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...consoles like Nintendo and PlayStation have lost a little of their punch. Maybe it's because PC games have improved so fast--along with PCs themselves--while the quality of the consoles has stood still. Or maybe it's the advent of the more powerful 128-bit Sega Dreamcast that my pals and I have been testing...
...Circuits Conference) in San Francisco last week, the buzz was all about what Sony's calling the "Emotion Engine." It?s an open secret that the Emotion Engine is the heart of what will become the Playstation 2, Sony?s answer to Sega?s hot-as-heck next-generation Dreamcast console. The Emotion Engine harnesses three separate CPUs that work together to render (in theory) up to 55 million polygons a second. MORE...
Also at "E3" this week, Sega stages a comeback in console gaming with Dreamcast, a system due for U.S. release in the fall of 1999 (November '98 in Japan). The unit, designed with a version of the Windows CE operating system used in handheld PCs, is said to be visually richer and more precise than anything else on the market (128 bit, as opposed to the 64-bit Nintendo machine). Lackluster titles put Sega, onetime king of the consoles, far behind Sony PlayStation and Nintendo 64. Is Dreamcast the answer? Let's see the software first. REAL TEAM PLAYERS...