Atari Jaguar titles NOT coming to the PS4, Wii U or next Microsoft console. OUCH!

[mike_intellivision]

richardhutnik said:

COKTOE said:
@richardhutnik. The Intellivision was, by basic definition, 16 bit, yet the 8 bit ColecoVision absolutely blew the Intellivision out of the water, as did every other 8 bit system subsequently released up until the 16 bit Sega Genesis, the first real 16 bit system, some 9 years later. The reason most people don't know the Intellivision was 16 bit is simple. It didn't matter. The overall Intellivision hardware was a baby-step above the 3 years older Atari 2600. 70's/80's rant. Love the Intellivision though. Snafu and Utopia FTW. Oh, and the the main reason the Coleco was so much better in spite of the "bit" disparity? System RAM. Which is, 30 years later a white-hot topic among the current video game fanbase. Sunrise-Sunset. :)

It isn't the number of bits, but how you use them, and other things. Support chips, speed and the like matter.  It is why the Jaguar didn't look 64 bit actually.  It did some things, but if you code to the 68000,  you end up getting 16 bit games.

On another note, regarding those who are going "great, another trollbait thread".  If you think a post about the Atari Jaguar is flamebait, then you seriously overestimate the value of the Jaguar, and fail to see a parody post.

CV was three years after the Intelly, so it should have been much better. It i the beginning of a line that includes MSX computers and the SMS.

Intellivision was a unque beast with 10-bit addresses and the first licensed sports games.

Found far more dead CVs than Intellivisons in my day.  Officially both sold 3M, though I stil don't know if that accounts for the post-crash sales of the Intellivision (which sold until 1990).

For the record, the Jag sold 250,000.  

 

Mike from Morgantown