I said what I said when I said it

360/PS3 era is my S tier. Being in high school and having a part time time job making $20 an hour allowed me to pre-order both and buy all the games I wanted. Ohhh how I miss those days. Way better than today’s time.

S: 6 A: 7 and 5 B: 3 and 4 C: 8 D: 2 and 9 F: 1 Gen 6 just has to be the S-Tier. The sheer variety of games that came out on the PS2 was mindblowing. Many of the modern conventions were established during this generation.

I’d put 6th gen in S tier too, it’s when videogames stopped looking like abstract art, it has some of the best games we’ve ever had, so much so that most of the remakes we get are from that era, also, the game boy advance was there, and that was awesome

I could not put the PS2 era anywhere other than first. It was the final generation where we didn't have overpriced DLC, we didn't have to deal with updates. Our friends were with us on the same couch for fifa and burnout. No micro transactions. It was peak fun times. Games still very playable today too. Meanwhile the PS3 era, as much as I love it, had credit card data leaks, disastrous launches of $600, the red ring of death, countless shovelware games on Wii and all the added costs of the online services. I can't see how that could be S tier.

I must say, 8th gen is when I basically got out of consoles in general and just stuck to PC. I remember when I first got a PS4 and I learned I had to actually install the games on to the hard drive, which was just mind blowing to me. I understand why they did it that way, but in my mind it basically negated one of my favorite reasons I had consoles in the first place; having a large library of games that I could just pop into the console and just go. I remember quickly filling up my PS4 with just a couple games, and having to actually uninstall a previous one and wait. That, and once consoles starting getting more on-line focused there was a lot less couch co-op, which was my favorite thing about previous generations. I remember so fondly on the PS2 or the XBox 360 me and my friends all gathering together when a new game comes out, order some pizza and just spend the whole night playing together with just one console and one game.

Austin: "Gen 7 had no misses" 7 Gen: Red ring of death, 600$ PS3 launch price with no games, normalized micro transactions, normalized shitty gimmicks (Wii waggle), normalized drm, normalized paid online play. It blew chunks, ate them, then blew them again.

So essentially it's based on Austin being so young. How you can put the NES that low is crazy. It's not about the technology compared to today, it's about the impact and what it was of that day. The NES was what truly started the gaming boom that we know today, and probably the most important console of all time. I could go S or A here....but it could be that the SNES and Sega Genesis could be S with a lot of great consoles truly fighting it out, and a ton of amazing games.

There's no way the 7th Gen gets an S tier with all the console issues that came about. Lasers touching the disk rendering games unplayable, red Ring of death, and fake PS3 controllers shipped as OEM. Even though this is an awesome generation. I agree with Matt, 5th Gen brought about some of the most iconic IPs from those consoles and have influenced the design and art styles of many games today...plus it was fun.

6th Gen is absolutely S Tier. The games were amazing from release (no patches needed), and there were no predatory microtransactions like the 7th and 8th gen.

PS2 era definitely the best. S-tier immediately for me. I didn't even have that many PS2 or GBA games, but I know how mind blowing that whole generation was.

While I do find the amount of gaming handhelds in the current 9th generation, you can’t argue that it is revolutionary that we can play AAA titles on the go

The creation of "Call of Duty" is a 2003... was the down fall of gaming! As soon as you had people that called themself "Gamers" that only played "Call of Duty" , sports games , and later only online games ... Game companies stopped trying to make good games for a long time... we are just now starting to recover from this mess . Now downloadable only games, and NO backwards compatibility is the nail that will kill game consoles ... This is why I switched to mostly Desktop gaming and emulation ... Not wasting one more dime on consoles when they have no backwards compatibility , and you end up re-buying the same games over and over ...

The Snes, the Genesis, the Gameboy, even the Sega Battery Eater redefined the market of gaming as we know it today. There are so few games on these consoles that didn't define entirely new genres and solidify what gaming would be. These were the best years of the AAA companies, Enix, Squaresoft, Konami, Capcom, Nintendo, all throwing down on certifiable legends. The concept of being able to play decently programmed games anywhere you went with the handhelds walked so that the Steam Deck could fly. The Wii was a shovelware console, the PS3 marked the decline of AAA gaming, the Xbox 360 existed.

