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Airaku on 02 April 2015
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Jumpin said:
Why are people saying GCN? GameCube Nintendo?
It should be NGC, not GCN, or simply just GC.
Better yet, why not PS2 Jr.?


Please tell me that the last remark was a troll post? The GameCube was a fair bit more powerful than the PS2. Heck it wasn't off from the Xbox. The Xbox's CPU blew the GameCube out of the waters in clockspeed but the GameCube comes out on top on L1 and L2 Caches. Though the Xbox's CPU still takes the cake. The Xbox had better RAM spec wise but the GameCube's RAM was done a little different and is debatably better in performance. However debatable is a very strong key word here and should be considered so as. The Xbox probably wins here again. Where the GameCube wins noticeably is the GPU. The Xbox's peak polygon count/s in raw display is 29 million. The GameCube was 32 million. There are many other specs with the GPU I could throw your way that puts the GameCube on top. The GameCube couldn't do Doom 3 because it had a lot of CPU calculations on the back end with the lighting. The Xbox could not do all the great effects and reflections that Metroid Prime spoiled us with. Halo 2 was a great exception and a lot of work went into that game. Though I would say Metroid Prime looked better thanks to the little details, at least to me. There is no doubt that the GameCubes exlusives were stunning. Those Resident Evil games were really something else. There was a time where Nintendo pushed specs contrary to todays popular opinion.

Capcom literally had to rebuild Resident Evil 4 for the PS2 port. That was quite the laughable joke of the year! I remember that there was a rumor that Capcom apparently "fried a dev kit" when they tried a straight port. That was another joke that lasted all year and bled into the next. The PS2 had a fantastic library of games and there is no denying that. If anything is the PS2 jr. I would give that title to the Wii. They wanted a less powerful system that would appeal to a wider range of gamers both casual and hard-core and tap into a bigger market. Sounds a lot like the PS2 to me. Minus you know, a DVD player and all.