Which console was the most impressive technologically (for it's time)?

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Dreamcast

Probably the 360. You needed a pretty high end PC to match the equivalent of it when it was released.

Ps3
The cell was so strong it could power a small town

you mean like a furnace? dont believe a single 360 from the first year or so still exist.

You posted it. For whatever problems people may have had with it's marketing and price point, the PS3 was an impressive piece of hardware at launch.

The OG Xbox. It forced every other company to completely rethink the way that were designing consoles by licensing GPU technology instead of building proprietary hardware in house.

>had official vga support which even the original xbox didnt have

dreamcast I would say just because supported online before anyone else.

no.

you are saying that like thats a good thing

It's still impressive today tbqh, games like TLoU look amazing for the hardware they're running on.

>tfw not even one mention of sega saturn
fucking christ

Full 3D games on the N64 were pretty fucking mindblowing at the time.

The vast majority of people didn't have PCs capable of hardware-accelerated graphics at the time and early 3D PS1 games took place in narrow corridors, so the open worlds of SM64 were insane.

well technically the saturn had games like bomberman where you can play it online but the dreamcast was the first where online was viable

I had my 1st gen 360 for about 10 hours before it RRoD on me, not even memeing. Got to Mexico in RDR and it died almost right after. Only got to finish the game on PS3 years later after already being spoiled on the ending.

It is a good thing. Instead of building a processor like the cell which never amounted to anything, the companies learned they can leverage superior GPU technology by licensing it from AMD and Nvidia. Cheaper and better tech.

PS3

I had a 3dfx card back when the N64 launched and it could do similar graphics at 4x the resolution (640x480 vs 320x240). The technology wasn't even expensive, it's just that there was no market for it yet and people were still too stupid to care

Regardless, I still consider the N64 the closest consoles have ever come to PC. It's been nothing but downhill since then

yeah and because of that shitty trend we now have the ps4 and xbone

every console at the end of it's life cycle, when some devs just push the limit of what they can get out of a console.

I read somewhere the N64 had the most powerful consumer gpu in the world at it's launch. Do you know if there is any truth to this?

And how exactly is superior technology a "shitty trend"?

SNES.

>it's just that there was no market for it yet and people were still too stupid to care

Exactly. Quake 1 came out at almost exactly the same time as SM64. Most people didn't have computers that could play it, so most people experienced 3D games for the first time with the N64. The N64 also had games with huge, open levels that had never been seen in games, whereas Quake wasn't fundamentally much different from existing sprite-based shooters.

what? almost all consoles have had audio, graphics and processor chips that were either licenced from actual real tech companies or they asked them to design something for them.


none of these videogame companies have anyone capable of designing hardware so are you actually retarded or ?

it was true for a little bit. like a few months i believe

>ps4
>xbone
>superior technology

w e w

Sega Saturn was an ineffecient clusterfuck

No games

PS3 with its infinite power of cell.

>all the newfags ITT
The Neo Geo was truly unmatched at the time, everything that came later was just a poor man's PC.

Straw man argument.

I said licensing out superior technology instead of building proprietary hardware was better. Learn to read.

isn't the neo geo basically a rich man's arcade

>Straw man argument.

yeah we are done here

Honestly the GameCube, not necessarily for its raw power (the Xbox was stronger but not by much as was like 3x stronger to make) but because it was so cheap, and also not selling at a loss.

It was the cheapest 6th gen console, the second most powerful, and extremely long lasting. Xbox was literally just taking high end PC parts and shoving them inside a console box, PS2 was cramming a media player and a console into one. GC was outstanding performance per dollar, I don't think any console has come close to having so much bang for the buck.

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SNES and Sega had online with an adapter

What do games have to do with licensed technology and how does licensed technology hurt games?

consoles not cabinets you dumbfuck

and besides, naomi arcade systems were dreamcast hardware so unless you can tell me how that shit isnt fucking amazing then i cant imagine what you think is amazing

but yes NeoGeo is fucking amazing, but technically impressive at the time i feel isnt as accurate when you consider it was just the graphics that blew people away

3x more expensive to make*

It's literally an arcade system in a home console's box

That's why it cost $700. And that's 90s money.

>ctrl + f amiga 500
fucking newfags

the nes
after that pc everything was below pc

it proved to be a good idea overall with series like god of war, uncharted, tlou and more. The console still sells today where as the 360 fell off. Shit GT6 is played more than most other racing simulators. The cell just needed devs who werent lazy fucks. R* proved the cell wasn't worse than the 360 when they finally made teams dedicated to each console. the ps3 out performed the 360 with gtav

If you can't back up your argument then by all means...

derp hurr durr

hurr de hurr durrr

derp durr hurr? durrrr

>It was the cheapest 6th gen console

i swear theres like 3 people on Sup Forums who remembers the dreamcast

RDR came out like five years after the 360 launched. So you are claiming you bought an Xbox 360 at release, and didn't touch it for five years?

see

Turbo CD

thats a pc, not a console

Being discontinued is cheating.

yes?
>consoles not cabinets you dumbfuck
is dis b8

>5.5gen console sold at a loss

The thing that made the GC so mindblowing was it was sold at a profit. Somehow they were extremely competitive while still making money on sales.

