The most powerful systems are never the sales leader

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superchunk said:

I can't understand all the arguing over the SNES era, it clearly wasn't the most powerful.

I think the OP is right. Just look at the specs on wiki.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_game_consoles_(first_generation) - I have no clue who one... so this may be up in the air, but I think the Atari Pong one won and it isn't the most powerful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_game_consoles_(second_generation) - Atari 2600 won and it clearly isn't he most powerful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_game_consoles_(third_generation) - NES won and its was easily the weakest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_game_consoles_(fourth_generation) - SNES won and the NEO GEO was clearly the powerhouse and Genesis was more powerful as well.

No need to show the rest as we all lived it.

5th (Xbox 2nd place)
6th (PS3 probably last)

SNES beats the Genesis  in most areas but that is beside the point as the CD-i was the most powerful system followed by the Commodore CDTV then the Neo Geo then the SNES and Genesis were basically tied as they had different advantages and dissadvantages genesis had a faster CPU but SNES had more RAM and could display more colors etc