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archbrix on 26 June 2013
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zarx said:
archbrix said:

I've heard this discussion many times and I've actually done a bit of research on it.  From a tech perspective, one of our members here, Zarx, who really knows his sh!t when it comes to things like this, sums it up best in a post from a thread from about a year ago:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4731562

Bottom line:  They're both very evenly matched on a technical level.  Even though the Xbox looks stronger on paper, the Cube was such a well designed console for its time and had very comparable (and in some ways even better) real world performance.

I'll say that personally I think the Cube's best looking games (the Primes, the Rogue Squadrons, RE4) edge out the Xbox's best efforts overall, IMHO.

that post was only really talking about the CPUs and I really don't know that much I am just an ethusiest that reads a lot of nerdy tech stuff related to gaming. There are people on this board that know a lot more than I do. It's not like I am an engineer or a programmer or something like that.

Anyway just came here to post a link to this thread on GAF, it's interesting to see actual direct feed shots of the old games without terrible compression or scaling that was common in screenshots of the day. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=603721

 

I understand, but you're still more informed than a lot of us here and I have heard much of what you said in that post (and Viper's post earlier) echoed in multiple things I have read regarding this very subject in the past. My friend, for example, is a programmer and is very tech savvy, and I've spoken to him on this very subject (Xbox vs GC). And I'm much more inclined to listen to people (like Factor 5) who know their stuff rather than passively dismiss them just because it won't benefit my stance, which is absurd.

What you, Viper, my friend, Factor 5, and multiple things I've read all have in common is that you share the opinion that the GC could hold its own against the Xbox, and even has some advantages over it even though the Xbox is, overall, a more raw power machine.