While the exercise of ranking consoles may sound silly, it does force one to meditate on those questions. To create a ranked list of the best consoles of all time, we had to look back at decades of hardware and home in on what makes some stick fondly in our memories.

Nintendo has unveiled the long-awaited successor to its popular Switch video game console: the Nintendo Switch 2. First-look images at the console design and a teaser trailer were revealed by Nintendo Thursday, but the Japan-based video game company has held back the price tag for the Switch 2 as well as the official release date.