@@LITTLE1994 because you would have more fun going outside and playing back in those days lol. And to be fair the N64 was 5th gen and obviously not 32-bit
Gen 5 Era Consoles: completely overlooked. Also Gen 5 Era Consoles: Has Ocarina of Time and Final Fantasy 7. Considered by countless people two of the greatest games of all time.
I know right haha 32 here I've been playing 5th gen since I was 4 😂 me and my older brother got a ps1 Christmas of 96 with RE1 for him and crash bandicoot for me
Came here to say this. The fifth generation is the most beloved generation. This Gen Z is either doing this on purpose for views and comments and controversial ratings or he clearly is an idiot.
If you're in your 30's like myself, the 5th gen is definitely not overlooked lmao. Most us millennials got our start in gaming in the 5th gen. Crash Bandicoot, Tomb Raider, FFVII-IX, Super Mario 64, Golden Eye 64, Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, Tekken. So many iconic series that pioneered the 3d space. Yea, it's overlooked by young peeps I guess. But it's far from overlooked by us who lived it. Hell, I wish it was, I could afford some games I want in my collection. I want Rival Schools, but that price is outrageous now.
@@HollowRick to be honest, OG resident evil traumatized tf out of me as a wee lil lad. Couldn't play any RE game till I was nearly an adult lol. Those 50 polygon count zombies had me shook... 😂
I was born in the 80’s and I had an Atari 2600 and I played many game generations since. I had an N64 and loved playing with it. I missed out on Saturn and PS1 because I was a Nintendo fan boy, but I have nice CRT’s now and I’m getting many consoles made for them. I have an RGB modded N64, a PS1 with xstation, and a Saturn, to which I ordered a Satiator for it. I’m really appreciating the games I missed out on. This is a great generation for the CRT’s.
I love the 5th generation. Its early polygons and classic games bring me back to my late childhood. This era of gaming is more nostalgic than any other generation. I was born into the 3rd gen, 4th gen was the majority of my childhood, but the 5th gen really stood out to me. That was the first time I was old enough to appreciate the evolution of gaming. I remember how exciting it was to see a gaming world in 3D for the first time and thinking I can't wait to explore it. It was one of those, you had to be there moments. I can't seem to communicate this incredible leap to my younger friends that only see the 5th gen as a stepping stone to get to more modern games rather than this incredible shift that we hadn't seen before. Its a moment that few appreciate, but I'm one of them.
@@MarkCurtis-u6o Joe Biden can't remember what he had for breakfast, so maybe not impossible. But C'mon man these games are so forgettable, Mario 64, Goldeneye, Banjo Kazooie, DKR, FF7, Crash Bandicoot, THPS just to name a few 😆
The generating that made gaming 'mainstream' is over looked? Total 4th Gen units sold according to Wikipedia (excluding handhelds) - circa 90,440,000 units. Total 5th gen units sold (same source, also excluding handheld systems) - circa 148182000 units. Racketboy also revealed in a 2023 breakdown that many 5th gen systems where expereincing a serge in sold prices, while the Famicom and PC engine were seeing a decrease in sales prices for systems. In what world is the 5th gen overlooked? You saying it doesn't make it so. The numbers disagree with you. The lesson here is DON'T GET YOU EDUCATION FROM RUclips. It'll make you look dumb.
