The most powerful games console
July 20th, 2007 Posted in meWhy do people get so hung up on how much “power” a games console has? What are these people using them for… NSA brute force password cracking?
Ever since there was more than one console option, people have made comparisons based on hardware. Will they never learn that GAMES sell consoles not how many 486 DX33 processors are crammed onto a daughter board.
Without a killer app, a console is doomed. The current “best” console is supposedly the PS3, yet Wii sales outnumber it 3:1.
Anyone that’s played on a Wii has to admit it’s visually crap and a step back for graphics, yet the games are so bloody addictive.
The Sega Mega CD, Philips CDi and Amiga CD32 were amazing pieces of kit in their day, but sadly lacked decent games. Atari Jaguar and Sega Dreamcast were the same (IIRC Sega’s Saturn was beaten by the Sony Playstation on marketing, not killer apps).
Any editorial that raves about the hardware isn’t worth the paper or screen it’s printed on in my opinion. The sooner the specs take a back seat the better.
