The Wii is definately a current generation console.
Historically the winner has always been the console that pushes less pixels. This is normal, even though it's a bit counter intuitive to computer nerds.
The Playstation beat the N64, for example. The Playstation boasted a 30mhz, 32-bit MIPS R3k and for RAM it had a stick of chewing gum soldered to the mainboard. The N64, it's competitor, had a 90mhz, 64-bit MIPS R4k with several megs of RAMBUS memory on a 500mhz bus, with trilinear mipmapping interpolation AND anti-fucking-aliasing. Meanwhile the Saturn was a pimped out multiprocessor system.
Playstation won.
Moving to the next generation, we have the Playstation 2 which, unlike the Nintendo 64 from 5 years prior, didn't have anti-aliasing and apparently didn't even have basic texture filtering. If it does, it's not used. Both it's competitors outclassed it technologically in every way except the X-Box's somewhat slower CPU.
Playstation 2 wins by a wide, wide margin.
Anybody see a pattern???
Go look up the Neo Geo. $600 game console, kicked the Super Nintendo's ass all around graphically with 15-bit color, dual processors, 330 megs of ram, 1 gigabit cartridges, and is OLDER than the SNES.
I played Samurai Showdown III on the Neo Geo (1990) and on the Playstation (1995) and there was no competition, the 5-years-older Neo Geo kicked the Playstation's ass so fucking hard in every way it was a joke. That's how fucking awesome and ahead of it's time the Neo Geo was.
And the Super Nintendo won.
Now everyone is shocked and surprised at the Wii? Everyone is acting like it's such a shock and revelation that nobody gives a flying fuck about tech specs??? Christ on a cracker...
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The Wii is definately a current generation console.
Historically the winner has always been the console that pushes less pixels. This is normal, even though it's a bit counter intuitive to computer nerds.
The Playstation beat the N64, for example. The Playstation boasted a 30mhz, 32-bit MIPS R3k and for RAM it had a stick of chewing gum soldered to the mainboard. The N64, it's competitor, had a 90mhz, 64-bit MIPS R4k with several megs of RAMBUS memory on a 500mhz bus, with trilinear mipmapping interpolation AND anti-fucking-aliasing. Meanwhile the Saturn was a pimped out multiprocessor system.
Playstation won.
Moving to the next generation, we have the Playstation 2 which, unlike the Nintendo 64 from 5 years prior, didn't have anti-aliasing and apparently didn't even have basic texture filtering. If it does, it's not used. Both it's competitors outclassed it technologically in every way except the X-Box's somewhat slower CPU.
Playstation 2 wins by a wide, wide margin.
Anybody see a pattern???
Go look up the Neo Geo. $600 game console, kicked the Super Nintendo's ass all around graphically with 15-bit color, dual processors, 330 megs of ram, 1 gigabit cartridges, and is OLDER than the SNES.
I played Samurai Showdown III on the Neo Geo (1990) and on the Playstation (1995) and there was no competition, the 5-years-older Neo Geo kicked the Playstation's ass so fucking hard in every way it was a joke. That's how fucking awesome and ahead of it's time the Neo Geo was.
And the Super Nintendo won.
Now everyone is shocked and surprised at the Wii? Everyone is acting like it's such a shock and revelation that nobody gives a flying fuck about tech specs??? Christ on a cracker...