Biggest leap forward from a system to its successor

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Leynos said:

curl-6 said:

I'm not an expert but as far as I'm aware, Dreamcast did introduce new lighting tech; it was just less powerful than PS2 due to releasing over a year earlier, and didn't stick around long enough to benefit from a lot of the technical advances made during that generation.

DC could not do as many polygons as PS2 but it had a more efficient CPU and had a lot more Vram. 8mb which is more than any console in that generation. So a lot of the same games that were on DC ported to PS2 look worse like Grandia II. Ecco the Dolphin. Blurrier and more jaggies. DC had a nice clean look compared to a lot of PS2 games.

I think what made dreamcast look so dated compared to the ps2 was the games actually looked like CG back then, the smoothness of the character models, the lighting and shadows was something we never seen before and made dreamcast look dated.