I love how Americans talk about The Big Crash of '83(tm) as if it were a global phenomenon which threatened to end videogames forever... while in reality, the rest of the world never stopped playing and making videogames at all. In Japan, the "crash" was simply known as the "Atari Shock", because that was the console that was really affected. Thing is, gaming survived mostly on consoles that didn't reach the USA for a while and on home computers, which never caught on there in the 80s. The Big Crash was only console-related (and mostly Atari-related), so gaming itself would never die just because of it. The third generation was a fantastic leap forward and the point in time when gaming really caught on, true; but it didn't "save" games, it just brought them back to consoles for good and reintroduced them to USA audiences.
Exactly. In Europe everything was fine, the same goes for Japan as you have mentioned and other parts of the world. It should be named "USA Big Crash of 1983."
I live in the US but I am fully aware of this. That popped in my mind when it got brought up. The Famicom was 2 years old and doing well in Japan when it was finally released here in 1985.
Mario 64 blew me away with how 3D could be done. FInal Fantasy 7 was mind-boggling for its story and incredible soundtrack. What an amazing generation. I didn't have a Saturn back then, but I do now with most of the heavy hitters and lots of amazing imports. The Saturn did 2D better than the other 5th gen consoles. That generation was something else!
It has to be number 1, nothing is even close. Unfortunately, the console games from that era are not very good. I say that as someone who spent my formative years with those games. I play way more SNES and NES games than N64, and I do play PS1 but only RPGs which aged fine. Early 3d controls on console were atrocious.
@@gentronseven A few 5th gen 3D games were quite good, such as Mario 64, the Banjo games, Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, Burning Rangers, the Crash Bandicoot games, etc. But, yes, lots of 5th gen games had tank controls, and each system had a wildly different controller. They were really trying to figure things out and there were lots of different ideas. I think that the Saturn aged the best when it comes to general game design since they largely stuck with 2D and the Saturn excelled with that, but the PS1 had so many great RPGs that makes it so fun.
In my 50s so I pretty much experienced all of these, but the most impactful in terms of technological leap from the previous gen was the PS1. The 32-bit era had a sort of rocky start with the 3D0/Jaguar/FM Towns/32x but it really found its stride with the PS1 and that was the console that really defined that we were indeed in a paradigm shift in terms of going from sprites to 3d polygons. Then later the N64.
I agree lol. I grew up with the 6th and 7th generation of games so those are my personal favorite eras. But come on, the leap from 2D to 3D is mind boggling. It can never be replicated again.
I'm surprised to see the 9th generation place above the 8th generation. I would've expected the opposite, given that the leap is so inconsequential that cross-gen games are prominent, and long development times have throttled the release of proper next-gen releases. Even Sony had a year where they were all "we've got nothing".
8th Gen sometimes feel so unnecesary. The machines didnt have enough power. It was a Gen where you couldn't compete with pc, the ps4 pro and xbox one x should have been the real launch consoles of the 8th gen
Good video. I guess my only nitpicks would be that certain things arrived much earlier than this video would have people believe. Things like motion controls, CD storage, 3D games, and online play all appeared before the generations that made them standard. But this is a nice walk down memory lane and i still totally agree with the order.
Yep. motion controls - NES had the Power Glove and the U-Force in Gen 3. 3D polygons - The Genesis/Mega Drive had Virtua Racing, the 32X also had Virtua Racing and had Virtua Fighter, and the SNES had Star Fox, Faceball 2000, and Stunt Race FX in Gen 4. CD storage - There was the TurboGrafx CD and Sega CD in Gen 4. online play - Saturn had a few online games in Gen 5, the Genesis/Mega Drive had an online game subscription service in Gen 4, and even the Famicom in Japan had limited online capability with being able to trade stocks and check game reviews way back in Gen 3 (although this isn't online gaming, it had online functions way back in the 80's in Japan, which is impressive and worth mentioning).
Im a little puzzled as to why you would include the very first generation in this video at all if youre putting it in last place. Either dont include it in the list at all because there were no consoles before it to improve upon, or it HAS to go in first place, because the leap from nothing to something is infinitely more monumental than all the other leaps after that
@@84bombsjetpack23hahaha pen and paper was infinitely better than placing translucent images over your TV to transform Pong because they couldn't do anything else😂
I shockingly agree with your take on the subject. Your reasoning and explanation for why you put each generation where you did really strengthened your case. A topic like this is highly subject to the cohort effect. I'm assuming we are around the same age due to our similar take on the topic.
Speaking from experience, games in the 80’s were admittedly terrible, but they were all we had. You read comics, rode your bike, or laughed at how bad games were with your friends. That changed with SNES library and a great controller. PlayStation and N64 were so rough, but made you look forward to the near future. DVD players were expensive upon release, but PS2 cut that cost in half at a time when internet was still a snail’s pace. Despite the red ring of death, the Xbox 360 was likely the most important step in gaming. Good times.
Punch out, Mario 3, Ninja Gaiden, MegaMan 2-4 just to name a few are objectively not terrible games, what are you talking about? Did you just have really awful NES games? No master system?
@@iami3rian394 IKR? This dude has no idea what he is talking about. Then he slams Gen 5? Then talks about Xbox? Is he trolling,or just doesn't know what good games are?
@@medmuscle I can name fifty more epic NES games, nevermind master system, MSX, etc. He has absolutely no idea what a good game is, or he's just trolling. You might be right.
Looking back I gotta say the xbox gamecube and ps2 era was the biggest leap, ps1 and n64 achieved 3d but they haven't aged the best (in terms of graphics, still alot of fun games to play though) but to this day more than 20 years after release I still find xbox/gc/ps2 games that genuinely impress me....hell look at DOA for original xbox, which was a launch title! I'm actually playing chaos theory for the first time right now on og xbox and yeah I'm genuinely impressed
The leap from 2D to 3D is unmatched, play DOA for the ps1 you will see the core gameplay was already there, now compare the best fighting games from the 4th gen to the 5th gen and you will get the change was just too much , I remember going back to soul edge on the ps1 after playing the hell out of soul calibur on the GameCube and I was amazed (again) on how ahead of it’s time it was in the mid 90s , I still to this day prefer bloody roar 2 con the ps1 to the GameCube version. A bump in graphics just can’t compare with changing to a whole new dimension
@alexhamilton-rq7ji You're wrong and you are just looking back at the PS2 and GameCube era with nostalgia glasses. The greatest leap in gaming since the 1970's has been the jump from 2D to 3D gaming. Go and play "Super Mario World" on the Super Nintendo and then go play "Super Mario 64" on the Nintendo 64. The difference between the 2 games are light years apart.
Ok then, using the same logic I would have to choose seventh Gen, the psp took handhelds(handhelds are considered consoles) from worse than snes graphics to almost on par with ps2 which is a bigger leap then genesis snes to ps1 and n64 were,no? But alot of snes games hold up still (chrono trigger, earthbound, super mario world) there is no ps1 game or n64 game where I was like "wow this game is gorgeous" after that Gen died out, as I said og xbox gamecube and ps2 have titles that still look amazing today more than 20 years later.
