Any one ever feel that the power of some consoles where never truly exploited?

[Zemus]

Layton was the definition of maddening to me; I should have known from the hat. I loved Hotel Dusk and Last Window, though.

Spoiler: Hotel Dusk Chapter 7

As someone who doesn't tend to care for diversity initiatives, the "only kiss I've known in years" line was brilliant and even went over my head on my first playthrough. That's how you show people can get along despite deep-seated differences, if you ask me: taking their acceptance for granted.

 

[stealthRUSH]

Yes for the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer. Especially after playing Need for Speed, Space Hulk, Blade Force and more recently having a demo of Tomb Raider run on the system.

 

[MasterEn]

i've noticed the running theme with every system on this thread: cancelled before it even got off of the ground.

the jaguar, saturn, dreamcast, vita, wiiu. all had potential, but for one reason or another, all of them failed.

i haven't played some of the older systems, but the vita had cross connectivity with the ps3/4. game selection was limited, but playing shadow of the colossus with the vita as the controller was pretty cool.
and playing disgaea 3 on there was amazing. quick load times and more content.

the wii u gamepad being a second screen or map display is awesome. you could play batman - arkham city, bayonetta 1+2 and pikmin 3 while watching ed, edd, and eddy.

the dreamcast had awesome games like skies of arcadia. i have the gamecube version, and i was looking for a copy of the dreamcast version when i still had one of those. no matter how many times i come back to that game, it still feels like the first time that i am playing it. only minecraft and botw have gotten close to that feeling for me.

i'm pretty sure even the game systems that had a lot of coverage and exposure are still far from being completely pushed to their full capabilities. i saw a guy on youtube who's still checking out everything that the n64 can do. here's a video by him on the n64's cache system:

it'll take years to fully understand each and every system and its full potential.

 

[χKai]

i've noticed the running theme with every system on this thread: cancelled before it even got off of the ground.

But not the Nintendo NES

 

[MasterEn]

But not the Nintendo NES

i covered that with the last paragraph before the video link.

i remember reading about some weird programming issue that allowed metroid to have maps big enough to make 4 separate games out of because of how the memory storage or something worked.

zelda one had a second quest because the first game wasn't big enough to fill the cartridge or something like that.

there was a really old game avgn covered i think for the atari that was basically infinite and is still not fully understood to this day. i think it was called "adventure" or something like that.

game systems are weird, and so are the games.

 

[χKai]

game systems are weird, and so are the games.

And so are the  gamers >_>

 

[RageBurner]

Speaking of, I really liked those games where you held the DS horizontally like a book, like Professor Layton or Rhythm Heaven. Nanashi no Game does this very interestingly, too — that’s a good contender for this thread.

Let me also add Hotel Dusk and Last Window. Those two were wonderful games that utilized the DS's vertical orientation. A second screen is genius really, it's touch controls that I don't like at all (when they are mandatory).

 

[moonbits]

Dreamcast had Shenmue 2, Saturn had Virtua Fighter 2, Wii U had Breath of the Wild., Gamecube had Rogue Squadron, Xbox had Halo 2, PS2 had God of War 2, Xbox 360 had Halo Reach, PS3 had The Last of Us.

They all had their flagship, tech pushing software.

Did it truly exploit every single possible joule passed through every single component?
who knows, there's always better ways to do it., maybe, how can we know?

go compare Killzone 2 to The Last of Us, who truly exploited the PS3 more!?

 

[CaptainJupiter]

I don't know if its "power" so much as potential, but I think the N64 could have done even more in other circumstances. Maybe if the CD add on had been more successful, or if it had a better controller or better cartridges, I don't know its just a feeling I have.

 

[Ikagura]

Maybe the GBA because of the DS quickly replacing it around 2004-2005.

 

[miguk]

• Various Nintendo systems never got to use their expansion ports for anything. We could have had writable discs on the NES, CDs on the SNES, and rewritable discs on the N64. Some got them in Japan, but we never got to see what Western dves would do with them.
• The Sega MD/Genesis could play game audio from CD if the game was programmed for it. Pier Solar has that function. No game published during its lifecycle used it, though.
• The Virtual Boy could have been destined for pseudo-3D greatness. We were robbed of Team Innocent on a successful console. ALL HAIL THE VIRTUAL BOY!
• Speaking of which, the PC-FX might have been behind the times for 3D, but that could have resulted in a really interesting concurrent evolution of game graphics. Imagine various games being ported over into 2D form. Entire genres could have come forth from it.
• The Atari Jaguar's controller couldn't possibly have reached its full potential. Not with that many buttons.