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I actually thought that it would be technically better than the PS2, boy was I wrong!!!
Hands up how many Nintendo fans tried to s**g off the PS2 for only having 4Mb of embedded VRAM for the Graphics synthesiser chip. Come on now don't be shy, oh well all of you may be interested enough to here that in an official interview on Gamespot ATI's VP of engineering announced that the Gamecube only has 3Mb of embedded VRAM, and it is no where near as fast as the PS2's DRDRAM, which runs at 800mghz and allows a much higher bandwidth in and out of the chip!!
Shame on you all, now apologize to Bonus, then go read the full interview at the address below!!
http://www.gamespot.co.uk /stories/news/ 0,2160,2088313,00.html
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Hands up how many Nintendo fans tried to s**g off the PS2 for only having 4Mb of embedded VRAM for the Graphics synthesiser chip. Come on now don't be shy, oh well all of you may be interested enough to here that in an official interview on Gamespot ATI's VP of engineering announced that the Gamecube only has 3Mb of embedded VRAM, and it is no where near as fast as the PS2's DRDRAM, which runs at 800mghz and allows a much higher bandwidth in and out of the chip!!
Shame on you all, now apologize to Bonus, then go read the full interview at the address below!!
http://www.gamespot.co.uk /stories/news/ 0,2160,2088313,00.html
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Yes but did you know that the gamecubes controller has a digital clock on it. A bit pointless but cool anyway. Also the L and R buttons have a button concealed underneath them. Once they are fully clicked in they will press another button that will serve such functions as the boost in Wave race Blue Storm.
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No because we haven't actually played it and it's not out yet.
Thanks.
err.... well done?
In answer to all three questions Venom... no.
Namostar wrote:
> What so does this mean that the PS2 will infact be better than the
> GC graphics and speed wise?
Does anyone really know the answer to this?
It the difference, whichever way it goes, really that significant at all?
Did anyone care that the megadrive was less capable than the SNES?
> What so does this mean that the PS2 will infact be better than the
> GC graphics and speed wise?
Does anyone really know the answer to this?
It the difference, whichever way it goes, really that significant at all?
Did anyone care that the megadrive was less capable than the SNES?
Bonus, I don't particularly care what machine has what technology.
From what I've seen, the GameCube looks amazing so I don't think that 1MB of RAM is going to effect the GameCube much...
From what I've seen, the GameCube looks amazing so I don't think that 1MB of RAM is going to effect the GameCube much...
FantasyMeister wrote:
> Most of the all-time classic games like Space Invaders, Tetris, et.
> al., didn't use ANY VRAM, so why take issue with a shortfall of 1Mb
> of the stuff?
Most... well.. All of the all time classics wernt really throwing complex graphics around the screen...
Tetris... when originally released, was mocked graphically on the Spectrum...
And although not a big PS2 fan myself... Is is curious to see that the Ninty kids are giving out excatly the same kinda reasons that the PS2 kiddies were providing not so long back???
> Most of the all-time classic games like Space Invaders, Tetris, et.
> al., didn't use ANY VRAM, so why take issue with a shortfall of 1Mb
> of the stuff?
Most... well.. All of the all time classics wernt really throwing complex graphics around the screen...
Tetris... when originally released, was mocked graphically on the Spectrum...
And although not a big PS2 fan myself... Is is curious to see that the Ninty kids are giving out excatly the same kinda reasons that the PS2 kiddies were providing not so long back???
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