 Okay Guys we were doing this video game console tier list. We watched as we do this Yeah, that's who I stole it from because we're doing boomer month and I was like, oh, this is actually great for boomer month So I saw as we do this like this great. Let's do it. We're gonna do this too There's been a lot of very very good consoles and how consoles have evolved over the years is very very interesting to me Why because I think there was a time where we had a period of time kind of like a golden age of consoles Where games were innovative consoles were doing new things. There was a lot of advancement. Let's go ahead and start I'm gonna go ahead and go and the way that I'm going to rank these off of what the console was for its time, right? Obviously you could look at the NES and you compare an original Nintendo. You can compare that to a frickin PS5 coming out and obviously the PS5 is better, but it's not necessarily about that It's about where the system was at its time. What is this? Is this a DS? This is a 3DS and this is a DS, right? Well, let's start with this one. The Sega Dreamcast was in my opinion the most ambitious cutting edge impressive system For its time everything about the Dreamcast blew every other console at the time out of the water It had online play four controller ports built in no multi-tap or anything like that four controller ports built in the graphics Were awesome at the time it had good peripherals, right where you could play different things Sega in its prime was on the cutting edge of everything the memory card having a a a Screen on it and you having like visual stuff on the memory card that you inserted in the thing The controller was a little bit weird, but once you got used to the controller. It was actually really good And I always thought the original Xbox controller actually tried to Model itself after the Dreamcast. I always thought that like it just it was very similar But the problem with the original Xbox controller. It was way too big It was it was hard to hit the buttons. It was way too big, right? You can see the similarities here, right d-pad Analog stick you have the buttons They added an extra analog stick, but it's kind of the similar shape except too big I think the Dreamcast was awesome and I would put this s-tier The problem with the Dreamcast was that it was too good for its time Whenever you guys think of Dreamcast correct me if i'm wrong Do you guys feel that way you put Dreamcast in the same tier as ps2 and xbox as far as like the release time frame Because every time I talk to people about this they're like, oh, yeah, I thought that came out sometime The Dreamcast Was like with the n64. It was a little bit later, right, but it's like n64 playstation 1 and really ps2 xbox and all them They were playing catch up to the Dreamcast whenever the ps2 and xbox came out After 2000 I always remember there not being enough games for it Like they had sonic and that was pretty much it and they had some other stuff like sega specific like sega bass fishing Which was an awesome game and they had a lot of like arcade style of games on the Dreamcast Which is cool, but there really wasn't enough games and that's that's something that I think was an issue for the Dreamcast Let's start with a ds I think the ds Was nintendo's first step into we got to change some stuff up because you had the game boy Then you had the game boy pocket and then you had the game boy color and then you had Game boy advanced ds and then the 3ds. Oh advanced sp. Game boy advanced sp I remember that one at first it was cool. The first game boy was huge like physically big game boy pocket They reduced the size quite a bit. That's what I had. I had a game boy pocket and then I got a game boy color I'm right a black game boy pocket and then I had a I got a green Game boy color like a neon green game with color So the game boy pocket was like a good idea but a bad idea because it essentially just like cannibalized its own market It's like an updated version of the game boy and nobody was really going to buy that if they already had a game boy Actually, I'm going to do this in reverse order. I think the original game boy was so impressive because it was the first handheld Big time handheld console. I don't know if there was anything before that There was like a little like dinky like rinky dink whatever but the game boy was so advanced at the time It was amazing because people could go and You're taking the kids on a trip going around you're on the go people are sitting there waiting on the bus They're playing game boy on the bus people are sitting in the parking lot waiting for their parents I think that the game boy was really really good even though it was very innovative This is a hard one Because I think that the original game boy and its popularity is what kicked off I mean it is it is what kicked off handhelds But how many really good games were there for the game boy? I can't think of a lot of really good games the pokemon games The zelda games were very popular mega man was popular on the game boy earthworm jim was popular I remember that one there probably were I mean that was around the time where rpgs were like super popular too And I mean even stuff like pokemon right trying to decide between it being an s or an a What would you guys say made nintendo if you were to if you were to ask me I would probably say the super nintendo made nintendo The nes was good, but I think the super nintendo was like oh that made like that like solidified nintendo But the game boy, okay game boy's an s. You know why? The game boy came in and planted the flag for nintendo in a market that This many years later has not only nintendo been the best at it consistently It's turned into their main product with the switch now. I think the game boy To be able to come in and drop it on the table And be that good for that long it all started with this So I will say the game boy is s now. Here's my issue here You have the game boy color, which is really a game boy, but better Because it has colors and