The 90s was the best time for gaming. So many consoles and so many games and oh yeah the biggest graphical leap. It started with SNES and ended with the Dreamcast
In terms of gameplay content the cartridge format was not really a limiting factor. I mean, just look at games like Turok, Zelda, Banjo, Jet Force Gemini, Star Fox, Wave Race, Conker, Rogue Squadron, Episode 1 Racer 1 or even Mario 64. They were far more complex or far larger (often times both) than anything the PS1/Saturn could do (and the cross platform were usually better on the N64 too). People think the N64 were smaller, but it was the opposite, really. The real limitations of the cartridge format actually 4: 1. CGI/FMVs 2. CD quality sound For companies that rely in cinematics (like Square) it was a total deal breaker, but for most companies it didn't really matter that much. They could just don't use CGI for cinematics and compress the sound quality. Now... The real deal breakers for most third-party companies was something I don't really see people talking about (the number 3 you did talk about, by the way): 3. The price of producing the cartridge and the profit margin. You would make less money on a N64 game. Making a PS1 games was just easier and less risky. Honestly, if I was a publisher in the 90s, now way I would risk making games for the N64. 4. How many cartridges Nintendo was able to manufacture. Even if you wanted to make a N64, sometimes you just couldn't. Say you wanted to produce 1 million copies for you next big release. Nintendo could (and probably would) just go: "sorry, bro, we can only produce 200k now. Maybe in a month we can make more". This really discouraged many companies to work on N64. Not only the games would have a lower profit margin, but you weren't even sure the factories would actually manufacture the amount of copies you need for launch day. And I'm pretty sure dealing with a Nintendo was a major pain in the ass at the time (Nintendo was known for being bureaucratic conservative mess in the 90s). With PS1 and Saturn games, since they were just CDs, you could even ask for millions of copies and you would easily get them. Now... In the end, I think things balanced out nicely (not counting Square and Namco, they just said "goodbye" to Nintendo). Did the N64 has thousands of games? No. It had about 400. But unlike the thousands of games the PS1 and Saturn had, these 400 Nintendo 64 tend to be of far higher quality because the developers couldn't fuck up. Developing to the N64 was more expensive, so the games released to it were of higher quality because they just had to. Saturn and PS1 had thousands of game, but they were kinda like the Wii... Most of them were just shovelware. Specially in the PS1's case. In the end I don't really think one console was much better than the other in terms of the offering of high quality titles. I don't really get what you said about N64 games looking all the same and not being more experimental enough, because I think the opposite was true. The N64 had some of batshit craziest and innovative games of that generation. I also think the idea of the N64 only good having first-party games is myth. Turok series, San Francisco Rush series, Ogre Battle 64, Extreme G series, F1 World Gran prix, Quake 1 and 2, Mischief Makers, The World is Not Enough, the Bomberman series, Space Station Silicon Valley, Beetle Adventure Racing, Mystical Ninja series, Hybrid Heaven, Snowboard Kids series, Doom 64, WinBack, Rogue Squadron, Shadows of the Empire, Episode 1 Racer, Top Gear Overdrive, World Driver Championship, Harvest Moon 64, Shadow Man, Ridge Racer 64... Those are some of the top tier quality third-party games I can think right now (some became a series with 2, 3 or more games). They were as high quality as any Nintendo game. During that generation, you would never ever run out of games to play on the N64... Unless you were into turn based JRPGs. In that case you were fucked.
The Saturn has it the worst because the vast majority of its library of games never got released outside of Japan. Or like with Grandia 1 and the Lunar games, eventually had a PS1 release so people tend to associate it with Sony.
Also they're worse on ps1 especially grandia the lunar ports are closer but the Saturn version has more background details in certain areas and Higher quality Audio
Is Gen5 really that overlooked? I had the Genesis and Saturn as a kid/teen and i'm a big fan of those, so I know how badly the Saturn gets looked down upon for no good reason, but I always felt like the PS1 and N64 were very well regarded... Most of the gaming channels I follow on RUclips, regardless of age, have some content on at least one of those 2 machines (to the point where even Sega fan channels do...). Yoh, happy to see some love for Panzer Dragoon Saga ;).
The 5th gen was my start as a kid with the N64. Fighting Force, Ready 2 Rumble Boxing, GoldenEye, Banjo-Kazooie, Beetle Adventure Racing!, WWF Attitude, WCW vs NWO: World Tour, etc.
As someone who loves the 5th Gen, I honestly feel that it being somewhat overlooked is because all the ideas and concepts that began during it where perfected in the 6th Gen. Yes. a few franchises like Crash and Spyro arguably had their best entries early on, but their genres often peaked later. Vehicular Combat (Twisted Metal and the likes) is probably the most noteworthy outliar here,
We could basically say the same about modern HD consoles: people will talk about licences like God of War, Grand Theft Auto, The Last of Us, Souls-like... when there are actually many, many, many other games they could talk about.
