What is the most iconic video game console design?

Forget frame rates for a minute. This is about which shapes you could still pick out of a silhouette, decades after the last unit shipped.

1

PlayStation 2

A matte black slab that stood upright or lay flat, and outsold every console ever made.

2

Xbox 360

The concave white tower with a glowing green ring for a power button.

3

Nintendo GameCube

A purple cube with a carrying handle, unmistakable and unashamed of it.

4

Nintendo Entertainment System

The grey 1985 front-loading box that reintroduced America to home gaming.

5

Nintendo 64

A charcoal wedge with an expansion bay on top and three prongs on its controller.

6

Game Boy

The 1989 grey brick with a pea-green screen that made portable gaming ordinary.

7

Super Nintendo

The rounded 1990 machine with purple sliders, still the prettiest console Nintendo made.

8

Sega Dreamcast

A small white console with a swirl logo and a screen built into the controller.

9

PlayStation 5

The two-tone white fins that provoked more argument about looks than any console since.

10

Original Xbox

A heavy black box with a green X across the lid, designed to look like hardware.

11

Nintendo Wii

A small white slab that stood on a stand and disappeared into a living room.

12

Sega Genesis

The black 1988 16-bit machine that stamped its own name across the top.

13

Nintendo Switch

A tablet with detachable controllers, a design that redefined what a console is.

14

Atari 2600

The 1977 woodgrain console that put a video game machine into a living room.

15

Xbox Series X

A matte black monolith that looks like a small PC tower and is proud of it.