it's a little bit smaller and it was a little bit more Ergonomic you remember the shape by all metrics of of like Hardware whatever the game boy is better the game of color is better than the original game boy But it didn't really change anything It didn't really make anything better as far as the games and my original thought was maybe game boy would be an a and the game boy color is s because It's a just a better version of the original, but it didn't really change anything But the games are the same which in some ways Is also very impressive because this was now the first console that had backwards compatibility And they had the same cartridges and the same games for multiple consoles I think from a hardware perspective And there it is better than the original game boy, but it wasn't as come in drop it on the table Boom. This is innovative. Do I remember this right? I believe the game boy advance Also, you could play your original games in the game boy advance. Is that right? It was select b plus a a direction. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. It was something like that I don't remember what it was Nintendo really like set the standard for that But because of backwards compatibility and all that stuff, I'm going to give it an a it's still very good Dreamcast asked no shot, dude I'm telling you the dreamcast was way ahead of its time and it set the standard for every console moving forward The dreamcast set the standard for every single console moving forward every single one I think the game boy advance was good. It was a good system and there were some cool games like uh Final fantasy tactics advanced. Oh, that's another thing the game boy advance was the first one that just like they had been recycling their consoles They started recycling their games It needed a second version which was the sp to really like Bring it together I would probably give this between a c or a b a b minus if I could because I had one of these and I remember like Not I don't even remember why I don't ever remember it being an issue on my game boy color But I remember it being an issue on my game boy advance where like I felt like I couldn't ever see Am I crazy for remembering it this way now the 3ds the ds Excuse me the ds was basically the game boy advance sp version 2 It was the flip that was the same time like flip phones and stuff were very popular And what they were doing here was they were going they were like this game boy advance sp is doing really well This populace is great. What have we expanded this and what if one of these was a touchscreen? What if one of these was a touchscreen? And this is something that nintendo has done time And time again where especially back in the day they would come in and they would introduce something Super cool and they focused on fun. They made everybody else stop and turn and look like oh wait What are they doing at that point game boy nintendo had come in and and It was theirs nintendo ds release date Was 2004 do you guys remember touchscreen phones when touchscreen phones became a thing? I think it was like 2000 I was thinking it was like 2008. I guess the original iphone came out in 2007. I just googled it january 9th 2007 So three years prior Is whenever the nintendo ds came out the nintendo ds and its touchscreen and all that The stylus all that stuff three years before the first iphone ipod touch. Oh, yeah ipod touch was before the iphone That's right ipod touch release date first generation release date Oh That was actually 2001. I'm wrong about that I guess I was only thinking about phones and I really wasn't thinking about the ipod touch. Hmm. I didn't realize it was that long ago Is that true? Oh, no, that's just the ipod. Okay. I was like first gen. Oh, no 2007 It was 2007. Yeah, it was just the original ipod. That was 2001. I was like wow Okay, that blew my mind So it was still like three years before ipod did their thing where apple did their thing the ds was awesome Again, kind of juiced the game boy back up because I do feel like it was kind of starting to taper off a little bit After the original game boy like the original game boy was the first shot in the arm Eventually the ds came out whenever the ds came out. It was I remember everybody wanted a ds Everybody wanted a ds everybody wanted that year. I think I was in like sixth grade I remember one of the big things with the ds was not only Was it portable game boy? Whatever with a touchscreen But also if you guys remember that I think they did a mario ds like super mario 64 ds and that kind of stuff So it was the first handheld that had like the 3d. Yeah, like 3d capabilities Now again in the same. What is this? Is this a 3ds or a ds light or I don't know what this is I don't remember anything standing out or being special and specific to the 3ds It came out in 2011 2011 Seven years later There was a period of time that I think nintendo did things not very well This came out really during that time. What the screen is a little bit bigger Nintendo announced a significant price reduction amid disappointing launch sales There was no excitement behind this from what I remember the company offered 10 free nes Games and 10 free game boy advanced games from the nintendo e shop to consumers that bought the system at original launch price The strategy was considered success the console went on to become one of the most successful hand-filled consoles in the first two years of its release That's good. But on launch it was expensive I mean 250 In 2011 you could get an xbox 360 for that much Like this is a playstation. Like what the hell were they thinking? Even now how much does a nintendo switch cost like like 350 10 years later? No A nintendo switch with animal crossing costs 300 50 dollars more than this now. I will say this The prices for consoles have not gone up that much Since this time in general, uh, i'm not a fan of 3ds. I think this was trash um I think it eventually got better sure So I would say this is probably a c or maybe even a d it picked back up after the fact if it