ganoncrotch said:
The most powerful machine I don't think in the history of console wars has never came out on top sales and profits wise. it's very odd that companys havn't figured it out yet that more mhz just doesn't right up equal more games, gamers or sales on their systems. Tis a bit sad considing how absolutely incredible the psp was compared to the DS but I think the homebrew community made more use of the psps' power than any developer ever did. |
Most those specs are wrong.
The PS3 isn't 7 core at 3Ghz, it has 7 processing elements at 3Ghz, those processing elements aren't full processors, they don't have full cache and they are nowhere near comparible to a "core" on the Xbox 360 CPU. Theoretically the PS3 CPU is faster however, getting efficient use from 6 (1 thread is for the OS) threads is kinda...impossible. They don't even achieve efficient use of 4 cores on x86 based CPUs which have been targets for mainstream games development for the past 10 years.
The Sega Saturn wasn't "dual core". It has 2 CPUs however. It wasn't more powerful because addressing 2 threads that were performaing the same task back in 1996-1997 in an efficient manner was nigh on unheard of. The extra CPUs on other games consoles were designed for specific tasks like audio. It wasn't actually more powerful anyway, the 3d hardware inside the Saturn was serverely lacking and which is why PS1 games looked better. Much like the days of when 3D cards came out for PCs. You could have say a 400Mhz Intel Pentium II with no 3d card and an old Intel 166MMX with a 3dfx card or powerVR and the one with the 3D card would look way better and run way smoother in games that can take advantage of OpenGL or Direct3D.
The processing power of a console has nothing whatsoever to do with it's succsess and history hasn't shown any truth at all in what you are saying. The processing power is simply an incedental statistic, for example a console released later on in the generation will have a lower chance of being successful but a higher chance of being more powerful than other consoles in that generation - of course because over time hardware can be made more powerful due to process shrinking and reduction in price of components, it obviously is also less likely to be a sales success due to starting late.
You have conveniently forgotten to mention the Sega Genesis Vs SNES. The SNES was more powerful than the Genesis and yet sold more by end of generation.
