crazyfailure: It’s obvious they haven’t put any effort into the graphics and game-play due to the low CPU requirements. There is probably almost no content in the game due to the RAM size.

Alright, as others have mentioned, this is almost certainly a troll post, but because I really have nothing better to do today, what the hell, I’ll give it a shot.

So, first off, this is a 2D game, not Call of Duty or whatever. Obviously it’s not gonna have some massive system requirements. And really, if you want to see what work has been put into the graphics, all you have to do is look at the screenshots.

But let’s put this in perspective, shall we?

Mother 1 was on the NES, which has a CPU speed of 1.79 MHz (0.00179 GHz) and, because I don’t really care enough to figure out exactly how much for Mother 1 specifically, somewhere between 2-8 KB of RAM (0.0000019-0.0000076 GB (yes, really)). Compared to Mother 1, Mother 4 requires a CPU 782 times as fast, and somewhere between 131578 and 526316 times the amount of RAM.

Mother 2/EarthBound was on the SNES, which has a CPU speed of 3.58 MHz (0.00358 GHz) and 256 KB of RAM (0.000244 GB), including video and audio RAM, which we’ll count for the purposes of this post. Compared to Mother 2, Mother 4 requires a CPU 391 times as fast, and 4096 times the amount of RAM.

Mother 3 was on the GBA, which has a CPU speed of 16.78 MHz (0.01678 GHz) and 384 KB of RAM (0.000366 GB). Compared to Mother 3, Mother 4 requires a CPU 83 times as fast, and 2731 times the amount of RAM.

I don’t think you understand just how fast 1.4 GHz really is, and just how much stuff 1 GB of RAM can hold. Again, your perception is probably wildly skewed due to the high requirements of recent AAA games, which throw hundreds of thousands of polygons on the screen, perform all sorts of fancy effects like HDR, reflections, anti-aliasing, normal maps, lighting and shading, shadows, and all sorts of things like that… almost none of which you have to worry about in a game like Mother 4.

So, in summary, if Mother 4’s requirements of a 1.4 GHz CPU and 1 GB RAM really do mean “they haven’t put any effort into the graphics and game-play” and “there is probably almost no content in the game”, as you say… well, gee, Mother 3 must be completely barren with its 0.01678 GHz CPU and 0.000366 GB of RAM, huh?