Gen 7 was the absolute best. DS, PSP, 360, PS3 and Wii all sold a very good number of units. It was also the generation that gave us some absolutely memorable games like Mass Effect trilogy, Assassin Creed 2, Skyrim, Fallout 3 and New Vegas, Uncharted trilogy, Mario Galaxy 1 and 2, Pokémon Black and White, CSGO, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Batman Arkham City, etc. Edit: the Switch is a Gen 9 handheld and the Steam Deck shouldn't be there since it is a PC. Gameboy was Gen 4 Gameboy Colour was Gen 5 GBA was Gen 6 DS was Gen 7 3DS was Gen 8 Switch Gen 9

I mentally hold the 4th and 6th generations together. Both came after pioneering generations for 2d and 3d games respectively. They both learned what worked from the previous gen, and used that knowledge to pump out masterpieces. If I had to give only one S tier, I'd pick 4th gen. I got a snes and Genesis as a uni student in 2016 and it blew me away how fun and impactful those games were almost 30 years after launch. I didn't expect them to age as well as they did, but they made me feel like I was a 6 year old playing video games for the 1st time again.

I have both a Series X and PS5; I agree with Matt on the 8th and 9th generations. C/D tier for sure. 2yrs into the 9th gen and we haven't seen anything other than "ermergerd.. our consoles cant handle 60fps... NeW tItLeS aRe HaRd To MaKe." Not to mention the ever-evolving ways of companies to squeeze every dollar out of each title with MTX, but that's another conversation. We also STILL haven't gotten anything ground breaking.. only mid-tier titles and re-releases, remasters, and remakes.

Gen 7 as S tier is absolutely the right choice. I still play my PS3 upstairs in the bedroom on the regular, an Xbox360 is hooked up downstairs next to the Wii, and I even broke out my PSP the other day to play with it a little.

"AT US" matt said he could already feel us yelling "at us" in the comments. I'm just fulfilling his dreams.

The 7th gen is the easiest S-tier of my life. Not a single generation before had as many iconic consoles from PSP to Wii(literally not a single one was a miss), online play with parties, where you can talk to your dudes while playing the games together while being on the different parts of the globe, HD/Full HD and Blu Ray, Netflix and its watch parties, mind blowing graphics and experiences, even Kinect and Wii controllers were sort of a miracle and helped moving forward motion technologies in VR/AR and motion-capturing. Literally every single thing about it was freaking awesome and most importantly, games were unique, there were experiments, there were masterpieces and eye-candies and so much more, first indies on Live Arcade. It was one of a kind in so many things and all of it dined right. The alter generations on other hand didn’t bring anything unique or interesting, but just cannibalising and parasitizing, improving graphics, but making everything else bad. Besides, let’s be real, Xbox 360 and PS3 games still look stunning, it’s not the visuals we need, it’s the mechanics, the experiments, the B titles, the big studios investing into the bold ideas, building the new IPs, starting new genres etc.

single player/offline co-op was the best part of gaming. the internet has ruined everything

The fact that these two don't think the PS2 generation was the peak of gaming is just ridiculous. They were right this video would make me mad.

I really don't know how the generation of PS2/Xbox/Gamecube could be anything other than S tier. It's the one generation that has the most games that I still want to play on it. The list is damn near endless of the great games from that generation. Not a single genre was left out of something that could be considered greatness. Like, for example, games I haven't played and still want to: Onimusha series, Paper Mario Thousand year door, Jak 2 and 3, Okami, Metroid Prime 2, Eternal Darkness, Skies of Arcadia, Devil May Cry, Star Fox Assault, Shadow of the Colossus, Persona 4, That gen's Prince of Persia series, Zone of the Enders 2, and there are definitely more if I think about it. And I've played a whole lot of games from that generation, too.

4th gen deserves nothing lower than S tier. Final Fantasy III/VI, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Sonic, Super Mario World, Super Metroid, Earthbound, Super Mario Kart, NBA Jam, Donkey Kong Country, Mega Man X, Streets of Rage... and on and on

Whatever console you played in your pre-teen/teenager years, that's S tier

i don’t know how the genises and snes isn’t S tier. it literally launched gaming mainstream.

I have no “S” or “A” tiers personally. Each gen has a slither I play with.

