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Stinky on 24 February 2013
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CGI-Quality said:
johnsobas said:
CGI-Quality said:
Fireforgey said:

But wasn't as powerful as the TURBO-GRAFIX.....so Yeah.

Which played no direct role in that generation. That's like bringing up the 3DO vs the CD-i.

someone needs to do some research, turbo graphics was way less powerful than the SNES and the genesis.  The genesis came out 2 years before the SNES, so it being slightly less powerful is actually impressive.  The SNES was not powerful for a 1991 console

What's interesting is I've been arguing in favor of the SNES's power (from the beginning, I've called it that gen's most powerful system), not the opposite. You need to keep up and quote the right people. ;)

The TGfx/PCEngine was an 8-bit design, so fairly impressive for what it was. The SNES was slightly gimped by the hybrid 16/8 bit CPU which was originally intended to provide backwards compat with the NES. That was abandoned of course. The Megadrive had decent silicon along with the two 68K/Z80 processors, but the SNES really had some fancy custom silicon.