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Was that a marketing thing? Because the SH-4 was only 32-bit AFAIK.
Only thing I can find is that it has 128-bit graphics-oriented floating-point unit delivering 1.4 GFLOPS.
Probably only for marketing reasons. Everyone was desperate not to be worse than N64.
Yes.