5th is my S tier, I had both N64 and PlayStation in Highschool. I had the PS for racing games predominantly and the N64 for anything else. The amount of Mario Kart 64 I've played in my life, it's muscle memory and my kids outright refuse to play me at it. Not to mention Goldeneye and Perfect Dark I continued playing them during 6th gen, which apart from Halo, Halo 2 and Battlefront I didn't play 6th Gen much at all. Both 6th and 7th Gen were secondary to me as that was the start of my rather expensive habit that is PC gaming.

I've said it before I'll say it again and I mean it online multiplayer and games as a disservice is killing the gaming industry. Destroying Innovation imagination and cultivation of skill anticipation and excitement. Because you get none of that with online multiplayer nor games as a disservice and digital is killing ownership.... With how the gaming industry is dying this might be my last generation buying new hardware and new content

Hearing austin talk ab how much he covered the 8th gen made me feel olddddd

Hot take: I was like they stepped up their ad read game so much…then saw the donut media shirt and was like ahhh they took notes from the best. Love both channels that’s all

Right now is the most predatory generation of gaming making it by far the WORST generation of gaming.

7th gen is the paid DLC generation, the Day 1 patch generation, the episodic game generation, the season pass generation,... Sure, there were a ton of good things about it and the following gens kept doing all those bad thing, but that was the neginning of the fall for consumers and it would never deserve to be S tier. Also quite funny how Austin mentioned two games that were not available on 5th gen consoles like Crysis and Half-Life and were only on PC back then as one of it's good points XD

6th gen to me is S tier. it was a wild west of gaming where there were such diverse games both visually and mechanically. 7th is A/B because thats the generation where most games still had color, then the brown war filter was plastered on everything.

With these rankings, it’s hard to tell what they’re basing their decisions off of. List looks almost just random.

NES was single-handedly responsible for bringing the US out of the gaming crash of 82-83... No way it's not at least A tier.

100% 4th gen deserved S Tier, 7th gen was known for red ring of death, shovelware and the "homebrew" scene kick off but not for "amazing" games.

Austin wearing a donut media tshirt

Justice for Matt. Sixth and fourth generation deserved an S tier.

Austin saying implosion in a video right after that sub imploded

Up until 9th gen, we should put the handhelds a generation earlier. The gameboy was able to play nes games. The psp was about ps2 etc. So I think we should have two lists right?

My list: S: 4th Gen A: 3rd Gen B: 5th Gen & 1&2 Gen C: 6th Gen D: 8th Gen F: 7th Gen The historical impact of 16-bit gaming consoles cannot be overstated. They’re the ones that PCs actually had to chase, it’s the first time that PC-to-Console ports happened (Doom & Duke3d especially). They were the last ones where we’d left the joystick Stone Age, before getting plunged back into analog control. Get those damned joysticks out of my face and give me a decent game controller - maybe I could go into 6Gen for the GBA, but that’s only the one handheld console that’s keeping it even that high.

They screwed up putting 1998 as A instead of S because thats the problem. 2008 had a series of quality control problems they never discussed and is a solid B. Move 1993 to A and thats the actual correct teir list.

13:26 Austin gets so excited he spits!!

Austin with the donut shirt, what a legend. Need an automotive episode

Each generation has its strengths and weaknesses. Also, it's weird that the Switch and Wii U are considered the same generation.

This is a forever argument that is almost 100% subjective. Good luck!?

Gaming during the 360 PS3 era was 2nd priority because every last one of those systems were damn near entertainment hubs a cool way to consume media. The actual gamers were in a dream because you could play all your old games again on your HD TV's literally people hacked these systems to play old games from the 3rd era. This was also an era where franchises started to fall off aka the birth of the remakes. Online gaming was cool, even though your identity was in jeopardy every other month or the online servers were down. The only generation were you recommended people wait to by the next version of systems when they fix the problems early adopters were having. I hated this generation, it made me skip the 8th generation and start PC gaming. Haven't looked back since.

Austin is absolutely incorrect. The PS3 was a damn miss with it's price tag and the 360 kept having the red ring of death. Let's also not forget it was the gold standard of hacking and cheating online. Compared to the original Xbox, GameCube, PS2, and Dreamcast which were all loved consoles.

