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Did we stop using the "-bit" suffix to describe console generations? by WITTGENSTEIN 07/09/2013, 12:54pm PDT Admittedly at some point it would get ridiculous, I just realized I haven't heard anyone use the term to refer to this current crop of upcoming consoles. 8-bit: NES, Atari, etc 16-bit: SNES, Genesis, Turbografx-16 (presumably?) 32-bit: Saturn, Playstation, Dreamcast 64-bit N64 (I think it was still considered 32-bit in everything but advertising?) 128-bit: XBOX, PS2, Gamecube 256-bit (presumably): XBOX360, PS3, Wii 516-bit: ??????

Did we stop using the "-bit" suffix to describe console generations? by WITTGENSTEIN 07/09/2013, 12:54pm PDT     HW architecture stopped at 32 bits for the longest time, only recently went 64 NT by The Happiness Engine 07/09/2013, 4:31pm PDT     When did we stop using easy to understand PC benchmarks? by re: 07/09/2013, 8:58pm PDT         they stopped cranking up ghz by jeep 07/09/2013, 9:14pm PDT