I guess if you ever went down the road of repairing them you would have a very different opinion of the hundreds of different minor revisions and apparently random hardware changes. A pretty shoddy proprietary dvd drive with weak lasers...

I think we owe the ps1 the glory here. I bought mine 10 years ago used and it hasn't put a foot wrong. The device that changed the console gaming world because it had hundreds of awesome games. I know because at one time I had over 500 ps1 games, and still have about 100 of the ones I think were the best. They were £1 a shot by 2003.. so I bought them and tried them and the good ones I kept. Game lenghth is another consideration. I have been doing some retro gaming recently.. Deathtrap Dungeon.. been at it for about 6 days so far and reading a walkthrough online I'm only about 20% through.. must be 30 levels so far.

So I would say for the best console ever (yeah the saturn was technically superior and generally looked better) the award must go to the device that came from the sega/sony development partnership.

It's the ONLY sony thing in my house.. and that says it all.