The Nintendo You Say You Want Isn’t the Nintendo You Love

[noname2200]

TheShape31 said:

noname2200 said:

TheShape31 said:

Nintendo consoles were always visually a high-end product until the launch of the Wii. 

When you say "always," you mean "starting with the N64 and excluding its handhelds", correct?

Excluding handhelds, yes.  But the NES was a graphical powerhouse for its time.  And the SNES was far superior to NES, providing a significant graphical leap.  Granted the Genesis looked better, it wasn't by much.  So I did mean always, in reference to every home console.

The NES was built with 70's technology, and it looked like it. Compare its graphics to those of the Commodore 64 (1982), Amiga (1985), Atari ST (1985), or PC-Engine (1987). NES graphics don't compare. They're more in line with ZX Spectrum (1982) and Colecovision (1982) games.