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Soundwave on 29 July 2016
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daredevil.shark said:
Soundwave said:

Kinda of except today mobile chips are tiny. 

It would actually be like the Super FX chips, size wise of the SNES days, doubling the processor power could be something the size of a SD Card or a slightly wider/thicker DS cartridge that you just plug right into the system. 

The 32X was a giant monstrosity that was more than doubled the size of the Genesis. 

Beauty of Nintendo is in simplicity. Sega Genesis 32x was way too complicated. In console gaming people expect simplicity and if the leak is true then Nintendo is going for a bad product. Chip doesn't matter. If customers are confused then it won't spell well.

32X wasn't complicated unless the user was a fucking idiot who couldn't figure out how to insert a cartridge into the Genesis to begin with. 

32X just sucked ... that was the problem. It had like 15 games total, 3 of which were actually decent, and was released 5 months before Sega's actual next-generation console (the Saturn). There was no incentive to buy it. Would you buy a Wii U Plus this November or wait for a proper NX in March/April? 

The Genesis really wasn't designed to be modular in that way anyway, that's why the 32X looked so bizarre. The NES to GameCube were all modular with bottom side upgrade ports. This is the bottom of the GameCube: