10 Most Popular Video Game Consoles Of The Last 10 Years - Ranked

7. PSP Go

PSP Go
Sony

Onto more positive things, and although Sony are hands-down atrocious at marketing anything other than their core consoles (seriously, PS VR is already on life support), the PSP Go was a delightful redesign of the 2005 original.

Somewhat annoyingly, the Go traded out UMD/disc support for a smaller form factor, targeting those who liked the idea of owning a glorified pocket-sized PS1 machine instead. Sadly, Sony kept the weirdly blobby and unsatisfying analogue nub, but the real pull here was for newcomers who didn't already have established PSP libraries.

To them, you could load this thing up with everything from Crash Bandicoot to Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear to Castlevania as PS1 emulations, all backed up with the PSP's burgeoning library including God of War: Chains of Olympus, Daxter and Pursuit Force.

Seriously, Sony may continually drop the ball when it comes to reminding the masses of these systems, but the PSP Go was one incredibly slick system.

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Gaming Editor
Gaming Editor

WhatCulture's Head of Gaming.