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The n64 easily



 

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N64. The only disadvantage it had was in the texture cache department, since it could only hold 4KB textures, which explains the "blurry" textures N64 games had. Without the effects that made it look better than PS1 games(anti-aliasing and texture filtering) it could output around 700 million polygons compared to PS1's 150 million, it was certainly a very powerful machine.



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Conker looked MUCH better than anything  the PSX ever produced.. Heck, it looked better than most of  the N64 games actually!  I'd like some people here to name me one  PSX game that even comes close to Conker's Bad Fur Day.



                
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apart from a few examples on n64 the P.S.1 outshine n64 in every way

better graphics better audio better everything



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Skeeuk said:
apart from a few examples on n64 the P.S.1 outshine n64 in every way

better graphics better audio better everything


lol wut?




FinalFantasyXIII said:
orniletter said:
FinalFantasyXIII said:
orniletter said:
ethomaz said:
No it wasn't.

N64 had better hardware than PS or Saturn... you can clearly see that on the flaship games for the console... 3D graphics was in a generation ahead.


The N64 really was the PS3 of the generation.

More powerful, but hardware (bottlenecks everywhere, super limited ram,Cartridges) and software(not giving developers access to everything and poor documentation) faults made it "very" hard to extract the edge over the competition.

...overall, the N64 wins...


Exactly, Cartdidges are limited therefore PS1>N64


Did you even read the  OP ? It is about hardware power

"some people feel that the 32-Bit PS1 was more powerful than the N64.  Well, was it?"

...this isn´t about storage space and shoving nice videos in someone´s face, it is about polygon pushing abilites !

How many how fast and how much textures you can show at once.

The N64 wins.

So based on that thinkology N64 is still better than PC because Cartridge. 

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Wow you look like someone that doesn't know what technology is or doesn't understand the question of the OP. You seem confuse as to what "more powerful" mean for a device. Having a bigger storage media (CD v.s. Cartridge) is not being more powerful, it's having access to more data for your game. Each media has its pros and cons: CD had bigger storage but long access time, the cartridge had a lot less storage but the fastess access time. So the PS1 had weaker hardware for strictly 3D game, but the CD gave them the upper hand for 2D games or 2D background/3D model character like FFVII. N64 was more "powerful" but couldn't produce 2D background due to storage capacity problems, which led to fewer 2D games on the console. What the PS1 achieved was to give gamer a console that was a good transition between the 2D and the 3D era while the N64 was a console stricly made for 3D. But in terms of "Power" the N64 was more powerful because if it had the storage capacity of the PS1, it could have run every PS1 game, not the other way around.  



I agree N64 had way less games and the 3rd-party support were all with PlayStation but N64 was way more powerful... it was almost a generation ahead.

If there is a middle the N64 was there...

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Mike_L said:

The N64 really had some beautiful games but Spyro on the PS1 was up there..


Spyro was indeed colorful but you're looking at an emulated image.  The resolution is far higher than the PS could produce.  It even says so on the N4G thread you linked it from.



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