Next-gen console war: The verdict by mcvuk.com

[LordTheNightKnight]

MikeB said:
@ LordTheNightKnight

"very powerful" =/= "strongest console". He wasn't arguing that the SNES was a graphical powerhouse. Again, you are countering a point not even made.

Reread the comment again:

In fact, there is only once in history that the strongest console one the generation and that's the SNES

I was discussing your comment on that it wasn't very powerful. He did not write that the SNES was very powerful. He wrote that it was the stronges. What part of that makes you think one is the same as the other.

It was designed to be cheap,

Again, since he did not claim it was very powerful, it doesn't matter if Nintendo spent a lot on the system.

its CPU was about half the speed of the Mega Drive

Wow! I bet that processor should be given a special name for being so fast! Sega should call it "Blast Processing"! Thank you for letting us know about this obscure fact, that we apparently didn't know about 16 years ago! [/sarcasm]

That comment just made you look like a noob. We already know about those speeds. Nintendo used chips on the carts to compensate, since they knew carts would advance when the system wouldn't (although it backfired with the N64).

and the lowest specced Amigas (from 1985).

Are you bringing up a PC? The Amiga is a PC. naznatips specifically wrote "console". We all know the Amiga could best the 16-bit systems, but it also cost five times as much. Nintendo designed the SNES to be affordable.

The Snes had nice graphics, but nothing really groundbreaking for the time like the Amiga offered during the 80s, especially not in 1992 when the console was finally released in Europe and Australia.

So "strongest" console also means it's groundbreaking? I didn't know that! They should put it in the thesaurus![/extreme sarcasm]

 

His only, ONLY point was that the SNES was the strongest console, as in game system that didn't have its own monitor, as would a PC, handheld, or arcase machine (hence why the Neo-Geo) is a grey area. Strongest in this case means the graphical output is the greatest numerically. NOTHING ELSE. We know the Mega Drive comes close. If something is the strongest by a nose, it's still the strongest.

Is this why you don't like the thought of the 360 even being close to the PS3, because it magically can't be the strongest if it's not strongest by leaps and bounds? This is what your arguments agains the SNES seem to be hinging on.

The definition of the word "strongest" doesn't mean it has to be by a spread.