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Comment by drooopy

5 hours ago

I was replaying Xenoblade Chronicles on my Switch 2 and the whole time I was thinking about how this ENORMOUS, open world game originated on the Nintendo Wii, a console with only 88 MB of RAM.

Super Mario Brothers is none of that, but fits in a 40kB ROM and a few kB of RAM.

With an OS the PC requeriments for that game under Windwos XP would have been like 256MB/384MB.

  • And I bet you that I could still fit an XP-era weather app or widget on top of XP and Xenoblade inside that 256/384MB of RAM.