A little Bit more?

[Alienblue]

I was curious as to how many bits the PS3 , Wii and X360 are.
I know people don't seem to care anymore, quoting processor speed and video ram, but I think it is relavent. The lastgen consoles were all 128 bit, right? Are these 256 bit? And is there a limit as to how high bits can go? Are they still 128 bit with higher resolution, more ram et al. or will we someday see a 1,280 bit system?
also

*How many bits are the DS and PSP? 64?

* Did anyone ever figure for sure how many bits the Atari Jaguar really was? 16, 32, 64 or "all"?

Do the MATH....do the MONTHTER MATH!

[Blah]

I don't think bits are relevant. At all.
I haven't done any research, but I'm pretty sure that bits only matter with 2D games. Once you get into 3D, it doesn't matter. Feel free to correct me, though.

[Leo Ames]

They were never relevent, it was simply a marketing term. The Intellivision was a 16 bit console for example.

[a1]

I've always been curious about that too Alienblue. I guess that term was just phased out after the N64 PSX generation.

[Paul Campbell]

Was the "64" in N64 relating to anything involving the power of the system?

[Adamant1]

[QUOTE=a]I've always been curious about that too Alienblue. I guess that term was just phased out after the N64 PSX generation.
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I seem to recall Sony making a huge deal about the PS2 being 128 bit. Possibly Sega as well.

[Alienblue]

C'mon, doesn't anybody KNOW how many bits these nextgen systems are? There must be info somewhere.

They must plan on making at least ONE or 2 2-D games for them, like a new metal slug.

For the record, the fact that Intellivision was 16 bit made a huge difference. It had the SAME AMOUNT OF MEMORY as the Atari 2600, 4K! But the double speed processor allowed for better games. There must be someplace with info.... I would guess Wii is still 128 bit, PS3 and X360 256.

[Steerforth]

O.K. Alien, I will go as I remember 'em

4 bit - Atari 2600
8 bit - NES
16 bit - SNES
32 bit - PS1
64 bit - N64
128 bit - Dreamcast

Dreamcast is the last system I remeber as being advertised as 128 bit...I have no idea how GC, XBOX or PS 2 were rated 'bit' wise, that was when they were rated more by traditional computer specs.

As for PSP, I believe it to be more powerful than the PS1 but less than the PS 2

As for DS, I think it has 2 - 32 bit processors?, but I believe it is not really comprable to PS1 and definitely much less than N64.

 Hopefully if I am mistaken on these someone will correct them.

[Adamant1]

The PS2 was 128 bits, and advertised as such. As for the GC and Xbox, they were 32 and 64 bits, but I forgot which were which. It's nothing that really mattered anymore.

[Zenzerotron]

Turbrograhix-16 and Atari 2600 are 8-bit machines.

Neo Geo and Intellivision are 16-bit machines.

It is EXTEMELY irrevelent what "bit" a system is, history has shown it doesn't speak of a system's true power and graphics output.