The most powerful gaming console

[COKTOE]

curl-6 said:

COKTOE said:

Yes. I thought about BAR while I was getting ready, and I remember being fairly impressed with TGO. The PS1 racinng games still posterized them, a'la Michael Jordan. I also wanted to highlight the areas where the N64 had the clear edge, but time is not my friend at the moment. Poeple on this site, almost to a fault, say N64 was teh most powerful. It was on paper, but I really don't think it's that clear cut. BAR was super fun!

N64 was stronger overall, but not in every way. Each had advantages over the other. PS1 could do higher resolution textures due to more texture cache and the larger storage capacity of CDs. 

On the other hand, N64 had more RAM (4MB standard or 8MB with the expansion pack versus 3MB in PS1) and more modern features like trilinear filtering, perspective correct texturing, and anti-aliasing.

One of the major differentiating factors was that the PS1 hardware was a very efficient and easy to develop for, while N64 was by comparison quite convoluted and difficult to get optimal performance out of.

Yeah, that's kinda my point. Was it really though? REALLY? IN PRACTICE? NOT JUST ON PAPER!!!!???? lol. Excuse me. Very gassy. Third party crossover titles were not that numerous. Sometimes clearly better on one than the other. Sometimes a tossup. And yes, both the hardware, and software medium created a complex stew of differing results. Too much to effectively get into outside an actual mouth-to-ear convo. My rub is this: N64 was a tech letdown. That ad Onion posted? That was the foundation of the entire buildup towards the system. There has never been anything like it. Not before. Not since. Maaaybe the PS2. But that was several years later. Hyperbole, and yes, lies, were easier to see through by then. I wish I still had my old EGM's and Next Generation magazines. It was going to be so much better. Until it really, mostly, wasn't. And to beat the same drum: I find this to be a contentious topic, but on VGC, people all say the N64 is the tech god-king of gen 5, and everybody just scratches their privates, rolls over, and goes back to sleep. I thought this was Playstation country! :)