There's a youtuber called "Rawk" and the two of you sound alike. I just saw his Mario RPG video and jumping from them to you makes it seem like I didn't even switch the channel.
I feel like it's because more people who grew up on Gen 4 are still among the gaming community while with Gen 5 they are not so as much. So when you have an American saying that the SNES is the greatest console, there's not really many Gen 5ers to debate whereas Gen 6 have an online presence to argue the Gen 6 consoles. Despite having a Gen 4 (MegaDrive) as my first console, I'll never forget the impact that Gen 5 (PS1 specifically) had in Britain. Amazing variety of games
Yeah ps1 was insane at the time in the UK For one we actually got RPGs over here lol unlike the snes where all the classics that Americans bang on about we never got
Ironically most zoomers and definitely gen a would describe late 90s games the same way as you describe early 80s games. Ignoring technical limitations and how everyone was breaking new ground and just saying it was all ‘shit’ is such lazy and boring criticism
Not to be rude, but NO! Seriously NO. Just nobody ever overlooks the 5th or 7th gen. The 5th generation is where we started to see video gaming become fully household after the launch of the PS1 and the 3D gamings infancy. If you where born in the 80's or early 90's, this was your jam era so to speak. It is more- or less not an generation that interest in the same amount newer gamers. The 4th era with SNES, Sega etc. and The 3rd with NES are very mainstream and easy access for while the 5th generation is trickier to emulate withe the N64 & Saturn systems most proven tough and PS1 easier, but some games still tricky. The 5th generation is most known for being the one that introduced groundbreaking gameplays that became the standard for all 3D gaming and 3D controlls for 360 movements. Crash Bandicoot, Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy VII, Super Mario 64, GoldenEye, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, Tekken, Banko- Kazooie, Gran Turismo etc. are products that defines gaming development history.
Who overlooks gen 5th? Gen 1 and 2 totally. But from the 3rd and then on, no generation has been ignored. If anything, it is the current 9th generation the one that will fall into obscurity once it ends. With the massive lay-offs, the consoles looking more like powerful but highly restricted home computers, the lack of exclusive games and the emergence of TV-compatible handheld computers of different qualities (Steam, Ayaneo, Asus, Retroid, Anbernic, etc), AAA titles being clones of clones, almost everything is starting to look like the prelude to how older gamers describe the crash of Gen 2 consoles. Depending on how good the 10th gen performs, a crash could happen in this industry or be avoided. That's ignoring the fact that numbered generations have always feel a bit silly to me (it doesn't make sense that the Dreamcast is 6th generation but the Switch is 8th, either one of those statements must be wrong). In any case, it's a good overview of mid-90s consoles.
5th, 6th gen era had landmark game titles that rival the 3rd and 4th gen era of gaming. Imagnative and creativity made 5th gen games be rememberable now. I wish the saturn had the same gaming lineup as the n64 and ps1. Sega screwed up due to backward strategies, neglecting there sdk/tools to 3rd/2nd party games and its suprise launch
the 5th gen had some really good games, tony hawk 2 is one of my favourite games of all time, best rated ps1 game ever, neversoft cooked heavily with that game
Dreamcast is NOT 5th gen. I don’t why lately some youtubers have started saying these stuff ?! Unpopular opinion can be a stupid opinion. It is a 5th gen console as much as Wii is a 7th gen console. Nobody is overlooking 5th gen whatsoever Nintendo 64 had enough titles for ghe price of the console at that time If anything, 2nd generation is the most overlooked generation of them all.
> It is a 5th gen console as much as Wii is a 7th gen console. But the Wii *is* a 7th gen console. It was competing directly against the PS3 and Xbox 360. The Dreamcast, for most of its life, competed against the N64 and PS1. While it did compete against the PS2 for like, a year, the N64 was competing against the PS2 for ~1.5 years. Console generations are arbitrary and I feel it makes more sense to group the Dreamcast with the systems it was competing against (oh and also its games feel like "supercharged" 5th gen titles more than 6th gen titles - tons of N64/PS1 games had DC ports).
