GAME UK Customers Name Nintendo Wii Best Console Ever
The Wii wins.
Released in 2006, the motion-sensing Wii console was revolutionary. As time goes on, the console's limitations (such as the lack of HD support) become ever more apparent. Despite this, the Wii still has its fans. According to a survey of UK consumers, the Nintendo Wii is the best console ever.
DigitalSpy reports that GAME customers recently voted the Nintendo Wii the best console ever. We're not just talking the best of the top three. We're talking the best console of all time. The original Xbox didn't even crack the top 10. According to DigitalSpy, 15 percent of those surveyed (2,000) voted for the Wii, while the Xbox 360 received just 10 percent and Playstation 3 just 9 percent. These scores were enough to snag Microsoft and Sony second and third place in the poll.
Rounding out the top five is Sony's PS2 at number four (8 percent), and the Sega Mega Drive at number 5 (with seven percent). The original PlayStation placed sixth, while the Super Nintendo is at number seven. The Game Boy, N64, and Nintendo DS appeared in eight, ninth, and tenth place.

When you figure in the factors that caused this is actually does make perfect sense. The Wii sold very well more than the 360 and PS3. What this means is there are more homes with just a Wii than the consoles.
PS3 - 70 million
360 - 76 million
Wii -100 million
This will create a natural bias in a survey to some degree when it comes that generation of consoles.
Much like how the NES easily would beat the Sega Master System in a survey simply because there is a much higher chance that a person owned a NES and not a Master System or both. While the Master System would still likely lose it would score much better if the survey only focused on owners of both.
Then we need to figure that the age of those surveyed is going to vary. Obviously the chances of someone selecting a console that is older than them is unlikely. While the older gamers will have played on more consoles in their lifetime and have a larger list to choose from with many fond memories of older consoles.
Then the last factor is that there are people who will genuinely prefer the Wii over the rest even if they have experienced a wide range of consoles. This is bound to add a few additional percentage behind the Wii.
there was nothing special about the other consoles, except for maybe the ps3 which had features like the sixaxis controlller and bluray player. but other than that, they were straightforward in their gaming appoach. Id personally put the ps2 or the snes up top for their amazing catalog of games.
Survey that shiat
Of those customers, a fraction will be casual console players. They probably voted Wii because it's the only one they know. The win margin was nothing enormous, it was only the highest. Young heavy gamers likely went with PS3/360 whereas old schoolers voted for one of the various older systems. This survey is a view of ALL game customers, NOT "super heavy l33t" game customers.
Get over it.
Yeah, I own one and I know the figures. I also realize the demographic that they aim for. I also know the content that they have for the Wii, and it's miserable for kids and adults alike. There are some decent games, but they are few and far between. I would be willing to bet that despite the large number of sales, a high number of those consoles are sitting and collecting dust or used mainly as a media device. Let's not forget that they're cheap, and there are a lot of parents and grandparents out there.
My real point being that the term "best" is what we really have to focus on. What does it mean to be the best? Is it to have the most sales? Also the PS2 came in fourth in a survey about every console ever made, so give me a break.
Wiimotes weren't revolutionary, Dreamcast was first, with Samba de Amigo maraca controllers. Ironically the Wii port shows how mediocre are the original wiimotes, that's why Nintendo later improved them with "motion plus".
Agreed. Super NES was/is the best console by far. The library of Super NES games will never be matched.
That library is just too huge with some of the best games ever made.
Doubly so if jailbroken, cause then all snes/genesis/nes libraries are also thrown in.
dreamcast? really? that was possibly the worst console ever.
the kinggraves method:
think up some random nonsense totally unsupported by data, spread cheeks, begin talking out of @ss
You dont know much about the dreamcast. Dreamcast was way ahead of its time and had some great games, but it did die early because sega had no console hardware reputation anymore. Easily one of the top 10 consoles and couldve been the top if it had more developer support.