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hey guys this is Austin there have been a lot of great consoles over the years but here are my top 5 most underrated kicking things off we have the Nintendo GameCube from 2001 as the 4th home console from Nintendo the Gamecube had some big shoes to fill it had fairly powerful hardware so much so when it came time to make the Wii Nintendo largely just reused the specs of the Gamecube it had a solid lineup of games as well including the always great first party Nintendo titles like Luigi's Mansion on the fair few third-party games this is important as one of the major problems with the Wii and Wii U was a lack of major games like Call of Duty leading a lot of people to go buy an Xbox or Playstation it also shipped with a fairly controversial controller that's aged fairly well so much so that when Nintendo launched smash 4 on the Wii U they started selling the 13 year old GameCube controllers again as the first Nintendo console to drop cartridges the game keep uses mini DVDs which are a lot smaller than a traditional disc but only had one point 5 gigabytes of capacity compared to up to 8.5 gigs on the Xbox and ps2 and it was ultimately the ps2 that hurt at the most so like a massive 155 million consoles compared to just 22 million for the Gamecube still though it holds up is one of the most underrated consoles ever coming in at number four we have the Sega Saturn from 1994 Sega was all over the place in the 90s the Genesis put up a serious fight against the Super Nintendo but then they released a series of weird add-ons before moving on with the Sega Saturn even though the Saturn was the worst selling Sega console it actually had a lot going for it it featured a design it was ahead of its time with dual CPUs ten years before this became the norm on consoles which was a big deal it gave the Saturn the power to play games straight from the arcade like Daytona USA in Virtua Fighter the dual CPUs gave it a lot of theoretical power compared to the PlayStation 1 but it was incredibly difficult for developers to take advantage of unfortunately things went wrong almost immediately Sega did a surprise launch four months early without letting some stores know prompting them to drop the Saturn or indeed Sega altogether oops couple this with the lack of big-name titles like Sonic and Sony's new console outsold the Saturn by a massive 10 to 1 ratio the Saturn was a great console but things just didn't work out for Sega this time next at number three we have the Sony PlayStation Vita from 2011 Nintendo just launched the 3ds the follow-up to the massively successful DS sunny was coming off the PSP the first handheld to really challenge Denton doe ever it's rocking a big high-resolution 5-inch touchscreen with some of the best physical controls ever put on a portable and even cool features like a rear touchpad there's just one problem a little thing called smart phones came along with most people already having a decent gaming device in their pockets portable consoles have hit some serious issues the 3ds has handled their transition reasonably well thanks to its library of excellent first party titles like Mario Pokemon and Zelda but the Vita hasn't been so fortunate it has some decent games especially Japanese titles but in North America the big games like minecraft or nearly all available in other platforms it still has some life in it but Sony's been focused on things like ps4 remote play and PlayStation now instead of pushing major titles to the Vita it's a shame because the Vita really was awesome but it was the wrong console at the wrong time at number two we have the Nintendo Wii U from 2012 the Wii U yeah like the Saturn Nintendo had just come off the enormous ly successful Wii and immediately into big problems the big draw of the Wii U is the tablet like gamepad which is legitimately cool but most people thought it was an accessory for the original Wii rather than an all-new console to add insult to injury where the wheat was priced significantly lower than the Xbox and PlayStation the Wii U was only slightly cheaper than the technically superior Xbox one and ps4 mostly due to the expensive gamepad that's included with every Wii U like the Wii it's been hamstrung by a lack of third-party support making the Wii U almost entirely reliant on first party Nintendo games thankfully there have been quite a few terrific titles such as smash 4 and splatoon with an install base of less than 10 million consoles it's behind both the Xbox one and ps4 even with an extra year head start Nintendo has already started talking about the next console the NX which we should find out more about next year the Wii U is shaping up to have one of the shortest and most disastrous console runs ever which is a shame because it really is a good console unfortunately that's just not enough coming in at the number one spot is the infamous sega dreamcast from 1998 the dreamcast had so much potential say you learn from the overly complicated saturn and designed to clean easy to work with console that had a big head start on the other consoles of its generation it brought a lot of first as well including a built-in modem for online play years before it became popular with the vmu it brought an early second screen experience way before the Wii U the devil does a memory card for the system and some games were powered by Windows three years before Microsoft launched the Xbox it even had several big games like Crazy Taxi and Sonic Adventure which were a big step up graphically than anything available at the time the drink has had a big successful launch but surprise surprise Sony pulled the rug out from under Sega with the hugely popular PlayStation 2 the already weak Sega crumbled in less than two years after they launched the Dreamcast in the u.s. Sega entirely pulled out of the console business and the rest is history if you enjoyed this video and you want to see more like this definitely be sure to subscribe to the channel and I will catch you in the next one there's a fly in the room right now like he's right there oh this video will never be done