| TheBardsSong said: The Xbox is obviously more powerful and this IS coming from someone who only owned a GC (and absolutely hates the original Xbox). The specs prove it, multiplats prove it, exclusives prove it... what more do you need? I remember feeling nothing but envy when I saw how good the graphics were on my friend's Xbox. That's not saying GC games looked bad, I'd argue the GC still had some of the best looking games of the gen. It was still a really powerful system after all. |
None of that proves anything. You are saying x = y like its fact without saying how x = y. Preference and opinion do not decide or influcence technical capability in any way.
The specs were actually higher in the GC but most people don't know how to read the specs, because they have no understanding of the differences technology in the systems.
The GC was more powerful. The problem was that it had storage limitations and the hardware was more complex and expensive to program for than the Xbox. Making games for the Xbox and its simplified PC architecture, on the other hand, was extremely easy inexpensive. It is the same situation with the Wii because it uses the same type of tech as the GC.
Most devs lacked the skill to work with it and didn't want to invest the money to learn or the time to program it well enough to achieve high level effects. Most of what it got were PS2 ports at higher frame rates. The few games that actually utilized the hardware properly pulled off more technocly than any games on the other consoles. Like P.N. 03, RE4, The Rogue Squadrons, Mario Sunshine, Starfox Adventure, Metroid Prime 2, F-Zero GX. None of those game could run on the other consoles without downgrades.
Capcom had to reduce the texture quality, cut the poygon count down to less than half and remove most of the effects just to get RE4 to run on the PS2. The devs who made the Rogue Squardons tried to port it to the Xbox but they would have had to make the same type of cuts so they scrapped it.
This is what the Gamecube could do but few games every utilized any of it.
This video goes more in depth with it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE85lOieDnw
