RetroGaming

Mans over here doing the math and spitting the facts

Ok jump off the second step and try and walk back to comment.

It was the start of it, but it wasn't common practice, at least not towards the beginning of the generation.

It was the first generation for DLC to be more common, but it felt like an addition and not just restoring intentionally cut content.

I do agree that towards the end of the generation, some of the greedier companies started some of their worst practices.

My thought process wasn't really even so much about the games themselves as much as the approachability of someone who has never held a controller before. As much as I prefer a dual joystick, shoulder button, and 4 face button controller now. It is a lot less daunting for a new player to have a simpler input schema. NES had a d-pad, 2 face buttons and the the start button and that was it. For a 5/6 year old who never played a video game before, that seems like a good place to start. The modern controlled is much more complicated and also not sized well for little hands. The few times my wife has tried to play a game with me, just controlling the camera while moving is too much for her. I have a 2 year old daughter who is just starting to figure out what a video game is. I'm wanting to start having her play with me, but I don't think she will be able to use the controller correctly anytime soon.

In 2030 we game through a gamespeaker, that's a person who learned the layout of game maps and attack patterns of monsters in the before time. You game by asking them questions and describing your actions.

I remember that I thought it was going to be 720 too. Then they tried to make 'xbone' work and we were like no lol

You’re probably not wrong; consoles moving to x86-64 likely was a death knell.

It’s too long to post here as a comment, but I believe that the PS3 stumbling early (price, giant enemy crab etc.) resulted in Sony JP losing control of the Computer Entertainment division to Sony US, and it was that shift that signed console farming’s fate all the way back to before the release of the PS4.

The fact that the whole X/O remapping was forced onto Japan is just one example of this relative loss of power.

We’re well past the point where even if a console generation doubles the number of polygons it can process over its predecessor - it will be difficult for us end-users to be able to discern much of a difference.

We will likely get to a point where 4K120Hz may be possible for some titles with AI support in the next generation; but given Sony’s decision to not make discs of future games - they can go fuck themselves.

I feel even more vindicated now.

A few years ago someone said something about one of the newer Xboxs. Either Xbox One X or Xbox series X. I forget which. And I asked "Is that the newest Xbox?"

And this guy goes off on me. Claims I'm gaslighting him, and that everyone knows which generation each Xbox is/was.

And I honestly didn't. I was genuinely asking.

So now I feel vindicated in my prior ignorance, because with Playstation, it's real simple. 4 is 2 more than 2. So even if you didn't know playstation, you know numbers. So even my nongaming mom could tell you PS4 came after PS3.

But with Xbox, it was just random jibberish. Even Nintendo console names aren't easily placed in order by non-gamers, but at least they have personality.

Like I don't think my mom would know that the N64 came before the Wii. She would have no way to know the order. But she knows what the Wii is. She gave my niece a wii.

But Xbox names just sound like the codes stores internally use to refer to products. Sometimes you see it on the barcode.

So like Hunts BBQ sauce 16oz bottle, might be "HntzBBQ16". Thats what Xbox names feel like.

Xbox series XS.

I wish I had a good joke for that, but I'm really high and thinking about what would happen if Rowdy Roddy Piper had gotten into politics instead of Jesse Ventura.

Which is completely off topic, but can you imagine???

My theory is that the Xbox naming strategy is designed to maximize the confusion of older relatives buying consoles as gifts. You'd be able to pawn more old models off on grandmas who thought it was the right one, and a fraction of the recipients of those old consoles would likely keep it and buy a newer one eventually.

Either that or someone at Sony was blackmailing Microsoft's chief naming officer. I can't think of another coherent reason for that mess.