Here is some reasons why the NES can bear the title of Best console of video game history :

1- The NES revitalized the dying video-game industry after the crash of 1983-84.

2- The NES put on the map most of the major 3rd party publishers of the present day. Among them are Capcom, Konami, Hudson Soft, Koei, Tecmo, Rare, Bandai (now known as Namco-Bandai), THQ and Square, Enix and Taito (now known as Square-Enix).

3- The NES is also the console who introduced or popularized the most of the major franchises of today. Among them are Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Punch-Out!!, Excitebike, Kirby, Mega Man, Ninja Gaiden, Metal Gear, Tetris, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy and Castlevania. And I'm sure there is so many others that I missed.

4- Technically, the NES is the console who improved its graphics the most during its lifetime. Its earliest games looked like 2nd gen games :

and its latest games looked near 4th gen games :

5- Finally, the NES sold 62 millions units. With the expansion of the market of the last two decades, a gaming console like the NES could easily reach the 200 millions mark by today's standarts.

What do you guys think of that? Could it be possible for another console to claim that title?

True, but ps1 is also a great console!

My favorite all-time console will forever be the PS2, in part because it is also the PS1. No denying that the NES was a groundbreaking machine, though.

NES is a wonderful machine, a very important one in the history of gaming. Personally though I rate the DS as the best console ever.

Your gonna have to thank companies like Nintendo and Sunsoft for games like thoes with great graphics.

PS3 60gig b/c for me is the best ever.

Don't forget the PS1 (N64 is also an exception)

I can accept that..See sometimes the "Best" is different than "Favorite." My favorite console is probably the SNES, but the NES is so pivotal and set so many standards that pretty much every home console after it has just been emulating it. Hard to say if it will be surpassed..Its importance to our industry as we know it? Hell no, no other system can claim to have saved a crashing and damn near extinct industry.

MGS didn't start on the NES though... It was made for the MSX first!

c03n3nj0 said: MGS didn't start on the NES though... It was made for the MSX first!

 That's why I said ''popularized''. BTW MSX was Japan only.