@Reechard everything that he listed is a luxury good and is not essential to living.

@mjparker77 really? EVERYTHING???? Surely not even something as innocent as a chocolate bar or Nestle baby formula!

So we're now up to a total of 15 games, with 10 available at launch.

Even if they were to never release anything beyond those 15, those titles alone already form a fantastic library!

@Bot_Bot_69 nah it's the cartridges. The trade off is that this type of memory is slower, but they were able to confirm that it won't cause any issues in the games (after all; it just has to compete with chips from nearly 40 years ago).

@Reechard stealing isn't moral.

@Reechard stop pirating you thief

@Reechard if you feel that strongly, you should stop buying anything with a lithium battery in it. Have you seen what goes on in those mines where they extract the resources to make the batteries? Horrific stuff!

@Bot_Bot_69 it will not. And this is for the game cartridges, not the console.

Boobs aren't big enough

Copyright takedown in 3... 2...

Huh... I had never realized that Lufia and Estopolis are the same game until I saw this post after having seen the Estopolis announcement earlier today.

A black box with mics and cameras that costs a subscription, wow this is literally cancer.

They were already overpriced

You're never going to convince me to watch this

@Razieluigi because games that used that for inputs often used two of them, like Ikari Warriors. Are you new to arcade games or something?

@axelhander nobody wants to look at your links bro. Its like when a flat earther spams you with Instagram videos to try and prove his delusions.

This needs to have two of those yellow knobs and also an empty plate for when nothing extra is installed on the right side.

@Damo
"You don't need GenAI to make your talent shine through - the past has proven that beyond doubt"

I'd like to rephrase this.

@LordBritish you don't need AI because you actually have talent. Most people using AI for stuff like game dev are doing so precisely because they lack the thing that you have, and even with the aid of AI their "creations" don't come anywhere close to what you were able to accomplish all by yourself decades ago.

@dodgykebaab what's CP? Chinese police?

@axelhander next you're going to call me a communist, right?

These posts are annoying because the comment section always turns out like this:

People who don't like AI: "Video games are a creative medium so I wish that developers would innovate and introduce new ideas and mechanics rather than automating the creation of the game with a machine that just recycles what already exists and doesn't do a good job at it. Also it's not good for the environment."

People who like AI or just don't like people who don't like AI: "POLITICS! POLITICS! POLITICS! Everyone who doesn't like AI is a COMMUNIST!!! AI IS ACTUALLY REALLY GOOD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT BY THE WAY!! Nothing original has ever been produced before!"

@axelhander clearly you don't

@axelhander I didn't tell him to cater to any specific group, I said he needs to know who his audience is and cater to that audience. Learn how to read.

@vicmackey why do you assume that anyone who is against AI is a communist? Do you have brain worms?

@LordBritish there's nothing wrong with experimenting with new technologies, but as a person trying to sell a product you also have to know who your audience is and cater to them a little bit. If your audience doesn't like generative AI then don't use it, it's that simple. This should be good advice regardless of anyone's views on AI. Know your customer.

@81632bit literally everyone is wired to learn languages. You brought up math and science, but those topics can be reduced to critical thinking and logical reasoning, which everyone is wired for. Outcomes will differ based on various factors such as the quality of the educational material, the ability (or lack thereof) of the teacher, and even seemingly unrelated factors like if the student got enough sleep the night prior or ate a good breakfast. But the sinole fact is, with the exception of people who have legitimate mental disorders or deficiencies, everyone is wired for critical thinking and logical reasoning.

But language is neither critical thinking nor logical reasoning. In fact, it's much easier, and linguists insist that not only is everyone wired for it but also that everyone learns it the same way.

Putting sticks on it in this form factor makes it look like cheap garbage

@81632bit language learning has nothing to do with intelligence

@Sketcz everyone is wired for language learning. I'm sorry you had such a hard time with it, but it's not impossible for you. Best of luck.

