What were the most powerful consoles of their time?

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N64>PS1
SNES>Genesis

time for me to be geeky
megadrive>sens megadrive had a 7 mhz cpu and 32bit grafix chip vs sens 3.5 mhz cpu and 16bit grafix chip
master system>nes master system had a 3 mhz cpu and 8bit grafix chip with 64 colors vs nes 1 mhz cpu and 8bit grafix chip and 16 colors
xbox>ps2 xbox had a 700 mhz cpu and 256bit grafix chip vs ps2 300 mhz cpu and 128bit grafix chip


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now whos the super geek

PS3>X360>Vita>>>Wii>Xbox>3DS>Gamecube>PS2>PSP>Dreamcast

What were the most powerful consoles of their time
means of each germination you need to separate them

Game Gear was the most powerful handheld console of its time. Game Boy Advance surpassed it, but that was about 10 years later.

Dreamcast without a doubt in my mind, followed by Sega Saturn. Too bad they both failed to reach the mainstream market. Great great systems... amazing graphics for the time as well as game play.

PSX was much more powerful than the N64 IMO, it had much better sound and it seems like every game on it ending up looking better.

I'm going to have to give a vote to the Neo Geo, that thing was a beast for awhile, had the best looking 2d games ever and cost a fortune. Always wanted one.

Time for me to be even more geeky. While the processor of the Genesis was the more powerful one, the snes was able to show more color (256 on screen out of 32768, compared to 64 on screen out of 512 for the Genesis), had more advanced sound capabilities (Thanks to a special chip from Sony) and more memory.
What it mean is that while the Genesis was able to put more action on screen, the snes looked and sounded better.

Anyway, the Neo Geo back then was more powerful that either of them, it was a real (costly) powerhouse.

Too bad it was so hungry for battery, which is one of the reason it failed. Pretty much everyone had made more powerful handled than Nintendo, forgetting all the while it had to be pratical handled, only Sony didn't totally failed.

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I had a game gear when I was in the third grade, played it for less than one year, got a game boy color the year Pokemon came to the US and hung to the thing for a long time, it was stolen from me actually. Game gear's battery power was horrible and it had a less than stellar library. The only games I had were Sonic Triple Trouble and a lame tetris knockoff called Columns.

I recall hearing the genesis actually had better sound capabilities (maybe BS) but seems like 90% of the music sounded like farting.

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The Nintendo 64's CPU was about three times as fast as the PS1. However, the PS1 could do better looking cut-scenes since it used CDs instead of cartridges. Its actual gameplay graphics were inferior to the N64 though. One reason is because the PS1 couldn't smooth jagged edges on polygons.

Sense it didn't specify just hardware wise how powerful the systems were compared to each other, what about which ones had better games? I think that would be a contributor to which consoles were more "powerful"

(obviously this is my opinion) ps2 had better exclusives than xbox. Ratchet and clank (first series), Jak and daxtar, etc.

you seem to really like j and d and c and r, but no i meant hardware

i do. i plan to buy a ps2 and get those games from my parents house and only have those. If I were to get more than I would get addicted to videogames.

Hmm that's debateable.
Project Gotham 1 & 2, Halo 1 & 2, Kung Fu Chaos, Stranger's Wrath, Doom 3, Ninja Gaiden, Dead or Alive 3, Jet Set Radio Future, Forza, Steel Battalion, Panzer Dragoon Orta or Otogi are all superior games in terms of execution, mechanincs, graphics and audio to anything on PS2.
The Xbox already had Live, too.

Yes, the Xbox had hardware 18 months ahead of PS2, but PS2 games in general kick Xbox's @ss.

The Nintendo Gamecube's software lineup did too IMO except it's graphics were usually on par with Xbox.