[justlexi93]

The PlayStation was quite great: a straight forward to use machine with unparalleled (for its time) 3D capabilities. It took several years for PCs to catch up with its capabilities (the first two generations of 3D accelerators for PCs were crap, generally speaking).

It's quite amazing what developers were able to push with its hardware. There are some games running at constant 60 fps in high resolutions such as 512x240.

I think a "hidden champion" of the Playstation is the sound processor, the SPU, though. It can mix a massive 24 voices of CD-quality audio in realtime while adding effects like reverb. And the hardware support for ADPCM allows you to store huge amounts of audio data in its 512K of memory.