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bottled_poe
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Nintendo’s Philosophy: Lateral Thinking with Withe...
The article is a case of rose-coloured glassed. It helps that FLOPS per core has essentially flatlined since 2006. I’m sure Nintendo realise that’s the main reason for the hardware choices.
https://www.quora.com/What-makes-CPU-models-increasingly-fas...
uncletaco
on April 6, 2020
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They've followed this philosophy since at lea st the first Gameboy though. How do FLOPS essentially flatlining since 2006 account for that?
mattl
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Before that even, with the Game and Watch handhelds.
mwcampbell
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I wonder if the use of the 65C816 processor in the SNES (released in 1991, at least in America) also qualifies.
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