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Over its eight-year reign, the Xbox was used by developers to push video games forward — introducing a generation to larger, denser open worlds, more considered storytelling, and more competitive multiplayer experiences. The Xbox is an innovative, powerful console that established Microsoft as a dominant player in the competitive console market.

We hasten to use the phrase "game changer" around here, but it's difficult to find a phrase that more accurately describes Sony's first foray into the console market. So many of the games we play today are built on the foundations first laid out by developers on the PlayStation. In truth, the PlayStation changed the shape of the entire video game industry, taking gaming into the mainstream with such force that it became the first console to sell over million units. The PlayStation 4 is the newest system in our greatest gaming hardware of all time list, but its inclusion has nothing to do with recency bias.

After a rocky generation with the multimedia-focused PlayStation 3, Sony went back-to-basics and released a games console where games were the focus. Unsurprisingly, it worked. The PS4 has one of the strongest first-party offerings in Sony's history, establishing SIE Worldwide Studios as a dominant force not to be reckoned with — a trend that continues to this day. The Super Nintendo Entertainment System landed at a strange time. The enduring dominance of the Sega Mega Drive may have scared lesser competitors away, but it fuelled Nintendo to release some of the best software in its history.

Few consoles can boast of a library as iconic as the SNES', a home console that is as impactful as it was ultimately influential. There's a reason the PlayStation 2 is the best-selling console of all-time — and no, it isn't only because of the fantastic DVD player that was housed within the sleek black box. The reason the PS2 sits in million homes is because of its wildly diverse catalogue of games — from blockbusters like Grand Theft Auto and Gran Turismo, to weirder experiments like Katamari Damacy and Guitar Hero.

The PS2 was a dominant force and its legacy is undeniable. As home consoles rise and fall through countless generations, the PC remains a constant in the market and an undeniable force to be reckoned with.

It has survived it all, through big-boxed floppy disk games to the shift into digital distribution that is so prevalent today. From DOS games running on processors through to booting games up on digital platforms like Steam, the PC has been a home for video games for decades — and rarely has it failed us.

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Load Error. While the 32X was based on the same core tech as the Saturn, it used expensive cartridges and wasn't as powerful. Few games were produced, and Sega quickly discontinued the unit in order to focus on its 'true' bit challenger. While some might consider the Wii U to be Nintendo's most embarrassing hardware failure, that accolade actually goes to the Virtual Boy.

The console committed a multitude of sins; the predominantly red visuals caused some people to have headaches, and those who were lucky enough to avoid this fate had to endure the pain of being hunched over a desk — the only way to play the console.

Despite the inclusion of a bit processor the Virtual Boy's software was mostly 2D in nature, something which generated little interest at a time when the Sony PlayStation was heralding a new era of 3D graphics. To make matters worse the games released on the Virtual Boy were average at best, and within a year the company had cut its losses and abandoned the machine.

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