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eddy7eddy on 21 February 2021

Numeric Gens are meaningless now. People try to compare power but not processor's language, efficiency, etc. Like ARm vs x86 processors.



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Wman1996 on 21 February 2021
Leynos said:

PC Engine 1987
Mega Drive 1988
Super Famicom 1990


Also "More powerful" is too broad. Dreamcast did a lot of things better than PS2. PS2 had more Polygonal drawing power but worse in many other aspects. Gamecube did some things better than Xbox.

Neo Geo was more powerful than Super Famicom/SNES, and launched a little earlier I think. And CD-i was the most powerful, and launched last of what I've mentioned.

The sixth generation didn't really have any home consoles besides the four I mentioned, whereas the fourth generation had more than just the three mainstream consoles.



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Dulfite on 21 February 2021
Manlytears said:

hum... you see, isn't this the case of current gen.? and also last gen? i mean:

8th gen: Wii U, than X1 and PS4.
9th gen: Switch, than Series X and PS5

I thought it was concluded that Series X is more powerful than PS5, but PS5 has faster load times?



Leynos on 21 February 2021
Wman1996 said:
Leynos said:

PC Engine 1987
Mega Drive 1988
Super Famicom 1990


Also "More powerful" is too broad. Dreamcast did a lot of things better than PS2. PS2 had more Polygonal drawing power but worse in many other aspects. Gamecube did some things better than Xbox.

Neo Geo was more powerful than Super Famicom/SNES, and launched a little earlier I think. And CD-i was the most powerful, and launched last of what I've mentioned.

The sixth generation didn't really have any home consoles besides the four I mentioned, whereas the fourth generation had more than just the three mainstream consoles.

Neo-Geo was not competition. It was a literal arcade in a box that cost $700 and games were $250. Mercedes does not compete with Honda and Toyota. It was an enthusiast machine for the wealthy.If Neo Geo counts against SNES then NUON counts against 6th gen. Released post-Dreamcast and less powerful. Nuon had a built-in DVD player before PS2. How about the Xavix in 2004. The console Wii ripped off in motion controls and motion-controlled sports games,it was barely more powerful than any 16bit machine.

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curl-6 on 21 February 2021

As mentioned already, Saturn-PS1-N64.

Saturn did some things better than PS1, notably 2D, but PS1 had the edge in 3D graphics, and N64 then topped that with newer features like texture filtering, anti-aliasing, and perspective correct textures.



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Shiken on 21 February 2021
Manlytears said:

hum... you see, isn't this the case of current gen.? and also last gen? i mean:

8th gen: Wii U, than X1 and PS4.
9th gen: Switch, than Series X and PS5

Series X is a stronger console than PS5.  Comparisons have been all over, but the trend now seems to be where PS5 was ahead in early comparisons, XSX has had the edge in more recent comparisons.

Given that, all you have to go off of is paper specs, which the XSX in undoubtedly ahead.



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Pemalite on 21 February 2021
Kakadu18 said:
Manlytears said:

hum... you see, isn't this the case of current gen.? and also last gen? i mean:

8th gen: Wii U, than X1 and PS4.
9th gen: Switch, than Series X and PS5

Is Switch 9th gen though? I don't think so.

Switch has a hardware feature set that aligns it closer with the 8th gen in terms of capability.

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Conina said:

It's the successor of a 8th gen home console and a 8th gen handheld console.

Why shouldn't it be counted as 9th gen?

Well, the sensible argument that can be made against Switch being 9th gen is that the generational count is wrong to begin with. The notable 3rd gen consoles Atari 5200, Colecovision and Intellivision have been lumped together with generation 2 consoles due to their glaring lack of success. The Atari 5200 was the successor to the Atari 2600, launched about five years later. So logically, the Atari 5200 and its competitors should be 3rd gen which then in turn increases the count for every generation afterwards. NES is 4th gen, SNES is 5th gen etc.

Consequently, Switch is actually 10th gen along with the PS5 and XSX|S. But I don't think the gaming community - who came up with this categorization in the first place - is willing to rectify this mistake.

Agreed.

I think lumping them together in terms of hardware capability is a far more sensible approach.

I.E. 5th Gen was all basic non-perspective correct texturing up to basic hardware TnL, 8th Gen is Tessellated surfaces, 9th Gen is Ray Tracing.

There is hardware technology that aligns itself to various generations... Heck it's how PC lumps it's GPU's into generations.




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Azzanation on 22 February 2021
Dulfite said:
Manlytears said:

hum... you see, isn't this the case of current gen.? and also last gen? i mean:

8th gen: Wii U, than X1 and PS4.
9th gen: Switch, than Series X and PS5

I thought it was concluded that Series X is more powerful than PS5, but PS5 has faster load times?

Series X is more powerful, on paper anyway. Not sure why he placed it before the PS5.

Last edited by Azzanation - on 22 February 2021