[Nintendo 64] Project Reality Silicon Graphics CES Tech Demo

When developers produced Grapical Tech demos for new consoles the Tech demos always look better than the actual games. Was the same for Gamecube, PS2, X Box, PS3 and 360

Yup, it's the sad truth.

lol the first bit was n64 then that second part was actually an advertisement for Silicon Graphics primary workstation! The ad shows where the n64 technology is based from.

The original Voodoo graphics card was MUCH more impressive then what we saw on the N64.

it might be a prerendered scene?
it´s just realistic that they have shown realtime graphics and fmv´s.

The biggest problem with the n64 wasn't the graphics or the power, but the storage medium they chose for the games, which was extremely limited to store textures, maps, and so on.
If the n64 would have used CDs, many games would have looked similarly to the video posted..
Anyway, we still got awesome games for it -

actually thats not true. The machine itself was not capable of doing anywhere near the amount of polys or texture size of even the PS1. Wouldnt matter if it had a dvd add on...the games would look the same.

The reason for this is the N64 did a lot of real time effects like antialiasing, specular, and mip mapping. So because of all those effects it was very limited to handle large ammounts of raw assets. (and also why certain games looked great on the system)

good times inded