Video Games

How much horsepower do you have under the hood?  That flashlight's really bright, what's the candlepower?  Wow your new deck's huge, how many feet?

Without knowing anything about cars one can deduce that new car would have the equivalent power of 150 horses.  Also the new flashlight would have taken 500,000 candles to equal a light beam of that strength.  And it doesn't take a carpenter to look down at their feet and estimate what 60 feet would be.

Why not base all new video game systems off of the original Nintendo Entertainment System.  The Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis would have 2 nintentdo power.  The PS3 would have 1687 nintendo power.  Soon people will just be saying the number without thinking about it but we will always be able to go back to the NES to have a base for exactly how powerful you new video gaming machine actually is.