@Sketcz just learn Japanese at that point.

This was one of the top announcements in the Direct for me but I hope it doesn't get localized because that always ruins games like this.

They just released Ikki again a few years ago, how many times do they expect people to buy it???

@Zeebor15 there's an endless amount of reasons to hate that guy.

AN ENTIRE YEAR????

This company is an example if a revival gone completely wrong. The other end of the spectrum would be Commodore I guess.

I'd rather just play Ninja Gaiden.

I'd let to see Mega Man get a proper return. I know they're making a new game, but I hope they don't abandoned the series for nearly a decade again after it releases like they did with MM11.

I'm in my thirties and have been living in Japan since I was a teenager, and I play games exclusively in Japanese (except for the rare occasion where I might play a Western game). There is some good information in this article.

Speaking from my own personal experience, I think modern games are better for learning. Something like the Famicom Detective Club remake, Dragon Quest HD2D remake, or any of the plethora of visual novels released over the past 20 years will be infinitely more helpful to a new learner than something like an old SNES RPG. Those retro games are absolutely worth it when you reach that level, and it's highly rewarding to be able to play them in Japanese, but if you're still figuring things out it's better to play newer stuff (in my opinion) because it's much easier. That is to say, maybe let your first few games in Japanese be something relatively modern.

That being said, I think you should treat games as a supplement and nothing more. It's much better to learn from books, and then use games (along with TV) as a fun way to relax in the language when you're not reading a book. But reading novels should be your absolute top priority as that's where most of your gains will come from. You CAN use games as your main learning material (lots of people do this with visual novels), but learning is much faster with novels, and then you can use games purely for enjoyment.

Also don't get hooked on Anki. It's a helpful tool but it's not something to obess over and it can easily burn you out and ruin learning for you. Do not waste your time on vocab mining.

All of that being said, I can't agree enough on Game Center CX, as well as the many manga and anime based on games and other media. Just as I love playing games in Japanese, I'm always looking forward to the latest episode of GCCX, and I have manga based on various games in my collection like Zelda and Rockman EXE. Reading old issues of Famitsu is a lot of fun, and I also really enjoy all of the retro gaming related mook's being published these days, such as the Perfect Catalog series that's mentioned in the article. This week I just picked up a book on the history of fighting games which is from the same author. Like the author of this article, I also have a collection of guidebooks sitting beside my MOOK collection. I also like some anime based on old games, like the Sonic OVA from Studio Piero. Consuming all of that media, as well as playing games, was very beneficial for my learning.

If you want an easy (retro) RPG for a beginner, check out Rockman EXE.

Buying this means giving money to Sony, which is a mortal sin right now.

The US government just took a big fat dooky all over the hobby that has been the center of my life since I was a kid.

Can we get less stories like this? These posts are just as annoying as AI or anything else related to it.

I want to see more posts like this and less about AI slop and Chinese handheld e-waste.

That thing looks like garbage

@axelhander it goes way deeper than just dithering. For example the intro Wood Man's stage in Mega Man 2 has an animation effect in the background that's only possible on a CRT and is created by the NES' noisy video signal. You're not getting that animation with sharp pixels and it detracts from the scene.

@axelhander those games were designed for the blurry image produced by CRTs and most games use visual effects that can only be recreated by that blur and simply don't work on modern displays.

Another day, another crappy Chinese emulator handheld that's going to wind up in a landfill within 5 years.

@romanista pico-8 isn't even a physical product, and it's more for programmers.

Should probably pick up the older version before it gets delisted

@Damo if they were in competition with each other Microsoft wouldn't be releasing games for Nintendo's platform or allowing Nintendo to include characters they own in their games like Smash Bros, or license their games for NSO.

@Damo Microsoft and Nintendo both make home consoles and they're not in competition with each other. Just because they both make a device that plays games doesn't mean there's any competition there. playdate's competition is Chinese emulator slop handhelds.