hadn't picked back up I would say d uh, I might give this a c I will say there was like a golden age and nintendo was on the cutting edge of it, man But I actually did a project on this in college where I went through and I researched a lot of this stuff Gaming took a very big hit Uh in like the mid 80s like you had like the Atari They came in And they just started kicking ass they released a bunch of new games. They had the mario. They had donkey kong They had good peripherals. They had the light gun. They had the power glove kicking everyone's ass and totally coming in and being like Wait, what the hell is this? This is cool This is innovative This is great now. I don't actually think this is really What made nintendo? I think the system that made nintendo what it is like what it really established them more than anything else Was the super nes better colors better graphics You basically took everything that was good about this and you you amped it up. You actually had a multi tap for this system and Here is why I would go as far as saying not only did the super nintendo set the standard and make nintendo what it is today but What they also did was they made PlayStation Because the reason why PlayStation exists and you say no You say question mark But the history of the playstation if you know this if you don't know this listen up Sony contacted nintendo and they wanted to work together They wanted to work together with nintendo and release a console together where they use CDs now And their infinite wisdom Said who would ever want to play video games on a disc? They were wrong This is the prototype the super fanbacom cd rom adapter and it was an unreleased video game peripheral for the snes That basically Sony wanted to make and they wanted to work with Super nintendo on this or the one of the nintendo on this to add it on the super nintendo To basically be able to put more data into the games and make it better and they're like no This is weird and now while I do agree this is weird This is very weird coming out with their own console eventually, which is what this led to now If i'm right didn't they didn't work with like phillips Does it say this here and like phillips tried to make a console am i making this up? Hold on phillips cdi Yeah, yeah So I think I think co-developed by phillips and sony. Okay. I okay The the the wheels are turning right the freaking data storage the dna is kicking in my head This is a huge failure this sucked and then sony still said you know what you know what we can do this We can just make our own console Is this real? I don't remember ever seeing this. I guess this is the first version But look it's literally a super nintendo That says playstation on it and sony With a cd drive. It's the same thing What it says you got some ports you got some for this is audio microphone. I don't know what that is The playstation zero. Oh it was the original. It was the original prototype. Oh really That's crazy. I've never actually seen the original prototype That's nuts now. Here's what's happening so far. I'm in love with all these consoles. So I'm just giving everything I'm giving everything s tier. There's so many good things. There's so many good reasons to give all these things s So moving on to the n64 I don't want to be biased and start like not putting things s on purpose I think we've got to make some tough calls here and really start to to stretch this list down a little bit Ooh, do I even drop the dreamcast? I don't know dude I'm I'm in love with the dreamcast, but maybe I'm in love with it because it's the underdog It's like it's like the forgotten like you know what this guy is. This is like the freaking little engine that could Okay, this is the guy who like he was an amazing football player in college and then went to the nfl And then just like he just he blew out his knee or something and then he just sucked But it wasn't really his fault. That's that's how I feel about the dreamcast It was so far out of its time. I'm putting the dreamcast today Because at the end of the day, it's still kind of it failed, but man, man, was it good now Next up is the gamecube I think that the gamecube was the first console where nintendo Really lost its foothold because playstation 2 An original xbox came in and they said hey, we're just bigger better stronger The systems were better. They had these freaking mini discs Which is like what the hell is this didn't really make any sense Now where gamecube strength lies the exclusives because nintendo Still had the exclusive games that everybody loved Also, they fixed one of the biggest problems of the n64 The gamecube controller was very good very very good and the gamecube had a really really good games Mario Sunshine, Super Smash, Melee, Metroid Prime The controller is so good that people are still using the game the gamecube controller today because right now I'm leaning towards a and b because I think the n64 for its time was better than the gamecube I'm thinking it's a b now the nintendo We I didn't mean to put it d. I was just like throwing it up there Or as I like to call it the console for mom's trying to work out at home with wefit I think brought nintendo back to its roots. I actually feel very strongly about this In what way when nintendo started out Nintendo was innovative Now this console playing games specifically on this console because they had we versions of games and non We versions of games it added value to the game now with that being said Certain games were good on the we and certain games were not good on the we the controller was both really good And really trash at the same time. We're gonna go back Okay, we're gonna go back to the drawing board. Here's the CEO of nintendo himself. Danny DeVito Okay Said we're gonna go back to the drawing board And and we're gonna find out what made nintendo so good when it first started fun innovative stuff Good peripherals. It's a family console I remember my parents thought the we was sick the problem with the we I feel like hardware wise Graphically whatever you