yeah, pretty much

then the dream station killed it

Sorry the whay

Sega's main problem was getting footing after the 16 bit era

I've also been PC my whole life so 8/16 bit means color pallet and not architecture

Screwing up with their subsequent consoles

sega cd i guess it what it was called

@UrstMcRedHead I mean it did mean color pallete for consoles too

The sega cd was an addon for the genesis

Their next console was the saturn

Doom, and Quake where 8bit color pallet, but came out mid 90s

ah, saturn; maybe that is the one i was thinking of

boomer memory; only 16 bits at a time

😉

Nintendo's big mistake was sticking with cartridges even with the nintendo 64

It did work

And the nintendo 64 wasnt a failure by any means

That's why quake looked like shit 256 colors doesn't go well with dynamic lights

But it could've been more

Still, the nintendo 64 had plenty of nintendo charm to carry it

Then the Playstation 2 came along and basically became the best selling console of all time

Outselling both the genesis and SNES combined

reminder that the Gamecube was actually underrated for the generation it was a part of, hardware-wise.

Untill people got over the Xbox having a HD

@Eirshy thr gamecube shouldve been spherical

https://youtu.be/HA7sP47e8tA

Gameball

Oh GOD

DO NOT AVERT YOUR GAZE SLUTS

Also, carts are superior to disks by a lot, disks were only superior in storage capacity for roughly two console generations, but carts, especially large carts like the NES/SNES/N64/GB/GBC/GBA had, were able to include additional hardware rather than just game data.

There's a reason why there's a problem with Ruby/Sapphire GBA carts irl these days, and it's because part of the expansion hardware that was in those carts had an expiration date (a non-replaceable battery that managed the clock).

@Timeward Man.. I got a Game Cube, a Game Sphere, and a Game Tetrahedron

@UrstMcRedHead what about the game icosahedron?

Modern carts tend to just be flash memory though because there's no real need to include expnasion hardware any more, as the systems they connect to have far more capabilities than they did back in the olden days.

cultural enrichment!

... plus the GBDS line actually had a clock in the device, with a whole host OS