Will the power = defeat trend continues?

[homer]

fallen said:

Lucas-Rio said: Gamegear more powerful but defeated by Gameboy Nintendo 64 more powerful but defeated by the Playstation Gamecube and Xbox more powerful but defeated by the Playstation 2 PSP more powerful but defeated by the Nintendo DS PS3 and XBOX 360 more powerful but defeated by the Wii

Lucas-Rio said: Gamegear more powerful but defeated by Gameboy Nintendo 64 more powerful but defeated by the Playstation Gamecube and Xbox more powerful but defeated by the Playstation 2 PSP more powerful but defeated by the Nintendo DS PS3 and XBOX 360 more powerful but defeated by the Wii   With the talk of the PSP2 trying to be as poweful as the PS3 , I think that we are here for another victory for the less powerful console, the Nintendo 3DS.

You're looking at it wrong, PS3 and 360 are essentially the same console, minus a few exclusive games. I and others sometimes refer to them as the "HD twins".

 

The HD twins are beating the Wii, worldwide, handily, and that trend has accelerated a lot recentely. So the most powerful console(s) did win.

 

If there were two motion console, the Wii and the Apple iWaggle, hypothetically, and they split the motion/casual market in half, and 360 sold the exact same (which would put it higher than Wii and iWaggle seperately), would people say the 360 was crushing the opposition?

 

Also handhelds are a different beast. If you value graphics you will play a console anyway. So all the handhelds dont count.

 

The most powerful console, or at least close, has always won. Playstation was more powerful than N64 despite what people claim, or close enough. Xbox would have beaten PS2 if given enough time, and really did great only because it was more powerful, and also beat the vastly more entrenched Gamecube simply because it was more powerful. I remember back in that day the Nintendo fans constantly talked about how GC would crush Xbox once game X came out (zelda, mario, etc), but this never happened. Nintendo had one billion times more powerful software library than Xbox that gen (MS has no software at all, zero, to start, versus countless huge Nintendo franchises), but still lost to it simply because Xbox was more powerful.

 

Also Dreamcast lost to PS2. Saturn lost to Ps1, Jaguar lost to PS1/N64/Saturn, 3DO lost to PS1/N64/Saturn, all these were directly because they were less powerful.

PS3 and 360 are essentially the same, therefore they should be added? Nope, I disagree. Even if you add them together, you have to take in account the people that bought the 360 and the ps3, making it even harder to gauge.  What if we just added the ps2 with the wii, since they are similarily powered? Then it would be a massacre. The wii has won, and I still do not see how anyone can disagree (unless, of course, the ps3 or 360 defy all odds and overtake it). Also on another note, was the GCN actually stronger than the ps2?