Are we supposed to judge consoles strictly from a hardware standpoint or do you take into account how much said console influenced the industry, what games it had, the marketing and visual language of it all, how much you liked the controller and the overall design of the console itself?



E.g. most of my favorite games of all time are available on [#2480:Xbox 360] and although it has the most comfortable controller ever made, the console itself is one unreliable, clunky piece of shit. So should I still rank it as my favorite console ? I think so.