Thats one of the main arguments of the retroactive history made by the antisoniers ..."the Saturn was more powerful that the PSX but it was more difficult to program " .Wrong .The Playstation was cosiderably more powerful that the Saturn .What everybody does to make the comparision is to just add the power of the two Hitachi processors of the Saturn and put it up against the Playstation main CPU .Thing is ,the PSX had a graphic chip specialized in 3d graphics and the Saturn had none .The graphic chip of the PSX is absolutely ignored by most fanboys .Thats why all the 3d games were way better on the PSX .

 You only have to look at games for both consoles to see wich one was better ;Tomb Raider (original of the Saturn ) ,Grandia (original of the Saturn ) ,Resident Evil ,Wipeout ...in all the games the PSX has quite a edge over the Saturn .The Saturn only was comparable or even better in the 2d games specially with its memory boost cartridge .

Just wondering : did anyone remember a console generation where the most powerfull machine was the "winner" ? - Master System vs NES ? - Neo Geo vs SNES and Genesis ? - N64 versus PS1 ou Saturn ? - Xbox versus PS2 or the GC ? - Gamegear versus GB ? - PSP vs DS ? Or simply remember the last gen. The Xbox was way more powerfull than PS2 but most of cross titles were barely optimized to use it and the few games that really used that power weren't enough to make the difference. what's make ppl think it will be different today ? Unless you've got a really significant gap (which in PS3 case is yet to be seen), it doesn't matter that much. What the PS3 need the most currently isen't good looking games, but simply good exclusive games, which it lacks.

Most powerful consoles never won, that's an historic fact. (2600, NES, PS1, PS2), ok that's just an historic fact and things can change, but I doubt the PS3 will be an exception... power is not key, great games/ideas sell systems. And the BR in the PS3 is not as important as was the DVD on the PS2 (the DVD made the PS2 the winner).

The significant difference between the DVD in PS2 and Blu-Ray in PS3 was that the DVD was an already established market and many people did not yet have their own DVD player, it was a win win. Blu-Ray however is a market Sony and their constituates are trying to create for the 10% of the consumer market who has HD TVs. PS2 was the ideal trendsetter of Reverse Compatibility, the Ps3 needs fucking adaptors to play PS1 or Ps2 games and even then isn't 100% reverse compatible, and in Europe, they took the chip out altogether.

If you have played Panzer Dragoon Saga you wont be saying the samething, thats one game sega pushed the saturn's full limit. one more thing I think the rating on saturn grandia version is better than psx, the graphic is better too.

Show me the money. Until there is a PS3 game with super mind blowing visuals, the power of the PS3 is just talk.

i remember last year for the 360 there were so many people questioning the 360 and its graphics capapabilities... so many games looked like it could be on the original xbox people... so many people complained...and dont say yal didnt because yal did... 360 owners had to WAIT.  for GEARS OF WAR... 360 owners had to WAIT for RAinbow Six VEgas... they had to wait for lost planet for crackdown.. games that obviously were better graphically... you people and not just ORigin need to stop being hypocrits... seriously... as soon as people say wait in terms of the ps3 you bash but with any other system its okay.. yea okay good logic idiots

Please refrain from calling people names, URNotE. Go sign the Truce lol

The 360 wasn't competing with another Next-Gen console at the time, so they had no choice but to wait. Now, with the PS3 competing against both the Wii and the 360, Sony doesn't have the luxury of saying "wait" anymore. That's the way it is. But some people shall wait, and I'm sure the wait will be worth it.

 That's not necessarily true.  There are many sane developers out there that enjoy a challenge and want to be the first or best at taking advantage of a new program/coding style.  They are your hardcore developers that really get motivated when given a challenge.  Sure, it's not easy at first, but when they get it down and working at it's best, can they ever create a heck of a game or program. 

to me any argument about the systems power specs is IRRELEVANT unless there is a game that : 1. can show it running (forget pretty still pics) 2. that blows my mind when i play it. all the talk about what it can or can't do is completely unfounded because as of TODAY, MAY 29, 2007 there are no games out that I personally feel are showing the ps3 power grip. sure there are a ton of OTHER features that the ps3 is offering that already put it as a media center above and beyond the wii and 360. but right now there simply are no games. and my primary interest in buying a gaming console is to play decent games. i could care less if you can see the sweat follicules on Shaqs hairline in a NBA game still pic screen shot. I'm concerned with how IT PLAYS. And the only enticing game that is piquing my curiosity in Ps3 is MGS4. And personally that's not worth a $700+ price tag.