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I was replaying Xenoblade Chronicles on my Switch 2 and the whole time I was thinking about how this ENORMOUS, open world game originated on the Nintendo Wii, a
by drooopy 1mo ago
I was replaying Xenoblade Chronicles on my Switch 2 and the whole time I was thinking about how this ENORMOUS, open world game originated on the Nintendo Wii, a console with only 88 MB of RAM.
- anthk 1mo agoWith an OS the PC requeriments for that game under Windwos XP would have been like 256MB/384MB.
- drooopy 1mo agoAnd I bet you that I could still fit an XP-era weather app or widget on top of XP and Xenoblade inside that 256/384MB of RAM.
- inigyou 1mo agoSuper Mario Brothers is none of that, but fits in a 40kB ROM and a few kB of RAM.
- bzzzt 1mo agoAtari 2600 titles are between 1 and 4Kb and have 128 bytes of RAM. Still enough for some quality entertainment back in its time.
- inigyou 1mo agoThey're pretty seriously limiting though when you actually look at those games. The GameCube/PS2 is probably the era where hardware was finally good enough to make the game you wanted.
- bzzzt 1mo agoSome of those games are remarkably fun and addictive though. It's difficult to take an arbitrary spec and say that's 'good enough'. For some it's too much, others still want more. Depends on the kind of games you want.