I think there may well be >300 NES games I still enjoy playing.

Love the zoomed out, small sprites + frenetic action combo of NES games.

During its life I'd honestly say 9 or 10.

At the end of the generation I think it would be more of a 7/10 though.

There were a lot of games I liked on Saturn, but few I loved.

I loved more of the games on Dreamcast, and there's enough likeable games on top of them.

Chose Dreamcast for that reason.

I was playing the Dreamcast the other day, and I noticed that UT doesn't have the best framerate it seemed like. Does anyone know what the framerate runs at? It seemed like the PC version had the much better framerate when I compared the two, and also the control was much more tolerable on the pc. Not that the dreamcast controller was a bad setup at all, it's just that the one stick and four face buttons doesn't really compare to a mouse and keyboard. Still a great game though.Platform_King

The Dreamcast supports mouse and keyboard, I always use this when playing the game.

Some stages have a good framerate, others are atrocious, I use the guide (somebody already linked to this page) and only play on the top 13 odd maps (Damnation, Loathing, Flux, Paladin, Depot, Sector 9, Brickyard, Deck 16, Codex, Industrial, Barricade, Core, Cold Steel Pressure).

Many of the other maps are also acceptable, avoid Morpheus and Outskirts.

Maybe so, but even EGM changed their review and though they were biased from that 2.5 you put.NationProtector

There's no review change, those are two separate magazine scans, CVG and EGM

http://justclaws.atari.org/jagudome/jagrev/at-karts.htm

http://jungle.jvgs.net/rev_ak.htm

Are just some good reviews. NationProtector

Atari fansites.

No professional reviewers rated this game well.

Its a Kart racer pretty much without offensive power-ups

Ew. If the criteria were Gamecube exclusives but not Nintendo franchises, this'd be a very short topic indeed.El_Zo1212o

Challenge accepted

1. Rogue Squadron
2. Resident Evil 0
3. Harvest Moon: Magical Melody
4. Lost Kingdoms 2
5. Baiten Kaitos: Origins
6. Baiten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean
7. Crystal Chronicles
8. Billy Hatcher

Challenge failed

If Silicon Knights games count it can be pushed up to 10

Though Billy Hatcher being on PC maybe disqualifies it anyway, and then there are Wii version of some games which possibly disqualify them too.

Awful game, Super Mario Kart, Street Racer, Battle Racers, & F-Zero were all far better games on much weaker hardware.

CVG

EGM

considering the Xbox's much smaller user base in Japan, I'd be quite surprised if the Xbox had the same amount of Japanese third-party support as the GameCube did, considering its lack of presence in Japan.Jag85

Thing is, neither console was particularly popular in Japan.

Its something like 2m (XB) Vs 4m (GC) Vs 21m (PS2)

I'd imagine for 3rd parties both were not worth bothering with in the domestic market, whilst XBox had a good overseas market (specifically US). 3rd party software sales on Nintendo consoles also tend to be quite low, with 1st party software dominating.

There's also the likelihood that Microsoft invested in some Japanese 3rd parties to gain support.

Either way, looking through lists of games the XBox looks well ahead on Japanese support.

I found it to be pretty mediocre (its very repetitive for one), but I believe Dino Crisis 3 at least is supposed to be worse.