BLAST

>The console still sells today where as the 360 fell off
Huh? The 360 is still incredibly popular.

there were still selling them after it was discontinued. do you think they took all the leftover dreamcasts and burned them?

Bullshit,the dual CPU layout was way ahead the playstation,3DO,jaguar.

Case and point.

>5.5gen console

stopped reading right there

Definitive list of amazing technology at the time (arcade/console)
>Dreamcast
>Onyx N64 Devkits (look into this - even SM64 was held back due to the change to lower specs)
>Naomi arcade systems (modified Dreamcast hardware)
NeoGeo

thanks for proving my point
you have no idea what "console" means and cant admit it.

Cabinets != Consoles

>at the time
>any NeoGeo arcade cabinet already blows the fuck out of the home version

At that point they were just trying to recoup losses so them being on firesale isn't much comparable to the GC coming in hot at $200.

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Even with peripheral vision you'd be able to read the rest of my post

The PS1 achieved comparable general purpose performance with a single CPU.
With its GTE coprocessor, it's actually faster at polygon arithmetic.

I haven't used it in years, but it still worked when I put it in the box after getting my 360 slim.

>it doesnt count because it doesnt fit my narrative

Ps3
bluray was a risk at the time
bluetooth for controllers was a risk at the time
hdmi was just starting to get popular (the 360 didn't even have hdmi on release)

PS1 & Sega Saturn easily

All the other console devs (sans Nintendo) said "nope" and pulled their consoles from shelves (or died horribly, like Atari).

you should read the rest of my previous post then dumb nigger

Neo Geo
King of 2D for a full decade

Saturn was garbo though.

>Cost the better part of a grand
>Literally just an arcade board that plugs into your TV
Not really following the spirit of things.

>ps1
>easily

It doesn't count because the Dreamcast wasn't even really part of the 6th gen when you tink about it :DDDD

>hurr durr

Saturn was far superior with handling sprites and was close to even with polygons. It was more powerful overall.

>any NeoGeo arcade cabinet already blows the fuck out of the home version
keep trying son

Sony was a major investor in Blu ray... it wasn't a risk, it was a calculated business move.

The Wii blew my mind

PSP

none of the 5th gen consoles were impressive

>The 360 is still incredibly popular.
???

Corpses can't compete user

>Saturn was far superior with handling sprites
In general, but there are situations in which the PS1 edges ahead for 2D games. The Saturn was famously shit at handling transparency effects.

>and was close to even with polygons
No. Not even close.

maybe the risk was investing in bluray. back then people still considered HDDVD to be a competition. Sony choosing to put a bluray drive in the ps3 could be what killed HDDVD

You could run an african country with just one.

>durr hurr

the saturn is over engineered and only recently got its drm cracked

that system managed to last 20 years uncracked without a modchip to bypass the security check

but now all youd need is to use the VCD expansion bay to do it

>for its time

How come I'm not hearing more arguments for the genesis or snes?

The Gamecube had a dedicated AMD graphics chip. It's even advertised on the front of the console.

it's much more easy to pirate it

I am amazed 15 years later people are still this butthurt about Sega being incompetent

>mfw watching Sega play catchup to Nintendo after the SNES came out
It was hilarious watching them try and try and try, but fail every time.

>hurr durr

And Microsoft risking not putting HDDVD in their console might be why they could keep the price down and sell fuck tons more than Sony? Everything is a risk to some extent, I'm not even sure what you are getting at now. The thread is about consoles ahead of their time.

Your anger sustains me
If you wanted to appear less mad you should have probably just not replied, but now everyone can feel the butthurt radiating from their screen.

>any NeoGeo arcade cabinet already blows the fuck out of the home version
>"home version"

>A home console version was also made, called AES (Advanced Entertainment System). It was originally launched as a rental console for video game stores in Japan (called Neo Geo Rental System), with its high price causing SNK not to release it for home use - this was later reversed due to high demand and it came into the market as a luxury console. The AES had the same raw specs as the MVS and had full compatibility, thus managed to bring a true arcade experience to home users.[3]

>The AES had the same raw specs as the MVS

>durr hurr

>that system managed to last 20 years uncracked without a modchip to bypass the security check The Saturn has had modchips, and if you really wanted you could just hot swap discs

>that reply speed