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What's your excuse for not having the best GPU?
Console redpill

Sega
>Saturn had Hitachi SH-2 shit that hitachi gave to sega for extremely cheap because they couldn't find anyone else to buy it
>Dreamcast had Hitachi SH-4 and only console ever created that supports automatic order independent alpha blending.
>Plans to download Dreamcast games directly to the 40GB HDD, a feature that Xbox 360 realized

Sony
>PS2 had Kutaragi's Emotion Engine. PS3 had Kutaragi's CELL
>PS2 Emotion Engine and PS3 CELL were nightmares for programmers
>The original plan was for the PS3 not to have a traditional GPU. They were going to use the Cell for everything
>Sony has lost more than $3 billion on the PS3, console was a failure
>Mark Cerny is hired for PS4
>Mark Cerny wanted PS4, PS5, PS6 and PS7 to be AMD APUs because it was cheapest and easiest for programmers. any optimizations done for PS4 will just help PC get further ahead
>Unlike PC configurations, PS4, PS5 and PS6 uses fixed/standard hardware that the game can be specifically optimized for

Nintendo
>Gamecube graphics chip was made by ArtX, comprised of former SGI employees who worked on N64. ATI bought them shortly before the release of the Gamecube, hence the ATI branding
>The Switch uses an X1 Tegra, a 2015 tablet processor

Xbox
>original XBOX has an x86 Intel Pentium III processor means PC porting is dead simple
>Xbox was a huge financial risk for microsoft. Those PC components cost a fortune compared to the cheap RISC hardware of PS2 and GC. They lost $125 for each console unit sold. Using a hard drive as a game data cache was also something never done before back in the day. There was a ton of creativity involved in the making of the xbox.

TLDR
>Retro consoles had Japanese custom hardware
>Modern Consoles are now just budget AMD PCs