| Relias said: @Impulsivty 1st off using your argument that cutting edge makes value. Understand this. Yeah, I was impressed with the movies of FF VII but I was more impressed with the actual game play footage and speed of Panzer Dragoon. Technically using Cutting Edge as an argument I would say that Sega Saturn was the biggest value of it's time. It had multiple processors for graphics and sound, came with built in RAM and had a cartridge slot for additional RAM or with the right cartridge you could play import games and you could also play games on the internet. Also, you think in to narrow terms when you think cutting edge. It's all about graphics and movies for you.(Seems that way seeing as to how you seem to mention them alot) But what you and other's fail to see that the Wii is cutting edge in it's own way. The controls, the ability to play a game like Wii Fit and Wii Ski at home. I don't know but I don't believe that it was possible before. You had to be at an arcade to do that and then yeah you can legally download games from older systems and play them. So you see the PS3 and the Wii are both cutting edge it's just that they do it in different ways and the Wii seems more appealing at the moment. |
The Saturn actually had some pretty asinine hardware, and, as I recall, the slowest clock speed of the big three that generation (N64 being the fastest, Playstation being a distant second, Saturn just under the PS), and it was not known for online gaming. The Saturn also bucked convention by being built around quadrangles rather than triangles which is essentially the standard for 3-D polygonal gaming. So convoluted and difficult to use was the Saturn's hardware, that it's been said that only Sega's internal teams were ever able to fully utilize it. That said, it was a good system cut short by Sega's short-sightedness and dreadful business decisions. Interestingly, the hardware design that became the N64 was, apparently, originally offered to Sega for the Saturn.
As of now, though, I have no preference on which system was actually "better" at the time, the Saturn or Playstation. The Saturn had a lot more options available to it, such as (as you said) the ability to add RAM and the built-in flash memory. Which, by the way, is dead in my Saturn (need a new battery).
