Best PlayStation Console?

[stealthRUSH]

The original Sony PlayStation (1994)

 

[HexGramarye]

I'm going in an unexpected direction and say Vita. Love my Vita. I think it's a lot more versatile than one might expect, especially these days. It can play all the best PS1 and PSP games (or the whole library if you go the homebrew route), and there's some great ports of PS2, PS3 and PS4 games.

I also think it's just as great of a cozy handheld as the Switch, with an even more comfortable form factor thanks to the smaller screen. Handhelds keep getting bigger and bigger, so I love how easily the Vita slips into a pocket or purse. It's got a good amount of the other pre-indiepocalypse indie games, and you can fill in pretty much all the gaps in the Vita's library with PS4 Remote play. Stardew Valley, Flower, Undertale, Binding of Isaac, Night in the Woods, Coffee Talk, Super Meat Boy, Celeste, all the heavy hitters are there in one way or another. I recently played Crow Country on Vita with Remote Play and had a blast. So, in a very indirect sense, the Vita's still thriving! (Or maybe PS4 is the real winner xD)

The homebrew community and all the ports they've done is amazing too. Where else can I play both Fallout 2 and Final Fantasy Dimensions on a handheld with buttons?

I also still use my Vita's MP3 player lol. The UI wasn't as cool as the PSP, but it gets the job done. I'm super nostalgic for that era when game consoles were also multimedia devices.

 

[Tsetskhli776]

I like everything up 'till the PS3/Vita, became detached to it PS4 onwards, maybe because i got old i dunno lol.
But if i had to pick one, it would definitely be the PS2, it's the most sold console of all time for a reason.

 

[RetroCasual]

Hi everybody, I'm new to this forum and I'd like to share my experience with the PlayStation consoles I've had.

In my opinion, I think that any PlayStation console could be anyone's favourite system, except for the actual generation (PS5) and some Sony's epic fails such as the PocketStation, PSP Go, PSVita, PSVR 1 & 2, PS Portal...

As far as I can remember by now, I enjoyed most of PS1's Namco's gems (Tekken, Ridge Racer, Ace Combat, Soul Edge, Time Crisis...), my first ever RPG Final Fantasy VII, the Resident Evil series, excellent racing games such as Gran Turismo, Colin McRae or TOCA, rare titles such Ape Escape and the best title of the console in my opinion, Metal Gear Solid.

With PS2 I spent lots of hours in the PES saga making tourneys with friends, same with Dragon Ball Budokai and Tenkaichi series, got very surprised with the Burnout saga (specially the third one, TakeDown), Gran Turismo 4, and pecked some of his huge catalog of great titles which seems infinite to me until today.

Even I'm not a fan of portable consoles, I must admit that PSP was a really good machine, a beast in its time, and had lots of excellent games such as Metal Gear Peace Walker, OutRun 2006, MotorStorm Artic Edge, etc. which seemed perfect ports from a PS2. Maybe if it had a better screen I could actually recomend it for retrogaming.

I knew PS2 had some kind of online gaming from that I never took profit, but after that with my PS3 I joined the Internet era for the game consoles and it blew my mind with the possibility of acquiring via download the games in the Store, and it got me trapped in lots of multiplayer games such as GOW Ascension, Soul Calibur V, Tekken Tag 2, Dirt 2 or the extinct PS Home... So I consider the PS3 system the most blowing mind of Sony's them all, and its catalog is not to be left behind, with wonders such as the Uncharted, Batman Arkham or Street Fighter IV series, The Last Of Us, etc.

And finally, with PS4 we got a system with lots of enjoyable games now in true fullHD (Uncharted 4, Spider-Man, Ghost Of Tsushima, GTA V, Devil May Cry 4 & 5, remakes of the Resident Evil series, etc.) plus we can enjoy the 75% or more of the catalog of the actual generation. So I still think that PS4 is actually a better recommended system than his expensive and almost desertic successor.
In fact, I just love playing PS5 because of the excellent ergonomy of the DualSense and I just really like a few exclusive titles wich can be counted with the fingers of a single hand... Sony needs to wake up and start to do things right again by thinking much more about the players, seriously...

 

[RashFaustinho]

Peak Tier:
Playstation 2, Playstation 4

High Tier:
Playstation 1, Playstation Portable

Mid Tier:
Playstation 3, Playstation VITA (but it's much higher in my heart)

Bottom Tier:
Playstation 5

 

[Num]

Factually, its the PS2, but IMO, the PS3 and the PSP had this sort of connected "feel" that the newer consoles lack, especially with PS Home. If only Sony would make a new one (although, one of the dev studios did make their own "PS Home" on mobile, Avakin Life. It's very similar but also riddled with MTX and money-only currencies, you can barely do anything)

playstation home was also riddled with micro transactions too. as a free to play player all you could do was practically just walk around places talking to people but that was the point of it anyways. i remember playstation home houses selling for thousands of dollars on there probably the first time my mind was boggled by that kind of thing. there was an unironic social heiarchy in that game based on financial status, like you wouldnt get invited to those exotic parties because they refused anyone poor it was kind of funny how much it really reflected real life. i spent quite a bit of money on it but i still got made fun of from the upper class because my assets were too cheap

 

[ifelloffmybike]

Really is disappointing to see the PS5 usually not near the top of most people here's lists. Not disappointed in people, but in this console generation in general. The Xbox Series and PS5 lines have just been so dull. Okay games, okay UI, okay whatever. The ups aren't that up and the downs aren't even that down compared to last generation or anything. A lot of 'pizazz' just feels gone? Like yeah, the PS5 can produce extremely good graphics, but all new games focus on is utilizing that to make super ultra realistic games. Realism can be cool but when it's all the time it gets extremely boring.

It feels like there's three genres on newest hardware, Anime, Realistic, and Futuristic. Futuristic being something like a large natural untamed looking world broken up by giant metal obelisks and all the characters wearing sharp very defined armor with glowing bits on it. I want to like the PS5 and the Xbox Series and the newer games, but i feel like i have to go backwards to really get the creativity and fun focus! Didn't really mean to just rant but that's what it turned into. This was sparked by replaying a bit of Ape Escape 3 by the way lol.