@@alexhamilton-rq7ji then always pick the last console gen if you are only looking at “gorgeous” graphics and you will always be correct, the topic is not about the best graphics but it’s about the leap from one gen to another , analog stick on contollers, vibration on game controllers, successful use of cd as storage in a console, 3D polygonal gaming as a standard on console, you name it, all that came on the 5th gen console, todays standard game controller is a combination of a 4th gen controller (snes) and 5th gen (n64) the first console with 3d analog joystick, Sony combined those 2 and crated the dual shock and that is the base for every controllers , about 30 years ago, no matter if you consider x or z game gorgeous the standard you used to judge it (frame rate, polygon count, resolution etc) were first layout by the 5th gen consoles , something that didn’t existed , or should I say wasn’t the standard on 4th gen consoles and before, the jump from the 4 to the 5 gen was a before and after in gaming and the only thing changing is better graphics a phenomenon we experienced from the jump from the Atari to nes , nes to snes but when the 5 gen came out things changed for ever , so you saying Xbox or ps2 have gorgeous games compared to ps1 or n64 is like saying snes and genesis have gorgeous games compared to nes or master system, it’s a silly obvious and superficial statement
I'd vote for two eras. 1) The 3rd gen, going from Atari to NES, was absolutely revolutionary. The quality of NES games compared to Atari games is night and day. The NES introduced many franchises and game types that are alive today. As much as I love the SNES, all these games had their inception on the NES. 2) The 5th generation. Going from 2D to 3D was wild.
Completely agree with your top two picks, and in that order. But I would put the seventh ahead of the sixth due to the embracing of motion controls and online play. The sixth was more like the fourth in that it was a refinement of everything that came before it. And there’s an argument that the fourth should be ahead of the sixth since it was the first time there was true competition in the industry.
Do not agree with Gen 6 being lower than Gen 5. Yes, moving to 3D was a big deal but it was also an incredibly rocky era. Going from something like FF7 to FFX was a quantum leap in fidelity and game mechanics. Also Gen 1 is far more important than you give it credit for since it was the leap from board games to Spacewar and PONG. We'd be nowhere without it.
think about it like that which is more impressive adding a whole new dimension or making the games with that new dimension better even if the second option is better the first option is more impressive
@Ashtarte3D Sorry bud, the Gen 5 leap of 2D to 3D gaming is the greatest leap in gaming as of today. Go play Zelda "A Link to the Past" on SNES and then go play "Ocarina of Time" on the N64. The difference is night and day and it's not even close.
@@kingbullyrock8739 Another thing is the analog stick, which was maybe the biggest change in controls since the D-pad. Although I would give the 6th generation credit for making the RIGHT analog stick an important function. There weren't many 5th-gen games that used the right analog effectively; Sega didn't even bother to include a second stick on the Dreamcast controller despite it being released 2 years after the Dual Shock.
The single greatest leap was between the Atari 2600 and the Colecovision. The leaps between consoles such as nes and snes, PS3 and PS4, were iterative. Relative to its immediate predecessor, the CV brought a true revolution in graphics, sound, gameplay, and game complexity. The same cannot be said for any other console.
The funny thing about the 5th generation is there was another leap from the previous generation for 2D on these machines but it was mostly ignored (not so much in Japan) as everyone went mad for 3D, imagine a 2D Streets of Rage 4 on Saturn, a bit of a shame imo.
I grew up in the 3rd generation. Commodore 64 and Nintendo Entertainment System. I stopped buying video games around year 2020 because I own over 200 games I haven't even played. Why did I buy all those games that I will never play? Nobody knows. I'm doing my best to play at least 30% of my gaming library. Just yesterday, I finished the last PS2 game on my backlog. I'm excited to play my 7th generation backlog starting today.
I had 3 big cases full (those beige double row ones with transparent lockable lid) and loads of the packages they were sold in spread throughout my room. Mirage International was our group, Mirage NL our division 😉 Hacker and demo parties were AWESOME! Those were the times, man!
Gen 5 Is The Best In My Opinion Without Gen 5 there'd be no Tomb Raider, Resident Evil or Tekken Adaptations as much as you people hate Dead Or Alive (2006) that was more of a reminder when you adapt something like To Kill a Mockingbird, Planet Of The Apes, Flash Gordon and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles they're going to change the lore so accept It
For me the 6th generation was the most impressive. However you did make valid points about the 5th generation. One thing of note though the 4th generation was the introduction of CD based consoles. The turbo Graphics cd and Sega CD were out well before the 5th generation. The CDi,3d0 jaguar CD I am not sure what generation they fall under 4th or 5th
The jump from PS1 to PS2 felt pretty massive. There are a lot of PS2 games that still look pretty good. It seems like every generation after was much more iterative to the point going from PS4 to PS5 seems barely noticeable. There's an argument for the jump to 3D, but we went from incredible looking sprites to janky polygons that aged pretty badly.
No VR? No indies? No credit for the Switch merging portable and home console markets? Agreed the 5th was the most revoluntionary. It was a generation at war with its own past.
I'm glad you brought up VR. I believe VR gaming is as big a leap as the leap from 2D to 3D, but not many people can experience it due to the high price tag and the low quantity of games. People don't want to pay more than $30 for a VR games, and since very few people play VR daily, companies can only sell very few copies of the game due to the limited interest and low prices. This means there isn't much earning potential in VR games.
The seventh generation should really follow the fifth. The sixth generation is just a prettier version of the fifth generation. The seventh generation brought us online and it has been one of the dominant features ever since, be it with online stores, streaming, large patches, online gaming etc..
Playstation 1 to OG Xbox was one generation. Syphon Filter to Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. Holy moly. Snes to ps1 was significant too, top gear to gran turismo 2, wow
I can agree with the 5th gen but for me it was definitely the 4th gen 16 bit era. I liked the PS1 but the graphics were no where near the sprites and I never really fell in love with 3D. Gimme a SEGA Megadrive game or an ATARI/AMIGA game over some 3RD FPS or Racer any day.
I think the third generation is the most important generation. But despite the fact that my life started during the third generation of game consoles (1983) and I actually have no experience with the generations before that. I would put the first generation and second generation a lot higher on the list. The first generation literally took gaming from nothing to something. The second generation brought variety and having a console became more normal. Actually, I think the progression between generations 6 and 9 is the smallest. Don't get me wrong. The Playstation 3 and 5 are my favorite consoles. But they actually don't do much that is innovative compared to the Playstation 2.
The PS5's controller (the touch pad in particular) is a MASSIVE leap, the issue is that it isn't used due to the Xbox not having one, and cross console games being super prevalent. Imagine being able to use that to access your inventory in Minecraft, for example. Yeah, Microsoft massively dropped the ball, there.
Biggest leap was from 2D into 3D. Admitedly, early 3D did not look as pleasant as prettiest 2D or pre -rendering. But looking just how badly 16 -Bit consoles struggled to do any 3D, i would say biggest leap on technical quality of games happened between 1993 -1999. It did not take any longer than that to get 3D just right, on PC, Console & Arcade. Especially with 3D accelerated -games. I remember how i could not believe how it was possible to make real -time fundamental changes on levels without any visual flaws, glitches or visible polygon seams to even hint that it was possible. Visuals were just working so solid on most advanced games, as well as gameplay. Gereration after that basically offered only highter poly -characters & framerate benefits, not more advanced content on levels.
