superchunk said:
NightDragon83 said:
superchunk said:
NightDragon83 said:
The SNES was the one and only system that was both the most powerful and the sales leader for its generation... I don't count the NEO-GEO because technically it's a 24-bit console, and the 3DO and Jaguar were 32 and 64 bit systems respectively, even though they were released in the middle of the 16 bit gen.
After that, it was PS1 (2nd most powerful of its gen), PS2 (3rd most powerful, with Dreamcast pulling up the rear), and now the least powerful console is the sales leader in the current gen lol.
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The NES was the least most powerful as well.
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True, although if you want to get technical the Atari 7800 was the least powerful home console during that generation, but since it was essentially developed prior to the crash of '83, shelved and then re-released in the late 80's when the industry was revitalized we won't count that, so point taken superchunk 
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Actually NES was not as powerful as the 7800 either. I did count that in the same gen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_game_consoles_(third_generation)
They had same CPU MHz but 7800 had more RAM and could output more colors, more sprites, better resolution, etc.
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It should also be mentioned that at the time of the NES there were systems that could best be described as hybrid PC/Console systems (like the Atari ST) which were dramatically more powerfun than the NES but were not even close to being as popular ...
