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Conina on 28 March 2014
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VanceIX said:
famousringo said:

Nothing of which has anything to do with the "power" of the hardware.

For fun, I thought I'd see if I could find a geekbench score for a coppermine Celeron 733 like the one used in the Xbox. Sadly, geekbench's history isn't ancient enough to have CPUs from 2000, but I see some not-quite-so-ancient Celerons scoring a little under 500...

The same as a first-generation iPad.

Like I said before, that power means nothing when it can't devote most of it for gaming. Other parts of the hardware like battery and lack of fans hold it back more than anything. Yes, put an A7 chip in a dedicated gaming box and you would be able to crush the Xbox. A mobile platform, in a small shell that has to manage an entire ecosystem that goes far beyond gaming along with a battery that will only last so long, and it is impossible to develop console-quality games to for the hardware. 

Denial is strong in you. Just compare games like GTA III, Vice City, San Andreas, Knights of the Old Republic, Max Payne on a PS2/Xbox with the iPad-versions. They look much better on the tablet.