Console of the Year Award (2023)

A special episode announcing the winner of the My Perfect Console of the Year (2023) Tournament.

It's time. Fifty-two consoles have now been whittled down to two final machines. It's an all-North American final, as the U.S.A.'s Heather Anne-Campbell takes on Canada's Phil Fish. Both machines are spectacular, potential best-sellers:

Heather Anne-Campbell's "The Only Play".

 Tetris. Street Fighter III. The Last of Us. Fortnite. Disco Elysium.

Phil Fish's "Fez II".

 Ridge Racer Type IV. Rez. Dishonored. Hitman: World of Assassination. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

Listen to the result of the final face-off, as voted by you the listeners.

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In My Perfect Console, Simon Parkin, award-winning author video game critic for The Observer invites well-known guests from the worlds of gaming, film and television, music, comedy and more to pick the five video games they would like to immortalise on a fictional games machine. They discuss those five games in chronological order of release, interspersed with biographical chat about the guest’s life and career –– a lens that often leads to new and unexpected insights.

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