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numberwang on 24 January 2022

Commodore 64 went from Atari quality like Boulder Dash and Space Taxi...

..to games that are NES /Master System quality and above, a full generational jump in one hardware

Sonic C64 port

Turrican II, look at the last boss fight and the 59:00 boss with fast parallax scrolling backgrounds

Of course the demo scene is still alive

The Last Ninja 2 amazing soundtrack

Most impressive C64 games

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Conina on 24 January 2022

PC

From Microsoft Flight Simulator v1.0 (1982) to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020/2021:



Kakadu18 on 24 January 2022
mZuzek said:
snyps said:

I know Wii U comes in last in this regard. Literally, that poor thing was maxed out at birth.

I know it's a silly comparison but I think you were a bit harsh there.

Edit: honestly, giving it a bit more thought, I'd actually say this about the Switch. Its games, even exclusives, have barely improved visually since 2017, and in the realm of non-exclusives, they feel like they look worse and worse the more outdated the console becomes.

I think Doom Eternal is the best looking Bethesda game on the Switch. Way better than Wolfenstein 2 and also better than Doom 2016. So I disagree with that.



Mummelmann on 24 January 2022

The PC, definitely.

For consoles, I think I would say PS2 or SNES.



Kakadu18 on 24 January 2022
curl-6 said:
mZuzek said:

Edit: honestly, giving it a bit more thought, I'd actually say this about the Switch. Its games, even exclusives, have barely improved visually since 2017, and in the realm of non-exclusives, they feel like they look worse and worse the more outdated the console becomes.

I'd have to disagree on this, to me a game like Luigi's Mansion 3 looks significantly better than anything released in the first two years of the Switch.

We've seen games in the same series improve too; Mario Party Superstars looks better than Super Mario Party, Torna looks better than base Xenoblade 2, Doom Eternal looks better than Doom 2016, etc.

Also BotW2 in the last trailer looks better than BotW.



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ShadowLink93 on 24 January 2022

It has to be Playstation 3.



Valdney on 24 January 2022

NES



snyps on 24 January 2022
Leynos said:
snyps said:

DDarksiders II while a fun game doesn't have the physics and complex geometry BOTW has. DSII is separated in regions and are all flat open areas with no interactivity.

The question though was, which system advanced the most graphically. Darksiders II is a stunning game. 



Leynos on 24 January 2022
snyps said:
Leynos said:

DDarksiders II while a fun game doesn't have the physics and complex geometry BOTW has. DSII is separated in regions and are all flat open areas with no interactivity.

The question though was, which system advanced the most graphically. Darksiders II is a stunning game. 

And Graphically BOTW is leagues above it. Again a lot more geometry and DSII is just flat open regions.. So DSII is not on BOTW's level at all.



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Alby_da_Wolf on 24 January 2022
Spindel said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:

Yes, great increase too, but not sure the relative increase from 80x86 PCs with unaccelerated framebuffers to Zen 3 and 10th gen Core with latest GPUs is lower than the one from the first phones able to run games to latest smartphones, unless we make phone gaming start with those awful mini-games built-in in some "dumb" phones.

1a) The problem with both the phone and PC comparison is that the hardware has changed.

1b) When looking at consoles (before PS4 and XBO) the hardware was static. Sure you had co-processors in some cartriges but the base hardware was the same. That can not be said about IBM compatible PC unless you keep within one generation. Closest is earlier computers like C64 or A500, where the hardware was static but those systems also had a tremendous evolution between the early and the late games that came out for them.

2) But then again OP asks for consoles, and niether IBM PC, C64 or A500 where consoles but general computing devices.

1a and 1b: true, and yes, I remember the most basic games on ZX Spectrum and the most evolved ones. 

2: no, the OP asked about a more generic and broad category, "systems", so I caught the opportunity to be a little naughty   



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