System wars suck.

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Originally posted by MrKasualUltra2000



bullseye!!!!!!

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Not to be overly sarcastic, but don't you think that the reason for that is because developers choose what platform to develop a game based on what system's audience will receive it best has and not really some innate property of the hardware (especially in this genaration)? Should there be a single console that same variety would still exist but it would be on one console. It's not the systems themselves that make the games different.

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Originally posted by Frogacuda


Not to be overly sarcastic, but don't you think that the reason for that is because developers choose what platform to develop a game based on what system's audience will receive it best has and not really some innate property of the hardware (especially in this genaration)? Should there be a single console that same variety would still exist but it would be on one console. It's not the systems themselves that make the games different.

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I don't get it. What does all of that have to do with "bullseye?"

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Originally posted by Frogacuda


Not to be overly sarcastic, but don't you think that the reason for that is because developers choose what platform to develop a game based on what system's audience will receive it best has and not really some innate property of the hardware (especially in this genaration)?

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I don't think so. I can (usually) beyond a shadow of a doubt tell what hardware a game is being played on just by looking at the screen and listening even if I never saw the game before and even if it is a mulit console title. Genny games use a ton of vertical stripes to "shade" the graphics and the sound goes "splat". SNES games have shiny sound and use less gradation and more color to shade. TG16 games shade with dots usually and sound less "real" than SNES games but still as shiny. The Neo Geo blinds you with colors and animation. In the 32 bit era the Saturn had bigger "chunks" in it's 3D than the PS and sported the characteristic "mesh" shadows. The N64 on the other had had lower poly counts and low res textures, but had a much more solid Z axis and the graphics were filtered to high heaven. I have very limited experiance with current hardware (aside from DC) but from what I can tell the DC has a "cleaner" picture than the PS2, but less effects going on and a slightly less organic look. The XBox appears to throw arround bump mapping just because it can. Let's also not forget things like progressive scan that jump out and smack you (well, at least me) in the face. I admit that it is harder for me to tell a Cube game from an Xbox game than it was in past generations, but at the same time I only have about 3 games for each and I have not put in much playtime on my Cube to get to know its unique look yet. Jaggeriffic PS2 games are easy to spot, and I know the look of my DC like the back of my hand tho'.

Hardware definatly has it's own characteristic look and sound independant of games.