Topic: Five Things the Gaming Community Needs to Stop Obsessing Over

[BlackNMild2k1]

I can name one thing I'm gald we stopped obsessing over.

Bits.

8bit, 16bit, 32 vs 64bit

Those were the days.

I disagree.  We never stopped arguing over them.  They just mutated in the current "SD vs. HD" argument once the concept of "bits" got outdated.

SD vs HD is in no way related to bits though.
one is visuals the other is the supposed power of the console when it comes to visu..... ohhhsh!t you're right.

[Mop it up]

I thought the "bits" was the CPU, which isn't directly related to the graphics, but the overall power/performance?

[broodwars]

I thought the "bits" was the CPU, which isn't directly related to the graphics, but the overall power/performance?

Yes, but you always heard it used in conversation as it related to graphics.  Hell, we still do it even now when we refer to the "8 bit/16-bit/64-bit graphics/eras", and it's usually in reference to how the games looked, not how they ran.

[ThePerm]

bits are how many logic gates something has and uses per cycle