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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.

>> No.10455745

>>10455736
Textures take up space and space wasn't free on N64 carts. Also the hardware anti-aliasing on N64 was aggressive to the point that all textures were muddied anyway.

>> No.10455748

>>10455736
The N64 was able to produce smooth looking 3D acceleration textures vs the PS1’s "software mode" graphics. That’s pretty much it.

>> No.10455752

>very small texture cache, on top of poor storage medium
>extremely poor dev tools (on purpose no less)
>the expansion pak was slow as molasses
>automatic AA that is more of a vaseline filter that needs to be turned off via a gameshark

ocarina and majora are still the most impressive games of that entire generation in terms of scope and scale, but they still suffer from poor framerates, especially majora

>> No.10455757

>>10455736
>Why was the N64 weaker than the Playstation?
CPU throttle, tiny texture cache, jank trilinear filtering tech that didn't catch on.

>> No.10455761

portal runs on n64. ps1 is not powerful enough

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>>10455736
It was a little more powerful on the 3D end especially with the expansion pack. Full-motion video and CDDA audio are where it suffered, along with lack of 2D games

>> No.10455773

>>10455761
>non-retro game for females
don't care

>> No.10455775

>>10455736
>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.

Ahahahaha. No.