want to call it. It did not match up to where the ps2 and the xbox were at I thought it was weak I thought a lot of the games were not particularly good for the we but what this console did this and I guess the we you right My bad, I said ps2 didn't I ps3 and the 360 because I was we were talking about gamecube earlier It was the same issue that the gamecube had it just wasn't there graphically But what they did was they they veered off and they went the fun route And the same thing happened with the we that has now happened with the switch Where there's a lot of people who had a ps2 or sorry ps3 or an xbox 360 who also ended up getting a we I don't know how many of you there were but I remember growing up. You had one or the other like it was Oh, you had one of the consoles and that's just what you did But this was kind of the first time that I remember actively separating like I got a playstation 1 on sale I got uh, I got a dreamcast when it was getting discontinued other than that. I was like nintendo But the we was the first one that I had a uh, uh, I had an xbox 360 and I was like well We're getting a we and we got to play we games and it was fun But I do think it brought it back. I think I think it was better than the gamecube I don't know if it's an s Okay, I wouldn't say it's an s but really the combination of what we saw with the the the we you The ds and the gamecube Leads us to I think this is a nintendo switch. I don't think there's another one Leads us to the nintendo switch, which is absolutely an s I think the nintendo switch is an s because what happened was nintendo went and they fell from grace They were beaten. They were battered. They were bruised Microsoft had taken over them Sony had taken over them skipped we you is this the we you who gives a damn we you f I didn't even remember the we you existed until I was talking about the we the we you can suck my nuts Okay, the nintendo switch has come in and they mastered What the direct they mastered the direction that nintendo wanted to turn back to which is their original direction Which is fun. They have now gotten the game boy They have gotten they've gotten motion controls. They've got portability They've got fun. You can hook it up to a tv. You can pick it up and go The switch is its own genre Console wars are kind of done in 2020 console wars are over right like I think that a lot of people There's so many people now that get both playstation and xbox Some people still try and keep this console wars thing going from like 20 years ago. Yeah, it's done, right? You just you you it's about the games also just play on pc what the hell is wrong with you guys anyway So and there's a lot of people that have either a either an xbox or a playstation And they also have a switch And and that is just their own thing. It is a party system. It is a mobile system It is their handheld system. It is fun You can you can have motion controls you can do everything you could do with all these other consoles And it takes the best parts of everything that nintendo brought to the table after they kind of fell from grace And put it into this amazing system I think the switch is absolutely an s they have they have they have carved out their own spot in the console gaming market And it is theirs. It is it is absolutely theirs People will buy it people like I have a switch to it just I mean it's downstairs I'm not playing it actively because I'm always playing games on computer usually But that's the same with all my consoles. Where's ps3? Oh, there it is. I don't actually is that a genesis? I think that's a Sega Genesis PlayStation one This is a hard one Because we already talked about the origins of the PlayStation one. Sony entered the market Because nintendo said no they went to go work with philips. It was garbage and they said not f philips We're gonna make our own console the reason why I kind of want to put PlayStation one at an a when they came against all odds and they introduced the cds The new medium for games for the next almost 10 years. I mean very very memorable games. It was big time The PlayStation one was great. The games were incredible Absolutely incredible games, but the reason why I want to put it in s It kind of beats itself or at a instead of an s It kind of beats itself because I feel like the playstation 2 came in and essentially perfected What the playstation one did the playstation was like their first shot into the market really And then they came in with the ps2 and just freaking dropped the hammer Perfected xbox one playstation 3 playstation 3 is tough Because in a lot of ways the ps3 was good Oh, that's true ps2 because also played dvd. I forgot to mention that and ps3 could play blu-ray players or blu-ray Discs it had a blu-ray player built in but good god. Was it expensive and and the Backlash on launch dude. This was a joke of a console Of the initial release ps3 online was trash. Wasn't it? It was there was all there was always problems with like disconnects and all kinds of stuff PS3 online was garbage if I remember right and it was like I remember talking to my friends at school about this Where like I had friends who had ps3 and they were talking about and like yeah It's because like you have to pay like they need like the money is like that you pay for xbox Like it's used for something right? It's not like they're just taking money for no reason right that handles the servers It handles everything else I feel like the ps4 came back and they were like they basically fixed all the problems that ps3 had They had good pricing a very powerful system Outstanding exclusives and I think that puts it in an A. Let's go on to xbox the xbox original I did not have an original xbox, but I had friends who did I think the original xbox had a lot of really good things going for it It was a powerful system the very first system that had an onboard hard drive Am I am I remembering this wrong? They had onboard memory and no other system had this yet the interface was fantastic I don't know what exclusives that had really