Remember those old entertainment centers that reached from floor to ceiling with compartments for a full audio system, VCR, giant hole for the TV right in the middle, and a frickin’ mantle for fireplace style decorating up top?  I miss those monsters.

Hey now, this is Nintendo here!  Butt warp!

You and your slight differences disgust me! They’re just SOOO slight!

Every labor day I watch that Homerun Starman puppet toon adventure.  It’s literally the only thing labor day has going for it.

I did address your second point already, that is the one thing preventing me from accepting such a future as well. We don’t (yet) actually own our copies of digital games the way we own our physical copies.

As to the first, well right now all those discs seem to do is store about half of modern games anyway. You STILL…

As a retro collector that loves owning physical copies of, say, Truxton, I support MODERN consoles going the all digital route.

Except for one detail that needs to be resolved first.  We need to actually own the digital copies.  Fully, right down to being able to give our copy to another player.  When we have THAT,…

Agreed. The NES, SNES, and Genesis classics also suffer the same issue. They lazily toss you a 2D bar code (dot code?) so you can look it up on a web site that DEFINITELY won’t exist in five years instead of just including them as documents right on the device itself.  Yes, a full scan is going to be a larger file…

Why in Satan’s name didn’t they include the manual digitally WITH the game?  Why do developers keep doing this lately?  If you scanned and translated it, don’t make me pull up a web site I can barely navigate just on the off-chance you MIGHT have put it there, PUT IT IN THE GAME!

Good stuff there. Personally I’ve been playing the Mario remaster collection this week. Super Mario All-Stars to be specific, on my SNES.  It looks and sounds amazing.

Well, semi-high end. There’s no way this thing’s going to be a PS5 when it’s portable. That said, Nintendo USED to be all about being on the high end. The SNES, the N64, the Gamecube. Each of those competed with and some ways exceeded it’s direct competition in it’s respective generation. The Wii was the beginning of…

They’re not trying to change, they’re trying to make us think they changed as a marketing campaign.  There’s a difference.

This is not the least bit surprising.  I mean, all you need to do is look at the game to guess at what the lead developer must be like.

Nobody anywhere EVER built anything from “nothing”. That isn’t just common sense, it’s physical law. His company is not his own, it also belongs to all his employees and if they want to kick him out, they have every right to make the attempt. He doesn’t own their lives or their work.

From the image above it’s no wonder.  Those poor players can’t even afford to fully outfit themselves.

What wasteful inefficiencies they’re displaying here.  Look at Coding Secrets on youtube, then weep at how lazy these developers are relative to those miracles.

The thought occurred to me yes, considering the Metal Gear series predates Splinter Cell by over a decade, but the joke was just too good to pass up over trivial details like that.

Splinter Cell already has an anime adaptation.  It’s called Metal Gear.

Pretty much what I was saying- except I’m pretty sure he didn’t say “song long”.

It’s “So longy” not “so long gay”.  I’m rather sick of this joke.

Oh this one’s easy. Old rabbit ears connected through an Atari 2600 RF adapter. All my digital stations come in just fine and in better fidelity than back when TV was analog.

Oh this one’s easy. Old rabbit ears connected through an Atari 2600 RF adapter. All my digital stations come in just…

Here’s a better idea.  Just get rid of “loading tips” and “world lore” as a concept.  Frankly the former isn’t all that useful and the latter is better done via in-character reveals.