The Top 10 Consoles
Our critic's ranking, best first.
PlayStation 4 ProA mid-generation upgrade that cost no more than the original launch price, which had never happened before and has not happened since.Read the review
PlayStation 4The console that won by shipping games at a fair price while its rival spent the generation explaining itself.
PSPSony put most of a PlayStation 2 in a jacket pocket in 2004, and it still looks modern twenty years later.
PlayStation 2The most consequential console ever made, and the one that had the least technical right to be.
Super Nintendo Entertainment SystemThe best library of its generation on a machine designed around sprites, sound and nothing wasted.
Nintendo Entertainment SystemModest hardware, a legendary library, and the machine that put a dead industry back on the shelf.
GameCubeThe most focused console Nintendo ever built: no DVD, no online, just an efficient machine and a run of near-perfect games.
ASUS ROG Xbox Ally XOne of the fastest handhelds going, with the Xbox front end and a battery to match- MSI Claw 8 AI+MSI Claw 8 AI+Intel's comeback handheld: the best all rounder of 2025, with battery life nothing else touches
Xbox Series XThe best-engineered console of its generation, quietly waiting years for the first-party games to arrive.