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Those years were amazing because every new console generation had a wildly different artisanal design. NES to SNES to N64 to Switch, Jaguar, Sega, PS to PS2 to
by foobarian 2y ago
Those years were amazing because every new console generation had a wildly different artisanal design. NES to SNES to N64 to Switch, Jaguar, Sega, PS to PS2 to PS3, Xbox... and then at some point they all turned into disguised PCs.
- dtech 2y agoUp until the early 00's specially designed components could get more performance/$. Now it's impossible to beat commodity SoCs on that front.
- 0xcde4c3db 2y agoThe arcade industry also went through a couple waves of that, with one major shift to console-based hardware in the mid-90s and another to PC-based hardware in the mid-2000s. Namco made a PS3-based system board (System 357, notably the original platform for Tekken 6), but I'm not sure if anyone else did.
- wk_end 2y agoHey now, Nintendo’s bucked that trend - the Switch is a disguised tablet instead.