Will Nintendo ever make a traditional console again?

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Chrkeller said:

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The GC was "letterboxed" (black bars at the top and bottom) while the PS2 version was full widescreen, but the PS2 version had a number of downgrades to get the game running on its less powerful hardware; textures, polygon counts, lighting, and effects were all downgraded compared to Gamecube.

Yep, I'm aware.  But letterbox made the GC FoV super small.  I preferred the ps2 version because it was much larger.  My vote is for the ps2 version.  

At the time I had a 16x9 TV.  The gamecube version, including black bars, was cut to 4:3, but displayed 16x9 within the 4:3 cut.  Meaning the actual game took up like half the screen.  

To this day it is one of the oddest developer decisions I've seen.

The decision was likely made because the vast majority of console gamers in 2005 were playing on 4:3 CRT screens, plus much like The Order 1886 or Hellblade II years later, the black bars meant they had to render fewer pixels, giving them more headroom to render better graphics.