There is no jump bigger than from the SNES/genesis/PC Engine/Neo Geo to N64/saturn/PlayStation era. Not only was it the most graphically clear jump in the history of the industry where even a casual noob could describe what the change was, but it was also a big jump in terms of going into proper 3D analogue control and 3D cameras too. Only VR can match and possibly even surpass it, although I don't think most people consider VR part of the same discussion since it's not really thought of as being part of one of the console generations as such really. The jump from 2D to 3D was absolutely a huge paradigm shift, and I think VR is the next example of that kind of paradigm shift happening again, which most of us will only come to appreciate maybe a decade down the line or so. You know, a kind of easy way to see the difference between each generation is just to look at a popular series going through it, like say Super Mario World or The Legend of Zelda or Final Fantasy, etc. It people can't tell from that why the 2D to 3D jump was by far the biggest, from the graphics and audio to the controls and gameplay, they're just letting their own bias get in the way.
1. Going from board games to video games (gen1) 2. Going from 2D to 3D 3. Going online 4. Going VR Rest is just evolution not a revolutionary breakthrough - just improvements in fidelity and immersion.
For me, #1 ps1/n64 to dreamcast/ps2 2# ps2 to xb360 #3 genesis to ps1 and 4# nes to genesis. I never had a 2600, so 8 bit gaming is where it started for me. Jusr my thoughts! I actually started on a c64!
The switch from 2D to 3D was definitely the greatest leap. I don't care if games were ugly, blurry and/or had bad control settings. Newer generations might have done it better, but they're just building on what was started by the the 5th generation consoles. What new leap has happened since then? VR? A gimmick rather than a leap.
I agree with you until you showed your utter ignorance of VR. I have to presume you haven't actually played a proper VR game, or at least not any of the true greats of the medium. VR is the next major paradigm shift in all of gaming and entertainment, just as going from 2D to 3D was the last example of this in gaming. and if you don't get that now, trust me, in a decade or so it will be so clear to you that you will no longer be able to deny it.
@@inceptional Did you see every gamer jumping on the 3D bandwagon? Yes, because it was a huge leap and the next great thing. Did you see every gamer jumping on the VR bandwagon? No, because it's still considered an expensive an very limited gimmick. Maybe it will improve and become accessible to everyone in the future, but for now it's just not "it". Try playing FPS games on it, or any games that require precision of movement, and let me know how that goes.
@@wettuga2762 VR is not mainstream, yet, but it's no more a gimmick than any other form of gaming. Anyone who thinks otherwise is very ignorant of what VR actually is, even now already, and certainly where it's going in the future. Again, I have to believe anyone saying that hasn't actually played VR and/or has a very limited idea of what VR is and what it can do. Have you actually played games like Half Life: Alyx, Beat Saber, RE4 VR on Quest, Face Your Fears, Gran Turismo 7 VR, Madison, Moss, Metro Awakening, Demo, Red Matter 2, or tried experiences like Skybox, Quill, EmuVR, etc? I can also play any retro games on my VR headset via emulation right now, and projected on a giant virtual screen inside a virtual cinema if I like, plus officially use an Xbox one controller with them too, which is more than playable. And when it comes to fps games, absolutely nothing even touches VR for instant aiming and ducking and dodging that's as close to replicating real life as you can get without actually doing it in real life. Have you even used VR and played an fps games with it? I can literally shoot people off to my side or even behind me without having to turn around to see where they are or duck behind a crate and reach up to blind fire for a pot shot or stick my hand around a corner and shoot without exposing any of the rest of my body, and about as intuitively as I could do in real life without looking at what I'm trying to shoot. Now try that via any other control method, where you can actually shoot something that's not where you're looking and with any sense of how close you're likely going to be to hitting them. It's like being Robocop. VR isn't mainstream, but it's far beyond any other mainstream gaming systems right now in terms of pretty much everything that makes playing games amazing, especially if you have a PC that can run your games at the highest settings. I mean, in terms of the experience, it's just not even close.
I remember how much of a beast PS3 was when it came out. Like, does a console need to be this insanely powerful? I heard about research institutions and even the US military allegedly buying a handful of PS3's to combine them together as a make-shift supercomputer. Nowadays you can literally run a PS3 emulator on a smartphone.
Is this even a question? It's Gen 6, closely followed by Gen 5. It's not even up to debate. To be precise, the evolution was progressively bigger and bigger the first 6 generations, but then diminishing returns started with Gen 7. Not that the leap in Gen 7 was small, mind you. It just wasn't as big as the previous two generations. But by Gen 8, the diminishing was made patently clear, and with Gen 9, it's so minimal that both generations have coexisted for a crazy ass long time. I think the only people who doubt that are people who are too young to clearly remember what the evolution of the medium was like until very recently, so they either aren't fully aware of certain things and/or take some parts of the evolution for granted and don't appreciate them as they should when they first appeared.
I look at things a different way: What generations can I enjoy without nostalgia goggles. How far back can I go and play a new (to me) game without the technology getting in the way. For me that is 6th gen for 3D and 4th gen for 2D.
7:36 i highly doubt many people in Yukon Territory had broadband back then. Such a rural sparcly populated area. It would be like alaska probably little to no reliable broadband
I'm worried that the new generations won't even be different, but you have to get them because software won't work on your old one anymore, a la smart phones
I keep going back and forth to this question. it was either 8 bit to 16 bit, 16 to 3D polygons (mostly ugly imo) or that clearly huge jump from PS to PS2 when we had actual faces in games with perfect lip synched voice actors, vast worlds with open worlds like the GTA series. it's one of those. SNES, PS1, or PS2. or
I would've put the 9th gen below the 8 gen, heck, I would've put below gen 1. that being said, I do believe the 9th gen has yet to prove itself and it has the potential to be way better than what it is right now, even becoming the best, it's too early to rate 9th gen yet, however, I do believe it has stumbled right out of the gate, though so did the 8th gen.
Before watching this, I'm gonna say the leap from 16bit to 32bit. Granted, it's probably the generation that holds up the worst in the modern era but we went to true 3d games with acceptable frame rates. My number two would be the Xbox 360, PS3 and the first time you plug in a hdmi cable to your tv. Honorable mention to the Xbox Series innovation of quick resume.
The first couple generations literally created the mechanics and the genres that is now "borrowed," by everything that follows. Just look at Pokemon, 007, final fantasy, metal slug, metal gear, Zelda, GTA 1, Mario Bros.. Everything now can be summed up by all the genres that exist now, hero looter shooter, beat em up, FPS, RPG, battle royal, Minecraft in space. You'd think there would be many New "genres," but at this point they layer the genres to make it seem different. I mean it shouldn't matter to the younger generations though they think they're always the first at everything and never understand that it's all a reaction from the past. With a little more greed this time.
Not sure how the 9th generation where most games are still released on the 8th and continues cross platform gaming etc from the 8th can be considered a bigger leap? Even the upcoming Switch 2 is an update of the 8th gen Switch.
4th Generation 1987 to 2004 ? I really dont think Sega and and Nintendo were making games for the SNES and Sega Genesis 1 year before the Xbox 360. Idk if your young but in 2004 the SNES was considered pretty ancient.
