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re: Nintendo distributing dev kits for NX

Posted on 10/16/15 at 7:28 pm to
Posted by OMLandshark
Member since Apr 2009
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Posted on 10/16/15 at 7:28 pm to
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This. The chips inside don't matter, the PS2 was actually the least powerful of that generation.



And that has never once really mattered in the Console Wars. Let's take a look at who was the most powerful and who sold the most in each war:

4th Generation: Most Powerful: Genesis; Winner: Super Nintendo
5th Generation: Most Powerful: N64; Winner: Playstation
6th Generation: Most Powerful: X Box; Winner: PS2
7th Generation: Most Powerful: PS3; Winner: Wii

The power of a system is highly over valued, especially in this day and age where the Wii U seems capable of doing anything I've seen from the PS4 and X Box One. Graphics are no longer impressive like they used to be.
Posted by Mr Gardoki
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Member since Apr 2010
27652 posts
Posted on 10/16/15 at 8:09 pm to
All true. If graphics were all that mattered then PC would be the only platform.
Posted by DrSteveBrule
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2009
12040 posts
Posted on 10/16/15 at 9:01 pm to
The ps4 and xbox one are significantly more powerful than the ps3 and xbox 360.

The wii u is slightly more powerful than the 360 and ps3.

System power does matter when the gap is this significant. Today since most games are online multiplayer, there are way more cross platform games than console exclusives which means console power is more important than ever.
Posted by Freauxzen
Utah
Member since Feb 2006
37472 posts
Posted on 10/17/15 at 9:10 am to
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4th Generation: Most Powerful: Genesis; Winner: Super Nintendo
5th Generation: Most Powerful: N64; Winner: Playstation
6th Generation: Most Powerful: X Box; Winner: PS2
7th Generation: Most Powerful: PS3; Winner: Wii

The power of a system is highly over valued, especially in this day and age where the Wii U seems capable of doing anything I've seen from the PS4 and X Box One. Graphics are no longer impressive like they used to be.


Overall Power doesn't matter but the difference in power does. As soon as it became financially inefficient to make ports things started to fall apart. You could make the same exact game with some changes on the Gamecube, PS2, and Xbox, so it worked....but the GC still got trounced. Nintendo shifted gears, created a less powerful console and after Year 2, everyone abandoned the system or put "lesser" games on it rather than ports. All the while....Porting games to the Xbox and PS2. It was ridiculous.

Nintendo HAS to be within the Port Range and then it still has a ton of work to do to lure 3rd parties back.
Posted by Dr RC
The Money Pit
Member since Aug 2011
58162 posts
Posted on 10/20/15 at 3:44 pm to
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4th Generation: Most Powerful: Genesis; Winner: Super Nintendo


it had a slightly faster processor but the Genesis couldn't touch the graphical output of the SNES.
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