| Nirvana_Nut85 said: PS1 - weakest console PS2 - weakest console Wii - weakest console Can you tell me what they all have in common besides what was stated above? If I was a betting man I'd say regardless of what is happening now, in 5 years the Wii U will be added to that list and the industry will be perfectly fine. |
Not really PS1 was a good deal more powerful than the Sega Saturn, esoecially in 3D capability.
PS2 was a good deal more powerful than the Dreamcast and absolutely destroyed the best PC GPU of its time, yes GameCube and XBox were better but also released like 18-20 months later. Both the PS1 and PS2 were pretty cutting edge for 1995 and 2000 releases.
Wii is the exception, but the PS3 might still overtake it.
The system with a good amount of power (not neccessarily the highest, but still relatively cutting edge) + good 3rd party support tends to win each generation.
The GameCube and XBox would've slaughtered the PS2 if the PS2 was just an overclocked PSOne with an Eye Toy bundled with it. The Wii really was a big exception to the rule, but they also got a huge break with Sony being stupid enough to make a $600 PS3 to push Blu-Ray. That slowed the adoption of HD consoles tremendously early on.