3rd Generation Way to low.. It might have been more of a Renaissance of the 2nd. Generation, but it actualy BROUGHT us the first 3D Games with Starfox, Vortex, Sega Racing and so on. Also the Videogame Crash only happened in the USA Also the SNES Controller is de facto the Blueprint for most of Modern Controller Designs
Good general look. I'm going to say deeper as always possibilities people won't cover compared to a collector or historian and the tech/peripherals or some.stand out games then the obvious games people think of. As these things say what impact they didn't have but were still impressive for the eras. Fairchild Channel F with cartridges and came before 2600. But who pays attention to it when well popular brands first come to mind, those left behind actually make history but get forgotten. Adaptors for other consoles games as wasn't a factor back then things were still new. 1st gen well from Tennis for two or board games sure. Lights on screen and backgrounds or Pong consoles. 2nd well 2600 or Intellivison or Coleco had voice synthesizer, had a gaming subscription, things people don't focus on but well graphics or cultural impact probably not as much those things as just sales, US confusion of games and crash that effected them but not EU/JP or elsewhere. Publishers like Activision. Licensed games happened yes. As expected no subscription or others I get this is a general video but the other factors do highly deeper the non impact they had even if starts. Fair graphics for the time. Strategy genre was complex here to a degree. Most games are simple high score stuff but ma y like Adventure or ET are complex for the time. 3rd well NES, Master System hmm NES probably did, was a fair jump, fair impact but PCs were still a thing in the EU or JP so. Famicom had disk system, re-writable games, had banking and horse betting. Power Glove, Hot Seat mercury motion controls. 3D glasses back then NES and Master System. 4th the graphics jump, satellite cast games with satellitiview and Sega Channel. That's a jump of feature support and changes to those games besides peripherals, changes to cartridges like the lock on for Sonic games or button designs, d-pad and more. Sharp TVs for NES/SNES. Or Twin Famicom. CD for Turbo Grafx/PC Engine, Sega CD FMV games. Virtual Bot making 3D portable, sure red and black but wireframe compared to Vectrex vectors. Fair 3D tracking. People say oh sales but it was still impressive tech. Sega Genesis VR/Jaguar VR were cancelled. Would have been interesting though. FMV PC FX, 3DO and more weren't impactful, cool but didn't impact much besides maybe Tiger Gamecom 2 slots not even DSi that. Pack in games being a thing on systems. PDA or media like features like Tapwave Zodiac, Gizmondo, PSP getting there. Like the Gameboy Workboy. Neo Geo for arcade games accurately to a console. Neo Geo Pocket for arcade stick. Saturn and it's 2D sprites with enhancements, media features. N64 I mean.... Zip disk like 64DD. But otherwise what faster load times and games with fair use of voice, texture use and limitations to offer mission based design. Dual analogue or rumble or single siltick of N54/Saturn, Dreamcast, PSP, Neo Geo Pocket. Wonderswan and Lynx had additional buttons for different play methods. 4th gen did a lot of interesting stuff with games ideas, mechanics, worlds, story telling, arcade games, subscription services (look it up Satellivee and Sega Channel), cancelled VR, CD games, FMV, button layouts and more. Overworlds of old gens then open worlds of 5-6th gen but pushed more with PS3/360 gen and interesting few on Wii. 6th gen was too much 3D but more handheld 2D. But hsrd drive, memory card use besides 5th gen. 3rd has some good to it for sure of game design and hardware/peripherals impact. I forgot about Atari 7800. 5800 was earlier too. D-pad and safe other controllers sigh. Blsst processing was a technique very few understood with the hardware. It was real but not used really. I think of it like how devs used the PS1 RAM or other chips ro load faster or the whole game loaded and CDs could play to generate levels like Vib Ribbon. Some PS1 games used techniques for loading. Genesis maybe had similar I don't remember but it was possible. Just not heavily used or used at all. Gameboy Color IR. Or games with rumble, motion before the Wii. 2600 or others with trackball controller. Or the keypads of others. Impact no interesting yes. GBA and GameCube or Dreamcast with dual screen support. Sega and cross save on PS2 Outrun with PSP version and vice versa before Sony 's cross save, cross but, cross play in PS3/PS4/Vita era. PS2/Xbox/GameCube better games with some good mix of right stick not always for camera, still experimental then boredom of game design so basic and repetitive nowadays. Boring menus and weak worlds/movesets that feel even more dull then PS1 when even PS1 had more depth of movesets and level design. Linux Kit for PS2, DVD support on All 3 besides Panasonic Q not GameCube, even if Xbox it was different. 8th gen was well more RAM/larger worlds, remote play pushed like Wii U, SmartGlass, Vita/smartphones for game support. But no one cares or paid attention to those did they? VR happened on consoles. As if that isn't a big tech deal but isn't impactful of course. For graphics sure proper 1080p not 1080p 30FPS of PS3/360 era. And some were just going after the 500 or so to 1080i so getting 1280 by 1080 besides 720p sure. 8th gen felt like a downgrade refinement. Refinements but also downgrade of game design as missions, modes and more got worse, dumbed down and 9th reflects this as well. Hybrid wow as if cables or docks for PSP, or Sega Nomad or Pocket PCs/PDAs didn't exist hmm. Irs a tablet with a dcok to the modern era idiots that don't know their history. Easily buy into marketing then what actually existed prior no one does research for. Yeah 8th was for other business models and reworking things not innovation besides peripherals or controllers software wide well thr Windows 8 Xbox One stuff but no one cared for that and it's desd as of 2017 anyway the TV TV TV screen alignment feature. 9th grn hmm so.... Load times if they use the SSD well same can be said for HDD used well then pushed too far on 8th gen because dev laziness. Sure 60/120fps. 4K. But it's a boring gen that has offered nothing. Who cares what CPU, GPU, RAM, sure fair haptics, sure 3D audio is nice. But irs just boring. Crossplay sure. Who cares. If the laser pointer, C button or other things of Switch 2 who knows. 7th had DVD, Blu ray, notion controls on consoles again, remote play, storefronts, 3D TV support again compared to 3D glasses of the early form, fair art styles to work around things. HD visuals. If not counting Laser Disk 1080i or PS2/Xbox 1080i games. That or 480p progressive scan too. Wireless controller as standard rather then radio channels like GameCube Wavebird or IR wireless controllers.
Judging by the criteria, the switch has to be the biggest and best leap. However, in terms of shift, for me anyway, the Super Nintendo to N64 was a huge leap. This is a fantastic topic to talk about.
I love how Americans talk about The Big Crash of '83(tm) as if it were a global phenomenon which threatened to end videogames forever... while in reality, the rest of the world never stopped playing and making videogames at all. In Japan, the "crash" was simply known as the "Atari Shock", because that was the console that was really affected. Thing is, gaming survived mostly on consoles that didn't reach the USA for a while and on home computers, which never caught on there in the 80s. The Big Crash was only console-related (and mostly Atari-related), so gaming itself would never die just because of it.
The third generation was a fantastic leap forward and the point in time when gaming really caught on, true; but it didn't "save" games, it just brought them back to consoles for good and reintroduced them to USA audiences.
Exactly. In Europe everything was fine, the same goes for Japan as you have mentioned and other parts of the world. It should be named "USA Big Crash of 1983."
but "NiNTeNDo SaVED ViDEO GaMES"
I live in the US but I am fully aware of this. That popped in my mind when it got brought up. The Famicom was 2 years old and doing well in Japan when it was finally released here in 1985.
I knew you were gonna mention the ps1, saturn, n64 era as number 1. I'm glad I was there for it man, it was glorious to see
It really was. My PS1 has a special place in my heart.
Mario 64 blew me away with how 3D could be done. FInal Fantasy 7 was mind-boggling for its story and incredible soundtrack. What an amazing generation. I didn't have a Saturn back then, but I do now with most of the heavy hitters and lots of amazing imports. The Saturn did 2D better than the other 5th gen consoles. That generation was something else!
