup, the only reason why people can easily dissmiss that is because of it's amazing First Party. I used to think the N64 was an amazing system, but that was before I found out a lot of the other games for it were down right awful, We're not talking about games like Megaman 64 here, We're talking about loads of Movie Cash-ins and Cartoon Cash-ins. You might have thought they were awesome back in the day, but truth is, most of the games you played on the N64 were probably 1st party games, like Star Fox and Zelda.

Consoles that has gimmicks.

All Nintendo consoles before the Wii are great.

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[QUOTE="LegatoSkyheart"]

How is the System that practically started it all The Worst?

LegatoSkyheart

It's the only console out of 5 that I wouldn't want to go back in play.

SNES aged beautifully, NES aged terribly.

You saying N64 is just stupid, by the way.

NES has Castlevania, Megaman, Ninja Gaiden, Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy, Super Mario, Metroid, Zelda, Contra and other great classics that I'd say are still playable to this day. I have no idea what you're saying that those games have aged terribly.

N64 had a terrible Game Lineup, the only reason why people can easily dissmiss that is because of it's amazing First Party. I used to think the N64 was an amazing system, but that was before I found out a lot of the other games for it were down right awful, We're not talking about games like Megaman 64 here, We're talking about loads of Movie Cash-ins and Cartoon Cash-ins. You might have thought they were awesome back in the day, but truth is, most of the games you played on the N64 were probably 1st party games, like Star Fox and Zelda.

N64 1st/2nd party > entire nes library tho.

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[QUOTE="LegatoSkyheart"]

How is the System that practically started it all The Worst?

LegatoSkyheart

It's the only console out of 5 that I wouldn't want to go back in play.

SNES aged beautifully, NES aged terribly.

You saying N64 is just stupid, by the way.

NES has Castlevania, Megaman, Ninja Gaiden, Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy, Super Mario, Metroid, Zelda, Contra and other great classics that I'd say are still playable to this day. I have no idea what you're saying that those games have aged terribly.

N64 had a terrible Game Lineup, the only reason why people can easily dissmiss that is because of it's amazing First Party. I used to think the N64 was an amazing system, but that was before I found out a lot of the other games for it were down right awful, We're not talking about games like Megaman 64 here, We're talking about loads of Movie Cash-ins and Cartoon Cash-ins. You might have thought they were awesome back in the day, but truth is, most of the games you played on the N64 were probably 1st party games, like Star Fox and Zelda.

Yeah, those games you brought up have aged terribly.  SMB 3 is about it and even then you couldn't even save most games back then.

Because it had crap games, N64 sucked, but every other console in existance gets a free pass.  By that asinine logic anyways, PS1 had to have had even more of those games, given the far larger adoption rate.  Again, that goes for every other console in existance.

Don't know what your vendetta is against the N64, but you should come up with something better.

N64 1st/2nd party > entire nes library tho.

locopatho

sigh, both had pretty lack luster 3rd Party givings anyway. NES honestly had better though.

NES is just far too dated through and through, it was a transition period for games.

Excluding the VB, the Wii. Can't really comment on the WiiU as for now. Too early to tell.Giancar

My thoughts exactly

Yeah, those games you brought up have aged terribly.  SMB 3 is about it and even then you couldn't even save most games back then.

Because it had crap games, N64 sucked, but every other console in existance gets a free pass.  By that asinine logic anyways, PS1 had to have had even more of those games, given the far larger adoption rate.  Again, that goes for every other console in existance.

Don't know what your vendetta is against the N64, but you should come up with something better.

Chozofication

My vendetta against the N64? Bro, I grew up with that system and I believe it was an amazing system.

But when you actually look at the console versus the other consoles at the time. It had the least amount of support and all it had for it was litterally the 1st Party.

I mean I grew up with 3rd party games on the N64, like Star Wars Rouge Squadron and Tony Pro Skater, but where was the Final Fantasy? Where was Street Fighter? Where was Megaman?

Yeah there was Megaman 64, but heck even the Sega Saturn saw more Capcom love than the N64. Square just jumped ship to the Playstation and started putting nearly ALL of their games on that system. And the PS1 saw better Castlevania games than the N64.

In reality during that era, Maybe the Sega Saturn was the weakest compared to the N64 and PS1, because I don't remember anyone actually owning one at the time, but the PS1 really was the system to go to, It also has some of the best games of that generation, The N64 was tagging along greatly though with it's first party being the sole support for that system which is great with in itself. I mean there is no other company out there that can do that. Sony has to have third party and Sega Tried and just simply failed and we all know if MS would try something like that it would utterly fail too considering of how little exclusives they have.

Nintendo has a great big Legacy they can fall on and while people will complain that Nintendo won't let go of those old franchises, those franchises are still relevant and still sell and they're the biggest reason why anyone would ever get a Nintendo console in the first place.

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N64 1st/2nd party > entire nes library tho.

LegatoSkyheart

sigh, both had pretty lack luster 3rd Party givings anyway. NES honestly had better though.

Try playing them tho. Theyre pretty much unplayable. Short, ugly, either brutal difficulty or endless grinding to extend life, usually no saving, stiff controls, bad design, bad translatipns and glitches up the wazoo. Great cobsile for its time but did NOT age well. At all.

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[QUOTE="locopatho"]

N64 1st/2nd party > entire nes library tho.

locopatho

sigh, both had pretty lack luster 3rd Party givings anyway. NES honestly had better though.

Try playing them tho. Theyre pretty much unplayable. Short, ugly, either brutal difficulty or endless grinding to extend life, usually no saving, stiff controls, bad design, bad translatipns and glitches up the wazoo. Great cobsile for its time but did NOT age well. At all.

[QUOTE="silversix_"]Why is N64 on that list? how can you put N64 with such shit as Wii? The Wii obliterates the other three with its shittyness.StrongBlackVine

I think the Wii U is worse.