Best Ever?

Out To Launch from 1UP.com — An interesting historical comparison of all the game consoles (well, except for the Atari stuff and a few very obscure systems). The best ever? The Dreamcast. I’m in full agreement. It’s baffling why it was suddenly discontinued when it was.

Less than two weeks to go until the 360 launches and Microsoft’s still being a little coy about what, exactly, will be available day one. Yet there’s little denying that the system’s launch library (the liberal definition of launch, which lets it encompass a few months) looks pretty solid. So how does the 360 stack up to other console launches? We look back at 20 years of major console launches to see just how the games and hype Microsoft has in store for its second-generation console compares to the great launches of the past. (And the lousy ones, too.)