SEGAGAGA is a great game!!!!!

I think you are thinking of the N64.  It was more powerful than the Saturn or Playstation. Nintendo had the 'tech crown.'  But didn't sell the most in the generation.

Aren't some of the picture posted of Twilight Princess running on the Wii and not the Gamecube?  The aspect ratio looks off.

"I would place the Wii's CPU at being at least 4 times as strong as the one in the Xbox1."

If the Wii is so powerful then why would they be limiting it to 480P and not just have got to 720P with a software upgrade?  I think it would have many people with large TV's not switch to the HD Twinds.  The bad jaggies is one of the reason I got one of the Twins.

i had XBOX, PS2, DC, and GC. And i'm really sure XBOX had better graphic than the other. And yes i already tried with Component Cable except for DC.
But still can't beat PS2 games library.

The link you posted was compairing a Freescale PowerPC G4 @ 500MHz with a PIII at 600MHz. In a benchmark done by Apple to show off the AltiVec VPU mind you. 

The AltiVec is what was later added to the Power 5 and used up to the Power 7 CPUs from IBM. It is capable of 4-way 32-Bit floating point calculations per cycle, on top of that the G4 has the same 64-bit FPU that can do 2 32-Bit FP instructions on it's own as the Gekko does, meaning it can perform 6 floating point ops per cycle. The G4 also has 1MB of L2 Cache vs the Gekko's 256KB. The G4 makes the Gekko look like a joke they are not in the same league, it's easilly 3x as powerful.

Also the Xbox CPU had SSE so could proccess 4 32-Bit (it couldn't do 64-Bit numbers like the Gekko could tho) floating point numbers per cycle (half that of a full PIII) via a single instruction. The Gekko could do ether 2 32-Bit numbers or 1 64-Bit number so is actually less capable on paper, but had some specialist instructions that helped a lot in real world performance, especially helping boost poly counts vs the Xbox. The Gekko also uses a SIMD FPU so it couldn't proccess more than one instruction per cycle. The weakness of the Xbox is it's low FSB clock, and having half the cache vs the Gekko. 

Both the Xbox CPU and the Gekko are 32-Bit CPUs FYI, the only 64-Bit component is the FPU, the main interger unit is 32-Bit just like the Xbox. The PS2 was the only system to use a true 64-Bit CPU last gen, it could also proccess 3 instructions per cycle with it's 2 seperate VPUs and per cycle crushes both competitors on paper but it was clocked at just 299Mhz (147.456 MHz for the VPUs), and had a pethetic amount of cache meaning a lot of it's theoretical power was wasted.

Dreamcast was weak due to being in-between generations but had great stuff in Shenmue and F355 Challenge (on VGA).

Certain games on Gamecube could be compared to first 360 games imo, if they were HD. E.g. Starfox Adventures looks better than Conker on Xbox and like an early current-gen title imo.

So... which are you saying is more powerful overall?

Resolution is a GPU/memory issue, not really a CPU one.

I don't know, maybe I'm looking at the past through rose-coloured glasses but this thread makes me long for the previous generation.

A time when; developers seemed to make a greater effort to bring unique games to each piece of hardware, people were pleased when a game simply had good graphics by the standards of that system, there wasn't a constant pissing contest over which bit of hardware was the most powerful and plenty of good games were had by all.

But maybe that's just me.

They are similar, for games the new instructions that Nintendo had added to the Gekko plus it's tight intergration with the GPU, added cache and bus bandwidth gives it the edge. Tho there are some situations where the Xbox's higher clock and CISC architecture would give it a small edge over the GCN, but most of them are not that important in most games.

This is what the developer tells you, who just signed an exclusive deal with Nintendo!

The spec-sheet does not lie. There is a reason games like Half-Life 2, Doom 3 or Riddick were not ported to the Gamecube. The GCN could not handle it. You come up with PR statement of one developer. Look at Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, it looked way better on 360 than on GCN / PS2.

They even had to chnage the levels, because the Gamecube could not handle these wider areas.

From IGN review of the GCN version:

"Gamers should know that once again the levels have been reworked from the Xbox version to accommodate the GameCube hardware. The larger environments have been broken down into more claustrophobic hallways and small rooms."

http://cube.ign.com/articles/601/601725p1.html

Xbox had so much better graphics... i´ve all splinter Cell in both Consoles (Ps2 and Xbox) and Ps2 doesnt have some content and way worse graphics.

Ps2 was the best console though :b