Matt is 100% correct on where he wanted to put things. Screw the historical value. Austin is just playing it safe and that's a whimps way out, love ya but nope

The WiiU was great, and a lot of people shelved it and listened to the poor marketing to think that it was bad. You only have to look at the sales of the WiiU ported games on the switch sales to know that it had good titles, its just people didn't give the WiiU a chance. People forget that Breath of the Wild was intentionally nerfed from its E3 showing to remove gamepad functionality for parity with the switch in terms of content. The game was originally designed for the WiiU.

Before Austin and Matt begin ranking/rating generations of gaming, I must say something first. Obviously, we are currently in the most "powerful" generation of gaming, "powerful" in regards to graphic capability, along with audio, online play/matchmaking, and various features and functions offered both online and offline, I would still have to rate it as one of the worse generations! Why? Because this was not a generation that was accessible to everyone it should have been! My gaming experience begins at the very cusp of the second generation of gaming consoles with the Fairchild Channel F console, and I have been gaming ever since, and I have acquired at least one console near its release date for all except two generations. Those two generations would be the Fourth generation, and the Ninth generation. The Fourth generation was all my doing, but with the Ninth, there is no blame to place upon me. The three generations, I have acquired one or two consoles per generation upon their launch dates. However, I have been unable to acquire a PS5 or a XBOX Series X since their releases which were just a touch over two and one-half years ago!!! Considering the life of each console is really not that long, this fact is highly disappointing. I do realize that for the most part, I can finally walk into some store within my city, and be able to purchase either of these consoles. I might have to call around to various stores to ensure who has them available, but we have finally reached the point at which they are accessible to me . . . although as I have mentioned, recently I have been more of a launch day gamer. I have wanted these two consoles, and have more than sufficient financial means to not only purchase the consoles, but extra controllers, several games, extra storage, various accessories, including the PS VR2, but I could not ever manage to purchase either console. I find that inexcusable, and interpret it as an insult from both manufacturers, Microsoft, and Sony!!! Even sadder thing is that now they are finally acquirable, I believe I may very well not purchase either one because not only do I find it insulting what these corporate giants have done to the gaming community, but to purchase them at this point for full price makes me feel as though I am being ripped off in more ways than one! Microsoft has stated that the next generation of XBOX home gaming consoles will likely come out in 2028, and Sony has said pretty much the same thing. This means that I have already missed out on a third of the total lifespan of home gaming consoles of this current generation. Do I really want to pay full price for something that I will only use for two-thirds of its total lifetime??? That would be like paying full price for a one-liter of Mountain Dew, and even though the bottle was still one-liter sized, I only received the equivalence of a twenty ounce bottle of Mountain Dew. I've been ripped off, someone has stolen from me, and I'm pissed. Obviously, I go back to complain in a loud, and boisterous manner, grabbing the attention of all other customers within said shop, full well knowing that the shop will do absolutely nothing for me besides informing me that that is just the way it comes now, so if I want it, I just simply need to pay the price, and deal with whatever I do get. S H I N E ! ! ! The day Microsoft makes something that does not suck will likely be the same day upon which they begin to manufacture vacuum cleaners! Also, SCREW SONY!!!! Both corporations having stolen directly from me, robbing me of enjoyment, and fun times, by extension, reducing the amount of pleasure I will experience within my lifetime!!! So, I truly hope these gentlemen, Austin and Matt, do not give an exceedingly high rating for the current generation!

@15:50 #1 is sometimes #2, but #2 is always supported by #1. (If you know what I mean)

Gen 7 is the best generation - it had that HUGE leap in graphics (HD era ) , HUGE leap in technology (bluray, internal HD, multimedia support, wifi, wireless controllers etc ) HUGE leaps in games we got ( Halo 3, GTA 5 Online which is literally being played today, Last of Us, Mass Effect, Battlefield 3, etc ), gave us a more mature online gaming presence for consoles (perfected Xbox Live, PSN ) AND still support Couch Co-op, FULL game releases unlike the alpha/beta messes we get now and ontop of all of that you still had innovation in the form of the Wii. Everything else has not been able to even come close to that kind of resume as a generation. Compare the resumes. NES and SNES? Thats notalgia. Great games and it helped popularized gaming abit more but the resume literally ends there. Even 8th gen which should have been BETTER than its predecessor was weaker in every category. The only thing that comes close to this kind of resume is Gen 6 but Gen 7 did what it was suppose to do and became a BETTER VERSION of 6.

