The Battle of the Consoles: From Atari to XBox

[GTaudiophile]

Article @ Tom's

Edit: Is it me, or does Tom turn everything into an ATi vs. nVidia pissing contest? (Of course his slant is always towards nVidia.)

Case in point:

While it appears that NVIDIA is likely to generate a higher level of absolute profitability from its Xbox supply agreement with Microsoft, the console market gives a beneficial boost to ATI as well, which has been struggling with its margins for the past 18 months.

Now I am sure he just had to say that part in bold!

 

[Mitzi]

Reading it right now!

I see what you mean about the ATI vs NVIDIA thing - WTF has that got to do with The battle of the consoles?

On page two as well where it lists a table of console history and relative successes are in bold - the NEC Turbograpx 16 was a success but the Sega Megadrive/Genesis was not - hummm.

Lets see what else I can bitch about....

Edit: Just finished reading it, ended up being a boring article - I thought it was going to be an interesting look at the history of consoles, it ends up being another XBOX vs PS2 vs GC article.

 

[gregor7777]

Also, I'm going to check back, but on his chart, I think he left out my favorite system of all time, the SNES. The last console I've bought and the last one I'll ever will buy.


--Yep, not there. I loved that damn thing.

 

[fendel]

Ugh, why did Tom's Hardware run a game console article written by securities analysts? :disgust:

Anyone who'd call Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee a simulation game--by any stretch of the imagination--is just not paying attention. (Simulating what? Slig possession techniques? Spooce-shrub gathering? The finer points of mudokon resource management?) These people have a much better grasp of revenue and operating margins than of actual gameplay.

And then there's this insightful gem:

The GameCube is cute and small. No question. The Xbox is large, very large.

Glad they cleared that up.

Even the disks for the GameCube are small, with Nintendo sporting a 3" mini disk (the
better to foil pirates?), while the PS2 and Xbox are using standardsized and standard-formatted DVD drives.

Standard-formatted? Correct me if I'm wrong, but: Xbox discs are 9GB DVDs that are not readable (or copyable) in a standard DVD-ROM drive.

 

[jeffrey]

Since when was the Playstation 64-bit???

Did nobody tell Tom that they lowered the frequency of the XGPU from 250mhz to 233mhz?????