The most powerful gaming console

[COKTOE]

curl-6 said:

COKTOE said:

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! :)

In practice, I would still say yes. N64 games visibly used techniques like perspective correct texturing, anti-aliasing, and trilinear filtering to produce results that avoided a lot of the visual flaws common to PS1 titles like pixelation and texture/polygon warping.

Now, that's NOT to say PS1 was weak. It was a powerhouse for its time and could rival and even best N64 in some ways despite releasing 2 years earlier. It's kind of like PS2 and Gamecube, where each wins in some areas, one has the overall lead, but that doesn't mean the other is a slouch.

Nintendo's bragging about N64's power wasn't really much different from, say, Sony bragging about PS3's power.

You know, I actually took the time to do some revistation of N64/PS1 and have swung slightly more towards the N64 now. If you start getting into overall presentation, it gets even trickier. One of the absolute best games to look at in this regard is Resident Evil 2. Slight differences abound.