The 3 gen , 4 gen , 5 gen , 6 gen are all S tier . This was the time when gaming was at its peak . Change my mind .

Something I'm wondering I guess, is why the Switch is considered 8th in this video, if Nintendo's already got a console and handheld in 8th (Wii U / 3DS), and the Switch came out several years after them, and is still a current console with games being made. Seems like it belongs in 9th generation.

My personal tier list would go something like this: S tier: 6th Gen. A Tier: 7th Gen, 4th Gen and 5th Gen. B Tier: 8th Gen. C Tier: 3rd Gen. D Tier: 1st and 2nd Gen. F Tier: 9th Gen. Reasoning: The sixth and 7th gens were amazing, you could choose any of them, and have great, unique experiences on each, for the PC players, this was also a great time, ports from one to the other were becoming better, components even more affordable and user friendly as standards were consolidated in the 90s. The 4th and 5th were incredible, but you either had to grow up on them or adopt the mindset of a player back them to enjoy them now, after you get past that, you can find true gems in both, for PC, some of the greatest PC games were from this era, but playing them now is a pain in the ass. The 8th Gen was dissapointing, underpowered consoles, underutilized features and lack of third party games on the WiiU, some of the worst anticonsumer crap from the 7th became even worse, Microsoft started to gaslight their fanboys with the whole "Xbox ecosystem exclusives", despite all of that, you could still find fantastic titles among the trash. The third gen was good, but it's primitive, few of the games from this era have aged well, those that did are still fantastic, Mega Man 2, Phantasy Star and Turrican, for example. The 1st and 2nd were ok, they did the best they had with the tech, but got surpassed very quickly and we are too separated from the time to truly adopt such a mindset and enjoy the games for what they are. And the 9th, I truly feel like we are going to see the end of home consoles, they either make each unique in some way to distinguish it from PCs and each other or they go the way of the dodo, because the Xbox and PS5 are pretty much locked and watered down cheap PCs, might as well go with Steam Deck or full small form factor PC and plug it to the TV, we were 3 years in when this video was made and Xbox has released all of their games on Windows and the PS5 has only 15 exclusives, 15 after 4 years, then why even bother? What else does either console have? Nothing, exclusives are anticonsumer garbage, sure, but if a console has nothing else to stand out, what's the point?

as a 6th 7th 8th and possibly 9th gen gamer i agree with list but at the same time we are all gamers and i would honestly love to try the older consoles from the different generations to see how far gaming as come

Something I feel they didn't take into account with some of these tiers: how that generation screwed up. With 7th gen, we got insanely priced PS3, Xbox Kinect, Nintendo shovelware, and the birth of the practices of outrageous dlc/microtransactions. Anyone remember the infamous Horse Armor fiasco?

Y'all know we do not put any of these at S tier and put a PC there insted.

I was in my early 20's when the PS3/Xbox360 came out, but that generation had the most impact on me for gaming. I've been a heavy gamer since I was 5, but only dabbled in consoles until my 20's.

How Square Enix tends to make things worse within game design and then violates Music Rules within Star Ocean 3 by playing the Ending of Ark Theme from Indiana Jones. I am no longer trusting Square Enix and their games. Deletes Star Ocean Music.

7th gen introduced dlc, so d tier, 8th gen introduced games as a service, f tier.

Reeee how dare not to put the Gameboy in S. I am still whining about a friend who never returned my Gamboy.

To jump in for Kyle, to my knowledge, no other generation had Toe Jam and Earl!

