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Tachikoma on 01 May 2013
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atma998 said:
Tachikoma said:
Dr.JimmyRustles said:
@Tachikoma

Hate to tell you this but, the strongest console never won a generation.


Hate to tell you this but you forgot to put your tin foil hat on this morning, Also the SNES had more power and resources than the Megadrive, despite Sega's marketing spin the Motorola 68000 processor lacked game specific functions present in Nintendo's custom 5A22, despite the M68000 running at twice the speed of the 5A22 the porcessors maximum MIPS was 0.7 apposed to the 5A22's 1.5 MIPS, the overclocked M68000 used in the NeoGeo of the same console generation ran at a maximum 1.25 MIPS, too.

I really wish people would actually do some research before spouting the 'strongest console never won a generation' because it just shows how ill informed they are and makes them sound like absolute nutcases.


Funny how you have to go back 20 years in the past to find an exception to the rule...

Also, with all the add-on, the Sega Genesis (or Megadrive) was more powerful than SNES.

32X is pseudo 5th gen because it was a cast of from saturn development to extend the life of the genesis and pad out sales while the usebase of the saturn expanded (which it never did) - the hardware employed, was 32bit, the time period of release was during the emergence of 5th gen and the original intent of the hardware was to bridge the gap between megadrive and saturn, as such it's not true 4th gen and shouldn't be included in the discussion, for all intents and purposes the 32x was it's own console using only the logic bus, sound and video encoder of the base unit to output gameplay - the cpu of the connected console was largely ignored except for processor timings for setting region locking and 50/60hz switching on video encoder - in short, the 32x was an early 5th gen console that biggybacked on a 4th gen console.

Also, if people insist on continuing with "the most powerful console never won a gen" then it doesn't matter how far back you go, if an instance exists the statement is wrong, simple as that.