• ziggurat@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    I understand why you think this, but its kind of wrong. Because Nintendo has had the upper hand with hardware many times.

    1. SNES was arguably better than Genesis system
    2. N64 has much more raw power than my favorite system the PS1
    3. GameCube was stronger than PS2 and Dreamcast

    And yes, I’ll just wait and use my steam deck until SD2, because I also just want a computer that I can play games on.

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      18 days ago

      SNES was arguably better than Genesis system

      The SNES and Genesis were comparable. You could argue one or the other, but it was a tighter race than the Playstation 3 curb-stomping the Wii.

      N64 has much more raw power than my favorite system the PS1

      Playstation had CD-ROM, and that’s all that needs to be said about that battle.

      GameCube was stronger than PS2 and Dreamcast

      Comparing the GameCube with the PS2, it had less VRAM, less RAM, a faster CPU, roughly equiv video processor. I would say they were about equal, and that’s with GameCube coming out two years later.

      The PS2 was also the strongest console to ever fight in any sort of console war, with its ridiculously large library of games. PS2 punished Sega so hard they permanent removed themselves out of the race, and Nintendo had to completely change strategies to fill a different niche and audience, which worked with the Wii. However, that came with the dumbing down of hardware that everybody is talking about. They have been pushing shitty outdated hardware ever since.