was saturn more powerful then ps1? Any way there are a lot of similarites to the N64/PS3 situation. The difference is the fact that PS3 hasn't lost Final Fantasy in Japan and it's functionality as a bluray player means people will buy it for years to come.

The standalone Blu-Ray players are already relatifly cheap. That function won't make the PS stand out. Once Blu-Ray will break through like DVD did, the players will be more cheaper than the PS3.

DVDs and Blu-ray is based of CDROM tech doesn't mean they are CDs.
Being completely readable in your PC (never knew that, will have to try it) is down to the software used and manufacturing process. 
It held 1.2GB which is considerably more than a CD.

Turns out only certain areas are readable by CD roms.

"There are three data areas on a GD-ROM disc. The first is in conventional CD format, and usually contains an audio track with a warning that the disc is for use on a Dreamcast, not an ordinary CD player. This audio track often uses the game's character's voices in a lighthearted or humorous message (for example, Skies of Arcadia gives the message "We can't save the world from a CD player, so put us back in the Dreamcast so we can do our job!"). The CD section also contains a data segment, readable in PCs. Although most discs include only text files identifying the game, its copyright and bibliography, some contain bonus material for home computer users (for example, Sonic Adventure contains images of Sonic characters to use on the desktop). There then follows a separator track which contains no data except for the text Produced by or under license from SEGA Enterprises LTD Trademark SEGA (Similar to the SEGA Saturn, it was believed that the security key was stored in this area to prevent piracy). The final (outer) section of the disc contains the game data itself in a higher density format. This section is 112 minutes long, with a data size of 1.2 GiB."

As did the CDi

The CD was already pretty old and cheap when the PS1 came out. The same was true for DVD when the PS2 came out. The PS3 used Blu-Ray right from when it came out.

Kind of a retard way to look at it.

Xbox 1 was a 32bit console, we stopped counting bit as power when console became as complex as computers.

 Yes but the dreamcast was white.....

i'll just be happy with them when they learn to make a reliable system. i havent heard any complaints on the psp so they are 1/4 right now. they put all this money into the ps3 and it still has issues....

Lets just break down the numbers.

Saturn was a dual-core RISC CPU (pretty cool for that time) at 28,6mhz
PS1 was a single-core RISC CPU at 33,8mhz

The GPU is more complex matter, PS1 had more RAM for the GPU and had cach. THe Saturn used 2 GPUs.

Would say that it was easier to tap the power of PS1 then Saturn. Multi-thread code at that time wasn't often used.

So even if Saturn looks stronger on paper it never really turned ot that way, to complex. Comparing to people complaining about PS3 being more complex then 360 the Saturn makes PS3 look like childs play due to the structure in that time.

Then the N64 was a 64-bit 94mhz CPU. But since they let you use a 32-bit structure and making the game 64bit required double ram and cach. most games where 32-bit.

It used 8mb om RAMBUS.

But in the end N64 was twice the machine on the paper as PlayStation 1