by guip1408
My favorite Nintendo Consoles based ONLY on their library of Games, focusing on their most well-known games. Not including Virtual Console, but including, to some extent, remasters and such.
I compared the consoles in 5 categories (each category stands for 1 point):
If there's some sort of tie in a category or an overall number, the older console has the edge.
Showing 1-10 of 12 items
43 points The best overall console, with the most/best must-play games.
36 points The most variety of games and it came out already having two masterpieces in its first year.
35 points Not huge on variety, but one of the strongest exclusive/must-play lineups Nintendo has ever had.
35 points A well-balanced console with tons of innovation and a couple of extraordinary hits.
31 points An underrated console that it's boosted by Breath of the Wild's late arrival and innovative first party games like Super Mario Maker and Splatoon.
30 points The NES was obviously the hardest to compare, being so revolutionary and having some phenomenal exclusives, but it's a beloved console that moved the gaming industry.
30 points The variety and overall quality of its library were way ahead of its time, for a handheld console.
29 points Another console that I think ended up being underrated but had some of the best entries in some familiar series, and some of the best remasters Nintendo ever put out.
20 points I always felt the DS was really good at what it did, which was: Having a bunch of games and using a new screen. But lacked great exclusives and more groundbreaking games.
19 points Even tho the GameCube doesn't have the greatest exclusives or an insane amount of games, it did start a number of new things for Nintendo and open wider the door for outside games that Nintendo usually worked with.