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Those years were amazing because every new console generation had a wildly different artisanal design. NES to SNES to N64 to Switch, Jaguar, Sega, PS to PS2 to PS3, Xbox... and then at some point they all turned into disguised PCs.

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Up until the early 00's specially designed components could get more performance/$.

Now it's impossible to beat commodity SoCs on that front.

The arcade industry also went through a couple waves of that, with one major shift to console-based hardware in the mid-90s and another to PC-based hardware in the mid-2000s. Namco made a PS3-based system board (System 357, notably the original platform for Tekken 6), but I'm not sure if anyone else did.

Hey now, Nintendo’s bucked that trend - the Switch is a disguised tablet instead.

I like to think of it as a disguised original Tesla Model S

not sure which is those that's more of an insult to

Oh you mean the disguised nvidia shield?

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