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.
1PlayStation 2A matte black slab that stood upright or lay flat, and outsold every console ever made.
2Xbox 360The concave white tower with a glowing green ring for a power button.
3Nintendo GameCubeA purple cube with a carrying handle, unmistakable and unashamed of it.
4Nintendo Entertainment SystemThe grey 1985 front-loading box that reintroduced America to home gaming.
5Nintendo 64A charcoal wedge with an expansion bay on top and three prongs on its controller.
6Game BoyThe 1989 grey brick with a pea-green screen that made portable gaming ordinary.
7Super NintendoThe rounded 1990 machine with purple sliders, still the prettiest console Nintendo made.
8Sega DreamcastA small white console with a swirl logo and a screen built into the controller.
9PlayStation 5The two-tone white fins that provoked more argument about looks than any console since.
10Original XboxA heavy black box with a green X across the lid, designed to look like hardware.
11Nintendo WiiA small white slab that stood on a stand and disappeared into a living room.
12Sega GenesisThe black 1988 16-bit machine that stamped its own name across the top.
13Nintendo SwitchA tablet with detachable controllers, a design that redefined what a console is.
14Atari 2600The 1977 woodgrain console that put a video game machine into a living room.
15Xbox Series XA matte black monolith that looks like a small PC tower and is proud of it.
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Judged on silhouette alone, a purple cube with a carrying handle competes with a Dreamcast that lasted barely two years: https://youpick.best/articles/playstation-vs-xbox-vs-nintendo-ranked