It has to be number 1, nothing is even close. Unfortunately, the console games from that era are not very good. I say that as someone who spent my formative years with those games. I play way more SNES and NES games than N64, and I do play PS1 but only RPGs which aged fine. Early 3d controls on console were atrocious.
@@gentronseven A few 5th gen 3D games were quite good, such as Mario 64, the Banjo games, Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, Burning Rangers, the Crash Bandicoot games, etc. But, yes, lots of 5th gen games had tank controls, and each system had a wildly different controller. They were really trying to figure things out and there were lots of different ideas. I think that the Saturn aged the best when it comes to general game design since they largely stuck with 2D and the Saturn excelled with that, but the PS1 had so many great RPGs that makes it so fun.
In my 50s so I pretty much experienced all of these, but the most impactful in terms of technological leap from the previous gen was the PS1. The 32-bit era had a sort of rocky start with the 3D0/Jaguar/FM Towns/32x but it really found its stride with the PS1 and that was the console that really defined that we were indeed in a paradigm shift in terms of going from sprites to 3d polygons. Then later the N64.
I agree lol. I grew up with the 6th and 7th generation of games so those are my personal favorite eras. But come on, the leap from 2D to 3D is mind boggling. It can never be replicated again.
I'm surprised to see the 9th generation place above the 8th generation. I would've expected the opposite, given that the leap is so inconsequential that cross-gen games are prominent, and long development times have throttled the release of proper next-gen releases. Even Sony had a year where they were all "we've got nothing".
8th Gen sometimes feel so unnecesary. The machines didnt have enough power. It was a Gen where you couldn't compete with pc, the ps4 pro and xbox one x should have been the real launch consoles of the 8th gen
Strong agreed
Good video. I guess my only nitpicks would be that certain things arrived much earlier than this video would have people believe.
Things like motion controls, CD storage, 3D games, and online play all appeared before the generations that made them standard. But this is a nice walk down memory lane and i still totally agree with the order.
Yep.
motion controls - NES had the Power Glove and the U-Force in Gen 3.
3D polygons - The Genesis/Mega Drive had Virtua Racing, the 32X also had Virtua Racing and had Virtua Fighter, and the SNES had Star Fox, Faceball 2000, and Stunt Race FX in Gen 4.
CD storage - There was the TurboGrafx CD and Sega CD in Gen 4.
online play - Saturn had a few online games in Gen 5, the Genesis/Mega Drive had an online game subscription service in Gen 4, and even the Famicom in Japan had limited online capability with being able to trade stocks and check game reviews way back in Gen 3 (although this isn't online gaming, it had online functions way back in the 80's in Japan, which is impressive and worth mentioning).
Im a little puzzled as to why you would include the very first generation in this video at all if youre putting it in last place. Either dont include it in the list at all because there were no consoles before it to improve upon, or it HAS to go in first place, because the leap from nothing to something is infinitely more monumental than all the other leaps after that
It's not a leap from nothing. There were tabletop games, board games, pen and paper, things like that.
@@84bombsjetpack23hahaha pen and paper was infinitely better than placing translucent images over your TV to transform Pong because they couldn't do anything else😂
@@84bombsjetpack23sure it is a leap from nothing. No tv 📺 not counting. Tons of stuff once regions aren’t locked.
Well put together video and I mostly agree with your rankings and reasons. Thanks for sharing and keep up the awesome work!
I shockingly agree with your take on the subject. Your reasoning and explanation for why you put each generation where you did really strengthened your case.
A topic like this is highly subject to the cohort effect. I'm assuming we are around the same age due to our similar take on the topic.
Speaking from experience, games in the 80’s were admittedly terrible, but they were all we had. You read comics, rode your bike, or laughed at how bad games were with your friends. That changed with SNES library and a great controller. PlayStation and N64 were so rough, but made you look forward to the near future. DVD players were expensive upon release, but PS2 cut that cost in half at a time when internet was still a snail’s pace. Despite the red ring of death, the Xbox 360 was likely the most important step in gaming. Good times.
Punch out, Mario 3, Ninja Gaiden, MegaMan 2-4 just to name a few are objectively not terrible games, what are you talking about?
Did you just have really awful NES games? No master system?
@@iami3rian394 IKR? This dude has no idea what he is talking about. Then he slams Gen 5? Then talks about Xbox? Is he trolling,or just doesn't know what good games are?
@@medmuscle I can name fifty more epic NES games, nevermind master system, MSX, etc.
He has absolutely no idea what a good game is, or he's just trolling. You might be right.
Looking back I gotta say the xbox gamecube and ps2 era was the biggest leap, ps1 and n64 achieved 3d but they haven't aged the best (in terms of graphics, still alot of fun games to play though) but to this day more than 20 years after release I still find xbox/gc/ps2 games that genuinely impress me....hell look at DOA for original xbox, which was a launch title! I'm actually playing chaos theory for the first time right now on og xbox and yeah I'm genuinely impressed
The leap from 2D to 3D is unmatched, play DOA for the ps1 you will see the core gameplay was already there, now compare the best fighting games from the 4th gen to the 5th gen and you will get the change was just too much , I remember going back to soul edge on the ps1 after playing the hell out of soul calibur on the GameCube and I was amazed (again) on how ahead of it’s time it was in the mid 90s , I still to this day prefer bloody roar 2 con the ps1 to the GameCube version. A bump in graphics just can’t compare with changing to a whole new dimension
@alexhamilton-rq7ji
You're wrong and you are just looking back at the PS2 and GameCube era with nostalgia glasses. The greatest leap in gaming since the 1970's has been the jump from 2D to 3D gaming. Go and play "Super Mario World" on the Super Nintendo and then go play "Super Mario 64" on the Nintendo 64. The difference between the 2 games are light years apart.
@@kingbullyrock8739 even i agree with them and i wasn't even alive then
Ok then, using the same logic I would have to choose seventh Gen, the psp took handhelds(handhelds are considered consoles) from worse than snes graphics to almost on par with ps2 which is a bigger leap then genesis snes to ps1 and n64 were,no? But alot of snes games hold up still (chrono trigger, earthbound, super mario world) there is no ps1 game or n64 game where I was like "wow this game is gorgeous" after that Gen died out, as I said og xbox gamecube and ps2 have titles that still look amazing today more than 20 years later.
@@alexhamilton-rq7ji then always pick the last console gen if you are only looking at “gorgeous” graphics and you will always be correct, the topic is not about the best graphics but it’s about the leap from one gen to another , analog stick on contollers, vibration on game controllers, successful use of cd as storage in a console, 3D polygonal gaming as a standard on console, you name it, all that came on the 5th gen console, todays standard game controller is a combination of a 4th gen controller (snes) and 5th gen (n64) the first console with 3d analog joystick, Sony combined those 2 and crated the dual shock and that is the base for every controllers , about 30 years ago, no matter if you consider x or z game gorgeous the standard you used to judge it (frame rate, polygon count, resolution etc) were first layout by the 5th gen consoles , something that didn’t existed , or should I say wasn’t the standard on 4th gen consoles and before, the jump from the 4 to the 5 gen was a before and after in gaming and the only thing changing is better graphics a phenomenon we experienced from the jump from the Atari to nes , nes to snes but when the 5 gen came out things changed for ever , so you saying Xbox or ps2 have gorgeous games compared to ps1 or n64 is like saying snes and genesis have gorgeous games compared to nes or master system, it’s a silly obvious and superficial statement
I'd vote for two eras. 1) The 3rd gen, going from Atari to NES, was absolutely revolutionary. The quality of NES games compared to Atari games is night and day. The NES introduced many franchises and game types that are alive today. As much as I love the SNES, all these games had their inception on the NES. 2) The 5th generation. Going from 2D to 3D was wild.
