C3PX said:The N64 was on top as far as graphics went, PS couldn't touch it. But PS could do video and audio that the N64 could never dream of, not thanks to more power but thanks to a CD drive and 650mb of space. Even with PS's beautifully pixelated videos, the N64 still kicked the PS pathetic little ass.
The N64 did not kick the ass of the PSX (despite the fact that I would have wanted it to). In terms of sales, the Playstation won that generation of the console wars and that wasn't just a fluke. The CD drive afforded more than just easy video and audio capabilities. For instance, games with complicated textures or other pre-rendered images were simply not possible on the N64 without their detail being reduced to crap. What was the point of having solid rendering and softened graphics to display blurry textures? It was also rare to see an N64 game that was long and involved. CD was the format of choice at that time and Nintendo made a huge mistake. After the first few generations of PSX titles it was very rare to find a game that wasn't well optimized for quick load times. Nintendo was just being stupid.
Jay said:
I complimented the GameCube a few posts earlier, calling it a fine and underrated piece of hardware. I still have one, but boxed it up once I got the Wii thanks to the backwards compatibility.
But a GameCube with a higher clock speed and jacked up Power Glove is a piece of shit in this generation. If you can't see that, you don't know what you're talking about and you don't know hardware.
Ahh, I missed your compliments of the Gamecube. I was just clarifying that it was the console I was mostly referring to when I was commending Nintendo's skill with hardware. Even the Virtual Boy was an impressive gizmo to me (even though I couldn't play it due to my glasses).
Otherwise, the Wiimote is no "power glove." I owned a power glove and it actually was complete and utter shit. For the sake that I know you're not an idiot I'll assume you're using hyperbole with that comparison. Same thing goes with the rest of the Wii being "shit." Between its control potential, storage and data access potential, and solid manufacturing, its hardware is nice. While I agree with you that it is weak in terms of graphical power, there's more to appreciating hardware than just that alone (and, even then, it's not "shit"). (Not to mention, as you yourself just said, it was the first Nintendo console system that allowed backwards compatibility.)