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old nintendo > new nintendo 78 45.09%
 
new nintendo > old nintendo 15 8.67%
 
i dont give a f_ck, i just want the games 80 46.24%
 
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DonFerrari on 30 November 2016

But today power isn't important at all. And of course, Nintendo is humble, those pesky Sony and MS hideous mouths.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

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mjk45 on 30 November 2016
d21lewis said:
mjk45 said:

Not to mention the blur.

Pick your poison during those days. It was a choice between blurry solid looking polygons and no cinematics/limited music vs pixelated glitchy polygons with spectacular sound and mind blowing cutscenes.

This is a generalization. Back then, when you saw 1996's Wave Race side by side with Jet Moto you could tell N64 had some power under the hood. It's library was so limited, though. 

That's the reason I mentioned the blur , just goes to show that creating a more powerful console brings new problems to solve. sure  your extra power gets rid of PS1 type pixilation but you end up having to deal with aliasing problems bought about by increased fidelity ,so you have to work out solutions to the new problems, usualy this type of R&D means improvements in the future except  on this occassion they used vasaline.

The other subject talked about in this thread ,in regards to the most powerful console not winning .I tend to think it is more like early console catches the games and audience and the PS4 is unique in the fact that yes  it was more powerful but the difference is it happened to come to market at around the same time as the Xbone,



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COKTOE on 30 November 2016
d21lewis said:
mjk45 said:

Not to mention the blur.

Pick your poison during those days. It was a choice between blurry solid looking polygons and no cinematics/limited music vs pixelated glitchy polygons with spectacular sound and mind blowing cutscenes.

This is a generalization. Back then, when you saw 1996's Wave Race side by side with Jet Moto you could tell N64 had some power under the hood. It's library was so limited, though. 

Comparing Jet Moto and Wave Race is pretty funny. N64 seemed to do water better in general, and this is probably the ultimate example.



- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."

CaptainExplosion2 on 30 November 2016

I want Nintendo's old style of marketing to come back. At least back then it was effective.

Remember "Too Much Kirby"?



curl-6 on 30 November 2016
mjk45 said:
d21lewis said:

Pick your poison during those days. It was a choice between blurry solid looking polygons and no cinematics/limited music vs pixelated glitchy polygons with spectacular sound and mind blowing cutscenes.

This is a generalization. Back then, when you saw 1996's Wave Race side by side with Jet Moto you could tell N64 had some power under the hood. It's library was so limited, though. 

That's the reason I mentioned the blur , just goes to show that creating a more powerful console brings new problems to solve. sure  your extra power gets rid of PS1 type pixilation but you end up having to deal with aliasing problems bought about by increased fidelity ,so you have to work out solutions to the new problems, usualy this type of R&D means improvements in the future except  on this occassion they used vasaline.

The other subject talked about in this thread ,in regards to the most powerful console not winning .I tend to think it is more like early console catches the games and audience and the PS4 is unique in the fact that yes  it was more powerful but the difference is it happened to come to market at around the same time as the Xbone,

Wii was in a similar position, in that like PS4 it launched a year after one competitor and around the same time as the other.