Comment on End of an era?

64bithero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• marighost@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Plenty of old, cheap games and consoles to pick up second hand. Don’t need PlayStation’s slop.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The carts, discs, and hardware will unfortunately eventually stop working, but fortunately most of them can also be emulated on PC really well, sometimes better looking than on original hardware.

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    • 64bithero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Disc systems are mostly built like shit especially from the early 2000s but ROM based cart systems if well taken care of will run for a long long time.

      Have my OG N64, Dreamcast and GameGear all run perfectly fine. Well my GG has a dead spider in the screen but it still runs.

      PlayStation 1,2, Saturns , the first 2 Xbox’s might be a different issue all together.

      But to me this is connected to the growing eshitification of the industry

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      • bilb@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah, it’s popular to mod systems like PSX and Saturn with a disc read emulator so you can load ISO files from solid state media like SD cards.

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    • rozodru@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      eventually but that will likely be long after most of us are dead. old consoles and carts are built like a brick house and most of them are repairable even games that have batteries. Just look at the N64 for example. that thing is like the Toyata truck of consoles.

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      • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Could be. Video game consoles are a young medium, so hard to say if the old consoles will still be going in 30 years or so.

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• carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  that’s what i hate the most about this. “retro gaming and second hand” works now because everything was physical back then, and could be preserved. what will the people of the future have of us? nothing but memories of what will then be a digital graveyard. most of it unpreserved, even through piracy, because consoles are getting harder and harder to hack and emulate and companies are getting more and more litigious.

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  • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They’ll get to read the plot synopsis on wikipedia

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  • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Eh, everything PS3/360 generation and earlier is basically available at perfect emulation, or definitely will be soon because of the existing emulators and their development.

    95% of all games from the PS/Xbox generations since then have been on PC from day 1. Almost all of the Xbox first party games have been on PC since then as well. The switch has been emulated perfectly for ages.

    This realistically leaves only a handful of Sony first party PS4 and PS5 games left, and the switch 2 which only just came out.

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