You remember the days. How excited you were when the Super Nintendo came out. It had 16 bits. That was double the bits of the Nintendo. We would brag about it and think how much better the system was. And how excited when we heard there was a 32 bit system coming out. But did any of us actually know what that meant? I know I didn't. I just knew it was awesome. But I was not the only one, bits were a big deal, Nintendo even named their console Nintendo 64 for its 64-bits.
It was not only the name but the commercials. Think about it, why did we even know how many bits there were in our systems? This was a marketing tactic that each system utilized to sell their systems. It was a simple way to sell the system to people who really did not know what technical specs were. And by doubling it each time it was easy for us, the consumer to think, oh it is two times better the last system so I had to get it.
Sure you had the looks of the graphics but having a number to throw around really helped. It is funny now that I think about it, I really did have no clue what bits were. It is interesting how things get positioned to us to sell. And when they do, they kind of take a life of there own. When people think that bits are a big deal you are sure to make sure you put 64 on your next system. When the PlayStation 2 came out, we dropped that and the big thing now is 4K graphics. But in my day it was all about the bits.
Does anyone know what bits really means?
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