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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Nintendo 64 was really the last time Nintendo tried competing on hardware specs for the console market.

After that, you had a major electronics company subsidizing hardware to gain market share and a major software company subsidizing development and software graphics tools to be used also on their computer systems as the two different competitors.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

The GC was significantly more powerful than the PS2.