Do you have extreme sympathies for Sega?

[Arkaign]

Originally the Playstation was destined to be an add-on for the SNES. Nintendo thought it was too pricey and that load times were too long. Basically that CD technology wasn't far enough along to be viable for customers. Boy were they wrong.

I was actually at the CES where they were heavily promoting Snes CD. I remember that a huge concern was that younger fans wouldn't know how to handle the discs without damaging them. Some concept art had disc caddies lol.

 

[exdeath]

How we have come full circle. Mechanical optical and magnetic media are slow primitive pieces of shit crippling our computer systems to a halt while solid state is the future. Nintendo was right all along :awe:

 

[SaurusX]

I loved the Dreamcast when it came out. For me, it provided the arcade experience at home for the first time. You had Soul Caliber, Crazy Taxi, Virtua Fighter 3... All looked nearly perfect. I can't tell you how many hours my friends and I spent on Soul Caliber. At the time there was nothing could come close to matching those graphics

I do remember a friend of mine's roommate having a stack of burned CD's containing the entire library of Dreamcast games. Obviously, that was a problem for Sega.

 

[zerocool84]

I loved the Dreamcast when it came out. For me, it provided the arcade experience at home for the first time. You had Soul Caliber, Crazy Taxi, Virtua Fighter 3... All looked nearly perfect. I can't tell you how many hours my friends and I spent on Soul Caliber. At the time there was nothing could come close to matching those graphics

I do remember a friend of mine's roommate having a stack of burned CD's containing the entire library of Dreamcast games. Obviously, that was a problem for Sega.

Yup, tons of ways to get free games. We even had a Dreamcast disc that had emulators of older systems on it.

 

[cmdrdredd]

How we have come full circle. Mechanical optical and magnetic media are slow primitive pieces of shit crippling our computer systems to a halt while solid state is the future. Nintendo was right all along :awe:

Nope cause everything gets installed to the HDD now. Nintendo is still wrong and backwards.

 

[smackababy]

I loved the Dreamcast when it came out. For me, it provided the arcade experience at home for the first time. You had Soul Caliber, Crazy Taxi, Virtua Fighter 3... All looked nearly perfect. I can't tell you how many hours my friends and I spent on Soul Caliber. At the time there was nothing could come close to matching those graphics

I do remember a friend of mine's roommate having a stack of burned CD's containing the entire library of Dreamcast games. Obviously, that was a problem for Sega.

Dreamcast was just a NAOMI board with the quarter slot removed. It was amazing for people who loved arcades.

Sega will always have a soft spot in my heart, but I will never sympathize for them. They screwed themselves with piss poor management and let Sonic Team ruin release Shadow the Hedgehog, which was unforgivable!

 

[Anarchist420]

No, the SNES really was more powerful than the Genesis, beyond dispute, better in every way except CPU clock.

Not just the CPU clock, but also clock for clock. The Super NES's CPU still wouldn't have been as fast if it were clocked the same as the Genesis CPU.

Panzer Dragoon Saga does not look better than Final Fantasy XI, or VIII for that matter, it barely looks better than the earlier VII! Doesn't look that impressive.

The devs said it couldn't have looked as good on the PS1.

The SNES' bottleneck was its weak CPU, but it was still a more powerful console in every way, especially sound. The Genesis couldn't compete anywhere and wasn't even stereo.

As the CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT, the CPU matters most when discussing horsepower.
Whether it's stereo has nothing to do with power.

No, it was so gimped they had to put a second CPU and GPU in it and it still produced less powerful 3D graphics.

"Less powerful 3D graphics"?

 

[Phynaz]

9/9/99 Hard to believe it's been 14 years.

 

[lamedude]

Just because the PPU doesn't have a simple FLOP rating like today's GPUs doesn't mean it doesn't count.
AtariST and Amiga500 have almost the exact same CPU yet outside of lazy ports the Amiga is much better. It took John Carmack to get smooth scrolling on a EGA PC in 1990 aka it took a genius to port cheap NES games to expensive 1984 hardware.