Completely agree with your top two picks, and in that order. But I would put the seventh ahead of the sixth due to the embracing of motion controls and online play. The sixth was more like the fourth in that it was a refinement of everything that came before it. And there’s an argument that the fourth should be ahead of the sixth since it was the first time there was true competition in the industry.
It is such a great topic to make a video for. Great work.
great video 😊
Very cool video dude!
Do not agree with Gen 6 being lower than Gen 5. Yes, moving to 3D was a big deal but it was also an incredibly rocky era. Going from something like FF7 to FFX was a quantum leap in fidelity and game mechanics. Also Gen 1 is far more important than you give it credit for since it was the leap from board games to Spacewar and PONG. We'd be nowhere without it.
think about it like that which is more impressive adding a whole new dimension or making the games with that new dimension better even if the second option is better the first option is more impressive
@Ashtarte3D
Sorry bud, the Gen 5 leap of 2D to 3D gaming is the greatest leap in gaming as of today. Go play Zelda "A Link to the Past" on SNES and then go play "Ocarina of Time" on the N64. The difference is night and day and it's not even close.
@@kingbullyrock8739 Another thing is the analog stick, which was maybe the biggest change in controls since the D-pad. Although I would give the 6th generation credit for making the RIGHT analog stick an important function. There weren't many 5th-gen games that used the right analog effectively; Sega didn't even bother to include a second stick on the Dreamcast controller despite it being released 2 years after the Dual Shock.
Honestly the ps2 era was by far the biggest leap, i remember being absolutely blown away by the graphics.
The single greatest leap was between the Atari 2600 and the Colecovision. The leaps between consoles such as nes and snes, PS3 and PS4, were iterative. Relative to its immediate predecessor, the CV brought a true revolution in graphics, sound, gameplay, and game complexity. The same cannot be said for any other console.
Great video.
The funny thing about the 5th generation is there was another leap from the previous generation for 2D on these machines but it was mostly ignored (not so much in Japan) as everyone went mad for 3D, imagine a 2D Streets of Rage 4 on Saturn, a bit of a shame imo.
I grew up in the 3rd generation. Commodore 64 and Nintendo Entertainment System. I stopped buying video games around year 2020 because I own over 200 games I haven't even played. Why did I buy all those games that I will never play? Nobody knows. I'm doing my best to play at least 30% of my gaming library.
Just yesterday, I finished the last PS2 game on my backlog. I'm excited to play my 7th generation backlog starting today.
Graet video!! Amiga floppy disks were real cool too, my cousin had a ton of them! 😂
I had 3 big cases full (those beige double row ones with transparent lockable lid) and loads of the packages they were sold in spread throughout my room. Mirage International was our group, Mirage NL our division 😉 Hacker and demo parties were AWESOME!
Those were the times, man!
Ahahah wonderful!!
Gen 5 Is The Best In My Opinion Without Gen 5 there'd be no Tomb Raider, Resident Evil or Tekken Adaptations as much as you people hate Dead Or Alive (2006) that was more of a reminder when you adapt something like To Kill a Mockingbird, Planet Of The Apes, Flash Gordon and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles they're going to change the lore so accept It
N64 no doubt
Going from the SNES to a control with memory cards and rumble is bananas to start with. Not to mention the amount of added buttons
For me the 6th generation was the most impressive. However you did make valid points about the 5th generation. One thing of note though the 4th generation was the introduction of CD based consoles. The turbo Graphics cd and Sega CD were out well before the 5th generation. The CDi,3d0 jaguar CD I am not sure what generation they fall under 4th or 5th
The jump from PS1 to PS2 felt pretty massive. There are a lot of PS2 games that still look pretty good. It seems like every generation after was much more iterative to the point going from PS4 to PS5 seems barely noticeable.
There's an argument for the jump to 3D, but we went from incredible looking sprites to janky polygons that aged pretty badly.
Massive?
The leap from 2D to 3D will never happen again.
We have the winner.
The 3do!
No VR? No indies? No credit for the Switch merging portable and home console markets?
Agreed the 5th was the most revoluntionary. It was a generation at war with its own past.
I'm glad you brought up VR. I believe VR gaming is as big a leap as the leap from 2D to 3D, but not many people can experience it due to the high price tag and the low quantity of games.
People don't want to pay more than $30 for a VR games, and since very few people play VR daily, companies can only sell very few copies of the game due to the limited interest and low prices.
This means there isn't much earning potential in VR games.
The seventh generation should really follow the fifth. The sixth generation is just a prettier version of the fifth generation. The seventh generation brought us online and it has been one of the dominant features ever since, be it with online stores, streaming, large patches, online gaming etc..
Playstation 1 to OG Xbox was one generation. Syphon Filter to Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. Holy moly. Snes to ps1 was significant too, top gear to gran turismo 2, wow
Snes to N64 was a big leap but I thought Nes to Genesis/Snes was impressive.
Great video
Not bad at all . I started with the 3rd generation and I see your list as a fair layout
I can agree with the 5th gen but for me it was definitely the 4th gen 16 bit era. I liked the PS1 but the graphics were no where near the sprites and I never really fell in love with 3D.
Gimme a SEGA Megadrive game or an ATARI/AMIGA game over some 3RD FPS or Racer any day.
I think the third generation is the most important generation. But despite the fact that my life started during the third generation of game consoles (1983) and I actually have no experience with the generations before that. I would put the first generation and second generation a lot higher on the list. The first generation literally took gaming from nothing to something. The second generation brought variety and having a console became more normal. Actually, I think the progression between generations 6 and 9 is the smallest. Don't get me wrong. The Playstation 3 and 5 are my favorite consoles. But they actually don't do much that is innovative compared to the Playstation 2.
The PS5's controller (the touch pad in particular) is a MASSIVE leap, the issue is that it isn't used due to the Xbox not having one, and cross console games being super prevalent.
Imagine being able to use that to access your inventory in Minecraft, for example.
Yeah, Microsoft massively dropped the ball, there.
Biggest leap was from 2D into 3D.
Admitedly, early 3D did not look as pleasant as prettiest 2D or pre -rendering.
But looking just how badly 16 -Bit consoles struggled to do any 3D, i would say biggest leap on technical quality of games happened between 1993 -1999.
It did not take any longer than that to get 3D just right, on PC, Console & Arcade. Especially with 3D accelerated -games.
I remember how i could not believe how it was possible to make real -time fundamental changes on levels without any visual flaws, glitches or visible polygon seams to even hint that it was possible. Visuals were just working so solid on most advanced games, as well as gameplay. Gereration after that basically offered only highter poly -characters & framerate benefits, not more advanced content on levels.
There is no jump bigger than from the SNES/genesis/PC Engine/Neo Geo to N64/saturn/PlayStation era. Not only was it the most graphically clear jump in the history of the industry where even a casual noob could describe what the change was, but it was also a big jump in terms of going into proper 3D analogue control and 3D cameras too. Only VR can match and possibly even surpass it, although I don't think most people consider VR part of the same discussion since it's not really thought of as being part of one of the console generations as such really. The jump from 2D to 3D was absolutely a huge paradigm shift, and I think VR is the next example of that kind of paradigm shift happening again, which most of us will only come to appreciate maybe a decade down the line or so.
