There’s a real air of intentionally misunderstanding how any of this stuff works in those numbers. With emulation it’s never going to be as simple as just plugging a disc into a new machine and expecting it to work. MS has made an absolutely herculean effort to not only preserve but upgrade a significant portion of…

The controllers don’t appear to be detachable like the Joy-Cons, but maybe that means they won’t have any drift either.

Guilt, Chrissy, it’s guilt. You’re feeling guilt. You aren’t in some fucking “cancel club”, you did some really reprehensible bullshit, got called on it, and feel bad about what you’ve done.

I assume this means you can access GamePass on it as well through xCloud at xbox.com/play in a browser?

Ok, fair enough. You can invest in video games, it’s just wildly stupid and irresponsible to do.

That’s exactly the correct response.  My rep is currently in DC (Erin Zwiener, and boy does she have a sense of humor about her name based on her campaign ads.  “Erin Zwiener will STAND UP for Texans!”) and I’ve had to tell multiple people that she’s doing exactly what I elected her to do.

The intent isn’t to get the US Senate to do this, the intent is to get national Dems to spend their fucking political capital to restore the god damn voting rights act that would have made these actions entirely unnecessary.

God, I wish I had the confidence of this headline that someone saying some truly dumb shit would face consequences.

Don’t bother, just sell them sealed. Like you said, grading is expensive and there’s a chance they come back at some stupid arbitrary grading that’ll net you less than just selling it as is.

No, it’s $600 because someone’s making a speculative investment, they aren’t buying it on the merits of its own value.  It’s absolutely not worth $600.  You could trawl ebay and buy every sealed first print copy available for the next year, spend less than $600, and get a copy that’ll probably grade higher.

Videogames are not an investment.

As a collector this one concerns me way more than the $1.5 million Mario 64. A pristine copy of one of the most iconic games released 25 years ago has some intrinsic value and has to be pretty rare. I don’t buy their “One of 5 copies in this condition” claim, and I don’t buy that $1.5mil was a legit sale.

How did you read this:

Oh for sure, but I’m a nerd on the internet and have a hard time resisting a good “well ackshully” moment.

All of these are obscenely high prices that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.

So far as I can tell the game was never actually packaged with the system in North America, and even if it was it almost certainly wouldn’t have been in its own sealed retail box in the system box.

It’s so silly for anyone to wrap up their identity in “I beat this game on hard mode”.

There’s a six year old vying for your attention and you’re trying to work.  It’s the worst fucking feeling in the world to have to ignore your child to perform capitalism, but most of us have to do that. His job just happens to involve playing video games.

I agree with you on all points, but from the excerpt in text I don’t get the “personal responsibility" vibe at all, it looks to me like they're (rightly) laying the onus at the Microsoft and Sony levels. It's important to care about these things and be personally responsible because that gives a capitalist incentive…

Ehh, I can’t speak to the history of Guilty Gear, but KI was definitely defined by its soundtrack back in the day with the pack-in with the SNES title, and KI 2013 has a reactive soundtrack that’s 100% dynamic based on what’s happening in the match, who’s comboing, who’s winning, and unique tracks, per character/stage/…