Cow Mengde
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The Xbox was definitely better than the GC/Wii when it comes to lighting. It's as simple as that.
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How powerful was the GameCube compared to the PS2 and XBOX ?
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CliffyB's Cock Holster
Although its not unfair to rank the machines XBox, GC, PS2, PS2 could more than hold its own thanks to the insane fillrate on the GS supported by the vector units.
The reality was that keeping the GS busy was the problem, not what it could spit out.
Essentially it depends of you're judging image quality or scene complexity. If you're talking about brute-force overdraw, ZOE2 is frankly ridiculous, and titles like God Of War II show quite how capable the PS2 hardware was when used optimally.
The reality was that keeping the GS busy was the problem, not what it could spit out.
Essentially it depends of you're judging image quality or scene complexity. If you're talking about brute-force overdraw, ZOE2 is frankly ridiculous, and titles like God Of War II show quite how capable the PS2 hardware was when used optimally.
Ken Masters
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what's the point of this post?
riceandbeans
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I'd say Panzer Dragoon Orta comes close but there really weren't a lot of games in the same genre. Which is the better looking up for debate and I don't know if it's crunching as many polygons, but it's still incredibly impressive at 60FPS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNEUjQ6EYPI
I gotta disagree about Conker. Small levels or not, it's a beast in the graphics area and has some of the best looking textures, lighting, and environments. Like Chaos Theory, it could easily pass off as an early 360 game minus a few flat parts. Chaos Theory on the GC got the shaft a bit. They had a separate team working on the Xbox, while another were working on "3D textures" on the PS2. I don't know where the GC fit in there.
GC was capable of doing 480p but nintendo does not allow you to do it by limiting the supply of component cable. so for the vast majority, the max resolution you could get out of a GC was 480i, which is way inferior than 1080i PS2 could offer.
GC's disc size was also the lamest of the trio, in order to fit on that piece of joke disc, a lot of games were water downed significantly compared to their siblins over on PS2 and Xbox. EX: splinter cell series, NFS series
XBOX = PS2 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GC
GC's disc size was also the lamest of the trio, in order to fit on that piece of joke disc, a lot of games were water downed significantly compared to their siblins over on PS2 and Xbox. EX: splinter cell series, NFS series
XBOX = PS2 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GC
Gohan and goku are dead in your timeline so it doesn't even matter
Littlegator
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Didn't Gamecube have a more complex graphics API than Xbox?
does it matter? GC is the true definition of bottleneck
I felt the same way about the Dreamcast in retrospect, and then later the Wii.
there's something magical about seeing the slow kid in class do good on tests every now and then
the wii came out later than both 360 and ps3, and yet its just a updated gamecube. i guess that's the newest slow kid in the class
yea but even tho he was an just updated gamecube, this time he had a revolutionary* new blue shirt that allowed him to bring everyone together
Steam tells me it takes up 1060MB of space. Wikipedia claims GC disks hold 1.4GB
what?the pc version was on 1 cd (not dvd),so it was less than 700mb
Glorified G
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later meaning second year?
DidntKnowJack
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Nonsense. CD's were only really used in the PS2's first year, and not by everyone. The vast majority of PS2 games are on DVD.
Yeah, but it wasn't immediate. There were still CD games out in its second year.
Oh, and nobody seems to have asked this, but was GC ever capable or reading multi-layered game disks? Was there ever such a thing? Wii pretty much already has not-DVD-9*
starting with Brawl, but I couldn't understand why GC can't have multi-layer mini-DVDs.
*"not" because it technically doesn't conform to DVD consortium but is really a DVD-9 regardless.
ss_lemonade
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Didn't newer gamecubes lack component cable support? We were able to purchase an older unit with all the ports intact very late into the game (xbox was all we had before) and even then, games like Resident Evil, Metroid Prime and Wind Waker still blew us away. And this was already after experiencing stuff like Chaos Theory, RSC, and Panzer Dragoon.
I'd say both the Gamecube's best looking games are easily on par with the Xbox's. Both were clearly ahead of the PS2
I'd say both the Gamecube's best looking games are easily on par with the Xbox's. Both were clearly ahead of the PS2
Not sure, but it could read normal sized DVDs just fine if you ripped it out of the case to fit the disc
Technical specs aside, based on what I SAW:
It always seemed to me that the GCN was on par, or very close to the Xbox. What impressed me the most was Rebel Strike. Game was gorgeous. Used shaders that make some of today's games look bad. Not to mention, the background planets during certain missions were actually fully rendered, not just big blown up images.
That game blew me away. My buddy worked at Factor 5. They were an impressive lot.
It always seemed to me that the GCN was on par, or very close to the Xbox. What impressed me the most was Rebel Strike. Game was gorgeous. Used shaders that make some of today's games look bad. Not to mention, the background planets during certain missions were actually fully rendered, not just big blown up images.
That game blew me away. My buddy worked at Factor 5. They were an impressive lot.
The Panasonic-branded one wassfried said:
CD games were never very common though - even during launch most games shipped on DVDs already. It was a cost-cutting measure for low-budget projects (but DVD pricing bottomed up fast enough for it to no longer be relevant by 2nd year).
hnmm, a fashionable dumbass in the class, interesting.
It would be if it didn't have some of the most impressive games on it of its generation. Resident Evil 4 looked like shit on PS2.
tinfoilhatman
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You people are nuts, outside of a few notable exception the Xbox crushed the PS2\NGC if you had an widescreen HDTV.
99% of Xbox games supported 480p and Xbox had BY FAR the most widescreen support of any of the 3 not to mention actual T@L units and a modern(at the time) GPU
99% of Xbox games supported 480p and Xbox had BY FAR the most widescreen support of any of the 3 not to mention actual T@L units and a modern(at the time) GPU