Originally Posted by
Iron Draggon
I guess you never heard of the Atari Jaguar... it's part of "the 64BIT era", though many would argue whether it's truly 64BIT, just as some are arguing about some of the systems of "the 128BIT era" not truly being 128BIT
myself, I look at it like this, and I could care less what the actual numbers are:
2600 & Intellivision = 2BIT
5200 & Colecovision = 4BIT
7800, SMS, & NES = 8BIT
Genesis, Sega CD, & SNES = 16BIT
32X, Saturn, PS1, & 3DO = 32BIT
N64, Jaguar, & Jaguar CD = 64BIT
Dreamcast, PS2, XBOX, Gamecube, & Wii = 128BIT
XBOX 360 & PS3 = 256BIT
so we still have one more generation to go before we finally reach the GBIT era... the next generation will be the 512BIT era, but if Nintendo goes with an underpowered system again, their next console prolly won't be 512BIT
I think it's pointless to argue over actual BITS... just accept them as a generalization to help people understand the incremental increases in power brought by each new generation... it always doubles, until you get to the Wii, which chose to stay behind in the previous generation for some reason... few people really care what the actual BITS are, they just want a way to distinguish each generation from all the other generations... so get over it
now as for the best games of the 128BIT era, I still can't say for sure yet, because new 128BIT games are still coming out... remember, the PS2 still isn't dead yet, and it will survive as long as the Wii does... so we still have many more years of new 128BIT games left to enjoy before we'll know all the best for sure... great idea for a topic, but even now it's still too soon to tell!