It's often considered "6th", but generations are arbitrary, and I think it makes more sense to call it a 5th gen console as it mostly competed against the N64 and PS1. It was discontinued before the Gamecube and Xbox released, and while it DID compete against the PS2 for like, under a year, the N64 was competing against the PS2 (as the Gamecube was still a year away) for a little longer than it.
After I played almost all ps1 games. For me this library is overrated. I know i know, its kinda good memories for people. But really more than 1000 games maybe 50-70 you can find interesting. Some games lagging, some games is very, VERY short, some games just coping other games without any changes. I don't say PS1 is bad. I still love and would like to play again some games, but I think 00s was the best time in gaming history.
THe n64 was so far ahead of the ps1 and has aged so much better for it. Back in the day nobody talked about the ps1. It was n64 and saturn. I know the ps1 sold well, but you'd never know from schoolyard talk.
No just no, nobody into retro gaming overlooks 5th or 7th gen.
The 32-bit is NOT overlooked. It's beloved.
The one that is actually overlooked is the era before the Atari 2600.
@@LITTLE1994 because you would have more fun going outside and playing back in those days lol. And to be fair the N64 was 5th gen and obviously not 32-bit
Tell me you are gen-z without telling me you are gen-z
Lol yeah man I'm 41 so I was like what. Overlooked? I've been playing 5th gen since it was new
Gen 5 Era Consoles: completely overlooked.
Also Gen 5 Era Consoles: Has Ocarina of Time and Final Fantasy 7. Considered by countless people two of the greatest games of all time.
I know right haha 32 here I've been playing 5th gen since I was 4 😂 me and my older brother got a ps1 Christmas of 96 with RE1 for him and crash bandicoot for me
@@HollowRick 31. My N64 is currently hooked up lol.
Came here to say this. The fifth generation is the most beloved generation. This Gen Z is either doing this on purpose for views and comments and controversial ratings or he clearly is an idiot.
If you're in your 30's like myself, the 5th gen is definitely not overlooked lmao. Most us millennials got our start in gaming in the 5th gen. Crash Bandicoot, Tomb Raider, FFVII-IX, Super Mario 64, Golden Eye 64, Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, Tekken. So many iconic series that pioneered the 3d space. Yea, it's overlooked by young peeps I guess. But it's far from overlooked by us who lived it. Hell, I wish it was, I could afford some games I want in my collection. I want Rival Schools, but that price is outrageous now.
Yup 32 here got a ps1 Christmas of 96 with crash bandicoot for myself and Resident evil 1 for my older brother
@@HollowRick to be honest, OG resident evil traumatized tf out of me as a wee lil lad. Couldn't play any RE game till I was nearly an adult lol. Those 50 polygon count zombies had me shook... 😂
I was born in the 80’s and I had an Atari 2600 and I played many game generations since. I had an N64 and loved playing with it. I missed out on Saturn and PS1 because I was a Nintendo fan boy, but I have nice CRT’s now and I’m getting many consoles made for them. I have an RGB modded N64, a PS1 with xstation, and a Saturn, to which I ordered a Satiator for it. I’m really appreciating the games I missed out on. This is a great generation for the CRT’s.
I love the 5th generation. Its early polygons and classic games bring me back to my late childhood. This era of gaming is more nostalgic than any other generation. I was born into the 3rd gen, 4th gen was the majority of my childhood, but the 5th gen really stood out to me. That was the first time I was old enough to appreciate the evolution of gaming. I remember how exciting it was to see a gaming world in 3D for the first time and thinking I can't wait to explore it. It was one of those, you had to be there moments. I can't seem to communicate this incredible leap to my younger friends that only see the 5th gen as a stepping stone to get to more modern games rather than this incredible shift that we hadn't seen before. Its a moment that few appreciate, but I'm one of them.
What are you talking about? This generation was impossible to ignore.
