• Snppls
    • 8 years 11 months ago
    • Posts: 54
    		 Doesn't anyone else find this odd?
    back in the old days, NES and Sega Master System were both 8 bit consoles, I remember commercials saying "With all powerful 8 bit graphics"
    then SNES came with the 16 bit, can't remember the name but Sega too had a 16 bit console, "The power of 16-bit"
    then came the Psx, 32 bits, then the N64, everyone was like wow, a 64-bit console, even though the commodore 64 was already 64-bit
    then eventually Sega released the Dreamcast, I remember reading in magazines "The world's first 128-bit console!!!", "Sonic speeding up to 128-bits" and "Supreme graphics on 128-bit console"
    few people knew/cared that both PS2 and GC are also 128-bit, and now with the next-gen consoles, no one even mentions the word bit anymore, no one seems to care all of a sudden
    at the moment 1 out of 3 next gen consoles are released, which is just like when the DC was just released, back then, only 1 console generation ago, the word bit was one of the more (most?) important factors in the console wars

    what happened??
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    • mr3urious
      • 8 years 11 months ago
      • Posts: 3359
      		 It's all about tech specs now. Memory, polygons per second, rendering, you name it. Bits don't necessarily equal power.
      "I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I'm not." -Kurt Cobain
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      • adventure_of_link
        • 8 years 11 months ago
        • Posts: 9769
        		 It's called Sega GENESIS.

        Yeah, it's about specs anymore... :(
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        • System
          • 8 years 11 months ago
          • Posts: 74809
          		 To tell you the truth, almost none of the new systems games wow me as being amazing in graphics. I feel like a new console wasn't needed, but that's just the unswayed opinion of me.
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          • eep!
            • 8 years 11 months ago
            • Posts: 735
            		 8-bit - 16-bit...etc.

            Refers to the number of bits that can be processed or transmitted in parallel, or the number of bits used for single element in a data format. The term is often applied to the following:
            microprocessor: indicates the width of the registers. A 16-bit microprocessor can process data and memory addresses that are represented by 16 bits.
            bus : indicates the number of wires in the bus. A 16-bit bus transmits 16 bits in parallel.
            graphics device, such as a scanner or digital camera : specifies the number of bits used to represent each pixel.

            replace pixel with bit for a moment.

            when one would invent a 2 pixel game and all of a sudden invent an 8 pixel...doesnt 6 more sound insane? once it gets in the hundreds and thousands, it isnt quite the pixels one wants to rely on, its frame rate that can carry those pixels and refresh rate.

            but dont take my word for it...da da dunn..-reading rainbow.
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