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reaperducer on July 24, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: The 20th anniversary of the Power Mac G4 Cube

the Gamecube was much, much, smaller, had more efficient cooling, similar specs (minus the disk drive), and was 1/10th the price

How many people ran Photoshop or did desktop publishing on a GameCube?

CoolGuySteve on July 24, 2020 [–]

Honestly, Resident Evil 4 was far more computationally intensive than anything Photoshop does. It's applying thousands of texture filters and transformations in real time and then mapping them to polygon surfaces with lighting transforms.

It's all software, some of it just costs more.

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