@@MarkCurtis-u6o Joe Biden can't remember what he had for breakfast, so maybe not impossible. But C'mon man these games are so forgettable, Mario 64, Goldeneye, Banjo Kazooie, DKR, FF7, Crash Bandicoot, THPS just to name a few 😆
The heck?! The 32-bit era was AMAZING.
The generating that made gaming 'mainstream' is over looked?
Total 4th Gen units sold according to Wikipedia (excluding handhelds) - circa 90,440,000 units.
Total 5th gen units sold (same source, also excluding handheld systems) - circa 148182000 units.
Racketboy also revealed in a 2023 breakdown that many 5th gen systems where expereincing a serge in sold prices, while the Famicom and PC engine were seeing a decrease in sales prices for systems.
In what world is the 5th gen overlooked? You saying it doesn't make it so. The numbers disagree with you.
The lesson here is DON'T GET YOU EDUCATION FROM RUclips.
It'll make you look dumb.
The 90s was the best time for gaming. So many consoles and so many games and oh yeah the biggest graphical leap. It started with SNES and ended with the Dreamcast
In terms of gameplay content the cartridge format was not really a limiting factor. I mean, just look at games like Turok, Zelda, Banjo, Jet Force Gemini, Star Fox, Wave Race, Conker, Rogue Squadron, Episode 1 Racer 1 or even Mario 64. They were far more complex or far larger (often times both) than anything the PS1/Saturn could do (and the cross platform were usually better on the N64 too).
People think the N64 were smaller, but it was the opposite, really.
The real limitations of the cartridge format actually 4:
1. CGI/FMVs
2. CD quality sound
For companies that rely in cinematics (like Square) it was a total deal breaker, but for most companies it didn't really matter that much. They could just don't use CGI for cinematics and compress the sound quality.
Now... The real deal breakers for most third-party companies was something I don't really see people talking about (the number 3 you did talk about, by the way):
3. The price of producing the cartridge and the profit margin. You would make less money on a N64 game. Making a PS1 games was just easier and less risky. Honestly, if I was a publisher in the 90s, now way I would risk making games for the N64.
4. How many cartridges Nintendo was able to manufacture. Even if you wanted to make a N64, sometimes you just couldn't. Say you wanted to produce 1 million copies for you next big release. Nintendo could (and probably would) just go: "sorry, bro, we can only produce 200k now. Maybe in a month we can make more". This really discouraged many companies to work on N64. Not only the games would have a lower profit margin, but you weren't even sure the factories would actually manufacture the amount of copies you need for launch day. And I'm pretty sure dealing with a Nintendo was a major pain in the ass at the time (Nintendo was known for being bureaucratic conservative mess in the 90s). With PS1 and Saturn games, since they were just CDs, you could even ask for millions of copies and you would easily get them.
Now...
In the end, I think things balanced out nicely (not counting Square and Namco, they just said "goodbye" to Nintendo).
Did the N64 has thousands of games? No. It had about 400.
But unlike the thousands of games the PS1 and Saturn had, these 400 Nintendo 64 tend to be of far higher quality because the developers couldn't fuck up. Developing to the N64 was more expensive, so the games released to it were of higher quality because they just had to. Saturn and PS1 had thousands of game, but they were kinda like the Wii... Most of them were just shovelware. Specially in the PS1's case.
In the end I don't really think one console was much better than the other in terms of the offering of high quality titles.
I don't really get what you said about N64 games looking all the same and not being more experimental enough, because I think the opposite was true. The N64 had some of batshit craziest and innovative games of that generation. I also think the idea of the N64 only good having first-party games is myth.
Turok series, San Francisco Rush series, Ogre Battle 64, Extreme G series, F1 World Gran prix, Quake 1 and 2, Mischief Makers, The World is Not Enough, the Bomberman series, Space Station Silicon Valley, Beetle Adventure Racing, Mystical Ninja series, Hybrid Heaven, Snowboard Kids series, Doom 64, WinBack, Rogue Squadron, Shadows of the Empire, Episode 1 Racer, Top Gear Overdrive, World Driver Championship, Harvest Moon 64, Shadow Man, Ridge Racer 64...
