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I don't buy that at all as well. They could have made the console a bit bigger, and a bit more flexible inside. I wasn't asking for the full powerdrift arcade

• mikepavone 8y ago
  > They could have made the console a bit bigger, and a bit more flexible inside. They could have gone to a 2 chip solution for the VDP and implemented scaling, but it would have substantially increased costs. Now, Nintendo did notably go with a 2 chip solution for the PPU, but they were using a lower cost CPU, launched 2 years later and sold for a higher price. There are other places they skimped that hold up much worse than dropping scaling hardware. For instance, having seen photos of the VDP die it seems pretty clear they could have made a nice improvement to the palette hardware if they took more time to optimize the layout (though I imagine that could have taken quite a while with 80's IC design tools).