Although yes, the devices themselves weren't good if you compare them to most of what came later - I'd argue 1st Gen IS "S-tier" simply because they finally brought gaming to the home and stopped the monopoly of arcades and arcade companies where you had to _pay every time you wanted to play_ a game. They made home gaming _possible_ - can you argue that home gaming would have still been a thing several decades later _without_ this first generation? Like okay, maybe the creation of consoles might have been inevitable, but not for a good long while I don't think, and I think we'd still be playing catch-up right now if those first consoles hadn't come out _when_ they did. They were the pioneers of home gaming - the ones that proved it was even possible and desirable in the first place. Everything that came after was simply _technological_ improvements, which _were_ inevitable - the 1st Gen invented and proved the very _concept_ of home-gaming itself. It doesn't matter if the devices themselves were janky, not very powerful and weird (they were still figuring out literally _everything_ including the controller method - cars went through the same thing at the start, where every brand had a totally different idea on the layout and operation/function of their particular models' controls, and it took a fairly long time for the three-pedals in a specific set order we're familiar with today became standard). Nor does it matter that the games themselves, by any standard that came later, are basic on every level, with graphics that can be barely counted as graphics at all. None of that mattered, because all of that can be improved and figured out for the coming generations. What mattered was now you could play games at _home_ , in the nice warm dry livingroom or bedroom, and you didn't need bags of quarters to have a good time and you didn't need to "go somewhere" to play a game any more if you didn't want to (or if there wasn't an arcade near you). And you didn't need to wait in line whilst other people played your favourite game or got kicked off the arcade machine before you were ready.

5th and 7th gen were also my absolute favorites, and I refuse to remove my rose-tinted glasses and face logic and reason

I give 3rd gen S tier because it basically saved gaming in the USA. Also how many franchises were spawned this gen and still have games going.

13:10 13:26 Austin don't forget to wipe the table!

Austin is 100% correct. 5 and 7 are the greatest generations of consoles. 1a and 1b. 5 was so good, they didn't even mention the Nintendo 64 and that's one of the best consoles of all time. I still give the S tier to 7 because the PS2 and 360 had such great games, controllers, options, and everyone had LAN parties playing Halo and drinking Game Fuel eating Doritos!!

No way 8th gen is below 9th. Yes, 8th gen may be putting people out of console, but 9th gen is making people quit modern gaming, with half of the major releases being unfinished messes. Meanwhile 8th gen had some of the best releases in gaming. Also cant use the wii u and xbone as a point when you have 5th gen up there, with the saturn setting the stones for segas exit from the console wars, and also ataris exit....

I grew up on the 5th and 6th gen, but the 7th Gen is legit s tier. PS3 that can play all the ps2 games, everyone and their granny had a wii for games night, THE PSP an the DS. So many 360s died but we were having a good time.

7th Gen is D tier. Austin was so blinded by nostalgia that he forgot about the RRoD and how that killed Microsoft Gaming division. They *KNEW* of the problem and doubled down on how there was no problem, shipped flawed systems, and then blamed the consumers. From that gave birth to those god awful Intercoolers, which did way more harm than good. PlayStation 3, at launch, was 6 bills! Six. Hundred. Dollars! Nobody could afford that except a select few. The 20 and 60 (?) GB models were PlayStation 3s with PlayStation 2 guts, which made them completely backwards compatible but then all future models removed the PS2 guts and made them backwards compatible through emulation. Remember Sixaxis? Remember how great the idea was to control the Lair dragon was with the tilt of the controller, but how flawed it was because of the vibration? Great idea on paper, horrible on execution. If it wasn't for the future versions of the 360 and PS3 that "fixed" many of the "problems" the original systems had, both companies would have tanked. The only good thing that came from the 7th generation was Wii and DS. D. Tier. Generation.

It’s really sad that we are getting old and all this games and consoles are going to be history

SNES and Gameboy alone carries that gen to S tier Matt is right!!!

Let me give you on a little bit of context back in 1972 with the grand reveal of the Magnavox Odyssey leading in video games there started to be a dip down in sales in video game which was called the crash of 1983 and then intendo swooped in and saved the whole gaming there'd be no Nintendo 64 game q PlayStation if it wasn't for that

4:24 implosion? Sound familiar

6th Gen is S tier. It does not have my favorite games (that honor goes to the 7th), but that's when gaming was at it's best. Xbox Live, Gameboy Advance, PS2 with God of War, and the Gamecube with it's great lineup (although I don't like Super Mario Sunshine, so the absence of a Mario I like hits it hard). The 7th Generation set up everything that's wrong with the industry now, being paid online and updates/overpriced DLC, and that brings it down back to an A. Still has my favorite games though.

