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[Stephen]

Fygar13, on Tue May 1, 2012 7:00 PM, said:

Here are my thoughts on the Jaguar: People were still buying 16 bit games at the time Jaguar came out and others were holding out for the PlayStation and Saturn. Also, the controller was terrible. IGN named Jaguar's controller the worst ever made. I think that if Atari had redesigned the controller, made it easier for third party companies to make games for it, and had used a better CPU and UART, then it could have done better. It also would have helped if Atari had marketed the system properly. Atari claimed that the Jaguar was a true 64-bit system. However, the system had a 32-bit Motorola 68000 CPU, and both the CPU and GPU executed in a 32-bit instruction set.

Not to re-kindle the same almost 20 year old argument, but it can move data 64-bits at a time. Using the "bitness" argument was a dumb move anyhow. The Intellivision is a 16-bit system. Does that mean the games look as good as the Genesis and SNES games?

[GroovyBee]

Stephen, on Fri May 4, 2012 11:16 AM, said:

The Intellivision is a 16-bit system. Does that mean the games look as good as the Genesis and SNES games?

Depends how far back you stand .