what happend to BIT in consoles?

CossackNoodle · 22 Dec 2006 at 23:41

when i was younger each new console would be 16bit,32,64,128 but i aint heard 256 have they just stop using that now i never knew what it meant other then higher was better

badgermonkey · 22 Dec 2006 at 23:58

CossackNoodle said:
when i was younger each new console would be 16bit,32,64,128 but i aint heard 256 have they just stop using that now i never knew what it meant other then higher was better

Go to wikipedia and do some research on the bit and the bbyte, and what they mean in terms of processing

I would post something more useful, but it took 3 hours worth of lectures to teach us properly, so I'm not posting it all!

Phalanx · 23 Dec 2006 at 00:00

something to do with the size of the registers or sumthin aint it?

manoz · 23 Dec 2006 at 00:32

It's sorta meaningless now but now afaik they are using "generations". This new one that just came along is the 7th generation I think.

punky_munky · 23 Dec 2006 at 00:38

Completely meangingless really it terms of technical comparison. For example your PC is probably 32bit, maybe 64bit. The N64 was 64bit but it's totally incomparable to a modern PC.

Psyk · 23 Dec 2006 at 01:18

About as useful as comparing MHz.

It wouldn't have looked good for the Xbox to boast that it was 32 bit while the PS2 was 128 bit, despite the fact the Xbox is clearly more powerful.