“RAM is expensive we need to go back to 2D games”
Not at all (even if they are great), look at these 3D games running on PS1 with 3MB RAM and 1MB VRAM
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/...
Now we have these 4 games running on Dreamcast's 16MB RAM with 8 MB VRAM and 2 MB audio RAM
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