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MushuChupacabra@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I was an XBox guy, and didn’t get into Playstation at all. But it was always clear that they were excellent consoles. At a certain income level back in the day, you’d get an XBox or a Playstation, but not both. If you had a smidgen more money to spend, Nintendo had you covered.

I have no emotional fealty to Playstation in any way, but what a shame to see all three formerly awesome systems now competing to see who can enshitify more effectively.

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KC_Royalz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I had a PlayStation and PlayStation 2. Was a huge twisted metal fan. Xbox came out some friends got that. Halo was fun. What made me switch to Xbox was strictly fears of war. The few of my friends that were still PlayStation fans switched to the 360 almost immediately after playing gears.

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samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I can’t believe Nintendo seems the least shitty of the 3 currently. At least they sell portable licenses via game key cards.

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REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

If you had a smidgen more money to spend, Nintendo had you covered.

I always assumed Nintendo stuff is cheaper since it looks like indie games and not anywhere close to the games you could play on consoles. Huh, TIL.

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- LemmyTellYou@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  There is no world where Nintendo had you covered
  
  Their hardware and systems, particularly any online connectivity is 20hrs behind. They’ve also be the shittiest of them all with price hikes
  
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  - ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    20hrs behind
    
    Well, yea. Japan is in a different time zone.
    
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- RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Nintendo wasn’t always like that. Every Nintendo console before the GameCube was the most powerful console of its generation. The GameCube was second most powerful behind Xbox but ahead of PS2. But like the N64, Nintendo made the GameCube with a fatal flaw that caused a severe limitation that was completely unnecessary: the game sotrage media.
  
  For the N64, it was the choice to not use disks and thus were limited to only 64MB at most of game filesize, but the GameCube had disks. Except they were those stupid tiny ones that only held like 1.5GB instead of a normal sized disks at the time which held up to 8GB.
  
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  - samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I’m fine with “weak, cheap consoles” if the games are good, as that’s all that really matters. The problem is, Nintendo’s game output has been shit lately.
    
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