only 90s kids remember when video game consoles were actually materially different and had different capabilities
this is kind of true too, because the ps2/gamecube/dreamcast/xbox era was the first one where games were frequently ported between all of the main systems
you didn't get games that came out on both playstation and n64, or both snes and genesis
@Felthry i would say that games came out on competing consoles in that generation -sometimes-, but often as a slightly (or very) different game
@coda Quite a few third-party games were available on both ps2 and gamecube, or ps2 and xbox, or all three. gamecube also got all the popular dreamcast titles ported to it after the dreamcast failed (except shenmue for some reason)
@coda I remember playing the harry potter video games on pc and gbc, and trying one of them on gba and gamecube, and they were all drastically different games
not long after that we played the hobbit on pc and then liked it and wanted to see what the gamecube one was like, expecting it to be similarly different
we were quite disappointed
this was before we knew what a port was
