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Cerebralbore101 on 01 May 2019
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Conina said:
Cerebralbore101 said:
Going from Xbox to 360 wasn't a very big leap. At least not in the early years. SNES blew away NES. N64 blew away SNES. PS2 blew away PS1. 360 did not blow away OG Xbox. PS3 blew away PS2, but PS2 was a very low bar. Hell, OG Xbox blew PS2 away.

If PS3 blew PS2 away, then 360 also blew away PS2, didn't it?

And since most OG Xbox games looked the same as the PS2 versions (because they were lazy ports from the PS2), the leap from OG Xbox to 360 was also big.

Yes 360 also blew PS2 away. But that's not how most people judge a generational leap. They compare the most powerful console of last gen to the least powerful console of current gen. Genesis/Megadrive blew away the NES. PS1 blew away the SNES. PS2 blew away the PS1. 360 did not blow away the Xbox. 

When comparing generations we should compare the best games on the system, not whatever lazy ports were thrown around. After all we want to compare what a system is realistically capable of, not what the average game looked like. I mean, should we just say that since the vast majority of games released on PC are 2D Indies, that PC isn't a powerful platform? Wouldn't that be a dumb conclusion? 

I agree that most Xbox games were just lazy PS2 ports though. But a lot of the PC ports on OG Xbox were a cut above.