Biggest leap from one system to its successor in the 3D era in your opinion

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JackHandy said:

Helloplite said:

N64 to Gamecube and XBOX - specifically - by a large mile. Early PS2 games looked inferior to Dreamcast games. Dreamcast was a big leap in itself, but many of its titles (e.g. Nomad Soul or MDK2) looked like hi-res N64 titles, and it was only exceptions such as Soul Calibur, Sonic Adventure, and Shenmue that looked truly 'next-gen'.

NFL 2k looked and played beyond next gen.

Also, we were all playing online with our Dreamcasts in 2000. The PS2 and Xbox couldn't even officially do that in the US until mid-late 2002.

Yeah Dreamcast was pretty crazy for its time. 

Dead or Alive looked better on the Dreamcast than the PS2 too

Now in the long run yeah the PS2 was more powerful but that inital impression launch window ... the Dreamcast definitely took away quite a bit of the wow factor from the PS2.