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I am opposed because the news of Sony (and Microsoft) dropping physical media coming at a time just after they removed a bunch of digital content from people’s libraries reaffirms my distrust of the companies handling the transition. I’m not opposed to the medium, I’m opposed to the disregard for ownership, something that these companies have refused to address.

There’s something about the transparent colored plastic that reminds me of the old visors from the late 80s. It tickled my nostalgia a little bit, but nowhere near enough to spend money on any of these endeavors.

Funny, but I sure hope this doesn’t come back to bite them in 5-10 years.

“They have yet to… show a willingness on their part in a way that might be comforting to the owners of that IP.”

Translation: “Nothing short of permanently unusable data will be tolerated.”

@jygsaw it’s honestly for the best. This is the wrong time to make or sell hardware, and consoles have traditionally been a money loser that you made back on software sales. If this group’s being forced to focus on software instead of a hardware pipe dream, they’re going to have a far better chance of success.

Not “legendary”. Infamous.

This is kind of the wrong time to be launching a new console. They could probably get away with a Classic Edition console without it costing too much to manufacture, but a full-blown original new console? I don’t think that’s a good idea. They don’t exactly have the brand recognition that will help them here.

Maybe they go after the cheap Nex Playground sort of system. They might find success there.

@ItsAlwaysSunnyyy yes but snubbing him at the game awards was vindictive.

The audacity of Konami to care so much about this after their treatment of Kojima. They don’t deserve Metal Gear.

@Ruka Zoomers have no nostalgia for Commodore though. That’s the confusing part for me. It’s like they’re trying to use their brand recognition to fill the gap left by the extreme niche of this product, but the type of people who would buy this product don’t have any connection to Commodore.

@Quick_Man Defeat from the jaws of victory? Sounds like they should partner up with AMD.

“This ain’t your granny’s flip phone” they say, to their core demographic of grannies using flip phones that still remember what Commodore was.

Does it deserve to exist? Sure. All novelty items deserve to exist. I just hope they don’t expect to move a lot of product because there isn’t a huge market for novelty branded high-markup legacy phones. It would be one thing if there were a bunch of people nostalgic for a Commodore phone because they grew up with one, but that’s not the case here.

@Thad I perhaps phrased that poorly. What I meant was that there are hundreds…thousands of other stories to tell just in the gaming history space alone, yet everyone consistently focuses on the same handful of them. I want more of those stories to be told.

I’m not going to say this book doesn’t have worth, because it does, but I’m tired of the same story told slightly different. There have to be other stories to tell.

I can’t wait for their follow up statement regarding their tool for detecting copyright infringement detecting everything as copyright infringement because they use the same data set for reference.

I understand their reasoning, but I really wish they’d released a ROM file for purchase. I want to support the devs by buying a software license, but I want to add the game to my MVS emulator cabinet and $300+ for a cartridge I can’t use is a bit much.

Stop👏announcing👏your👏infringement👏before👏you👏release👏it.

This isn’t a prerelease hype cycle sort of situation. Once it’s out there it’s out there, but if it’s NOT out there and you announce it, Nintendo can stop you.

The cartridge color is one of the most inconsequential yet welcomed fixes they could have made.

My answer to which games I’d like to see get a physical release:
Every single Game Key Card title on the Switch 2.

More future content for Slope’s Game Room.

Can’t wait to see how this notorious scammer’s latest scam fails spectacularly.

@leogames there’s a difference between imagery, which is interpreted by the imagination to smooth out the errors and fill in the pieces, a code, which is precision by nature.
I’m not defending AI art, but having a finger in the wrong place, or a color going outside the line usually won’t break our imaginations, whereas a misplaced semicolon or function will break the whole code.
One is about presentation, one is about precision. LLMs are about presentation, not precision.

Zelda 2 wasn’t a failure, it was just released at the wrong time. If it had been released during the SNES era when development had more time and technology to mature, it would be a big hit. Sure it might face some of the same stigma for being different, but an action rpg version of Zelda on par with Super Metroid would have been excellent.

Honestly I think Zelda 2 is most deserving of a complete remake.

@HammerGalladeBro That was my first thought.

Regardless of whether or not they used AI, they read like generic templates, as if they could be used for many games.

Honestly they should fully adopt the puppet aesthetic for the franchise going forward.

I loved the NGPC. Awesome little handheld.

