RCBH928 wrote:mjmjr25 wrote:
I never understand what people mean when they say something is "under powered" - seriously, what does this mean? Is it supposed to tow a boat? Or is it geek speak from other console fanboys to say look at our processor, it pisses up the flag pole further. Such silly stuff, at least to me.
Underpowered means in comparison to its competitors , it will probably not be able to run cutting-edge games that are going to be popular on the ps4/XOne 2 years in the future. Just like how Wii didn't get GTA 5, Tomb Raider, Assassin's Creed, Bioshock, Diablo 3 .. etc . If we are speaking of fun games, then you can have a fun game even on an NES .
Then we have stuff like storage where you would download media because many people use their console as their media player. Also the capability to install games on your machine , Wii U top model has 32GB storage . Killzone on PS4 is like 37 GB .
All in all, I think in the end its all about the software and videogame history shows that consoles that ended up selling the most was the weakest spec. wise in its generation (PS2, gameboy, Wii)
Hm..video game history doesn't really show that at all.
Last gen - Wii sold the most, but PS3 is still going, so really TBA. The Wii has has very weak longevity, so it's quite possible that the PS3 can outsell it.
6th Gen - PS2, Dreamcast was the weakest and didn't even last till the end of the generation. So really the 3rd weakest console sold the most.
5th Gen - PSX, second strongest of its gen. Considered to be superior to the Saturn. Jaguar and 3DO didn't even make much of an impact, and were much weaker than everyone else.
4th Gen - Super Nintendo, second strongest of its gen. Only Neo Geo was stronger, but obviously no where near as impactful. Super Nintendo outsold the Genesis and was stronger than it, and dominated the TG-16.
3rd Gen - NES, second strongest. Knocked Atari out of the business. Master System was considered stronger, but obviously didn't have third party support or brand rec.
2nd Gen - Atari 2600, second weakest. I'm pretty sure Odyssey 2 was weaker, but I could be off.
There's no real correlation between being the weakest or strongest leading to good sales, and certainly no causation. Also, in most of these examples, the console that sold the most was the one that secured the third parties, with Wii being the exception. Wii-U is not going to take third parties away from Sony or Microsoft.