You know, a kind of easy way to see the difference between each generation is just to look at a popular series going through it, like say Super Mario World or The Legend of Zelda or Final Fantasy, etc. It people can't tell from that why the 2D to 3D jump was by far the biggest, from the graphics and audio to the controls and gameplay, they're just letting their own bias get in the way.
1. Going from board games to video games (gen1)
2. Going from 2D to 3D
3. Going online
4. Going VR
Rest is just evolution not a revolutionary breakthrough - just improvements in fidelity and immersion.
For me, #1 ps1/n64 to dreamcast/ps2 2# ps2 to xb360 #3 genesis to ps1 and 4# nes to genesis. I never had a 2600, so 8 bit gaming is where it started for me. Jusr my thoughts! I actually started on a c64!
The switch from 2D to 3D was definitely the greatest leap. I don't care if games were ugly, blurry and/or had bad control settings. Newer generations might have done it better, but they're just building on what was started by the the 5th generation consoles. What new leap has happened since then? VR? A gimmick rather than a leap.
I agree with you until you showed your utter ignorance of VR. I have to presume you haven't actually played a proper VR game, or at least not any of the true greats of the medium. VR is the next major paradigm shift in all of gaming and entertainment, just as going from 2D to 3D was the last example of this in gaming. and if you don't get that now, trust me, in a decade or so it will be so clear to you that you will no longer be able to deny it.
@@inceptional Did you see every gamer jumping on the 3D bandwagon? Yes, because it was a huge leap and the next great thing. Did you see every gamer jumping on the VR bandwagon? No, because it's still considered an expensive an very limited gimmick. Maybe it will improve and become accessible to everyone in the future, but for now it's just not "it". Try playing FPS games on it, or any games that require precision of movement, and let me know how that goes.
@@wettuga2762 VR is not mainstream, yet, but it's no more a gimmick than any other form of gaming. Anyone who thinks otherwise is very ignorant of what VR actually is, even now already, and certainly where it's going in the future.
Again, I have to believe anyone saying that hasn't actually played VR and/or has a very limited idea of what VR is and what it can do.
Have you actually played games like Half Life: Alyx, Beat Saber, RE4 VR on Quest, Face Your Fears, Gran Turismo 7 VR, Madison, Moss, Metro Awakening, Demo, Red Matter 2, or tried experiences like Skybox, Quill, EmuVR, etc?
I can also play any retro games on my VR headset via emulation right now, and projected on a giant virtual screen inside a virtual cinema if I like, plus officially use an Xbox one controller with them too, which is more than playable.
And when it comes to fps games, absolutely nothing even touches VR for instant aiming and ducking and dodging that's as close to replicating real life as you can get without actually doing it in real life.
Have you even used VR and played an fps games with it?
I can literally shoot people off to my side or even behind me without having to turn around to see where they are or duck behind a crate and reach up to blind fire for a pot shot or stick my hand around a corner and shoot without exposing any of the rest of my body, and about as intuitively as I could do in real life without looking at what I'm trying to shoot. Now try that via any other control method, where you can actually shoot something that's not where you're looking and with any sense of how close you're likely going to be to hitting them. It's like being Robocop.
VR isn't mainstream, but it's far beyond any other mainstream gaming systems right now in terms of pretty much everything that makes playing games amazing, especially if you have a PC that can run your games at the highest settings. I mean, in terms of the experience, it's just not even close.
Dreamcast in 1998 vs PS1, N64.
Biggest impact on me was the 4th generation.
I remember how much of a beast PS3 was when it came out. Like, does a console need to be this insanely powerful? I heard about research institutions and even the US military allegedly buying a handful of PS3's to combine them together as a make-shift supercomputer. Nowadays you can literally run a PS3 emulator on a smartphone.
Sorry but smartphones can't run PS3 emulators.
Is this even a question? It's Gen 6, closely followed by Gen 5. It's not even up to debate.
To be precise, the evolution was progressively bigger and bigger the first 6 generations, but then diminishing returns started with Gen 7. Not that the leap in Gen 7 was small, mind you. It just wasn't as big as the previous two generations. But by Gen 8, the diminishing was made patently clear, and with Gen 9, it's so minimal that both generations have coexisted for a crazy ass long time.
I think the only people who doubt that are people who are too young to clearly remember what the evolution of the medium was like until very recently, so they either aren't fully aware of certain things and/or take some parts of the evolution for granted and don't appreciate them as they should when they first appeared.
I look at things a different way: What generations can I enjoy without nostalgia goggles. How far back can I go and play a new (to me) game without the technology getting in the way. For me that is 6th gen for 3D and 4th gen for 2D.
This is a pretty accurate list placement to me.
7:36 i highly doubt many people in Yukon Territory had broadband back then. Such a rural sparcly populated area. It would be like alaska probably little to no reliable broadband
I'm worried that the new generations won't even be different, but you have to get them because software won't work on your old one anymore, a la smart phones
Agree 100%.
#1. 5th gen
#2. 3rd gen
#3. 6th gen
#4. 7th gen
#5. 4th gen
#6. 9th gen
#7. 2nd gen
I keep going back and forth to this question.
it was either 8 bit to 16 bit, 16 to 3D polygons (mostly ugly imo)
or that clearly huge jump from PS to PS2 when we had actual faces in games with perfect lip synched voice actors, vast worlds with open worlds like the GTA series.
it's one of those.
SNES, PS1, or PS2.
or
Def gen 6 for me. We really haven’t moved since
I would've put the 9th gen below the 8 gen, heck, I would've put below gen 1. that being said, I do believe the 9th gen has yet to prove itself and it has the potential to be way better than what it is right now, even becoming the best, it's too early to rate 9th gen yet, however, I do believe it has stumbled right out of the gate, though so did the 8th gen.
Before watching this, I'm gonna say the leap from 16bit to 32bit. Granted, it's probably the generation that holds up the worst in the modern era but we went to true 3d games with acceptable frame rates. My number two would be the Xbox 360, PS3 and the first time you plug in a hdmi cable to your tv. Honorable mention to the Xbox Series innovation of quick resume.
The first couple generations literally created the mechanics and the genres that is now "borrowed," by everything that follows. Just look at Pokemon, 007, final fantasy, metal slug, metal gear, Zelda, GTA 1, Mario Bros.. Everything now can be summed up by all the genres that exist now, hero looter shooter, beat em up, FPS, RPG, battle royal, Minecraft in space. You'd think there would be many New "genres," but at this point they layer the genres to make it seem different. I mean it shouldn't matter to the younger generations though they think they're always the first at everything and never understand that it's all a reaction from the past. With a little more greed this time.
Gen 1 was the biggest leap, before this there was nothing
Not sure how the 9th generation where most games are still released on the 8th and continues cross platform gaming etc from the 8th can be considered a bigger leap? Even the upcoming Switch 2 is an update of the 8th gen Switch.
4th Generation 1987 to 2004 ? I really dont think Sega and and Nintendo were making games for the SNES and Sega Genesis 1 year before the Xbox 360. Idk if your young but in 2004 the SNES was considered pretty ancient.
3rd Generation Way to low.. It might have been more of a Renaissance of the 2nd. Generation, but it actualy BROUGHT us the first 3D Games with Starfox, Vortex, Sega Racing and so on.