THE SALIVA DROP IN 13:08 HAHAH

360 gen of is definitely S. Everything about gaming was just more popping back then, the community was smaller but it was a lot tighter

Guys the Wii u isn’t bad and shouldn’t be crapped on it was a great console just badly represented

Matt is so much more correct on this. He's actually looking at it from a "how good the games actually were point" of view instead of Austin who is basically just talking about the popularity

Austin saying the SNES was just a little bit better than the NES made me throw my phone.

These ranking videos are my favourite, keep up the good work. I’m looking forward to the next one

Matt was most definitely selling this video

Gen 4 should be the S tier period!!!! Lines were drawn and it felt like the competition was at a all time high!!

Bruh, I have a LOT of things to say about this vid 1. The Wii U didn't damage the 8th generation 2. The Wii U is a great system (idc if its games got ported to the Switch) 3. The Switch (despite coming out in 2017) is with the PS5, Xbox Series X, and Steam Deck 4. 6th gen definitely S tier 5. 7th gen would've been S tier, IF the 360 didn't have the RROD, & the PS3's $600 price tag

Austin Clearly Failed ranking the 7 gen as S tier. The Generation were 2 of the systems have Serious Heating issues that result in the failure of many units and recalls of many others. Not to mention the PS3 removal of some software features (such as Other OS). This Gen was also the start of Always online gaming with constant updates (paid DLCs) as well as dropouts and server issues. The 7th gen of console had a myriad of issues. The only silver lining was the outstanding breakout that was the Wii. However, one could argue that the Wii was a beefed up GameCube, making the Wii essentially a mid cycle refresh of the GameCube. Matt's Choice for the S tier was right on the money. The 4th gen was the most exciting time to be a console gaming. Many innovations that we enjoy today comes directly from this era. There were also many competitors trying to break into the market, providing a greater variety of choices for all gamers. From the Expensive Arcade Quality Neo Geo, to the affordable Sega Genesis Tower of Power, the options were abundant.

Never let Austin cook again

The PS1, N64 gen was 100% B-C tier. There are some great memories there and even lots of games worth revisiting, like F-ZeroX and Tekken 3. But the visuals are PAINFUL to look at now without hardcore nostalgia glasses, the controls are mostly butt (the N64 controller alone deserves a special place in hell), and most great franchises had better installments later. SNES/GENESIS/GAMEBOY era FTW.

I have to agree with Matt -- the 7th generation is forgettable. I wouldn't even give it an A. Almost all the great games from that generation are on newer consoles now, the hardware from that generation was mired with problems, the PS3 was way too expensive for what was on offer at the beginning, the games were almost uniformly a muddy gray, and towards the end the truly hideous amount of shovelware made it a truly depressing time to be a gamer, especially with the Kinect and PS Move gaining traction right as everyone had gotten tired of the Wii's motion controls ruining otherwise great games. Were it not for games like the Mass Effects, Bioshock, the few good games on the Wii, and the DS, that generation would be easy D tier for me.

Was the PS2 not shown at all? Or was it considered its own generation? I'm confused why it is missing. Edit: NM, it was generation 6. It should have been S.

Good lord Austin.. how did this make it past the cutting room floor

13:09 that spit out of Austin! Couldn’t edit that out LOL

Mario Party is a poor example of a Wii U game considering the Wii U didn't have a single good Mario Party game. It had two crap ones that weren't worth revisiting after trying them out once. Super Mario 3D World, Smash 4, Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, Splatoon and Mario Kart 8 are much better examples of what made a Wii U worth playing on. It was a failure, but it had some great games. Just not enough of them. It wasn't the worst console of all time, even just among recent-ish consoles I think the PS Vita is worse than the Wii U. That was similarly a commercial failure, with the main difference being that Sony really didn't want to give up on it until the end. Nintendo basically gave up on the Wii U as soon as they started developing the Switch and then started holding off big releases so that they could launch them on Switch instead. Which was a big insult to the people who bought the Wii U, and to add insult to insury, almost all the games that made the Wii U worth playing have been ported to Switch anyways so that generation could've been completely skipped without losing almost anything.

so happy this video could come out at a time when nintendenesis finally genesis

This generation has no games that work

As much as I loved PS2, 7th gen is king. It was a huge leap forward in hardware and software, and that era had absolute banger after banger games on both 360 and PS3. 7th gen is untouchable.

I have to be on team Matt with this one.

5th gen is S tier and the first 3should each move up a tier. Fucking. Fight. Me.