The stock drive is soldered onto the motherboard, and has only ~650GB of user-available space available. That would’ve been pushing it last gen, it’s definitely too small this time around when CoD alone is >200GB.

Seems like a pretty typical YouTube video - a sensational claim, which turns out to be a reductive argument that is tortured to the point of really not making sense. What he’s saying here is that other games use streaming technology in their engine. Uh, yeah? Nobody was suggesting that the new Ratchet game was the…

One thing that maybe isn’t immediately obvious when you look at shots like these, especially with the “Blade Runner capital rife with cybercrime” connotations that go with that look, is just how safe it all feels. Even at 3AM Saturday morning in streets full of absolutely shitfaced locals there’s just not the same…

Indigo Prophecy was interesting at the time. It implemented a multi-scene camera (to depict a guard outside walking towards the building you were in, or whatever), the viewport can display up to three cameras displaying three scenes if I remember right, which must’ve been a right bastard on PS2-class hardware.…

Alright, I’ll bite. Why is a copy of Sonic 1 with what looks to be substantial damage to the shrinkwrap rated so highly?

I think it’s the other way around - the reason Japanese games are so comparatively cheap is that there’s a market of ~100m native speakers, total, vs ~1 billion people of various nationalities who can understand English well enough to get by with an English copy. Different market pressures. [edit: beaten to the punch…

My very generous interpretation of Billy’s pratfall, having sifted through countless posts over at Twin Galaxies’ forums when it was happening, is this:

That’s pretty much it. A frankly embarrassing amount of work went into the technical analysis of Donkey Kong after all this came out a few years back, there are numerous blatant signs in the tape footage he made. Last I heard there was a ~$5k bounty out for anyone who could reproduce the emulator-like weirdness seen…

This line - “If you’re stuck with a budget SSD, you needn’t worry about PS5 game performance issues” - is wrong, as discussed in the video itself. Any drive that’s labelled as under spec now could well fail to run later games properly or at all.

You were right, though. Marcus Smith wasn’t saying that a HDD could keep up, and neither were you. That paragraph of Ian’s you quote does seem to be making the assumption that, because this raft of tests shows one game working ok on marginally slower SSDs, this meant that the game would be possible as-is on older…

I don’t for a second want to lend any credibility to the high-profile prices we’ve seen of late, but most collectors seem to agree that there are many sealed copies of most of the iconic retro games - they’ve just been comparatively modestly priced in the past, certainly compared to items that were issued in low…

You were right about the “processed” thing, obviously. I’m kind of glad yours is still here, they went around removing every one of mine.

So now it’s just the two of us here, you going to try and argue the point? Or you going to delete the post proving that you’re a coward, instead?

Bioshock Infinite has the same gaffe. I’m actually a bit of an apologist for the incoherent space-time fuckery in that game. But I have no defence for the bit about five minutes in, where Elizabeth has a freakout over Booker killing someone, and... moves on promptly. TLoU and the Tomb Raider reboot have the same…

It’s possible to dislike both sides in this one, you know.

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Exactly. If they’d put this thing together a decade and a half ago maybe it would’ve made sense, but it’s competing in a world with the PS4 and Switch in it - both cost less, and have a couple of orders of magnitude more games. Who on earth is this for?

Right? The design is almost impressively tasteless, it reminds me of a five quid kettle. The controllers look like a feature phone from the 00s and that style of shiny plastic aesthetic is just tacky at this point. Everything about it screams cheap. Except for the price tag, of course.

I had a good time with my Ouya, and sold it for what I paid, so can’t complain. Got a free pad when the first batch were bad, too, though I wound up preferring a DualShock 3. I remember particularly enjoying Knightmare Tower, simple little game but really addictive.

I’d got to “lunk” too. Apparently it’s short for lunkhead, or idiot.