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Do people really care about this anymore? It wasn't much of an issue for me way back when, it was always about the games.
Oh man. I remember those bit arguements. It finally stopped around the time PS2 came out. When DC came out I remember me and my friend saying how great a 128 bit system was going to be. Then we kind of faded away from it. But damn, those arguements between SNES and Genesis, and even PS1 and N64 were great.
"The PS3 is 128 bit, but it is more 128 bit than the others..."
haha, wut? I hadn't thought about it until now, but I don't recall any company bragging about the number of bits in their system once the PSX/N64 generation was over.
haha, wut? I hadn't thought about it until now, but I don't recall any company bragging about the number of bits in their system once the PSX/N64 generation was over.
Informative post. I was wondering this myself. It seemed like in the last generation everyone was totally focused on bits. And everyone talks about the 8-bit generation, hell I didn't even think of systems interms of their bit generations until the 128 bit consoles came out and showed us all that we'd been living in a bit starved dark age. Seemed a little odd that in all the Sony pre-launch hype they wouldn't laud their new system's AMAZING 512-bit capabilities...now I know why.
"The PS3 is 128 bit, but it is more 128 bit than the others..."
That's my favorite line in the article. I'm not sure what it means but I laughed when I read it. Maybe they snuck in Blast Processing in there to get that edge.
That's my favorite line in the article. I'm not sure what it means but I laughed when I read it. Maybe they snuck in Blast Processing in there to get that edge.
I guess being more 128 bit than the others means that a larger part of the processor operates with 128 bit paths, than the processors in Xbox360 and Wii. From the wikipedia article on the PS3 it looks like the Cell SPEs have 128 bit general purpose registers while the PPE has 64 bit general purpose registers... What ever... this is insignificant. All the processor in the current generation of video game consoles use the same instruction set, and that is PPC (or at least some version of PPC)
The answer appears to be a fairly honest attempt by a dev to explain 128 bits to the person who asked the question. It looks as if insertcredit.com just chose to mock the answer and spin it as though Sony were boasting 128bits in the first place when they weren't.
Sony PR man said it himself: "The number of bits isn't really a very good measure anymore. To be honest, it hasn't been a good measure since PS1 days."
It seems weird that the new generation of consoles are still only 128-bit. Before, all new consoles always had a high bit count than the previous system. all the consoles from last generation were 128-bit, but i guess these new consoles are MORE 128-bit than the old ones.
So i guess that really kind of shows that PCs are more powerful. I can get a dual 64-bit CPU and a 256-bit GPU. But then again it isn't fair to compare the hardware form a console to a PC
So i guess that really kind of shows that PCs are more powerful. I can get a dual 64-bit CPU and a 256-bit GPU. But then again it isn't fair to compare the hardware form a console to a PC
Intellivison kicks ass. Still have mine with the Intellivoice and a shit load of games.
I think I stopped with comparing system's bits around PS1, N64, Saturn. It finally dawned on me that it doesn't mean shit, just as long as the games are good.
I think I stopped with comparing system's bits around PS1, N64, Saturn. It finally dawned on me that it doesn't mean shit, just as long as the games are good.
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