Yeah I’ve heard the Ps2 was bad but I wasn’t aware of that back then.

Yeah in store purchases are getting completely passed by right now in favor of the bots. There’s no incentive to stock them in stores when they sell out so fast online, but that’s only giving the bots more fodder. It’s... well as someone who has been buying consoles since PS1 this is the worst it’s ever been.

Huh, interesting. So, I owned each version of the PS4 (reg, pro) and Xbox One (reg, S, X) and my biggest issue was the regular Xbox One. Out of the gate, on launch day, I had to restart it during setup because it froze. I had an ongoing issue with the bluray drive for movies. It would work half the time. The other…

Oh, EGM. I miss that.

I hear you about Sega. I thought the games looked worse, and Sonic sucked, but there were plenty of other Sega games I wanted to play. I was jealous of Golden Axe and King of the Monsters and a bunch of other games. 

No, they still advertise them. They’re just a lot clearer on what will be in the presentation.

They picked such hopelessly obsolete components for Wii U. All the stuff they shoved into that console was ancient even on day one, well, except for the 5GHz wifi hardware which was actually pretty great for its time. With the Switch, well it was underpowered for sure, but it did have a pretty decent, modern feature-se…

Early they talked about having multiple gamepads, then it went down to 1 because any game actually trying to render two different scenes on the WiiU was already taxing, and they flat out said the frame rate woulda tanked if they tried multiple.

Oop, I’m back to defend the Wii U, which still gets a lot of play in my household. (Boyfriend is playing Xenoblade Chronicles X as I am typing this.)

Right?

I grew up in the console war trenches, and while I was firmly in camp Nintendo, I still never thought Nintendo consoles were vastly superior, and that everything else was trash.

I’ll probably give it a shot eventually. I’ve heard good things about the story etc, and it does look gorgeous.

Ya mean like what the PC hardware industry basically does already due to tech porn junkies refusing to take it easy for five minutes? Because make no mistake, it’s not just a console problem, it’s a larger gaming problem. There just isn’t a way to make things affordable while also making improvements. The big leap…

A nightmare scenario that also seems entirely plausible!

Me too, I was thinking about getting this, but I play games to relax, not to get more stressed out, and with less and less time to actually play an Easy mode would have sold this for me at launch.

Fuck this, and fuck you for posting it.

Fuck this, and fuck you for posting it.

Get the fuck out of here with this shit!

Get the fuck out of here with this shit!

Pffffffffffft, fuck off!

Pffffffffffft, fuck off!

Why the fuck is Gawker promoting a scalping website? Even though you’re getting a commission that’s just incredibly shitty.

Why the fuck is Gawker promoting a scalping website? Even though you’re getting a commission that’s just incredibly…

Cashing in on the reseller market...

Cashing in on the reseller market...

So that’s where we are now, advertising for scalpers?

So that’s where we are now, advertising for scalpers?