Wii U easily, if you jailbreak it you can play every generation before it
switch can't emulate Wii and GameCube games, and on top of that half of its good games are Wii U ports anyway
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Wii U gamepad is horrific tho
I'll also add that it's a woefully underpowered system for the generation it was in and that is where my dislike of it comes from mostly (I did have one)
I loathe Nintendo's business practices and internal culture and miserliness and legal-threat bullshit. But damn if they didn't nail the Switch's design and portability.
It's not required for hardly any functionality beyond navigating the start up menu. Most games that support it don't require it.
I spent hundreds of hours playing monster hunter 3U in bed on the gamepad and never had a problem with it. I found it pretty comfy and the steam deck basically copied its ergonomics so they must have been doing something right
but regardless the pro controller exists which can be used in like 95% of Wii U games and has an abominably long battery life
I remember when I was kid and the absolute fucking HYPE around the gameboy color. It was gonna revolutionize gaming. Lol, it it was teased for years before it finally came out.
Mmm pokemon pinball yum
lol, this would've been years before pokemon even existed. 
I think they were teasing us with a color metroid.🤔
The Gameboy color came out a month after pokemon red and blue in the US. Development for the Gameboy color began in 1997, after pokemon had been out in Japan for about a year.
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I think they were teasing us with a color metroid.
I'd like to imagine a Metroid 2 DX that has changes like Link's Awakening DX lol
Thank you nerds for emulation
Steam deck lol
GBA cos i spent most of my childhood playing on one. It had teeth marks in after trying to complete rayman 3 and mario kart
Switch. I really appreciate that they let a console generation last a decade, because I'm not a consumerist paypig. The biggest indie games all ended up on it. And Nintendo has really been killing it with their first-party games, lots of them that hold up really well even against ancient stuff that I might be giving the benefit of nostalgia.
In terms of system function and practicality, hacked, probably gonna be Wii U because it can play most other Bintendo systems. Function unhacked is probably a DS phat or Lite, because DS/GBA libraries are pretty good.
I also wanna ask if this includes fan translations, because at that point SNES/SFC is a system that has FF6, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Earthbound etc but also Front Mission, Seiken Densetsu 3, Tactics Ogre, Bahamut Lagoon, all six 2D Dragon Quest games, so on. Also if you factor Super Gameboy/2 in, SNES probably wins.
In terms of the native NTSC/PAL libraries it has to be a dead heat between Super Nintendo and DS. Gamecube is a shit system, N64 is a shitter system, Wii has a loooot of shovelware(although the virtual console was rad), Switch goes in the trash, the NES, GBA and Game Boy were cool but I think the DS probably had the most variety of genres. Plus it has ports and remakes of a lot of classics, so at gunpoint I'd go DS.
The Wii U was my first true love and I will always be its strongest warrior
The system that was practically built for a Pokemon Snap sequel, and yet...
100% the switch and updating my answer to switch 2 whenever that happens
What do you think it's gonna be like?
That's the thing right, does it need to anything more than a more powerful switch? There are things I'd like for them to do, like allow more abilities to communicate in online games, add more apps, ship joycons that work. Outside of that tho, I'm not sure what else I'd want? iirc it's confirmed no oled screen as a default which sucks
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The feel of the n64 thumb stick making a permanent dent in my thumb as i cross hyrule field for the nth time will likely be with me forever but honestly it's the DS. The first wireless ad-hoc connected handheld console that my group of friends all owned and we would line the halls playing Mario Kart or tetris in school
The New 2/3DS XL are goated, the emulation support on CFW is great and you can take it anywhere you want.
No GameCube? I guess Wii then, assuming it's the backwards compatible model.
Don't worry I added the gamecube
Virtual Boy fans ate outraged. Game and Watch fans are sobbing and shaking
lol I almost made a comment complaining that the N64 wasn’t in the picture, and then I got the joke.
SNES.
The fact that all the retro indie games try to mimic the SNES style shows how big that era of gaming was.
GBA era is a close second, but that was basically a portable, higher powered SNES.
NES. I'm so old.
SNES gang rise up
New 3dsxl every time, the homebrew scene is wildly good.
You can play any game by downloading straight from the device.
New Nintendo 3ds (not XL)!
When I was a kid, my granddad had a Nintendo 64 (we got that N64 for ourselves after he died when I was a teen) and we had a Wii at home, and we had one of those early DSes that let you play GBA games; when we got rid of that old DS, we replaced it with a 3DS; and I used emulators (often those free online ones that don't let you save your progress) to play NES and SNES and old-school Game Boy games (and we also had a neighbor with a real-life Game Boy Color), and after we got rid of our classic DS I started playing GBA games using online emulators, too; and when I lived in a school dorm I got the chance to play a little Switch in the common area with the others on my floor.
...Which means that the only two Nintendo consoles that I never really got to experience either IRL or through an emulator were the Wii U and the GameCube, and of those, I don't really remember the Wii U having any particularly noteworthy games — whereas even as a kid I was definitely always curious about the old GameCube games like Luigi's Mansion and Super Mario Sunshine and Metroid Prime and all that, I still am curious about them now. And so if I have to choose one single Nintendo console, whatever that "choosing" means, I'm honestly going to go for the one that I always wanted to play but never got the opportunity to.
For me it's the Nintendo 3DS. Still have my white original 3DS from 11 years ago, jailbreaked it a year ago. I also played on my niece's DS as a kid, moslty Mario Kart DS, New Super Mario Bros. and Mario 64 DS. And Mega Man Star Force, the most impactful game in my life, is a DS game that I played on my 3DS. I'm very fond of the DS aesthetic.
The 3DS has plenty of good games on its own, but it can also play DS and GBA games natively, each with huge game libraries and lots of amazing titles. It can emulate NES, SNES and even Genesis pretty well too. The default UI is very pleasant and calming, it has a charm like the Wii and WiiU that became completely lost in the Switch. And the homebrew scene is super lively and still evolving.
I also just love the DS/3DS as a concept: it's the size of a smartphone and the clamshell design is unique. With stuff like a camera, internet access and other function, it was like a prototypical smartphone in some ways. I want to see a modern take on the DS with a good camera, bigger screens and better hardware, so that it could replace a smartphone.
It of course can't handle more modern consoles, but for retro gaming it's great. And if the screens are too small you can always emulate on a pc or laptop. And it beats the Switch in pocketability.
GBA SP
Loved that era of gaming, loved the gorgeous pixel art for those games, and the console is incredibly portable
One of these days I'll get one of those modern restomod versions with USB charging and all that, and jam a flashcart full of emulators into it
Anbernic is getting ready to release the 35XXSP and I know my ass is gonna buy it. So I'll go with the SP. If I ever get a job in my field again, it would be nice to be able to game on the go without worrying about the screen when I toss it in my bag.
Probably wii u
NES, it was my greatest escape as a kid.
GameCube or gba-sp.
I probably have spent the most time with the snes so I'll go with that. Runner-up is the gamecube, played a lot of biohazard remake and 4 on it when it was exclusive.
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