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

3. Nintendo 3DS/2DS

The 3DS - or rather, the 2DS if you don't care about eye-straining projection effects - is where everything clicked in a huge way for Nintendo.

Coming with much more hardware than the DS, the system's library is simply one of the absolute best Nintendo have ever put together. Everything from Monster Hunter Generations to Fire Emblem: Awakening, Pokémon, Mario Kart 7 and the potential original-beating Ocarina of Time 3D - there was a real next-level step up in third-party support across the board.

Later editions of the 3DS would expand the Virtual Console to support SNES games, meaning that some of the best games of all time, Super Metroid, Zelda: Link to the Past, Super Mario World, Super Mario Kart and F-Zero were all available on the go for the first time.

It might carry forward the 'looseness' of the D-pad, but with the recently released 2DS removing the gimmicks and focusing on nothing but that exemplary library, the 3DS can stake its claim as one of the finest consoles in history.