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Why was the N64 weaker than the Playstation? Anonymous Tue Nov 28 02:01:48 2023 No.10455736 [View]
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>came out 1.5 years later in Japan
>had a 93Mhz main processor compared to the PlayStation's 33Mhz
>had a 62Mhz GPU, twice as fast as the PlayStation's CPU
>had 4MB of RAM (without the Expansion Pack), compared to the PlayStation's 2MB
>had 100MIPS compared to PlayStation's 30MIPS

Yet the greatest games on PlayStation (Gran Turismo 2, Tekken 3. Crash Team Racing etc) looked better than the greatest games on the N64.

I never understood why this was.

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