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d21lewis on 21 March 2020
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trunkswd said:
curl-6 said:

Another power war this reminds me of; PS2 vs Xbox/Gamecube.

Despite the latter two being more capable overall, (though to be fair to it, PS2 still producing some impressive looking games in its own right) defenders argued for years that it's Emotion Engine was some superpowered secret sauce that could overcome the superior tech of its rivals.

Don't forget the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive and its "blast processing". If I recall correctly the Genesis / Mega Drive had a better CPU than the SNES, but the SNES was more powerful in every other way. 

Xbox and GameCube were a fair amount more powerful than the PS2. I remember Sony saying the Emotion Engine would give the console Shrek like graphics. 

That's why I'm wary. Aside from PS2 games looking like "Shrek" and "Toy Story", they also said it would take a decade for PC gaming to catch up to the PS2. They had people believing that the PlayStation 2 would be some kind of cheap supercomputer that terrorists would buy and launch nuclear missiles! I'm not exaggerating. They said PS2 games would be like entering the Matrix. (Ken Kutaragi was insane!) 

After so many examples like this, I'm just waiting to see what the PS5 and Xbox SX are actually going to do. Hype only leads to disappointment.