Those are some of the top tier quality third-party games I can think right now (some became a series with 2, 3 or more games). They were as high quality as any Nintendo game.
During that generation, you would never ever run out of games to play on the N64... Unless you were into turn based JRPGs. In that case you were fucked.
The Saturn has it the worst because the vast majority of its library of games never got released outside of Japan. Or like with Grandia 1 and the Lunar games, eventually had a PS1 release so people tend to associate it with Sony.
Also they're worse on ps1 especially grandia the lunar ports are closer but the Saturn version has more background details in certain areas and Higher quality Audio
Is Gen5 really that overlooked?
I had the Genesis and Saturn as a kid/teen and i'm a big fan of those, so I know how badly the Saturn gets looked down upon for no good reason, but I always felt like the PS1 and N64 were very well regarded...
Most of the gaming channels I follow on RUclips, regardless of age, have some content on at least one of those 2 machines (to the point where even Sega fan channels do...).
Yoh, happy to see some love for Panzer Dragoon Saga ;).
PlayStation1 is best era still have over 650 games for it
The 5th gen was my start as a kid with the N64. Fighting Force, Ready 2 Rumble Boxing, GoldenEye, Banjo-Kazooie, Beetle Adventure Racing!, WWF Attitude, WCW vs NWO: World Tour, etc.
As someone who loves the 5th Gen, I honestly feel that it being somewhat overlooked is because all the ideas and concepts that began during it where perfected in the 6th Gen. Yes. a few franchises like Crash and Spyro arguably had their best entries early on, but their genres often peaked later. Vehicular Combat (Twisted Metal and the likes) is probably the most noteworthy outliar here,
The 5th generation is not overlooked...
I dunno probably only the Saturn is. N64 and PS1 are legendary.
The highest cost in CDROM machines wasn't due by the drive, was by the RAM
No, the 5th generation was never overlooked. The ps1 was a huge success. It freaking spawned ps1 retro 3D indies.
We could basically say the same about modern HD consoles: people will talk about licences like God of War, Grand Theft Auto, The Last of Us, Souls-like... when there are actually many, many, many other games they could talk about.
I spent 1000$ for Panzer Dragoon Saga - the fifth generation is not overlooked , trust me.
There's a youtuber called "Rawk" and the two of you sound alike. I just saw his Mario RPG video and jumping from them to you makes it seem like I didn't even switch the channel.
I feel like it's because more people who grew up on Gen 4 are still among the gaming community while with Gen 5 they are not so as much. So when you have an American saying that the SNES is the greatest console, there's not really many Gen 5ers to debate whereas Gen 6 have an online presence to argue the Gen 6 consoles.
Despite having a Gen 4 (MegaDrive) as my first console, I'll never forget the impact that Gen 5 (PS1 specifically) had in Britain. Amazing variety of games
Yeah ps1 was insane at the time in the UK
For one we actually got RPGs over here lol unlike the snes where all the classics that Americans bang on about we never got
This title has to be rage bait cause this era was inescapable. I remember my parents getting me my N64 + Donkey Kong 64 Combo at K-Mart
Ironically most zoomers and definitely gen a would describe late 90s games the same way as you describe early 80s games. Ignoring technical limitations and how everyone was breaking new ground and just saying it was all ‘shit’ is such lazy and boring criticism
Awesome content, man
Most games only used 1 disc not up to 4. Only a small number of games had multiple discs.
Not to be rude, but NO! Seriously NO. Just nobody ever overlooks the 5th or 7th gen. The 5th generation is where we started to see video gaming become fully household after the launch of the PS1 and the 3D gamings infancy. If you where born in the 80's or early 90's, this was your jam era so to speak.
It is more- or less not an generation that interest in the same amount newer gamers. The 4th era with SNES, Sega etc. and The 3rd with NES are very mainstream and easy access for while the 5th generation is trickier to emulate withe the N64 & Saturn systems most proven tough and PS1 easier, but some games still tricky.