other Than halo like halo is really what made xbox Things that the xbox did though that were innovative it mastered online play For controller ports built in so you didn't need to buy a multi tap In fact, I would say that was the only real problem that I had with uh The ps2 was that it didn't have four ports built in you still had to buy a multi tap That was the real only real problem that I the only problem that I had with ps2 The controller was Terrible for the xbox one or the sorry the original xbox This abomination you guys remember this I was like how the hell is anybody gonna play a game on this thing? I remember not being able to hit the buttons Like the The hell is this Garbage even though it was a very good console I do think they mastered online play and I think that the interface And everything from that regard with xbox was really really good And I think the combination of the ps2 and the xbox's success Came in and that's what really These two changed the direction of nintendo for the future But the xbox certainly had its problems and I I really don't know it might be a high a or a low s It's it's it is it is an a plus or an s minus but yes The xbox 360 was better the xbox 360 Similar to the ps3 same generation on launch the 360 was a catastrophe Red ring of death All kinds of console errors it was bad They they released multiple versions of this console to try and fix the problems that it came with It was better than the ps3 And I would even say it's better than the xbox original by a lot The interface was beautiful online play was great the blades. Yes, dude the blades It was great. I will put this at an s. I think the 360 was an s. I think it was incredible Absolutely incredible system correct me if I'm wrong But do you guys remember whenever xbox One was announced Didn't they say they didn't even want to have a disk drive and people were pissed People were pissed They wanted to require the connect as part of the console they were making so many bad decisions always online freaking nsa Creepy champ like there's all kinds of freaking paranoia with xbox one I think that the ps4 took back over and the xbox one they cleaned everything up. They eventually were like, okay Yeah, you can have a disk drive. Okay. Yeah, you can uh, you don't need the connect sure But like the beginning of the xbox one was really really not good And I think that the xbox one I still think it was better than the ps3 for its time Yeah, I think it was better than ps3 for its time, but I don't think it was as good as ps4 I think the ps4 beat it out and I think that the beginning of xbox 360 was so bad that I might I might knock it down to an A I do think xbox 360 beat out ps3 But I'm thinking about it more and more and like just they had so many errors on launch But it did so many things right. I think it was just really ambitious and then they blew it the psp I feel like the psp was that was sony again trying to go back in and trying to copy nintendo again, right? The psp was good and it was uh, let me see the release date of the psp 2005. Okay. That's what I thought I thought it was like similar somewhere in the ds Here's what made psp good. Nintendo was iphone and psp was android That's what it was the game boy was iphone and the psp was android That's the best way that I can describe it and what do I mean by that? Nintendo was its own thing There wasn't really any modding people go and they they mess around with their android phones and there's way more customization They do all that kind of stuff. I think that the psp goes and it allows for some good things there but also I don't think there was a lot of really good games for the psp that were exclusive correct me if i'm wrong, but there's not a whole lot of stuff that just Comes to mind. There's a few god of war uncharted burnout gta These were all games on the on the main consoles, but i'm thinking of crisis core. That's the first one I think that the psp is very good and it kind of did its own thing and it was like supplementary To the playstation I don't think it's an s and I don't think it's a b necessarily one thing I didn't like about the psp was I did not like how if I remember this correctly Didn't it need its own memory Which was the sony brand like they wouldn't take sand disc cards And sony made their own type of memory and they were kind of trying to do the apple thing Where apple tries to make everything theirs and you're in their ecosystem and and uh That was the vita that they did that. Okay. Yeah, the vita was trash I think the psp is a hard a I don't know how anybody could play this thing without getting a headache How could anybody in their right mind? Play this game without getting a massive headache. Is this true? It gave people seizures virtual boy seizures Is that true? cdbork donated three dollars where the engage at nausea and she seizures while playing Yeah So while the virtual boy it was innovative and it was cool and it was like hey, that's a great idea But it was just Not good. I mean like look it's like an old school. It's like a vr headset I mean that's that's what they were trying to do is like they were trying to do what vr is today And even vr today has a lot of problems. It was way out of its time. Well It was not only ahead of its time. It was also it was also bad Like it was terrible. I will only give it an e because I think it was it was ambitious Okay, I don't know what all these are. This is a genesis Is this an Atari? Oh game gear Is this an engage? Oh neo geo neo geo pocket color neo geo. That's what this is. Oh, that's a second nomad. Okay All these are f all this is garbage Yeah, because I don't want to do it actually Sega Genesis was really good Sega Genesis was like It Sega Genesis was good. Oh Sega Genesis was good. The Genesis was good Everything else sucks Sega Saturn. Sega Saturn uses CD. I never played any of these ones But Sega Genesis was so good. Yeah, I think this order is pretty good. I think this order is pretty good I'll put the Vita down here. Hey, this is my video game ranking to your list