How many bits are the modern consoles these days?

[Sunnyvale]

Damnit, why does everybody always dump on the Intellivision?

But wow, thanks for the info. Wonder why they didn't sue Sega or NEC...

[Gamevet]

We're not doggin on the Intelevision, just stating the facts. The Atari VCS, NES, 5200 and 7800 all have very similar CPUs, but you'd never know it judging by the power the consoles presented.

[Sunnyvale]

I see, and again, thanks for the info. I've just heard too much hate for that console on the net. Guess I got defensive, sorry.

[treismac]

The Intellivision is 16 bit?!?

Placing the Intellivision next to the Genesis and Super Nintendo seems more than a little bit off, doesn't it?

[BlastProcessing402]

There is a reason they don't use the bits in marketing anymore as it was meaningless.
If they still used that they would be calling this gen 256. Always was twice what the previous was. 8,16,32,64,128,256 and next gen would be called 512.
However it's not really accurate in what bits it's really using. I mean PC's are just now getting 64 bit with W7.

There have been 64 bit versions of Windows at least as far back as XP, it's just now that mainstream consumers are actually using it, instead of hardcore geeks (I use that term with love).