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Re:Nintendo Switch by mypalmike on Friday January 13, 2017 @04:34AM (#13389591)
Gamecube was quite memory-limited both in main and video RAM compared to XBox and PS2. My team was not the only one that had to play tricks to fit on that thing, swapping in and out parts of main memory (to/from the overly spacious audio memory area IIRC).
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Re:Nintendo Switch by masklinn on Friday January 13, 2017 @06:53AM (#13390112)
> Gamecube was quite memory-limited both in main and video RAM

I'm not saying it was a supreme machine without limitation, I'm saying it was the most powerful one. It had by a fairly large margin the most powerful CPU and GPU subsystems.

That doesn't mean there were no tradeoffs, it was all strength and it was necessarily trivial to make use of that power. Think PS3.

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Re:Nintendo Switch by Narishma on Friday January 13, 2017 @07:48AM (#13390392)
IIRC the Xbox was the most powerful console of that generation.
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