Analyst firm says Sony is responsible for Nintendo's lack of third party content

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EricFabian said:

Zod95 said:

Way more powerful? How do you support that statment?

And how does a way less powerful console get titles with unmatchable graphics? As far as I know, GT4 has better graphics than any Game Cube game.

And between N64 and PS1 I don't believe there was that much big of a difference, at least not as much as the 8000% more capacity the PS1's media format had over the N64's. I still don't know which one was more powerful or if any eventual difference was even significant, let alone "way more..." as you say.

 

But I do remember that once Mega Drive came out it started to sell 3 times more than the almighty NES. And that every time a new powerful console comes it starts selling very well. Even in this 7th gen, the surprisingly viral Motion wasn't as strong as the core capabilities that made the HD consoles to sell way more than the Wii. Power is definitely a driver, and it will ever be.

Wii U is 7th gen and it is its major sin. The gamepad won't save the console. First party games won't save the console. Third party games won't save the console. Power is what's lacking.

1- N64 CPU was most powerful back then, more RAM, N64 was... a 64 bits console, PS1 was 32 bits one. But like you said PS utilises CD as its game media

2- GT4 is, indeed, a beautiful game, but is not the best. I think here is a matter of opinion. But to me Rogue Squadron 2 is superior to GT4 and GCN version  of Splinter Cell

3- And no Wii U is 8th. Is weaker than PS4/X1? Yes, of course. But power =/= generation

 

 

Yes, it's pretty asine to try and argue that PS1 hardware was even close to N64. It wasn't, in practically any way. There is a reason that you didn't see games on PS1 like Ocarina of Time or Banjo-Kazooie or Perfect Dark or Conquer's Bad Fur Day. Or for that matter, even games like Goldeneye or Turok 2. Because PS1 was not capable of pulling those games off, plain and simple. PS1 had some GREAT games. But to pretend that it was somehow on par with N64, is laughable. The only thing holding N64 back, was the cartridge format, which, in all blunt honesty, if N64 HAD used CDs, companies like Capcom, Square, Enix and Konami would very likely have stuck with them, because of their long history together, and all of the succcess their games saw on NES and SNES. Which means that games like Resident Evil, FF7/8/9/Tactics, DQ7, Metal Gear Solid, Symphony of the Night, etc, very likely all would have been on N64, and the generation would have gone a lot differently. And even so, even with the limitations of cartridges, N64 still did well, and had some of the best and highest selling games of the generation.