This guy looks like a Tropico box art character.

I have no reason to purchase this console and I imagine it’s a relatively small market considering NeoGeo’s original buy-in price, but I always support the attempts at repro or repro-like consoles and software. Having history like this become unpurchaseable due to aging out is always a blow to gamers.

Loved this game. I really want to see another entry in the series.

There is nothing about this that says Atari to me, other than the blatant “Atari” name printed on the face which somehow manages to look forced, and the Atari logo on the bottom part that will be completely obscured when wearing it.

This is a watch that screams “I want an iconic branded watch, but I’m too embarrassed for it to be recognized.”

And for that price…lmao. They’re so full of themselves.

I love this feature.

Yay!
Now we just need Bamco to remake or remaster the original trilogy.

It’s heartening to me to see new games being developed for old consoles, proving that graphical fidelity is not the end all be all to gaming. Too many developers and publishers are chasing the dragon when it comes to photorealism and forgetting that gameplay comes first, and a well made art style can just as often be as good as ultra realism.

@KociolekDoSyta DC kinda falls into that weird in-between gen, but I include it in retro because it was Sega’s final console and the next gen included Microsoft replacing them. Seems like a good hard divide for me.

Retro for me will always be the PS1, DC, N64 and earlier era.
PS2, Xbox, GameCube up to Wii U, 360, PS3 are their own category. I’unno what to call it though. Golden era?
PS4, XBO, Switch up to current gen are their own category; the Modern era.

This is totalitarian behavior and exactly what I think is in line with the new American Nazi party.

Knock knock.
Who’s there?
London Police.

While I never learned Japanese, I grew up watching anime and even playing Japanese games for a short phase. I have what some may call a weeb’s grasp of the language and culture (I’m less annoying about it these days). So while I don’t fully know enough to fully grasp a story without translation, I’ve picked up a few things.
Whenever I do notice a discrepancy between the audio and the subtitles, it annoys me. Whenever I happen to catch a cultural joke that isn’t translated properly, it annoys me. I know nothing about this game, but if the machine translation is missing nuances and cultural jokes, that sounds like it would annoy me.
I would much rather rather have a team of true fans do the translation without the use of AI so we can get all the little things right.

I’m glad to see this didn’t just disappear quietly into the night. At least not yet.

Cheeky little mouse cursor in the article cover photo.
(Delete this comment if it’s corrected)

The visual style looks much better and more unique than the multitude of copy/paste visual styles of practically every game on display on the PS State of Play.

Yeeeessssss. Play It Loud Again.

Xenogears was one of the best games of the generation and still lives on in my head today as an icon of the era and one of the best JRPGs of all time. It’s a shame it was rushed at the end and never truly had its story continued officially. Although the circumstances lead to Xenosaga and eventually Xenoblade, so I can’t say it’s all bad.

But this article highlights one aspect of censorship that is really frustrating. Due to the overtly Judeo-Christian religious overtones and the extreme sensitivity to such topics in the west, those of us who aren’t believers or practice a different religion are forced to deal with chilled speech.

The Vita hardware itself wasn’t the failing point of the console. It was arguably the best part of it. Copying that homework is fine to me, as long as they don’t also copy the proprietary memory card part. (Also I never cared for the rear touchpad, so I wouldn’t miss that either)

If it can emulate up to PS2 and Vita games without issue, and there are no weird failings of the hardware, then this may be a purchase for me.

Edit to the Update: I’m no longer confident with this product’s capabilities.

Oh! This is right up my alley. Time to get on the notification list.

The only uses I can see for having a screen on the controller are for Wii U emulation (which it doesn’t sound like this will be useful for) and Dreamcast VMU integration emulation (which is probably possible, but unlikely).

I think something to keep in mind here is that the 2DS was A product, not THE product. 2DS opened up the doors for a greater number of customers, but many 3DS customers would not also be 2DS customers. Having the option is important, even if the 2DS was a success.

One thing you said that I feel needs repeating over and over again whenever there are calls to make the next Nintendo console basically an N-branded PlayStation is that line: “Nintendo itself is the platform, not the hardware.”
People don’t buy Nintendo to play the latest technological hardware and software breakthroughs. People buy Nintendo to play Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon (as well as Big N’s other franchises).

This looks like it was designed by AI.

I’m interested in how this performs. Having a folding screen would be cool for both dual screen emulation as well as seamless 4:3 content.