Some emulation group will always curate the digital games and have some sort of software to upload to your old modded X-Box version whatever.
Some Legacy stuff continues to live on. Atari 7800+ Review: The Most Pure Plug-and-Play Console Experience Yet The Atari 7800+ represents a better way for legacy gaming companies to show off their history for modern gamers. Published November 25, 2024 Atari 7800+ The Atari 7800+ is a simple console that's easy to set up and plays practically all your past Atari 2600 and 7800 games without compromise. Pros Easy setup that works well on any TV with HDMI Wireless controllers are comfortable As close to an original Atari experience as you can get on modern TVs Works with any original controller or Atari 2600 game Cons Games may not look great at widescreen aspect ratio Console doesn't come with more than one controller and game ************************ There is more to read at the link for those that are interested.
MS launched the xbox with the goal of taking over the living room. CDs, DVDs, and blu rays had much larger markets that went beyond gaming. Both sony and ms took a loss for every console sold at launch and didn't break even until much later. The end of that biz model or market strategy to own all data and subscription channels fizzed out with mobile devices. Nintendo's strategy centered purely on the gaming experience rather than making hyper realistic simulations that could be fun. They're not shy at making their fans pay extra for add ons and discount less often. Their business model is different in that their own games remain best sellers years after launch, and the licensing revenues from outside companies are more secondary compared to ms/sony. Streaming is nice for less hardcore gamers, heck I've been playing more steam games i forgot i bought with GFN since I mostly use macs. There's pushback from console and computer gamers to steer away from mobile gaming models, but it's inevitable to gravitate towards those kind of games. Kids love free games and rich kids love to flex in those games. VR seems to be held back by weight, comfort, and battery size. Zuckerberg and meta are still throwing big money at it by trying to be the next xbox before conditions work for everyone. Who knows if streaming will get to the point where it looks great on a headset. I'm still amazed video game streaming with AAA games exists. Sony and MS will have to figure out how consoles are different than handhelds and mobile devices. Nintendo has been leaders at innovating hardware. I think Sega was great too but they might have bit off more than they could chew assuming arcade experiences is the same with home experiences. It's not easy inventing the next big thing. Nintendo seems to push a clunker every other try, so even the best can fail hard, which is why they don't put all eggs into one basket
If you were a rich kid and wanted to play Donkey Kong Jr with arcade-perfect resolution and graphics. I guess my parents had a good year and got me the 5200 in 82 or 83. With Super Breakout as the included game. Then I had to save up for the games, which were $40+. As a 9-10 year old I had to save up $40 a pop. The controllers were garbage and one of them broke within months. I guess it looks like a Cybertruck with a cooler paintjob.
We had Atari, my buddy down the street had the Intellivision, no reason to double up on buying games Intellivision baseball was pimp
Just to nitpick, but I wouldn't be so optimistic about this moving forward. It depends on the game of course, but I think the way games are made these days, the odds are much greater than you'll end up never being able to play some of them in 10, 15, 20+ years vs some of the games in our past. Mobile games in particular would be pretty bad at this, and we're starting to see more console games adopt similar practices. I mostly say this because I think it is a legit problem, and I think there are some groups out there trying to push the industry to do a better job of preserving these works so they can still be played decades from now. Hopefully the industry can take the right steps for that to happen. Based on his Elden Ring build (among other things), yeah I don't think he really understands much about the industry, development, good game design, etc. But if he wants to donate hundreds of millions of dollars to the industry and give Phil Harrison a new job, I guess no one can stop him. Of course, there are discussions to be had about how AI can be utilized (well it is *already* heavily utilized, but what else could be done).
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, revealed on Joe Rogan's podcast that playing Diablo IV, an action role-playing game, helps him stay calm. He ranks among the top 20 players globally, with the majority being from Asia.Nov 6, 2024
I remember having to press like 8 buttons to select a play in intelavision football. I used to love the downhill skiing game.
I've always been a PS guy myself. I'm still on my PS4 and won't buy a PS5 until GTA 6 comes out. Is that 2025? I sure hope so.
It's been a while since I saw it, but IIRC he had the stats of a spellcaster (minimal strength, very high intelligence, etc), but his equipment was that of a melee fighter. Heavy-ish armor, sword and shield (actually 2 shields IIRC), over-encumbered so he couldn't do the quick roll (typically what you want with a spellcaster), etc. I don't remember for sure, but I'm guessing his weapon didn't even scale off INT or anything either (at least that would sorta make sense). Now if that's how he has fun with the game, more power to him. But given how he does other things, it seemed pretty fitting. Yeah just do things that seem cool without really understanding how they work...and you'd rather do things the hard way for 80+ hours than take 15-30 minutes to learn the complexities involved in a system you figured you already understood. That's a very Elon thing.
Look who is in charge of things. Look at what their priorities are. Your happiness, or well-being in any important metric is not, nor will be considered at all. Prepare accordingly.