The 5th generation is most known for being the one that introduced groundbreaking gameplays that became the standard for all 3D gaming and 3D controlls for 360 movements.
Crash Bandicoot, Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy VII, Super Mario 64, GoldenEye, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, Tekken, Banko- Kazooie,
Gran Turismo etc. are products that defines gaming development history.
Who overlooks gen 5th? Gen 1 and 2 totally. But from the 3rd and then on, no generation has been ignored.
If anything, it is the current 9th generation the one that will fall into obscurity once it ends. With the massive lay-offs, the consoles looking more like powerful but highly restricted home computers, the lack of exclusive games and the emergence of TV-compatible handheld computers of different qualities (Steam, Ayaneo, Asus, Retroid, Anbernic, etc), AAA titles being clones of clones, almost everything is starting to look like the prelude to how older gamers describe the crash of Gen 2 consoles. Depending on how good the 10th gen performs, a crash could happen in this industry or be avoided.
That's ignoring the fact that numbered generations have always feel a bit silly to me (it doesn't make sense that the Dreamcast is 6th generation but the Switch is 8th, either one of those statements must be wrong). In any case, it's a good overview of mid-90s consoles.
5th, 6th gen era had landmark game titles that rival the 3rd and 4th gen era of gaming. Imagnative and creativity made 5th gen games be rememberable now. I wish the saturn had the same gaming lineup as the n64 and ps1. Sega screwed up due to backward strategies, neglecting there sdk/tools to 3rd/2nd party games and its suprise launch
the 5th gen had some really good games, tony hawk 2 is one of my favourite games of all time, best rated ps1 game ever, neversoft cooked heavily with that game
Cooked 😆😆
The PS1 had many games but the vast majority weren't noteworthy. The N64 had fewer but more bangers
Dreamcast is NOT 5th gen. I don’t why lately some youtubers have started saying these stuff ?! Unpopular opinion can be a stupid opinion. It is a 5th gen console as much as Wii is a 7th gen console.
Nobody is overlooking 5th gen whatsoever
Nintendo 64 had enough titles for ghe price of the console at that time
If anything, 2nd generation is the most overlooked generation of them all.
> It is a 5th gen console as much as Wii is a 7th gen console.
But the Wii *is* a 7th gen console.
It was competing directly against the PS3 and Xbox 360. The Dreamcast, for most of its life, competed against the N64 and PS1. While it did compete against the PS2 for like, a year, the N64 was competing against the PS2 for ~1.5 years.
Console generations are arbitrary and I feel it makes more sense to group the Dreamcast with the systems it was competing against (oh and also its games feel like "supercharged" 5th gen titles more than 6th gen titles - tons of N64/PS1 games had DC ports).
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I don't think the 7th gen is overlooked, specially right now that people are getting fed up with certain practices like Ubisoft's.
Second Generation > Fifth Generation
Is Dreamcast the 5th or 6th generation?
6th
It's often considered "6th", but generations are arbitrary, and I think it makes more sense to call it a 5th gen console as it mostly competed against the N64 and PS1. It was discontinued before the Gamecube and Xbox released, and while it DID compete against the PS2 for like, under a year, the N64 was competing against the PS2 (as the Gamecube was still a year away) for a little longer than it.
I couldn’t follow, what?
This guy is clearly click baiting
After I played almost all ps1 games. For me this library is overrated. I know i know, its kinda good memories for people. But really more than 1000 games maybe 50-70 you can find interesting. Some games lagging, some games is very, VERY short, some games just coping other games without any changes. I don't say PS1 is bad. I still love and would like to play again some games, but I think 00s was the best time in gaming history.
THe n64 was so far ahead of the ps1 and has aged so much better for it. Back in the day nobody talked about the ps1. It was n64 and saturn. I know the ps1 sold well, but you'd never know from schoolyard talk.
No way. N64 games look ugly with low res filtered textures and framerates in the 10's. Such an overrated system.
Cuz the 5th gen 3d is ugly as fuck thats why