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dahuman on 23 May 2009
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Ryudo said:
CatFangs806 said:
Here is the list of the processing speeds of the sixth generation gaming consoles. Surprisingly, the Gamecube is faster than the PS2.

Xbox: 733 Mhz
Gamecube: 485 Mhz
PS2: 294 Mhz
Dreamcast: 200 Mhz

As one poster as already said, though, Nintendo did lose a lot of money on the gamecube because everybody else was playing PS2 or Xbox. So instead of spending billions on a powerful console, they made a cheap console with almost the same graphics as gamecube and named it the Wii, and targeted it towards the casual. And what do you know? 50 million units sold in 2 1/2 years versus 32 million lifetime for the 64 and 24 million lifetime for the gamecube.

They didn't lose money on cube.  Nintendo has always had the strategy to make money on Hardware as well as software.

They did this by not including certain features like DVD playback but still used a DVD rom but with mini discs and back then DVD was very expensive.

 

Raw numbers show Xbox as being the most powerful but it was a PC in a console shell,Gamecube had more efficient chipset design so while the numbers were lower it could do anything Xbox could and better at some points,only thing that Xbox had better that pushed it past cube was the memory and a HDD and 8.5 GB discs over Cubes 1.5GB.

Also Xbox only outsold cube by 3 million units and MS lost 1 billion on Xbox 1 ..it never made money.

 

Wii has surpassed the original Xbox in every way now and matched what both Xbox and 360 use in disc capacity with 8.5GB discs.

Power PC@485 Mhz > Modded Intel P3@733Mhz in raw performance, if you know how computers work, that's not news at all, what the Xbox had was a video chipset with more features and more storage space whereas the GCN had the raw performance and TEV, end result=GCN is a better polygon pusher and Xbox can make pretty effects easier(easier than TEV at least.) Xbox's memory was also slow ass so it really didn't do much on that front, it was a weak PC package and the price justified it.

 

edit: also, Catfang, mind doing more research before you say something like Nintendo was going out of business? this is not a troll forum, most people know actual facts and numbers, this is the stat site after all. Nintendo has always made money.