Also the Videogame Crash only happened in the USA
Also the SNES Controller is de facto the Blueprint for most of Modern Controller Designs
In my opinion the last big leap in video games was in the 8th gen .
Defenilty would put ps5/xsx era behind ps4/xone
Dreamcast and Xbox 360
The PS2 was the big jump
1) PS1 > PS2
2) Snes > PS1
3) PS2 > PS3
Good general look. I'm going to say deeper as always possibilities people won't cover compared to a collector or historian and the tech/peripherals or some.stand out games then the obvious games people think of. As these things say what impact they didn't have but were still impressive for the eras.
Fairchild Channel F with cartridges and came before 2600. But who pays attention to it when well popular brands first come to mind, those left behind actually make history but get forgotten.
Adaptors for other consoles games as wasn't a factor back then things were still new.
1st gen well from Tennis for two or board games sure. Lights on screen and backgrounds or Pong consoles.
2nd well 2600 or Intellivison or Coleco had voice synthesizer, had a gaming subscription, things people don't focus on but well graphics or cultural impact probably not as much those things as just sales, US confusion of games and crash that effected them but not EU/JP or elsewhere.
Publishers like Activision. Licensed games happened yes.
As expected no subscription or others I get this is a general video but the other factors do highly deeper the non impact they had even if starts.
Fair graphics for the time. Strategy genre was complex here to a degree. Most games are simple high score stuff but ma y like Adventure or ET are complex for the time.
3rd well NES, Master System hmm NES probably did, was a fair jump, fair impact but PCs were still a thing in the EU or JP so.
Famicom had disk system, re-writable games, had banking and horse betting.
Power Glove, Hot Seat mercury motion controls. 3D glasses back then NES and Master System.
4th the graphics jump, satellite cast games with satellitiview and Sega Channel. That's a jump of feature support and changes to those games besides peripherals, changes to cartridges like the lock on for Sonic games or button designs, d-pad and more.
Sharp TVs for NES/SNES. Or Twin Famicom.
CD for Turbo Grafx/PC Engine, Sega CD FMV games.
Virtual Bot making 3D portable, sure red and black but wireframe compared to Vectrex vectors. Fair 3D tracking. People say oh sales but it was still impressive tech.
Sega Genesis VR/Jaguar VR were cancelled. Would have been interesting though.
FMV PC FX, 3DO and more weren't impactful, cool but didn't impact much besides maybe
Tiger Gamecom 2 slots not even DSi that. Pack in games being a thing on systems. PDA or media like features like Tapwave Zodiac, Gizmondo, PSP getting there. Like the Gameboy Workboy.
Neo Geo for arcade games accurately to a console.
Neo Geo Pocket for arcade stick.
Saturn and it's 2D sprites with enhancements, media features.
N64 I mean.... Zip disk like 64DD. But otherwise what faster load times and games with fair use of voice, texture use and limitations to offer mission based design.
Dual analogue or rumble or single siltick of N54/Saturn, Dreamcast, PSP, Neo Geo Pocket.
Wonderswan and Lynx had additional buttons for different play methods.
4th gen did a lot of interesting stuff with games ideas, mechanics, worlds, story telling, arcade games, subscription services (look it up Satellivee and Sega Channel), cancelled VR, CD games, FMV, button layouts and more.
Overworlds of old gens then open worlds of 5-6th gen but pushed more with PS3/360 gen and interesting few on Wii.
6th gen was too much 3D but more handheld 2D. But hsrd drive, memory card use besides 5th gen.
3rd has some good to it for sure of game design and hardware/peripherals impact. I forgot about Atari 7800. 5800 was earlier too. D-pad and safe other controllers sigh.
Blsst processing was a technique very few understood with the hardware. It was real but not used really. I think of it like how devs used the PS1 RAM or other chips ro load faster or the whole game loaded and CDs could play to generate levels like Vib Ribbon. Some PS1 games used techniques for loading.
Genesis maybe had similar I don't remember but it was possible. Just not heavily used or used at all.
Gameboy Color IR. Or games with rumble, motion before the Wii.
2600 or others with trackball controller. Or the keypads of others. Impact no interesting yes.
GBA and GameCube or Dreamcast with dual screen support.
Sega and cross save on PS2 Outrun with PSP version and vice versa before Sony 's cross save, cross but, cross play in PS3/PS4/Vita era.
PS2/Xbox/GameCube better games with some good mix of right stick not always for camera, still experimental then boredom of game design so basic and repetitive nowadays. Boring menus and weak worlds/movesets that feel even more dull then PS1 when even PS1 had more depth of movesets and level design.
Linux Kit for PS2, DVD support on All 3 besides Panasonic Q not GameCube, even if Xbox it was different.
8th gen was well more RAM/larger worlds, remote play pushed like Wii U, SmartGlass, Vita/smartphones for game support. But no one cares or paid attention to those did they? VR happened on consoles. As if that isn't a big tech deal but isn't impactful of course.
For graphics sure proper 1080p not 1080p 30FPS of PS3/360 era. And some were just going after the 500 or so to 1080i so getting 1280 by 1080 besides 720p sure.
8th gen felt like a downgrade refinement. Refinements but also downgrade of game design as missions, modes and more got worse, dumbed down and 9th reflects this as well.
Hybrid wow as if cables or docks for PSP, or Sega Nomad or Pocket PCs/PDAs didn't exist hmm. Irs a tablet with a dcok to the modern era idiots that don't know their history. Easily buy into marketing then what actually existed prior no one does research for.
Yeah 8th was for other business models and reworking things not innovation besides peripherals or controllers software wide well thr Windows 8 Xbox One stuff but no one cared for that and it's desd as of 2017 anyway the TV TV TV screen alignment feature.
9th grn hmm so.... Load times if they use the SSD well same can be said for HDD used well then pushed too far on 8th gen because dev laziness. Sure 60/120fps. 4K. But it's a boring gen that has offered nothing. Who cares what CPU, GPU, RAM, sure fair haptics, sure 3D audio is nice. But irs just boring. Crossplay sure. Who cares. If the laser pointer, C button or other things of Switch 2 who knows.
7th had DVD, Blu ray, notion controls on consoles again, remote play, storefronts, 3D TV support again compared to 3D glasses of the early form, fair art styles to work around things.
HD visuals. If not counting Laser Disk 1080i or PS2/Xbox 1080i games. That or 480p progressive scan too. Wireless controller as standard rather then radio channels like GameCube Wavebird or IR wireless controllers.
6:00 F-Zero Kuch Kuch Kuch 9:03 even the NES can do it.
I agree with this video
6th gen
5th gen
4th gen
7th gen
3rd gen
8th gen
2nd gen
9th gen
I still got my 360 and it runs 1440p
From 7th to 8th in my opinion.
Judging by the criteria, the switch has to be the biggest and best leap. However, in terms of shift, for me anyway, the Super Nintendo to N64 was a huge leap. This is a fantastic topic to talk about.
Mario and donkey Kong getting multiple 3D games was literally bananas.
Gen 4 to Gen 5
the xbx 360 all the way.
The SNES
Nailed it
XboxSeriesX is only marginally more capable than the base level PS5 and really isn’t up there with the PS5Pro
3rd generation wasnt that good tbh 6th was much better
is this ai?
such a bad video
I say playstation 2.
Greatest system super nintendo.
A playstation 2 jumped to the most advanced and best looking games.
Great video