The_Liquid_Laser said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:
I got lazy 
Plus, I didn't want to risk starting a whole debate around that. A lot of people act like the NES and SNES are the model of what Nintendo should be doing, making """normal""" hardware that is much more like the original standards that Nintendo created for the home console industry. I wouldn't separate them from that list, but I didn't want it to devolve into "well actually, the SNES is more similar to the Playstation, and the Xbox 360 is more similar to the Playstation 2 than the Playstation 3 is, and .." that kind of stuff.
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I don't know why I keep hearing that the NES had "normal" hardware. It had same processor as the Atari 2600. Nintendo seems to do its best work when the hardware is underpowered.
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The NES was a lot more powerful than an Atari 2600
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The Atari 7800 (a generation leap above the 2600) was comparable to the NES, but the 7800 never really took off. An Atari 2600 is to the NES what the NES is to the SNES, probably even more so because the types of games on the 2600 were so limited.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 16 November 2018
